I mean, the reason it won't hurt sales is because piracy doesn't actually hurt sales, and studies have shown piracy can increase sales.

Basically, most people willing to pirate games weren't going to buy the games in the first place^[video games are a luxury item and especially with the economy seeming to trend down and game prices definitely shooting up a lot of people aren't going to have the means to afford playing], but there are going to be a percentage of converters who like the game enough to buy through official channels.

And there's a cultural currency that comes from being a popular piracy target, too, as that means more people (who have played it) are talking about the game and are likely to convince others to try it, which is going to bring in more customers. Basically what happened with Game of Thrones, when they (I think it was the director?) boasted about being the most-pirated show in the world. In that way, you can get sales out of people who never even purchased your product.

EDIT: fixed costumer typo

It won't. It never does.

I, for one, would have to spend a lot more than the $510 + tax I did for a Switch 2 and the game to get a computer that could run it well.

I get a lot of stuttering. Seems its constantly building shaders.

I don’t think it’s vibe coded, though. Real people who’ve put work into emulator projects are going at it with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.

But the “ai” helped them get access to the console. I’m assuming most,if not all, decompiles needed it bc of the speed which it was done. But you can use an emulator instead.

It’s actually very interesting bc they didn’t even need root access. This pulls everything without decryption. No security keys are needed.

They'll just double the size of their legal department and continue on their merry, DMCA-fuelled way.

to this fucked up AI shit

In case you didn't know, this is not just "one thing" going on and not everything is Ai shit. The native ports are most likely supported heavily by Ai, but the emulators was done before Ai was a thing. They just extend this to the Switch 2 hardware, which is very similar to Switch 1. Since the Switch 2 can be jailbroken they have access to everything they need. I can't say if every emulator developer is against Ai too, but not everything is at least vibe coded shit.

This for me, but with the new Fire Emblem. I've played almost every game in the series. But I can't justify $500 for a console for a single game, then pay whatever the going cost is now for the game ($60-80?), and then have all the inevitable DLC that actually raises the cost of the game to somewhere between $140-160 (most FE games since 3DS have DLC that nearly double the price of the game).

Oh, and if I pay $500 for that console, I have to pay a subscription fee if I do want to use internet features.

I hate Nintendo for their corporate practices, but at least up through the Switch, they actually make good games. And when people complain about their high price games, when you buy physical, that also means you can sell your games and get most of your money back from them. It's the attacks on fan projects, the DMCAs, the DLC, and paid internet subscription that made me lose any love for them. Almost every older Nintendo console was worth it, but not now (I had a Wii U, lmao). It's also incredibly frustrating in this day and age to be locked to a console when I might want to play things elsewhere.

As a huge fan of OoT, having played it since release and even been part of reverse engineering efforts early on for file format discovery and such on the original N64 rom (HylianToolbox was a mod tool that was brand new back then), I have been pretty disappointed with the remake.

There are certainly elements I like, such as improved graphics quality on par with other realistic looking AAA games from about 10 years ago, but I am finding all of Nintendo's changes pointless and frustrating.

An example is in the Deku Tree. The 23 is number 1 Deku Scrubs. In the original, they were spaced out, and it was pretty intuitive to the player that the order is middle, right, left. Then the final Deku Scrub would tell you about Queen Gohma, ending with "Sorry Queenie."

In the remake, the three scrubs are way closer together, and they have spotlights on them that flash in order from left to right. When defeated, the final Deku Scrub tells you something about "Dark Gohma" and says "Sorry Dark One," or something like that, and then a new dialogue line is added in small letters: "But not really though." Why? The original encounter was already fine, what on earth is the point of this change? It completely changes the context of the encounter.

There are hand-holding elements literally every inch if the screen. Navi is worse, and they added more places for Kaepora to appear. This, combined with the earlier mentioned change to the Deku Scrubs encounter, it makes me feel like Nintendo is afraid of letting the player explore. Which is baffling considering OoT already was piss easy.

Also, there are loading screens, which the original game did not have, and Aonuma really wanted to minimize during the gameplay reveal. They are pretty disruptive to the pacing of playing the game. Especially compared to the original, that was so good at scene transitions that most players dont even notice the original game changes levels in the tunnl between Mido in Kokiri Forest and the Great Deku tree in the original game, even during the cutscene that Navi flies through that tunnel. Some people may know it because emulators early on struggled at that part and have a stutter when that happens, but on original hardware at 20 fps it was not noticeable.

I just want to play it with mods so I can fix those faces

And their 90€ 6/10 Mario Kart.

The NX2 decomp is currently inferior to the slopulators. Probably multiple decomps by now. Fritchii emulator fork is #1 right now but I think it's only for OOT. It's a fork of Lichii which is a fork of Eglantine which is a fork of Eden which is a fork of Yuzu. I think? My head hurts. Lmao. What's better or not changes every 6 hours.

I tried Fritchii last night after work and it's playable now. The only graphical bug I noticed was some corrupted text box background texture when an NPC is emphasizing something like the Deku Tree boss door combination 2-3-1. Shader stutter and pretty demanding on hardware but I usually stayed above 30FPS in the more graphically intensive areas. Indoors was usually 60fps. Fritchii can cap to 30 if the variable frame rate annoys you.

12th gen core i5 / Radeon 9070XT. I ran Fritchii through Faugus Launcher / Proton-GE because no Linux build. Some have appimages, some are on AUR like another fork called ichii. It's messy.

~~Video cutscenes desync audio on Radeon cards in all forks I've tried so far. ~~

Fritchii fixed desync.

If you're wondering where I'm following progress it's on the /r/decomps subreddit. Which is also posting all these Switch 2 slopulators.

Edit: the subreddit is already getting pressured to stop direct linking to github repos that are Switch 2 related. Nintendo big mad.

It works great but you need a very powerful computer. Was playing lots yesterday.

I doubt it. I've recently checked whether the Tekken 6 recomp/port for PC was any good, but framerates are abysmal, it's still effectively an emulated game.

I've heard several reports that it does! I'm leaving the afternoon free today so I can try to set it up myself.

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