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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nintendo intentionally breaks their own games if you pirate their stuff.

  I’m not aware of them doing this all that often. In fact, it’s more something that game developers do from time to time, rather than Nintendo specifically. The classic one being when they introduce a bug that only affects the pirated release, then every time they get a report on that bug they know the user pirated their copy.

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  • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m not sure what exactly they’re referring to. if they’re referring to the N64 games that was the developer Rare who did it, not Nintendo, Nintendo is just the publisher. If it’s related to Switch games then it’s possible they’re referring to Online only games or the many many Piracy-related myths as well as disinformation that plagues the Switch Modding scene to this day.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      or the many many Piracy-related myths as well as disinformation that plagues the Switch Modding scene to this day.

      I mean I’ve been running a cracked Switch for years, and while my finger isn’t on the pulse entirely I’m not aware of any of this either. They definitely ban people (I’ve had one banned) but even then you can still use the device, just not online or in their store (as if you were in there much anyway).

      The bigger issue in the Switch modding scene is that half the developers are divas.

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      • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Some examples of the misinformation include:

        • banning preventing people from using Installed Software (one person actually referred to it as bricked)

        • Bans preventing use of Wifi hardware (FTP or Local play)

        • Banned Cartridges will get other Switches banned, or that cartridges are still getting banned

        Things like that are the most egregious ones.

        Lately though it’s mostly been what is ban worthy and what isn’t. For that there are two camps, there are the conspiracy minded, and there are the more reasonable people.

        For conspiracy theorists it’s as simple as plugging in RCM (or Booting from the Modchip if they have that instead) and booting into Stock, that’s enough for them to consider ban worthy. Some of them draw the line later at the actual firmware but the thing that these claims usually share is that they lack data backing them. It’s usually influencers who make these types of claims (hence why it’s become a cultural phenomenon, Yay 😒).

        The more reasonable ones group the actions that are and aren’t ban worthy through testing and historical evidence which is mainly:

        Guaranteed Ban:

        • Piracy
        • Custom NSPs
        • Cheating In Online games (includes save editing and some LayeredFS patches)
        • Log Tampering (Using an EmuMMC can cause mismatches if used online)
        • Account Tampering (custom PFP)
        • Hacking the servers (CDN abuse, bans both console and account)

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        Things that don’t cause bans:

        • Booting Package3 (bootloader)
        • Booting into Atmosphere
        • Overclocking (is dangerous, but not ban worthy)
        • Homebrew games + Emulation using package Override (holding R when launching a title)

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        Things still up for debate:

        • Use of themes
        • Use of NTP time changer
        • Cheating in Offline games

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        (They also give methods for preventing bans, unlike the first kind of people like Using emuMMC to separate Identities, blocking Nintendo domains in the hosts file, and even using Incognito to erase the Identifier data.)

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        Unfortunately Popular Culture tends to prefer the first type of person’s opinion so I’ve found that when discussing Homebrew with people outside of the community it can lead to some pretty nutty arguments, even going back to ones from before, such as banning cartridges.

        The bigger issue in the Switch modding scene is that half the developers are divas.

        That is very true, many of them are assholes, I visited GBAtemp’s politics section and was astonished to find out how many of them are Bigots, at least judging by the crap they spouted about “pronouns being forced” and “not wanting to call a man Ma’am” really disgusting shit that no respectable person should ever say. Nor should any forum ever put up with (basically GBAtemp is a Nazi bar).

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