Zangoose

@Zangoose@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you think so?

  The devs said so. Check r/Suyu, that seems to be where a majority of the updates are being posted. I think there was a link to a pastebin post somewhere there as well.

  The SDK mentioned was first party, presumably leaked but I’m not completely sure. And yes, that means it would be present in every other fork as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Suyu died though. Right now the only actively maintained Yuzu fork is Sudachi, which is only maintained by a single person.

  Apparently there was some drama about the Yuzu devs using code which came from a switch SDK as a basis for emulator code, which kind of poisons the whole codebase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the explanation! I didn’t realize it was mostly a maintenance limitation, I thought maybe 32-bit instructions could be an extra attack vector on a physical CPU instruction level or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t supporting 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS a security concern though? I thought that’s why some linux distros were disabling 32-bit repositories by default on their 64-bit versions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Odd examples to pick, Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok were both delayed and the first original Mario platformer for the switch came out in 2017 (Odyssey - if you think 3d Mario games aren’t platformers you haven’t played them). Nintendo has also been releasing tons of other games as well so it’s not like they’ve been doing nothing.

  Also, to be fair, When you have a platform with 10 times the total sales (Wii U sold ~14m, the switch is at ~130m right now) it makes sense to port over the good games from the console no one owned. Mario Kart 8 deluxe, a game originally from the Wii U, has sold ~55m copies, which is about 4 times what the entire Wii U console sold. There’s a reason they kept doing it, and it’s because most of the Wii U titles were good games that people will enjoy which released on a dead platform.

  If you’re going to criticize Nintendo, criticize actually valid things like the scummy price increases on the ports (not just the ports’ existence), the poor online system that costs up to $50 per year per account, and a legal team who goes after anyone doing anything that isn’t directly playing the game. To be clear, a Microsoft buyout probably wouldn’t change any of those things because it’s making them money. Look no further than American companies like Disney largely using the same strategies Nintendo does. Microsoft is no different.