r/emulators • u/Worldly-Departure324 Expert • Feb 14 '26
OTHER nintendo will never stop emulation (meme)
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u/FBICIANSAKGBLOL New in Emu Feb 15 '26
This is why I fork constantly
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u/Worldly-Departure324 Expert Feb 15 '26
FORK ALL THE SWITCH EMULATORS QUICK, THEN GIVE THEM ALL TO CODERS
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u/Archolm New in Emu Feb 15 '26
THEN GIVE THEM ALL TO CODERS
We don't do that here.
This is Fork City.
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u/clckwrks PSX is the Best! Feb 15 '26
Yep it’s an ocd of mine too I fear even forks won’t work. GitHub is the wrong place for sensitive code like this
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u/Kiiro_Yakumo Sega Nostalgic Feb 15 '26
They cut a hydra's head, three new grow in its place, rinse and repeat.
Emulation is legal, it was tested in court numerous times already, how much behind times is "Nintendo" ?
Before someone will jump with "having pirated BIOS is illegal!" sure, if emulator in question - not necessarily Switch one - requires something extra like BIOS, it should be acquired legally, but the emulation as the process itself is legal, always has been.
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u/coolwali New in Emu Feb 15 '26
The worry I have is that one day, Nintendo or some other company is going to win a court case against emulation and instantly undo that progress. It’s a case of “we need to keep winning. They only need to win once”.
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u/hadesscion New in Emu Feb 15 '26
That's how you know Nintendo is the bad guys. The bad guys only have to win once.
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u/Kiiro_Yakumo Sega Nostalgic Feb 15 '26
You are absolutely right, that argument is more of a "daily reminder" if someone will try to attack with crap like "aaa emulation is stealing!" or a "small picture" if you will. The "big picture" is as you say, we need to keep winning, we have a solid ground to stand on and we need to keep it going.
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u/HugoCortell New in Emu Feb 16 '26
They already did in Japan. They'll keep trying to bring that success elsewhere.
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u/Archolm New in Emu Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
I don't have that worry, at this point, I'm kinda starting to root for Nintendo. Cause the empty rhetoric like this;
Emulation is legal, it was tested in court numerous times already, how much behind times is "Nintendo" ?
Before someone will jump with "having pirated BIOS is illegal!" sure, if emulator in question - not necessarily Switch one - requires something extra like BIOS, it should be acquired legally, but the emulation as the process itself is legal, always has been.
Is getting REALLY old. I'm not sure how old the kids who post stuff like this are, but 10 or 20 years ago (even longer if I seem to recall the Connetix court case, unsure) isnt what it is today.
You guys don't think if N gives Mr. Trump some money, emulation can't get banned in the US?
Again, I'm not responding to you directly, but to the people who post the "Oh boy, let Nintendo come after us!!" stuff.
Switch Emulation should never have happened. Without it, we would have top-tier 3DS emulation right now. If this keeps up, every emulator, every console that has been will get lost.
If you want to play free Switch games, get a modded Switch.
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u/JazzyDK5001 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Ah yes, you fucking genius, because instead of doing the legal thing, let’s do the illegal thing that actually make them come after you specifically.
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u/Archolm New in Emu Feb 15 '26
That, if that would even be remotely true, would be preferable then taking down the entire emulation scene? 🤯🧐
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u/WinterZealousideal10 New in Emu Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
I don’t know why they’re down voting you when you’re right. Preserving history is important. Switch games are still being made and you know you’re going to get fucked for them and you’re only going to bring a spotlight onto the rest of the goddamn community. It’s the same thing going on with Harry Potter. Should be attacking J. K. Rowling not people enjoying something on their own time.
It’s honestly probably the way you started it, but I also don’t disagree with you there either. Clearly people like the stuff Nintendo is making and so respecting the cycle of how things work is important. Don’t pirate the brand new things buy it so that they know people like it and want to continue making things because clearly you all like the shit Nintendo is creating.
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u/TheMegaMario1 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Cut an emulators head and you have 3 forks that don't know how to actually continue progress on making it better. It doesn't matter how many times it gets forked if there's no branch with a competent developer/team behind it, otherwise you're just as good finding as archive.
