Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025?

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:20:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

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It doesn't help that companies are trying to end emulation, though.

More precisely, they're trying to end emulation they don't control.
Because pretty much all the major players nowadays rely on emulation
for their old line-up.

But regardless of what they (mostly Nintendo) want, emulation is not
going anywhere. It's been tested repeatedly in court, and so long as
no copyrighted code is used in the emulator, then they've no legal leg
to stop its distribution. And emulator developers have gotten VERY
good about clean-room recreations of hardware functions. Or at least,
they're gotten really good at dividing their code from any necessary
copyrighted code (e.g., the BIOS) that the user has to provide
themselves.

As for the games themselves, well, they've perfect right to police the
distribution of those... although the cat is waaaaay out of the bag
for most of those at this point, so it seems comically pointless for
them to keep chasing it. But I can't fault them their attempts.

(well, usually. Some games are impossible to buy and keeping those out
of public use for decades seems almost malicious... but a lot of the
better known stuff still has value (as in, people will pay to play
them if the games are available) so their shutting down the torrents
(or however kids distribute the games nowadays) doesn't bother me to
much.