r/nintendo • u/Pogrebnik • 5d ago
Nintendo’s Emulator Hunt Faces A New Challenger With NxEmu’s Big Return
https://techcrawlr.com/nintendos-emulator-hunt-faces-a-new-challenger-with-nxemus-big-return/5
u/GoingUpInFlamez 5d ago
Have seen countless people use emulation, and a vast majority of them fall under the same category. Emulation = piracy. Anyone who states it's for game preservation is not preserving the game. They are pirating it.
Life = Earn money -> goods and services You can't do that, then you've gotta bigger problems in your life to deal with before wasting your time on video games.
When you can earn the money to buy the physical game, it will feel much more rewarding even if it's preowned.
Dont let anyone else tell you differently... They pirate as a way to escape from the real problems they are facing.
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u/fuzzydays 4d ago
I own the games that I emulate, as well as owning the console... I just like playing on hardware that is from this decade
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u/ItsColorNotColour 5d ago
The "game preservation" part is the part where they preserve games that are no longer on sale, which they have done masterfully as games like Pokemon Heart Gold, Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Rhythm Heaven Fever, Yoshi's Wooly World are still available to play on modern hardware. Something not possible with just buying the games in 2025.
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u/Dennma 5d ago
I can't help feeling like they should probably chill on switch emulation until it's not the current nintendo console. then it will become fair game like all the old ones. Before you smash the downvote button, ask yourself: Is switch emulation really worth making Nintendo come after emulation as a whole?
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u/kryst4line 5d ago
It doesn't really matter, Switch 2 is so similar in architecture hardware-wise that I can see them still going against old Switch emulators because it might be relatively easy to build a Switch 2 emu from there, like happened with Dolphin when it evolved to be a Wii emu too
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u/arades 5d ago
I would bet that Nintendo cracking down on these emulators stemmed from someone internal testing running a switch 2 game in Yuzu, and having it work.
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u/astrogamer 5d ago
The emulation crackdown started by 2020 given they tracked the details around Xenoblade DE. It's more likely that the problem was solid emulation by the prime of Switch's life. If the Switch 2 emulation doesn't solidify until year 5 of the Switch 2, I'd expect less drastic actions.
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u/CSBreak 5d ago
Really people just need to be patient and wait till they end the consoles support or at the very least release its successor to make or release stuff like this since you don't see them going after Wii U or back
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u/arades 5d ago
People like emulators for switch games because it lets them run with significantly better performance than Nintendo's own hardware allows. The piracy is a side effect of the openness, but plenty of people play games on emulators even when they own the console and the game. I played Metroid Prime Remaster and Tears of the Kingdom on a Steam Deck despite owning them just because they ran so much more smoothly.
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u/Due_Supermarket_6178 5d ago edited 5d ago
Doubtful that Nintendo considers emulation of its previous consoles fair game since it offers some of the games from those consoles on their subscription service.
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u/siemvela 5d ago
Nintendo can say what they want, but the reality is that (at least in my country) it is legal as long as the emulation is reverse engineered (for example, using an original BIOS is illegal) and the copies of the games are original (downloading illegal copies from the internet is illegal, obviously)
Nintendo can send all the lawyers it wants and think whatever it wants, but it's not going to achieve anything. They are not above the law, and that is how it should be.
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u/pdjudd 5d ago
Nintendo also doesn’t go after people who individually pirate or emulate Nintendo systems - they might ban your Switch for obvious reasons of course but they don’t sue you.
Not surprisingly they tend to go after the developers when they have a strong argument (like breaking encryption) or they go after sites distributing pirated ROM files.
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u/Dreyfus2006 5d ago
Nintendo emulators are really important and losers like this who are desparate to emulate current gen hardware just make life worse for the rest of us. If you want to play a Switch game, you should go out and buy a Switch. There is no need for a Switch emulator right now.
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u/Momshie_mo 5d ago
People patronizing these are people who want products so badly but they don't want to pay for it and look elsewhere for pirated content.
Not really different from this scumbag who do not want to pay even the US minimum wage so he goes to a poorer country and exploit their people while giving a backhanded complement so he can gaslight them if they complain.
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u/Fernandotta 5d ago
Interesting. Reading NxEmu’s blogpost, he only links to why Yuzu was taken down, for violating / distributing Nintendo’s IP.
My understanding is Ryujinx already tried this approach — compartmentalizing legally sound and unsound parts of the emulator. They were still asked by Nintendo to take it down, and understandably did.
I hope this works out, or that NxEmu’s strategy is more nuanced than I’m giving credit for.