Oct 8, 2026, 9:13 PM@cwebber@social.coop @dryak@mstdn.science I mean yeah, I'm aware they went after Switch emulators. But unless I missed something, I don't think they've gone after anything else yet?
But yes, perhaps they're just waiting for the right time to really dunk on the scene and make an actual legal precedent. Who knows.
EDIT: wait no I just remembered. They definitely have gone after homebrew dumping tools etc for the Switch too. Sigh.
Oct 8, 2026, 9:16 PM
@pjb @cwebber
Nintendo also went against Dolphin (Wii & Gamecube), Citra (3DS). And that's just the recent ones, and only emulators (we won't even mention fan-games).
They simply don't like the concept of people enjoying stuff how they like instead of the very narrow way-to-enjoy that Nintendo wants to impose as the only authorised one. They consider such "unauthorized fun" to be a violation of their IP rights and they have the lawyer warchest to fight on that hill.
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Oct 8, 2026, 9:28 PM@dryak@mstdn.science @cwebber@social.coop I suspect the worst is yet to come as my personal observation is that the phenomenon is still very recent, and all the videos of slop ports running I can think of have been based off mostly-human-made decomps. Though maybe I haven't been paying enough attention at that.
(Claude, take the port and the Aurora compat layer and smash them together, keep fixing crashes till I see the Wind Waker title screen)
Oct 8, 2026, 9:58 PM@pjb
They shut down the DS/D3DS emulator project Citra. It's not just Switch they chase.