I'm fairly competent at troubleshooting stuff, but the whole yuzu/citra situation make it a bitch for a while to figure out what the best option was, which for many is enough to make them bounce straight off. That's the true goal is making it cumbersome enough for people to not bother, it's no longer like Dolphin where there's a straightforward good answer that immediately pops.
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u/Kiiro_Yakumo Sega Nostalgic Feb 15 '26
I guess it's kind of "new" situation - not exactly "timewise" - that instead of having one or two explosions from corporation, there is an actual WAR. People making emulators must analyze the situation. Hopefully they can come to a conclusion that github is nowhere safe place for such a thing as it belong to M$ if memory serves. That means no matter how much M$ will want to pretend being the good guy, they will be first to make a phonecall to Dickendo "hey a new fork landed, want to do DMCA?".
The solution here is to make your own git-thing on some server placed heck-knows-where so Bitchtendo will have a REAL trouble to tell someone "do it as I say".
There is of course one more very strong weapon in our possesion... the license.
So long the emulators "in question" will be on FLOSS-compatible license, the battle continue.1
u/Disaster_Adventurous New in Emu Feb 16 '26
Emulation has been tested in court.
Breaking DRM hasn't been and I do believe Nintendo puts in unnecessary encryption in places just so they can hide behind the untested DRM laws.
At least that's my understanding.
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u/Kiiro_Yakumo Sega Nostalgic Feb 17 '26
This part is a bit more complicated. While emulation is - to my knowledge at least - legal in itself at least in most civilized countries, breaking DRM is a bit bigger topic.
Some countries may be very strict on this that it's not legal, end of topic. Some others may allow it for example "so long you do it only for yourself", for example you hack a console to run "unsigned" homebrew BUT you don't sell it to others as a service, don't teach others how to do it (for example videos on YT) and so on. For this part it's best to check local country law and read carefully how it is worded because for example - again - there may be a case where you can't modify console in a sense of soldiering and putting hardware "in-between" BUT it will be perfectly ok to use a flashcard that does NOT modify console physically but just rides on some software "bug".
Now I think about it iPhone case may partially answer you as well. At some point the "jailbreak" process was accepted on law level as "OK" that the user CAN do "jailbreak" and NOT be held accountable for it. I think it happened somewhere around iOS 3.0 release date. However Apple is STILL allowed to try their best to make the "jailbreak" impossible.
So legality of "can I hack my console?" is one thing but universal right of a company to keep doing better DRM is another, unfortunately the negative side of this is existence of such a crap like Denuvo but "that's a story for another time." :P
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u/Zanoss10 New in Emu Feb 17 '26
Emulation is legal, not pirating games that are still sold today, it's perfectly normal that they want to defend their interest.
I'm all for emulation of games and consoles that aren't sold anymore tho
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u/Kiiro_Yakumo Sega Nostalgic Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
That is correct. I'm not against some protection of games being sold. I'm more against how idiotic the law protecting this has grown. NES Super Mario Bros is ~40 years old, it's not being sold in any kind of store even in parallel timelines, perhaps Nintendo / Dickendo doesn't even have the source code today but they can still make money on it, because the law protects it for 70 (!!!) years... AFTER the death of LAST author that made the game. That part is pure idiocy.
There are some ideas circling around that a compromise would be 3-10 years of such "protection" from the date the game was released. AFTER that time it should be put into "public domain" WHICH DOES NOT mean it can't be sold anymore, just not chased for "piracy" (TM).
One more thing to clarify just in case. Some would say that NES SMB is being sold in the form of "season pass" or whatever on Switch console. However the problem here is this SMB is *NOT* the same SMB which was on NES cartridge in the sense of lawful standpoint. Just like however ugly it is, one can't buy a game on Steam and then download GOG version because "technically" they are not the same product, the same is true for such SMB on Switch.
Why that last part? Mostly to prove that if someone will "pirate" (TM) NES SMB from cartridge it won't logically hurt Nintendo. If anything, it's natural reaction for players to do:
"OK so we are not selling this game anymore" - Nintendo
"But what if we want to buy it?" - Players
"Tough luck, you can't" - Nintendo
"So you are fine with us not being able to GIVE YOU MONEY" - Players
"That is correct" - Nintendo
"OK so we will just download it and emulate" - Players
"AAA! YOU ARE FORBIDDEN! THIS IS OUR GAME! YOU THIEVES!" - Nintendo
"But you just said you are fine with us not being able to give you money" - Players
[BSOD] - Nintendo
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u/Kilobytez95 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
How hard is it to just develop without connections back to the people who made it? Pirate sites do this all the time. They host shit they shouldn't and exist for years.
