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.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (5 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 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then why doesn't Nintendo do it themselves?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They were observed finding one ROM on the Internet, ever. They do have their own emulator(s).

Nintendo is a bunch of humans. If my boss asks me to see if I can find the installer for an old version of our software, you can bet I'll check anywhere before volunteering to go scrape old hard drives.

[–] 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 😅

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