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OatmealDome | 1 year ago

> distributed roms behind a paywall via their patreon

Not true. They were only distributing "early access" builds of the emulator there.

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tombert|1 year ago

Yeah but weren't they making specific patches to accommodate an early leak of Tears of the Kingdom? At that point, they were kind of directly facilitating piracy; no one could argue that they were working with a legitimately obtained ROM.

Of course, I don't know the details, I've never actually gotten Yuzu working in any capacity (since I run macOS) and thus I wasn't part of their Patreon or Discord, so maybe I'm mistaken?

emodendroket|1 year ago

I see a lot of falsehoods (like "nobody ever sold an emulator before," when Apple showcased commercial PlayStation emulation at a keynote event in 1999) going around and I assume the reason is people don't like the implications of this case and are substituting a more palatable version of events that didn't really happen.

tombert|1 year ago

Not only did Apple showcase it, Sony sued Connectix and lost, thus formally making emulators "legal". [1] Similarly though, it looks like they were able to basically shut it down by getting injunctions on it while the case was pending, and eventually buying and discontinuing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix_Virtual_Game_Station