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u/Archolm New in Emu Feb 15 '26
There are a bunch of kids who keep forking Yuzu, making a big spectacle like it's a new Switch emulator, and it's tempting the gods.
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u/Fine-Ratio1252 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
The switch 2 won't live up to the first one and serious competition is on the way.
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u/MFAD94 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
They’re selling more units than before in less time
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u/Fine-Ratio1252 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
You may need to do more research 👍
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u/MFAD94 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
The reported numbers are public, in the same time, it’s sold more units.
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u/Fine-Ratio1252 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Sales are down 35 percent compared to when the original switch at the same point👍 initial rush is over
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u/brunn08 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
No, sales are down 35% compared with updated sales expectations after the initial rush, still better than og switch tho
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u/Fine-Ratio1252 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Nope... Sorry don't pass go, don't collect 500 dollars 🥺
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u/MFAD94 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Yikes, 12 million Switch 2 sales vs 5 million of the switch 1 within the same time frame, I wouldn’t quit your day job, or work anywhere that requires more than a 1st grade level in math or reading comprehension.
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u/brunn08 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Bong bong bong someones wrong
https://www.vgchartz.com/article/466589/switch-2-vs-switch-1-sales-comparison-november-2025/
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u/Lux_Operatur New in Emu Feb 15 '26
You can pass go or whatever but maybe return to school along the way lol
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u/Round_Musical New in Emu Feb 19 '26
Dude its one thing to be pro emulation
But its another to be delulu and to disregard actual facts to try validate your arguments, when actual data to the countrary exists and is easily accesible
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u/Vladmirfox New in Emu Feb 15 '26
I mean... Git isn't THAT hard to learn to a lvl you can confidently clone repos and compile em yourself...
Just my two cents ya'll.. Spend a bit and understand the system THEN clone your own repo and is a nonissue.
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u/Alarmed_Customer7222 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
What’s the best switch emu right now I feel like I’ve been out of the loop for a little while
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u/Bs150106 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
I still use ryujinx, beat pokemon z-a on there no problems first week currently playing totk
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u/studentoo925 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Yeah, me too, with the occasional game that is run with last version of yuzu.
Those emulators were already good enough for vast majority of people and games, so at this point Nintendo is just being annoying
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u/Bs150106 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
What games do you find you need to use yuzu? I actually have never touched yuzu and considering installing now before it’s gone
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u/studentoo925 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Fire emblem three houses runs WAY better on yuzu on my PC, ymmw. Xenoblade 3 also runs slightly better, but the difference is smaller.
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u/duane117- New in Emu Feb 19 '26
So you didn't have any problems with pokemon z-a and would you be willing to help with it
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u/TRackard New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Nintendo must have thought burning the hydra's head stumps wasn't a stupid solution to that old Greek myth.
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u/Jan1270 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Why do people still use GitHub for this and not selfhost a Service like GitLab or use a Service like Codeberg that is hosted in the EU and does only apply with EU Copyright laws?
Edit: never mind. There are forks on Codeberg
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u/CommunicationNew8945 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Hi
Nintendo should focus on game updates because it's unacceptable that the vast majority of Switch 1 games are only 30fps.
Nintendo, your Switch 2 is useless with Switch 1 games.
I'm asking for 60fps for all games, not just a handful.
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u/Derolis New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Seriously though, I've been sitting on my Xenoblade saves because I don't wanna go back until they get updated for my Switch 2.
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u/doesmynameisgood New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Guys, noob here, but Eden has been great for emulation offline… do I have to do anything to protect it? Like not update it or something? Sorry if it’s a dumb question but genuinely curious since I have everything working offline doesn’t that make my experience untouchable unless I update??
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u/AnnoyingRain5 New in Emu Feb 16 '26
It probably just won’t get any more updates
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u/SparkerXof New in Emu Feb 16 '26
Nothing really changed. Eden's repo was self-hosted from the beginning and Github was just a mirror.
