It's embarrassing because of how extremely litigious Nintendo is, and that they are themselves profiting using other people's work (emulators and/or ROMs acquired from the internet), the exact thing they ruin lives over.

[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not saying they haven't used others work in the past, but they do have their own emulators and ROMs. They have for a long time. They are still terrible, but this just doesn't seem like a big deal to me

Edit: Also, whose lives have they ruined aside from those profiting off of distributing copyrighted material? Taking down a fan game doesn't sound life ruining

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just so we're clear, are you under the impression that "ROMs acquired from the Internet" represent something other than Nintendo's work?

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, i would generally consider ripping roms as something requiring effort similar to cracking a game

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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"Ripping" ROMs, or dumping them, takes almost no effort. If you have the cartridge reader its about as much work as taking photos off an SD card. Certainly nothing at all like cracking a game, which is pretty much software development.

Please consider informing yourself before forming strong opinions.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

This is the part where I focus for half a second and realize this is about SNES and everything makes a lot more sense. I would hope newer stuff would have some form of protection 😅

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Aren't the emulators licensed for this kind of use?