The money doesn't stop flowing. Wonder how much they'll bring in when BotW becomes relatively playable

The money doesn't stop flowing. Wonder how much they'll bring in when BotW becomes relatively playable

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They're doing good work too, with all that money. Progress is shockingly fast.

>paying
>closed source

Lol.

why does patreon permit this?
isnt emulation illegal?

ya fuckn dingus

Not at all. They're not hiding it behind a paywall and they're not using anything made by Nintendo.

>2017
>thinking emulation is illegal

Emulation is 100% legal in the eyes of the law, and that includes for-profit emulators. Sony tried to take two different companies to court for them back in the day and lost both times, so a precedent has been set

>closed source
why is that a bad thing exactly

It isn't
see Sony v. Bleem or whatever that thing was.

owning information is hostile

Owing information is the future

so i guess you dont buy video games either?

How big is the team?

You have to be a massive fucking retard to pay people to make an emulator.

I didn't say anything like that.

2 people.

I'll give them $5 when they get Zelda playable and treat it like a one time donation for their hard work

Closed source emulator isn't by default bad, but if anyone memes out and talks about CEMU in terms of """"""preservation""""" as is the trend deflection for pirates now, then it's bad.

If pirates dont pay for games, why do they donate to other pirates for games?

>paying as a donation for ther hard earned and creative skills to emulate a fucking hardware
id like to see you emulate a hardware

[X] Doubt

Never play Nintendo game never will but I'm wishing them luck.

Why can't someone put time an effort into N64 or Xbox emulation? Wii U has about only 10 games worth playing.

~100k/year is pretty light for a "team"

>Xbox emulation

Nearly zero documentation on the hardware used for the system

They already said that Zelda uses more resources than the supposed Wii U specifications, it's gonna be a while until it reaches full playability, even with the cash flow.

You're just as bad as Nintenbros.

Wii U is easier because it's more or less wii on roids and there's plenty docs on that.
Xbox is still a mystery to this day.

Not arguing if emulation is illegal or not but:

Sony vs Bleem!

[6] The Bleem emulator was developed by Randy Linden who, together with David Herpolsheimer, comprise the entire staff of Bleem. Linden developed PC software that effectively emulates the function performed by Sony's hardware console through a process of reverse-engineering the components in the console. He devised a computer program to perform these same functions on a personal computer. The legality of the emulator is not at issue in this lawsuit.

No documentation and extremely complex hardware that makes reverse engineering next to impossible

They're 2 people

Making an emulator isn't illegal in the slightest.

And technically, neither is pirating games. You CAN, however, get sued for it. And you will most likely lose due to the existing case law on the subject.

This.

What are the wii u docs like?

The least they could do is make their patreon just a generic "support our organization!" page and then link to it on the Cemu page or something. The way they're doing it still leaves them too open.

yes, its illegal in 47 states
lots of people are retarded here on Sup Forums

For a team of two sounds nice enough, they could even work at this in their free time after a day work.

>what if we just release a working emulator for once?
>no, let's milk those fucking retards for years and release some "fixes" by the drops

CEMUdrones are worse than Nintenbros.

just make that shit open source. no money. problem solved.

nice source

Considering how fast the updates and the improvements are now i wouldn't be surprosed if this wasn't their full time job already.

Thanks OP

>I don't know how emulation works
Shit is, and always will be slow to devolope
Take a look at Dolphin and you'll it's just as slow, if not slower even before they went open source.

Companies can't do anything about emulators. They can with sites that host pirated games though.

Source?

Lmao, asshurt nintenbot

It's not that great for full time but if it's after work hobby then that's nice chunk of change.

Including yourself.

If it's closed source it's probably because they're using leaked documents

Custom Nvidia chip. Which was specially made for Xbox.

How is that even legal to make money off this?

emulation is not piracy, as an emulator project simply doesn't contain any copyrighted material
it's completely legal
nice whatever the fuck that's supposed to be

How would it be illegal?

it's no different from asking people to give you money because you want to make a potato salad

kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-salad

they simply make a thing
ask people to support it if they want
people give them money
I know, complicated

perhaps too much for you?

They could if it's found they are using Nintendo code in their emulator and charging for it, but who's to say whether they are or not besides Nintendo

It's more like donations. Everything they create eventually becomes freely available to everybody.

wow 8k, come back when you are a tit cosplayer or furry "artist" with 20k

We don't know, but it is suspected that the cemu devs have an insider.
I really hope it's not true, because if it is they could get hit hard legally.

You must not know what an emulator is if you have to ask that question.

youtube.com/watch?v=UONZ8zCuAkI
Bretty good emu from the looks of it, running XCX on an i5.

If is true though it doesn't matter if they're "donations" or not

>Sup Forums is so underaged that people here don't know if emulation is legal or not
What happened?

Does the game still runs at 10fps when you get into the city?

