My respect for LTT just grew significantly. For standing up to overbearing corporations in defense of the enthusiast community they’re a great community resource!
@@unicornsrdabest Well yeah, obviously. Nintendo literally DMCA strikes anything showing their games, running on anything other than their own systems.
Will be interesting to see if Nintendo tries anything with this one. Explaining how to boot the switch into RCM mode with the jig is the same thing that resulted in Nintendo issuing a CTM (Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures) complaint about one of my videos. It was subsequently removed from TH-cam.
If it can be done (and works as a means to access internal menus designed to be used) then there is no such "circumventing" nor "protection". Just because they left their backdoor open does NOT MEAN people are "breaking in".
@@destructodisk9074 wouldn't that analogy be more like using a lockpick to open your own door? Which is totally legal. You are getting access to a diagnostic menu of hardware device you own.
Note: It is possible to set things up so you can connect to WiFi safely on a hacked Switch but if you don't follow the instructions *EXACTLY* you'll get banned and LTT likes to keep things as simple as possible so they probably just felt that things like DNS settings and the difference between SysNAND and EmuNAND was too complicated for a general audience. But the instructions are in the guide they linked if you are comfortable with that stuff.
This is ballsy and especially comforting given the recent Ubisoft news, that at least someone has our backs for game preservation, right to repair and actual ownership of the things we pay for.
You mean the server shutdowns? They don't actually sell you access to their servers, the game you bought just allows access to them for free, and they are entirely in their right to shut down these free services at any point. Companies can't be expected to keep paying for servers forever, so I think that's reasonable. However, I do find it annoying as they could have made multiplayer modes available in LAN rather than always rely on external servers.
@@Thornskade Except Ubisoft in their infinite wisdom decided that you should have to connect to their servers to access DLC content, meaning that, for example, if you bought the deluxe edition of Assassin's Creed 2 on steam you're unable to access any of the extra content including two whole story chapters in the middle of the game. They had to remove "deluxe edition" from the title because of this last year and now this is going to affect all the other games on the list
@@Thornskade I would say they should still have an obligation to make it where DLC you PAYED for is still accessible somewhere if they're gonna pull this crap though otherwise they're just screwing people over.
@@theninjamaster67 Thats how things are going to be in the future. Look at what Bungie has done with Destiny 2. Years and hundreds of dollars worth of content just gone.
If I remember correctly the cost for running a server is roughly $10/month. That's peanuts in terms of total revenue and a single server can support many multiplayer games especially if the total online presence is low. Or yeah, P2P conversion would be a good option for them to do too, or allow the community to make themselves. With the DLC, the original titles are losing the dlc but not the remastered copies. So they are trying to force you to buy the same game again... On PC!
All hardware eventually breaks down over time; software preservation via emulation is essential to keeping these pieces of history intact for future generations to experience.
@@WhoTheDev Yeah this is easily the best video about it because they are actually honest about the legality of it and talk about all the upsides (all being on one device, runs better if its more powerful device than a steam deck) as well as the downsides (no online play which makes games like Splatoon or Mario kart pointless on emulator and the steam deck having much worse battery life, and the imperfections of early days emulation with stutters or crashes). Most people are just like "free games lol fuck Nintendo" which obviously isn't helpful for anyone.
@@generalbutz8477 if your referring to the Linus house videos he does that too protect himself because sharing the view out your window online can reveal what your address is and for obvious reasons he doesn't want random strangers ("fans") showing up at his house
@@davidfernelz yeah sure, but it's still taking stuff out of context, it's not about having to blur, it's about the loophole a stupid situation that Nintendo sadly has the power to do whatever they want...
The funny thing is it's perfectly legal in the US, just like game cartridge rental... But It's illegal in Japan and since Nintendo is japanese-based the considerate theft regardless of it actually being legal in the US... So they pursue it relentlessly.
