It’s great, but it drains my battery like hell, (with three profiles: default, google-ser-ices and owner… don’t know if that’s still recommended)

Yes, it’s a way less personal story. I think the gameplay is a bit more refined.

It does hit on similar existentialist themes like the other quintet games (that aren’t actraiser), though. If you prefer IoG, that’s valid.

Well, good thing you don’t have to buy it, then, I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You do know how that whole ecosystem of emulation handhelds works, right? O.o

Everybody likes that.

It’s considered to be the best game in Quintet’s non-god-game trilogy (Soulblazer And Illusion of Time/Gaia being the other t’o games).

It is really good, but has its’ unfair moments. Great music, too.

It was Terranigma.

… is that good? I think it’s good. Right?

Edit: help me! ELI5, plz

Also: Matt probably won’t sell my data to Palantir and ad tech businesses.

Well… They’re not paid to do so, so. Yeah.

I’ve seriously learned a bit about computer architecture from OoT speedruns.

Freetube on Linux, newpipe on android and maybe a private invidious instance.

A few games mostly use the d-pad, but yeah: if you can’t even properly play Mario 64: why bother?

I thought the MMP doesn’t really cut it for N64.

It’s a solid business model: People pirate roms, because they can’t buy them.

If Nintendo would sell their old ass games as roms, we wouldn’t have the problem of them suing emulators into oblivion.

Too bad the server at least needs the player input data.

If your kid starts yelling and screaming, smack em. If they cry, smack em again.

Username checks out.

I miss the days when the justice system replied to the statement “this might hurt our business” with “too bad”. (In the case when sony lost to that PS emulator)

What exactly am I “pulling out of my ass”?

Nobody said it’s a person

You’re talking about Nintendo as if it’s a person with phrases like your bullet point 2.

I’m not defending anyone. I’m describing how a corporation is likely to react in capitalism. I don’t condone any of this: I don’t condone copyright laws, I don’t condone legal threats, I don’t condone capitalism. I just try to describe how systems behave without trying to get morality involved by claiming a company is (or is run by) an or several assholes.

I also don’t condone nuclear weapons when I describe the strategy of deterrence by mutually assured destruction.

To be clear: I agree that both weed and emulation is a victimless “crime” and shouldn’t be prosecuted. However, I don’t think corporate lawyers and judges agree with us on this point.

Edit: also, Nintendo usually gets what they want by threatening to go to court without actually doing so. So the actual legality doesn’t actually matter too much. Certainly doesn’t when it comes to Switch emulators shutting down.

Outlets reporting on how Metroid Dread was running on emulators pre-release and describing how to pirate it makes Nintendo pursue actions to prevent that shit. They can’t prevent their games leaking, so they attack the emulators.

Is this so much harder to believe than Nintendo having a personal grudge?