>console generation knows fuck all about emulation
WOW

new generation of sonyshits, nintendos and xboxes
people who grew up on ps2 and don't give a crap about anything and anyone

>It's legal to backwards engineer people's patents and live off it because muh donations
burgerstan is liberia tier

>tfw I was the patron to push them to $8000

>calls others underaged
>posts pics of meme YouTuber
M8..

>emulation is legal
>loli isn't

Console hardware isn't patented though, dumb frogposter.

I'm pretty sure it's legal as long as you have a copy of the original code for the system or some shit like that.

I haven't emulated in a long time, but I remember something about the emulation software being legal, but you needed to copy the shit running the console from an actual owned console, or something like that.

A person who's first console was the Xbox 360 when he was 10 would be 22 today.

Train girl best girl

Days after release they have the damned thing playable (glitchy as fuck of course), and you think they're really gonna try and drag it out? The dude already said it might be weeks after release where people could actually play the game, and it's gonna happen soon than that

The "donation" trick isn't what makes it legal and wouldn't fly in court anyways.
The emulator is legal but the ROMs aren't.

I thought it was one of those things where if you do it for free as a fan thing then it's fine, but if you include copy-written material or make money from it then you'll get sued.

really jogs the nog

Shall I post an anime reaction image to better suit your taste?

As long as you completely reverse engineer it yourself without stealing any secrets, it's legal. Otherwise a ton of software companies would be sued for 'stealing' ideas. What Nintendo could do is take them to court and claim they're stealing their market, damaging nintendo, etc etc. I'm not sure how strong of a case they'd have at that, I'd imagine very poor since you mostly can't do shit with cemu.

Even if nintendo loses, they put a huge financial burden on them during the time in which most people will stop operations immediately despite most likely being able to counter sue.

You'll leak a copy when you get it right?

>A person who's first console was the Xbox 360 when he was 10 would be 22 today.

I'm 22 and my first console was the PS1 when I was like four.

Get on my level you casual scum.

>It's legal to backwards engineer people's patents
software =/= hardware
90% of patents don't apply to software and new patents are not being granted if they apply to software, as they'd force a stagnation in the market
educate yourself

>A person who's first console was the Xbox 360 when he was 10 would be 22 today.
so pretty much what I said

>I'm pretty sure it's legal as long as you have a copy of the original code for the system or some shit like that.
You will never get that?
End customers get encrypted binary blobs (firmware), not source code
literally everything you see in emulation is someone going "what if" to a nth dimension and figuring out exactly what a console does.

It has DRM now. Basically it records the person's hardware info, if your PC doesn't match it then it won't start.

This entire doujin is so disappointing. Hardly anything is shown and when it is it's very heavily censored.

Yes, that's Sup Forums, enjoy your stay.

Aren't there uncensored versions?

>You will never get that?
Cemu probably did from a leak.

>turning your computer completely over to random people without being able to know what they're gonna do

yeah sure

The last revision of DRM could be cracked pretty easily, did they update it?

>PCbros donate money to a closed source emulator

Yes for 1.7.3.

not that user but I'm 22 and my first console was the super nintendo or maybe it was the game boy. I can't remember but I had both.

>copy written
Copyrighted

And money has nothing to do with it, emulators aren't defended under "fair use" (which typically involves not-for-profit use as a necessary but not sufficient condition), they're just legal. You cannot "own" as IP the ability to read a certain software format, it simply doesn't work that way. If someone else figures out how to read a software format using their own work, they own that work.

Technically the CEMU devs have copyright (whether or not they choose to exercise it) on CEMU's code, and thus its ability to play WiiU games. If you copied CEMU's codebase without permission, CEMU could sue your emulator easier than Nintendo could.

Such is the nature of copyright

You do that every time you run a piece of software produced by a private company. Do you just not play video games?

>closed source emulator with DRM

If there is then I must find it

I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I'm not 100% in favor of this. I'm a hardcore advocate of the PC, but that's really not Nintendo's cup of tea. For them to be be working on emulating the switch right now.. I can't help but feel like it's not about keeping games alive, but simply piracy at this point.

I'm not a fan of console exclusives, but it's a way of life, and it's almost a necessary evil. As gamers, we owe something to the console business.. it's accessibility has driven the boom in business that has created such a huge market for games. We wouldn't be seeing the quantity / quality of games we see these days with out them.

Attempting to emulate a first party only title, arguably the only major selling point to the platform at the moment, from day one can't be seen as anything but detrimental to the future of Nintendo. Would I love it if I could play Zelda in gorgeous 4k? Sure I would... but Nintendo has gone a different route and tried to add something to gaming here with the novel portability of the Switch. Those two things are unquestionably not compatible in the small form factor they went with.

Emulating this just feels down right wrong to me... I love Emulators that promote saving games, etc that are going the way of the dinosaur. This is a very different thing to me.

these posts will generate (you)s in every single emulation thread for the rest of our lives and throughout history

>I can't help but feel like it's not about keeping games alive, but simply piracy at this point.
duh

Sup Forums fuck off and take RMS with you