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Quoting: TheSHEEEPIf I can play Switch games on my PC, why would I buy a Switch?

If I can play Steam games on my PC, why would I buy a SteamDeck? Oh, hang on, I did.

Your SteamDeck is a PC. Just a portable one.

A Switch is not. A PC can (within emulation constraints) do everything a Switch can, but not the other way around. Especially with portable PCs (such as the Deck).
There is a very good case to be made for why one would not need to get a Switch for (supposedly) Switch-exclusive games - if one was not worried about legality and fine with the additional work involved to make stuff run.
That's what worries Nintendo, making their actions against Yuzu not baseless, or at least understandable from a business PoV.

Imagine if Yuzu reached basically a plug'n'play level of usability.
I know it's easy to hate on Nintendo - and usually, they behave like a bull in a china shop. But in this case? I can't really blame them too much. They wanna sell their hardware, not just the games. Yuzu is without a doubt a budding threat to that.

If they started taking action against emulators for their old hardware they no longer sell, that would be a different issue.

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I can understand Nintendo going after emulators of their very current consoles.
If I can play Switch games on my PC, why would I buy a Switch?
Makes sense from a business perspective to try and combat that - and if there is legal grounds to do it on, why not.

It is dumb of them to sell their games only on their hardware, but that's just Nintendo.

Preservation is not a legal right, unfortunately.
Or rather, it becomes legally "okay" to emulate only once something is no longer maintained (such as MMOs shutting down), at least from what I understand according to US law.
Which is never the case for current gen consoles.

But I'm not really worried about this.
Just like hackers will always be a thing, so will be emulation. The audience is simply too large for that not to happen.

Would be a shame if it was forced to become an underground thing only to be found by those "in the know". But the audience that is interested in emulation to begin with is almost automatically "in the know", so would always find ways to acquire the emulators & files needed.

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My wallet is ready.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy"So what the hell is 'ES-DE'?"

You aren't wrong, but in this case ES-DE has been the official acronym of the thing for... years? It's not a good string of letters, but it is what it is.
It was always odd that the configuration folder was NOT named ES-DE.
Probably that matter of fact caught up with the folder name in the end.

Quoting: CatKillerthe absolute least you can do is see if there's a file called the old thing and rename it to the new thing when you introduce a version that demands the new thing rather than the old thing.

Yeah, that is the true WTF here.

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It is also used in EmuDeck and yup, my emulation interface sure does look better now.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumBut alas, most people don't listen, "it won't affect me.".

That's just the default when you purchase EA games. Linux or not, they have a tendency to shut things down or break it long after you purchased something. Not even getting into their egregious MTX shenanigans.

"Don't buy games from EA" is a very valid stance in today's gaming world.

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Quoting: FaalagornVulkan and Wayland or OpenGL and Wayand? I have the trouble with the latter myself.

I'm not using Wayland, but I also have some troubles with it on my laptop.
It will display just fine in most games but not at all in others. No idea what the difference is between the games.

Might be Vulkan/OpenGL.
Might be some games using some kind of "launcher" (maybe just a .sh script to launch the game instead of directly launching the binary and Mangohud cannot deal with that).

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Quoting: pytrysGameplay seems to be the same boredom like the first game. I will pass.

Yup.

I'll happily watch a story-only walkthrough, though, because in contrast to the "gameplay", the story was fairly interesting if a wee bit pretentious (but that's just Kojima default).

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So what... an artstyle can only be used in one game now before people scream "clone!"?

Want me to tell you about Doom "clones"?

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I mean, it is a bit of a no-brainer to use AI, especially for indies.

If money is tight and I want to have voiced lines of text, am I gonna spend a lot of money on a voice actor or drastically less money on AI voicing, which has significantly improved recently?
I think pretty much everyone would like to give money to fellow humans, but "would like" is a luxury if money is a limiting factor.

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