@@TravisFabel emulation is. As long as it's a copy of your own game. Though I believe in UK and Europe it's also illegal or on the way. But people confuse piracy and emulation. Piracy isn't legal..
good news! the other emulator (ryujinx) never got taken down, and theres an actively maintained (maybe, last commit was 1 month ago as of writing this) fork of yuzu that exists now (suyu)
@@whyis2plus2 The point is that maybe we'd still have Yuzu in active dev (alongside Citra) if videos like these weren't putting targets on the back of emulator devs. We know Nintendo is like this! We've KNOWN Nintendo is like this. Why antagonize them and give them ammo to nuke good projects from orbit like we know they will if they know the project exists?
@@tomikun8057 The point is that maybe we'd still have Yuzu in active dev (alongside Citra) if videos like these weren't putting targets on the back of emulator devs. We know Nintendo is like this! We've KNOWN Nintendo is like this. Why antagonize them and give them ammo to nuke good projects from orbit like we know they will if they know the project exists?
Once again: it's great to throw your weight around and all, but Nintendo _knows_ they'll lose fights like this in court so they _will not_ pick them. It's much better for them to leave it in a grey area and be able to threaten the little guy with legal action that the little guy isn't sure they'll win or can even afford to win. In order to stop Nintendo's blatant BS, somebody needs to file suit _against Nintendo_ asking for a declaratory judgement that all this stuff is legal. That would pin them against the wall and help to neuter their litigiousness by giving the little guys more surety of victories in court and a greater likelihood of recovering attorney's fees. Somebody with chops needs to take the fight to Nintendo, Game Genie-style.
Here's the thing, though. If tomorrow Jimmy-nobody posts a video tutorial to his three subscribers showing far less and gets hit with a takedown, he can appeal it by pointing out that similar content remains up. Maybe he gets ignored, but just maybe Jimmy happens to have the resources or connections to take the case to court, and that case is far stronger the more videos like this exist and stay un-challenged.
I am not a lawyer but I am pretty sure in my country it is forbidden to bypass and or disable anti-piracy measures. It is like as if I would film myself robbing a bank.
@@Psychx_ It isn't just money though. Actually letting a matter like this go to court means spending years embroiled in a highly technical legal matter too. It means that if you or your lawyer fuck up Nintendo get a beneficial judgment and you just turned legal bullying into case law that any company in a similar situation can fall back on. If public support dries up midway through the case - than can take years - then you'll have to drop the whole thing. This isn't H3H3 getting sued by another TH-camr, this is hoping that public support and whatever lawyer that support can buy will stand up to team of legal experts with all the financial backing they could ever need. And even then, if Nintendo is suing you they can always retract their suit if it becomes inconvenient for them, or offer to settle out of court without creating precedent.
This is why they, publishers, want to push cloud gaming. :) Cant "pirate a rom" if you never touch the real data. They see legal, rightful use of their old products, as loss of profit. Cant lose profit if we can never own the game.
I think the reason Nintendo specifically is so aggressive with anti emulation is because their product is mostly reliant on the fact that it's their system. Sony and Microsoft might compete to make a more powerful system, but at the end of the day, they're not relying on the fact that their consoles are "unique" to stay afloat, especially since they're also putting their games on several platforms. Nintendo on the other hand depends on people buying into whatever special gimmick they have to get people to buy their console and games. At first I thought this was just a hunch, but researching into it, this difference is actually true. While other game console companies sell their consoles at no profit or even at a loss, Nintendo is the outlier where they make the majority (55%) of their money from the console sales. This actually makes sense from a hardware perspective too. People are confused by Nintendo's decision to intentionally stick with extremely outdated hardware despite better alternatives being available, but viewing it from a consoles profits first perspective would clarify why Nintendo doesn't want to come out with a "Switch Pro". They probably don't want to cut into those profits by messing with the supply chain and buying more expensive parts for new switches.
