#*or* emulated games

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

#WERE LOSING YUZU AND CITRA. I DONT KNOW IF YOU ALL UNDERSTAND HOW INSANE THIS IS #game emulation enables piracy yes but it’s also an INCREDIBLY powerful archival tool. #there are plenty of games out there that only exist in their original formats due to emulation. #this lawsuit has HORRIBLE implications for video game history. it makes it incredibly easy for companies to scorched earth their products #if they’re not profitable enough. ART IS GOING TO BE LOST BECAUSE OF THIS. GAMES PEOPLE WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD ON #it won’t just happen to bad games. it won’t just happen to old games. they will use this to keep their remake/virtual console model going #forever and you will never be able to play your favorite games in their true original forms ever again. #i am fucking INSANELY mad rn. capitalism is the death of art fr #personal

[dragonflute]

for anyone who cares about emulation, unfortunately today we lost both yuzu (switch) and citra (3ds) emulators due to the lawsuit nintendo filed against the management that handled both emulators. this is a major loss for emulation as a whole. if you support emulation i recc downloading emulators that you may want to have in the future in the case that they get taken down in similar lawsuits

#personal #insane loss for game preservation and as always it is nintendo #for switch emulators at the very least ryujinx still exists but 3ds emulators that are not citra suck ass

[timedyne]

yuzu and citra are dead because the yuzu/citra devs shot themselves in the foot. they continually POSTED footage and updates pertaining to games THAT WEREN'T OUT YET, which gave nintendo actual foothold to take them down for encouraging piracy. this is recorded directly in the legal documents for the case. they also (apparently, this is according to my friend who is more active in the emulation scene than i and i don't know of any recorded proof so take it with a grain of salt) straight up shared links to piracy sites in their discord which is an obvious no-no for any emulator???? and people straight up going on nintendo's OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS saying "fuck you i'm just going to emulate [insert game here] using yuzu" which is. well. loose lips sink ships.

fuck nintendo and all that, but this is almost entirely on the backs of the devs for being stupid. to any aspiring emulator devs out there: don't post about anything relating to piracy ever, especially don't post about the games THAT YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE ACCESS TO YET, and wait a while before saying a brand new game is playable on your emulator.

also: they settled out of court. no judge saw the case. this isn't setting any sort of legal precedent. all of your other favorite emulators are fine for now as long as they don't make the same stupid mistakes yuzu was making.

#blurry speaks #also they had some. questionable. coding choices but that has nothing to do with the matter at hand #gaming #emulation #emulators #yuzu #citra #nintendo #nintendo switch #nintendo 3ds #nintendo emulation #<-- slew of tags because i want people to see this

[sophie-baybey]

Don't use Project 64.

Hey all, a new extremely dangerous vulnerability was discovered in Project64, a very popular N64 emulator. If you emulate N64 games, I highly highly recommend switching off P64 for an alternative, such as Mupen.

#this is from kaze who is extremely trustworthy about this stuff #n64 #nintendo 64 #emulation #gaming news #Youtube

[constructbreakdown]

Made this PNG for emulator splashscreens. Use it however you like.

#retropie splashscreens #retropie #emulation #gaming #roms #retro gaming #snes #nes #gba #gameboy color #gameboy advance #sega genesis #sega 32x #sega mega drive #sega cd #mega drive #sega #playstation #n64 #nintendo #arcade games #arcade #atari #art #lsd dream emulator #graphic design #digital art #png images #png

[beehunterkisser]

i like magazines

#sami's art #i wanted to emulate like #those 2000s kids video game annual vibes #with the text in this #i hope it shows.. i think its best in rouge's #sonic #sonic fanart #blaze the cat #silver the hedgehog #rouge the bat #wave the swallow #jet the hawk #storm the albatross #amy rose

[anopuff]

the gentle spring sunlight warms your body

#persona 3 #persona 3 portable #minato arisato #makoto yuki #aigis........ but also not really--- #i actually worked on this in feb-mar and wanted to finish for the promised day but haha i hated how it turned out :'''D #and dropped the wip for a good long time..... #with p3 reload announced i thought it's a good time to pick up my pending p3 wips again :''') #i keep making new wips on top of my neverending backlog of wips-- #anw super looking forward to the new game! 🥺 #now i dont have to emulate p3fes cries #art

[peachesarts]

i just think they should wear cute summer outfits and go on little summer dates together that's all

#imodna #Imogen temult #laudna #critical role #critical role fanart #cr3 #bells hells #i really love them and i miss them when are you girls gonna KISS #also welcome to my very tall/very short imodna agenda thank you #i tried to emulate their colour palettes but as modern-ish outfits so it kind of reads the same as their in game og outfits #also goth gf x cowboy gf really is the moment

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Nintendo sent ninjas to my house because I made several Miiverse posts linking to sites for emulating video games.

