Comment on Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub

FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Emulators are legal

  With the caveat that an emulator cannot copy any copyrighted code to use in the emulation. They try to add as much proprietary code and encryption that it’s nearly impossible to emulate without breaking the law.

  It’s scummy, but people have and will continue to find ways around it. But even the smallest of copyright infringements will result in Nintendo’s wrath.

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  • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Which is why so many emulators require you to somehow acquire the console’s actual BIOS binary yourself (manually dumping it from your own hardware, of course, and by no other means at all) and dropping it into a file folder for the emulator to use.

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    • forestbeasts@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’d be really nice if it was like Wii, where you can have the emulated console do an online system update and bang, there’s your whole OS… or failing that, the entire system is on every game disc, just in case… but nooo can’t have that.

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  • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The problem is, even if you write all the code yourself and require users to dump their own BIOSes and shit, when you get sued by Nintendo, you need the money to be able to hire people to defend yourself. You actually have to prove and most likely convince a judge you’re right.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  tbf, the Steam Deck’s hardware blows the Switch away so of course they play better

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That doesn’t mean much when it comes to emulation tbh. If the emulator is shit, power won’t help.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah but you just compared 3rd party emulators to hardware. Switch isn’t running Switch games on emulator, but it’s still not surprisingl that an emulator on Steam Deck plays them better.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not sure about good. It somehow runs games a little worse than Yuzu did.

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  • TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    tbf, eden is a new development and pretty young compared to yuzu and how mature it was. at least afaik

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I know. But I still find it odd, since Eden is a fork of Yuzu, and not something built from the ground up.

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It has no trouble playing Super Mario Wonder at full speed and 1080p, that’s good enough in my books.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      On my PC, sure. But I was easily playing Switch games on my Deck, which… Well… Performance is lacking.

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      • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Huh, runs totally fine on my OLED Deck with the CyroDeck enhancements.

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