Have you had fun playing backups of games you legally own on physical media lately? Dumped any BIOS files from the old consoles you own?

I'm sure you have- after all, we're all about doing things legally and being above board here, aren't we? :wink:

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In all honesty, I get why the official forums, subreddits, discords and what have you for different emulator projects have the anti-piracy stances they do- they don't want years of work being cease and desisted by Sony or Nintendo because of people linking to roms. I still think the pretense is funny

  • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's hilarious how there are active Switch emulators and people playing leaked entire games before they are officially released

    • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I played the entirety of Pokemon Scarlet 8 days before the commercial release.

      I played Monster Hunter Rise 4 days before it's commercial switch release.

      I played those games, online through the Ryujinx LDN build, sometimes a week before they came out. The switch emulation scene is amazing.

      Emulator developers are incredibly talented people.

      • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Honestly even as someone who's really enjoying Scarlet/Violet if you're playing it on an emulator odds are you're getting the better gameplay experience lmao

        it even has working multiplayer....

        • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Oh my friends and I have had an absolutely incredible time playing it emulated. It's become our go to putz about game when we aren't fooling around on TP/WW/BOTW multiplayer mods.