It takes one benefit of using an emulator (digital storage medium) and combines it with the worst aspects of original hardware (physical hardware prone to damage, video output that isn’t compatible with many modern displays) and also loses out on the other benefits an emulator has (shader support, save states, emulated hardware overclocking to guarantee max and stable framerates, etc).

To me, this is almost worse because it also permanently alters a console that is no longer manufactured.

Good

Even if he shuts down the emulator, the code is out there forever. He will be playing whackamole with forks and various other projects just like Nintendo does. The analogy absolutely works for what’s happening.

Even if he shuts down the emulator, the code is out there forever. Can’t put the toothpaste back into the tube. Was this guy born yesterday?

And missing the normal way to play games. You’d have to use ROMs on this, and at that point there really isnt much of a difference between this and just emulating, you are already more than half the way there.

This is the first I’ve heard of the MIG.

That is exactly why Nintendo is abusing YouTube’s copyright system.

Post text:

Hi everyone, you may have noticed that my latest video is no longer available. Overnight I was served with a copyright takedown from Nintendo and received a copyright strike from YouTube.

• The video was a review of the MIG Flash v2 and Cartridge Dumper, which I demonstrated as a use for backing up and preserving your own Switch cartridges. In the video I showed how to take my own games and convert them to digital files, much like you would back up CDs to mp3s, DVDs to mp4s, etc. There are legal protections for backing up media for you own personal use in the United States and I used no software to circumvent Nintendo’s anti-piracy measures – in fact, the Cartridge Dumper itself requires no software to use. If you are curious, the applicable source is US Code Title 17: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/te…
• Nintendo’s copyright notice is because at one point in the video I showed the title screen of Super Mario 3D World on my Switch, when cycling between various Switch games. So their copyright claim has nothing to do with the cartridge dumper, but rather they are exercising their authority as IP owners of that game to take the video down. This is the same as taking down any other random video that shows Switch gameplay on a Switch – but because they cannot claim copyright infringement on the cart/dumper itself, they claimed a different clip to remove the whole video.
• This tactic has been used by them previously, and one of the reasons why I am always hesitant to show Switch gameplay and emulation on this channel. I firmly believe that we are users should have the ability to preserve our own media, especially in the face of disappearing digital marketplaces. This is why I have bought 100+ physical Switch cartridges over the years and found the idea of the Cartridge Dumper so fascinating and worth sharing with you on video.
• It was my mistake showing Super Mario 3D World in the video. I focused the majority of my 23-minute video on IP that Nintendo doesn’t own, but while demonstrating the function of the cartridge I did show the title screen. My thinking at the time was that showing a static title screen running on a Switch wouldn’t be constituted as “gameplay”, but obviously that was incorrect.
• While I likely have a case to counter-claim and fight for the video’s restoration, I simply don’t have the means to get into a legal battle with a multi-billion corporation known for their cutthroat legal team. I considered re-uploading the video after removing the three-second shot of Super Mario 3D World’s title screen, but there is no guarantee that they won’t serve me another copyright claim for something else, leading to a second copyright strike and putting my entire channel in jeopardy. Long story short, I am helpless to do anything about it, and the sad reality is that I cannot expect Google/YouTube to go to bat against one of their biggest content partners on account of this channel and three seconds of innocuous title screen footage.

So as it stands, I will have to move on from this strike and simply make more videos focusing on what I love the most – showing how to play our favorite games on many different platforms. I’m heading home from Europe in a couple days and will start making new videos upon my return.

My own remarks:

Nobody makes me emulate more than Nintendo. For the first time ever, I want to cause financial damage to Nintendo. It frustrates me that I cannot hurt their profits more or really in any actually significant way. And its so sad, I used to really love Nintendo. But continuing to bully people to follow Japanese law who are not beholden to Japanese law needs to end. Immediately.

I don’t want Nintendo to disappear. I just want them to do better. If they want to apply Japanese law, thats totally cool and understandable – within the borders of Japan. I don’t live in Japan, and my government afford me more protections from businesses than Japan does. The fact that YouTube does this and nobody except the extremely wealthy that would never run into this problem in the first place can do anything about it is disgusting. So I will do what I have been doing since 2017: telling the company how I feel by not buying their products.

Outrigger wasn’t that great. It was an interesting idea, sure, but the gameplay is very unusual especially for the Dreamcast controller.

Looks like someone tried to make a bootleg Code Veronica Dreamcast.

Cool idea, I wish this was available for my phone. But alas, this is what I get for having an experiemental phone.

That doesn’t make it okay for them to be selling counterfeits.

Especially selling the counterfeit for $50 USD.

But they still agreed to do the nude scene though? If you aren’t comfortable with people seeing you naked, maybe don’t agree to be naked on film? Context literally doesn’t matter.

I don’t see how they didn’t expect this either. That’s why I absolutely think this is about money and nothing else.

Play Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition on PC. Pretty much any PC these days can run it no problem, and it is undisputably the best way to play Silent Hill 2. Its not nostalgia blinding, the game is legitimately still good.

Silent Hill 2 wasn’t ever really scary. It made you nervous and anxious, but it never tried to outright scare the player. There were no jumpscare cutscenes, everything was slow and very telegraphed.

One of the things I noticed from the last gameplay they showed was the scene when James gets the flashlight in room 205 of the Apartments. In the original game, the scene plays and the Mannequin which was visible the entire time stands up. But in the remake Bloober made a change, a really stupid one. They added a jump scare sound cue, which is highly typical of Bloober. I am unhappy with this change because the original game never ever did this, and it was an intentional change from how Silent Hill 1 worked. Silent Hill 1 did have jumpscares in it.

The unauthorized activity was considered a slap in the face by the actresses, many of whom complained to local media. They felt violated by the actions and called on Reddit and the authorities to respond.

I’m sorry, what? This isn’t about money?

“It’s just abuse. You deliver something for the production and the story, and then you end up being molested that way,” Jensen said.

Okay, so this is definitely about money. Nobody is watching porn for the story.

Good to see Suikoden getting rereleased.

But I really wish Konami would treat its legacy content with the same level of respect that they seem to be having towards Metal Gear (ironic, considering their history with Kojima). Theyre blundering with Silent Hill, leaving Gradius/Kemesis in the dust, and left Hybrid Heaven to completely die off forever. Where is the Silent Hill Silent Collection, with the same level of accuracy and attention to bugfixing MGS Master collection is getting? Where is that for Gradius/Kemesis, etc?

It happens here too, because it’s not a Reddit problem. It’s a human problem. Any group of humans is bound to have the one that thinks they’re the smartest/prettiest/whatever-est. And small communities amplify those voices.

But are they guaranteed cleaned? I don’t want nobody’s dust being breathed in by my family.

Why? There are enough Ma&Pa shops that already fill this niche, on top of eBay and FB Marketplace and whatever else. They stopped doing this before becuase they were losing money, why on Earth do they think it will be profitable for them now?

Are they professionally cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, and testing all their inventory? Highly doubt it. Whats the difference between them an a Ma&Pa shop aside from I would imagine higher prices? Why are specualtive investors ruining retro gaming for future generations? (I mean, I know the answer is obviously money, but its depressing and frustrating to see investors actively killing something you love. Not the first time and definitely not the last time though.)

Glad to see the gameplay is relatively untouched. I can’t stand remakes that completely change how the game plays without giving the option of playing with the original style of gameplay.

The game you bought to get the 3D pad for the Saturn.