After shutting down several popular emulators over the years, Nintendo's top IP lawyer just admitted that emulators are legal.
    • Captain HowdyEnglish
      16•7 days ago

      What percentage of the gamers that you know would just be able to find and download an emulator from a git repo hosted on .onion or .i2p?

      For me, that’s just me. None of my gamer buddies would put in that effort, they’d just buy a product or play a game from steam.

      I think we’re still a long way from privacy focused protocols being mainstream in the way the web has become in the last 15 years.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•6 days ago

        I wouldn’t be so hopeless. If this is the only available choice - they’d find a way or will ask their more savvy friends. Like, here even a couple years ago it was unthinkable that every second person would learn to circumvent censorship - yet here we are. Sometimes life forces you to.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•7 days ago

      torzu currently does this, though iirc the development is slowing because it’s a big time commitment