Quoting: JustinWoodI mean, let's not pretend anyone didn't see this coming. While I do certainly agree that Nintendo's litigious nature is ridiculous, when they settled the lawsuit with Tropic Haze with the requirement that they shut down operations of Yuzu and Citra, the point was to prevent further distribution of Yuzu and Citra. Folks could certainly back up a copy of Yuzu or Citra, but distributing it was only ever going to end one way.

Honestly I wonder how much consideration was put into trying to sue each individual distributor, because it's not like Nintendo's lawyers would hesitate to sue individuals into indentured servitude for the rest of their life.

Indeed, I wonder how much this actually does for them though... When presenting to the shareholders what are you going to give them? "We spent millions in legal costs to tackle emulation this year and we saw X return on investment.", in this example, how much is X? My guess is that despite their high horsing, they just lose money for no actual gain.

How many people who only pirate the game is going to go "man, I can't emulate this game anymore, guess I'll just go to the store and buy it."? How many people who emulate these games actually already own a copy and emulate for different reasons? Will they look at this behaviour and say "that's fair, I will still support them in the future with no diminished interest"?

I just don't see how it makes any sense business-wise. Trademark sure, you have to defend it or you'll lose it, but you won't lose your copyright just because you don't sue someone copying your stuff...

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I have sunk a lot of hours into this one over the years. :smile:

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Quoting: redneckdrow

Warlords Battlecry III

Well, there's a blast from my past! I remember I got my copy at my local Big Lots' very eclectic electronics shelf for around three bucks. Somehow, they still get new copies of games of the same (and older!) vintage from time to time.

Everything from Warcraft 2's CD-ROM version, Zanzarah [External Link] (think Pokémon meets Quake meets King's Quest), Battle Realms [External Link], to Lords of Magic [External Link].

Heck, I even got my original 5-disc copy of Baldur's Gate from them for $6 circa 1999.

These are available from Steam or GoG these days. Call me a fossil, but I still like my physical media. I hate that it's become something one has to pay extra for, at least for computers.

Indeed, I don't think I've ever owned Battlecry 3, but I have the CDs for 1 and 2 around here somewhere. And of course the Baldur's Gate + Tales of the Swordcoast booklet of CDs as well, that one I know where it is. It still has as an honorary spot on my shelf. :grin:

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During February I have played through Shantae: Risky's Revenge, currently re-playing Shantae and the Pirate's Curse and will get to Half-Genie Hero after that hopefully. :grin:

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Quoting: Stoney_FishAlso this was useful to get flatpak support in gnome-software (not just snaps)

sudo apt install --install-suggests gnome-software

Yeah that is due to Canonical not liking competition, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-No-Flatpak-By-Default [External Link]

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Quoting: dziadulewiczThis is very bad if another app is needed to make the main one to run and with additional tweaks there. New comers can't know these things or most of the time will not bother. That auto detection of the installations should just be polished to work... Maybe it's not impossible even in a sandboxed flatpak.

I agree. Though given how flatpak is designed, I don't think there is a good solution so far.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismNow that I think of the Nintendo v Emulator lawsuit -- how would this effect Proton ???

If successful could Microsoft launch a lawsuit and say WINE is illegal? as it "Circumvents the intended use-case" ???

No, WINE would be like Google v. Oracle [External Link], which was pretty firmly settled in Google's favour, and thus WINE's.

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Quoting: Stoney_FishI guess its a permissions issue for the flatpak to access my other disks.

I on Ubuntu 23.10 and it does not want me to manage Flatpaks in the App Center or in Gnome-Software.

Oh yeah, that will do it. If your game files are on another disk then it will not be allowed to load them by default. (the flatpak only asks for access to the following folders by default:
~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Dark Forces/Game
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Dark Forces/Game

You can manage permissions etc through the application "Flatseal [External Link]", it is available as a flatpak [External Link] and should be in several repos as well.

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Quoting: LinuxerIt still doesnt work :/ the force engine just crashes when clicking start. even on steam deck , how can this be? Can anyone help?? The gob is here an i chose it : /home/tux/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Dark Forces/Game/DARK.GOB but the force engine says /run/user/1000/doc/c149f46b why

Hm... issue with xdg-portal perhaps? What if you set the path directly in:
~/.var/app/io.github.theforceengine.tfe/config/settings.ini
Does that make a difference?

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Gave it a try with the gog version of the game. (didn't want to bust out my old CD :tongue:)

Only played through the first two levels but impressions are good.

• Soundfont works good, music and sfx sound clear and has good bass.


• Graphics just worked with regards to aspect ratio and scaling.


• Mouse input is smooth and responsive.


• Performance is good, no choppiness in the gameplay or other frame rate issues from my limited testing. (which can sometimes happen in dosbox unless it is set up properly for Dark Forces)


• The optional "Bloom FX" actually looks pretty alright.

Great way to play one of my favourite games of all time. Looking forward to also be able to play Outlaws in the future. :wub:

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