cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/54234120
the left image is of a native port recompiled for PC, and the right one is an emulator being developed to run Switch 2 games
I mean, it’s always great to fuck with Nintendo, they are scum, buuut… I will proceed to not touch those things with a pole the diameter of the universe. Fuck this vibecoded trash.
I don’t think it’s vibe coded, though. Real people who’ve put work into emulator projects are going at it with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
But the “ai” helped them get access to the console. I’m assuming most,if not all, decompiles needed it bc of the speed which it was done. But you can use an emulator instead.
It’s actually very interesting bc they didn’t even need root access. This pulls everything without decryption. No security keys are needed.
Modern Vintage Gamer put up a video yesterday talking about it, and the short version is that 90% of the work was already done by the Yuzu team. The Switch 2 still runs Horizon OS, still runs a Tegra architecture, so the majority of the work getting Switch 2 titles to run is in converting new instructions and stuff.
It takes like 3 clicks to get OoT running on windows. Was playing yesterday and it works great.
Nintendo honestly deserves this. But I still think that majority of people are too lazy and this won’t hurt sales much.
I mean, the reason it won’t hurt sales is because piracy doesn’t actually hurt sales, and studies have shown piracy can increase sales.
Basically, most people willing to pirate games weren’t going to buy the games in the first place[1], but there are going to be a percentage of converters who like the game enough to buy through official channels.
And there’s a cultural currency that comes from being a popular piracy target, too, as that means more people (who have played it) are talking about the game and are likely to convince others to try it, which is going to bring in more costumers. Basically what happened with Game of Thrones, when they (I think it was the director?) boasted about being the most-pirated show in the world. In that way, you can get sales out of people who never even purchased your product.
video games are a luxury item and especially with the economy seeming to trend down and game prices definitely shooting up a lot of people aren’t going to have the means to afford playing ↩︎
In this instance I am not so sure though. Nintendo is a hardware company first and foremost. A lot of people only buy their console for the exclusive games. A ton of PC gamers also had a switch 1. But this time, if the games work so easily on PC, I don’t really see a lot of PC gamers picking up a switch 2.
I would have bought a switch 2 for OoT, but now I won’t.
It won’t. It never does.
I, for one, would have to spend a lot more than the $510 + tax I did for a Switch 2 and the game to get a computer that could run it well.
I get a lot of stuttering. Seems its constantly building shaders.
Get the newest version of Hookshot and compile all shaders before launching the game.
PC G*mers AI vibe coding an emulator for a game they claim to never have wanted.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad
