This was never going to gain any income. To easy to spot the fake when you find that there is no game and refunding is easy enough since you'll never last two hours. In fact, Steam should just refund these scams immediately without the need for user action.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: EhvisThe weird thing about these lawsuits is that they are now targeting a company as "the makers of yuzu". I don't know anything about the development, but assuming that this company is the main driving force, it is still only a part of it. Second problem is that this is a US lawsuit using US laws that mean nothing for most of the world. So even if this went to court and Nintendo wins, nothing would change. The emu either continues directly or is forked and continued. So from a perspective of stopping emulation this is not going to work and is possibly going to have the opposite effect. So to me, it sounds more like a way of extorting a few dollars from US corporate entity.

i wouldnt say that, when the main branch of an open source project dies, usually there isnt any fork with enough momentum to keep things working (by working an mean improving instead of just have the same bugs and features that the original software had, without major improvments)

for example, audacity got purchased by an nefarious corporation and afaik their forks dont have enough man power to be an reasonable alternative.

Depends on a bunch of factors. Main ones are probably popularity and whether the original repo continues or not. Libreoffice did fine when it broke away from openoffice because it was popular and a lot of devs moved over to the fork. Since popularity doesn't appear to be a problem for yuzu and that a fork for it would be because the original got taken down, I think it would be fine.

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Half-Life 5 confirmed?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualA common opinion in the comments of that Ars article was that "the Patreon was really asking for it." I'm curious what GOL users think of the Patreon which is bringing in more than 10 times as much money as GIMP's Patreon accounts.

Is it illegal to develop commercial emulators?

Well, their early access to builds for people who pay probably isn't helping their case here.

I don't think selling emulators is actually illegal. Connectix, for example, won in the case Sony brought against them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix_Virtual_Game_Station [External Link]

Of course, Sony brought them to the brink, purchased them, and shut it down anyway...

I'm actually really interested to see if there's anything about commercial emulators being illegal, because I can't find anything. I figured the potential issues were the same regardless of whether Yuzu was making money from it or not.

It's not so much about the emulation as it is about the ROM/firmware issue. To be fully open, devs would have to create the whole firmware/OS/system software from specs alone. This generally doesn't happen and using the emulator requires copying it from an original device. For somewhat modern devices this also means circumventing whatever protection was put in place to prevent that. And the legality of this last bit is more difficult and varies around the world. In the US, they worked hard to push the DMCA through which helps the manufacturers make as much of that illegal as they as they could push through. I'm not sure where exactly Yuzu fits in in the process of helping circumvention, but at least it's vague enough to give Nintendo a stick to beat with. It's now up to the company being sued to pony up the funds to defend themselves. Whatever happens, it's still strictly a US thing since most other places in the worlds don't have laws as broken as the DMCA.

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The weird thing about these lawsuits is that they are now targeting a company as "the makers of yuzu". I don't know anything about the development, but assuming that this company is the main driving force, it is still only a part of it. Second problem is that this is a US lawsuit using US laws that mean nothing for most of the world. So even if this went to court and Nintendo wins, nothing would change. The emu either continues directly or is forked and continued. So from a perspective of stopping emulation this is not going to work and is possibly going to have the opposite effect. So to me, it sounds more like a way of extorting a few dollars from US corporate entity.

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The one thing that this demonstrates is that some people seem to trust the snap store as a safe place where it should be treated with the same caution as if it was the open internet. Of course that still wouldn't help some people, but I most Linux users should be able to manage.

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Quoting: Relsre

Quoting: EhvisHad the flu, so finished Cassette Beasts on Steam Deck.

Hope you're feeling better now, if not soon! As someone who's played Pokemon up to Gen 6, I've been tentatively curious about Cassette Beasts, any specific thoughts you have on it?

Pretty good game, but not without its flaws. With the base monsters and variations there is an insane amount of variations. Story is ok, but nothing special. Gameplay is a pretty regular turn based combat system with a large number of types with special benefits/disadvantages when fighting enemies of other types. Lots of customisation to do, but I felt that there is way more customisation than there is need to customise. Exploration and environment puzzles were nice and to me that was the highlight of the game. All in all I enjoyed it, but see no real reason to replay it.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: EikeAvailable at about every second store here in Germany.

Lucky! Over here, you see cards for all of the consoles, then the Apple and Google mobile stores, and then a few cards to encourage children to go for microtransactions in titles like Minecraft and Roblox, but no Steam ones at all. :sad:

Just bought one this morning. No many stores that have them in The Netherlands. And apparently they're not considered very interesting because I had to check behind the other gift cards to find them.

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Had the flu, so finished Cassette Beasts on Steam Deck. Did play some desktop, but didn't have the head for 3D games for a while so did some Factorio and Autonauts. I was trying to get through Turing Complete before that, but that required way too much of my brain. This weekend was better and tried some No Man's Sky for the free weekend and continued to finish Road To Gehenna DLC in The Talos Principle VR. Still don't really like No Man's Sky. It just doesn't feel like a space game to me. The Talos Principle (and the DLC especially) is still one of the best puzzle games ever made. The VR version is not quite perfect and I only intended to play it a bit to compare difficulty with the second game. But couldn't resist and I'm almost done 100%ing it again. :grin:

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: nadrolinuxGame constantly freeze for me after 10-15 seconds in main menu (I tried to change window without borders to fullscreen, disable vsync etc. but nothing helped) however I'm not sure if it's related to Omega patch or switch to Silverblue + Steam from Flatpak, because before I used standard Fedora Workstation. Other games works fine. Can you check if you see similar problems with Omega?

I find it's usually best to wait three or four days after a big update, to let things settle out and get a bunch of bugfixes. The last two or three have been unplayable on launch day for me, but they get better.

Played a bit of it over the weekend. I didn't have any issues running the game. Didn't change anything, so it must have been a standard Proton 8.

As for the game. Still have the same issues with it as I had when it launched, so the free weekend just confirmed that this is not my game.

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