Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games

toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because:

  Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:

  • Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves

  • Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker’s permission

  • Game save and console modding services

  As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget’s “Save editor” have been discontinued.
  reddit.com/…/save_game_editors_and_console_moddin…

  It’s meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it’s worded it just bans them all.

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  • model_tar_gz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t wait for Nintendo to sue Microsoft because VS Code can be used to edit save files.

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  • Fijxu@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lol man is just a game. Let me have fun exploring hidden rooms. No one is committing a crime by modifying their own game save.

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    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For some of us, finding ways to cheat IS the game.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In other words, Japan apparently hates property rights.

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• neblem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We really need to push for more right to repair laws and things not produced by the copyright holder (say for 5 years) should lose all copyright protections.

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• mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Successful lobbying by Sony and Nintendo I imagine.

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