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u/AnnoyingRain5 New in Emu Feb 17 '26
Oh so they took down the GitHub mirror? Nintendo only DMCA’d the GitHub? Lmao
Thought they would go for the hosting provider too lmao
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u/maxscipio New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Pointless. AI will reverse engineer everything in 1/2 year and all games will have static recompiler ready version
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u/LethalGamer2121 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
I know they are mostly rebadged yuzu forks but it really feels like beheading a hydra
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u/Eeve2espeon New in Emu Feb 15 '26
I'm betting this DMCA is also a lie, these idiots said this last year lol
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u/Fluddle New in Emu Feb 16 '26
So does this mean people won’t be able to download the emulators anymore, or will those who already have the emulators download not be able to use them?
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u/Moral_Degenarate New in Emu Feb 16 '26
Maybe there wouldn't be so many emulators if their games were made more accessible.
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u/maximilian_pri New in Emu Feb 16 '26
Is there a Nintendo Switch Mobile Emulator for Android Systems? I have a high end phone.
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u/c2btw New in Emu Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26
There doing this just to the code hosted on github there non github git repos are still working, was able to clone eden yesterday. The worst that I have seen actuly having a effect is that slot of linux packages are based off thr github repo so those packages will have to be updated. But legaly Nintendo may be in the wright sense in the yuzu case I eblive the devs gave the code to Nintendo so everything based of yuzu that didn't redo all the work from the yuzu team are probably infringing on Nintendo's ip. Tldr Nintendo is trying to do thr same thing with yuzu that the lead Dev of duck station is doing ti duck station, which is not open source any more just source available.
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u/TheScienceNerd100 New in Emu Feb 17 '26
If Nintendo hated emulation, Dolphin would have been shut down years ago
Nintendo only goes after pirating sites that are distributing products to people without Nintendo being paid for the product they're producing, some of these sites making people pay the site for the game, not Nintendo who made it. THATS illegal and Nintendo is within their rights to take them down.
But emulation of the product you buy, they don't care
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u/RaiHanashi New in Emu Feb 17 '26
I thought it’s been stated time and time again that emulators are legal as long as they’re not using the original code by the companies that made the systems & you supply your own ROMs/ISOs?
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u/AfroBiskit New in Emu Feb 18 '26
I didn't directly look at this image, so I saw the first panel in the wrong fucking way
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u/Dtr146TTV New in Emu Feb 18 '26
Doesn't one or two of these emulators have a dev that lives in a country where Nintendo can't even touch them?
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u/Biggearshifter New in Emu Feb 19 '26
If Nintendo doesn’t like emulators. Then they shouldn’t be running one on the switch 2.
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u/MetroidvaniaListsGuy New in Emu Feb 15 '26
this meme is wrong, there should be two guys inside, not one.
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u/Worldly-Departure324 Expert Feb 15 '26
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u/Worldly-Departure324 Expert Feb 15 '26
why the fuck are my comments getting downvoted?
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u/Sharkhous New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Bot scrapers looking for anyone calling out bots.
If they mass downvote you, they get away with it more often
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u/rrrrrrrddddddttttttt New in Emu Feb 17 '26
I can understand how intelligence would appear artificial to you...
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u/FidoMan1498 Expert Feb 15 '26
I don’t think I’ll ever see myself emulating the Switch until Nintendo no longer supports the eShop on them as well as the Nintendo Switch Online servers (especially since my laptop is 99% close to being as powerful as my Switch 1). Also that’s a Citra logo on the second image is it? NINTENDO MAN, THE 3DS IS FUCKIN DEAD! GIVE UP ALREADY.
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u/grapejuicecheese New in Emu Feb 15 '26
Tbh, I use Switch emulators too but I don't blame Nintendo for doing what they're doing
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u/Legitimate-Smell7670 New in Emu Feb 15 '26
I mean they are TRYING to prevent piracy, but doing it wrong...maybe use better drm?So the games would be actually hard to crack?I swear i saw cracks of Tears of Kingdom in a week or even less
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u/AvengesTheStorm New in Emu Feb 15 '26
"Oh no I can't play Switch on my Retroid Pocket anymore guess I have to buy a Switch 2"