The interesting thing will be what they do next. The code to both has been preserved and deleting all mirrors is something even Nintendo money can accomplish. So it's only a matter of time until builds will pop up somewhere (possibly under a different name). Will Emudeck pull those in?

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Quoting: shadownetdev1The stupid thing is that they already have a Mac client. Meaning that they have already done most of the work required to port a native Linux version.

I'm not sure that solves the reliable anti-cheat problem they're having with Wine. Having reliable anti-cheat is likely much easier on macOS than it is on Linux.

Why would that be? I'm not a mac person, but I highly doubt that Apple would make it easy for software to run something at elevated permissions. So maybe the mac built is running with the same restricted "anti-cheat" as they did to support wine. If that is the case, some of these cheaters may just move over to try their luck on a mac. Maybe not as many since that would require a fairly significant investment.

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As longs as devs/publishers believe that rootkit anti-cheat is a valid solution, this will always be a problem. It could technically be solved by making a rootkit specifically for Linux to bridge the gap. But I highly doubt that devs want to put the effort in and that Linux users would ever install it on their system.

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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: 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: 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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