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Off Topic / Re: RIP Emulators and ROMs
« on: August 11, 2018, 04:08:45 PM »
somehow i'm legitimately surprised no one in this thread has been banned for the piracy rule yet
yeah it's sad that ROM sites got taken down but what can you do? nintendo's stuff was on it, so of course they're going to target it. they've always had this stance, and i'm almost positive that almost all of you know this. hell, even freeShop, a common 3DS piracy tool, which directly leeched from nintendo's CDN on the 3DS itself, got killed because they changed how the CDN works. they know about this stuff and will take it down.
also let me remind you that emuparadise went down willingly. nintendo didn't sue them this time, despite what happened a year ago -- all they did was take down all of their roms because of what happened to LoveROMs and LoveRetro over the past month, which is probably a good move, just in case other companies get ideas
emulators aren't going anywhere, though. people develop that stuff all the time and you really can't take down work that they made. xenia for the xbox 360 still has good progress, able to run XBLA games surprisingly well, XQEMU and Cxbx-Reloaded for the OG xbox are both aiming to get stuff working, rpcs3, which couldn't play anything aside from basic homebrew years ago, is starting to get in-game (albeit not fully working) compatibility for more than a few high-quality games, and dolphin has made huge strides over the years, which i'm certain most people are aware of.
ROM sites might be dying, but emulation isn't, that's for sure. definitely interested in seeing how far some of the emulators for last-gen consoles go
yeah it's sad that ROM sites got taken down but what can you do? nintendo's stuff was on it, so of course they're going to target it. they've always had this stance, and i'm almost positive that almost all of you know this. hell, even freeShop, a common 3DS piracy tool, which directly leeched from nintendo's CDN on the 3DS itself, got killed because they changed how the CDN works. they know about this stuff and will take it down.
also let me remind you that emuparadise went down willingly. nintendo didn't sue them this time, despite what happened a year ago -- all they did was take down all of their roms because of what happened to LoveROMs and LoveRetro over the past month, which is probably a good move, just in case other companies get ideas
emulators aren't going anywhere, though. people develop that stuff all the time and you really can't take down work that they made. xenia for the xbox 360 still has good progress, able to run XBLA games surprisingly well, XQEMU and Cxbx-Reloaded for the OG xbox are both aiming to get stuff working, rpcs3, which couldn't play anything aside from basic homebrew years ago, is starting to get in-game (albeit not fully working) compatibility for more than a few high-quality games, and dolphin has made huge strides over the years, which i'm certain most people are aware of.
ROM sites might be dying, but emulation isn't, that's for sure. definitely interested in seeing how far some of the emulators for last-gen consoles go