#dream #nintendo #the nintendo ninjas #miiverse #emulation #ninja #video game #video games #game #gaming

[robinsoninspace]

LSD: Dream emulator

#lsd dream emulator #dream emulator #glitch #glitched #game

[ch4nnelspl1t]

he’s just a guy

#giving an honest go @ emulating the game’s promo art style…uwaa #smallfry #lil buddy #splatoon #salmon run #doodle drops #splat study…….

[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: dude with an ultrawide monitor playing an emulated copy of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with the aspect ratio stretched out so that Link is literally twice as wide as he is tall and insisting it's better this way because it uses the whole monitor.

#aesthetic #gaming #video games #emulation #computers #hardware

[iluvjesus666]

fuck nintendo for killing yuzu and citra.

fuck nintendo for relentlessly trying to gut game preservation efforts the community had to make because they themselves don't give two shits about preservation.

fuck nintendo for setting such a dangerous precedent against the emulation community as a whole.

just... fuck nintendo.

here's your reminder that pirating nintendo products is always morally correct.

#thus sayeth the lord #nintendo #yuzu #citra #video games #emulation

[foldingfittedsheets]

At one point a friend gave me a Nvidia Shield which is like an Xbox controller with a screen and it can play emulators and stuff. I got so excited, there were so many games I hadn’t played on N64 that I really wanted to try!

So I set it up and got Ocarina of Time, Banjo Kazooie, Pokémon Snap, Kirby. Then I tried to play them. Zelda seemed to play at first but then a single pixel would snag and drag across the screen one by one until it was just an abstract terrifying mess. I tried other ROMs, other emulators. No luck.

Oh well, I thought. I’ll try Banjo Kazooie.

That one played with what I can only describe as snaps where everything would judder and leap around, dumping me amidst enemies and cutting off cut scenes. It wasn’t playable.

I tried the hardest to get Pokémon Snap to work.

At first I couldn’t move the camera, I could only snap pictures of what was in view. After laborious troubleshooting I got the camera to move, but all my pictures came out black and wouldn’t let me progress. I could do an infinite loop of the tutorial level but no farther.

But Kirby and the Crystal Shard worked.

After all the others it behaved extraordinarily well. There was only one tiny glitch that was so mild it didn’t affect gameplay. It did change the tone of the game slightly, I must admit. Because it was a bit jarring when the pink blob just opened in inescapable void to suck down any in his path.

The glitch: Kirby didn’t have a face.

#ramblies #funny #the PlayStation emulators worked perfectly #not a single issue #video games #emulators #Nvidia shield #ffs foibles

[spark-circuit]

me hearing my friends lament that they can't play older games on newer consoles because they're not remade or rereleased yet and may never be brought back:

#I've been making this joke repeatedly but i can't help it this screenshot is too good #genshin impact #spark's genshin adventures #spark talks about nothing of relevance #now that's what i call shitposting #emulation #emulating games #i studied games preservation in my last year of uni so i can make this joke :) #it's always morally correct to preserve works that are being restricted for capitalism

[perrysoup]

I think on thing that kills me is when some companies *coughnintendocough* won’t embrace things and instead punish those who make it possible.

I’ll be honest, I would probably pay $20 for a name brand gameboy emulator, and $2 or so per game.

Yet Nintendo will not offer it. Fine. I don’t like it but fine.

But THEN to punish people to make emulators of consoles they don’t make, giving away games they don’t make, AND to have the law on their side is disgusting to me. Why not let people have joy if you no longer provide it?

Fuck you Nintendo and every company that does not allow/encourage emulation

#emulator #emulation #old games #gameboy #nintendo