Was hoping you wouldn't need to blur the screen, but happy to see emulation getting a shout out. A lot of my old childhood ps1 disks are toast, but I made backups of them years ago so still get to enjoy them without having to pay hundreds of dollars for Digimon World 2 on ebay
I just watched the FP upload, it's shown in all its bloody glory. I guess owning your own video platform means you can react to DMCA requests any way you see fit
Years ago I dumped my whole GameCube library, just for my own personal use. My original GameCube stopped working, and some of the disks had gotten scratched over years of play sessions. Yeah, I could go buy a beat up Wii or GameCube at a flea market, but even my old laptops could easily run Dolphin at upscaled resolutions. Nintendo and most of the third parties won't rerelease the games I owned from that era. I would buy most of them again if they were properly ported to new hardware, but only a few like LucasArts bothered to take the effort. Until then I feel completely fine about emulating my old library.
I dumped my GB, GBA, DS, Wii/Wii U and PlayStation 1/2/PSP games from my consoles/memory cards. I'd just like to note that I didn't do this because I gave a crap about the legality of downloading games I own from the internet, because I don't. The outcome is the same. However, I wanted to get ahold of my save files. I got worried when one of my cartridges died so I saved the rest. I'm glad to have these backed up, it was worth the hassle. My DS and PSP are both dead and no doubt the other consoles won't be lasting too long anymore either. Instead of scrolling through eBay to buy ancient overpriced hardware every few years, it's simply much more reasonable and comfortable to play these games on modern devices with open platforms. I got a vertical controller attachment for my Android phone for DS games and the rest I play on whatever I feel like, such as the Steam Deck.
If I remember correctly, the ridiculous part is that you can only legally emulate a game, if you have a working copy of the original. So if your game cartridge gets worn out or the console dies, you are required to stop emulating, completely defeating the purpose of archival...
I swear there are games I bought like 3 or 4 times, sometimes in different platforms, sometimes just because I lost the floppys or cds or w/e. Now with the current internet speeds I "pirate" those games, don't care if it is my own backup. Even back in the day I went on IRC channels to get NOCD cracks for games I owned, DRM is a pita
They are somewhat in a special place at moment, they actually have the resources to fight Nintendo. They are Canadian, so certain legal tactics from Nintendo would need to actually stand up against a legal system that is not completely controlled by corporations. I may disagree with Linus on what are basically superficial points, but his overall position is something I am behind 100%. This video is an intentional challenge to Nintendo, but also the broader industry. Every single thing within video, and how precisely it was worded and delivered, is pretty much the definition of 'come at me bro'
@@user-op8fg3ny3j As I said superficial stuff, I give no cares about smart home stuff, generally. A phrase I sometimes use is ' the S in IoT stands for Security'. I can't really point to anything specific, I think he aligns with most of my views.
@@HilbertXVI can't tell if you are serious or just trolling but I'll answer anyways. Current gen emulation is ALMOST always a pirate thing, as you lose alot of the benefits of the console and game playing on a emulator. like online and other experience.
Seeing Anthony smiling warms my heart! He has changed a lot through theese years. I do believe that while on his first days at ltt he wasn't at ease being filmed, he now is really enjoying the situation and he finally has the fun he deserves. The support and all the good comments that came from the community are awesome. Thank you man for sharing your knowledge and experience with us while making difficoult things easy and fun. People like you was, is, and will be the reason why pcs are fun. Thank you Anthony and thank you all!
@@rickastleygaming A video of the game being played that’s literally just being used to show how it runs isn’t copyright infringement, it’s fair use otherwise reviews would be illegal
@@MauroSanna once it's paid for and delivered, it's the consumers, the manufacturer has no say anymore. That's why you're free to customize your car however you want. Could you imagine if Samsung sued you for adding an extra wash cycle to your washer or took out the basket and used it in a separate base? And that even is actually a dangerous appliance not a console.
So much respect for Anthony writing this video, Linus allowing it to go ahead despite the possible legal issues, and all the support from the rest of the team! Though, knowing LTT this is a fight they would enjoy to have, regardless of how much of a pain in the ass it may end up being. Good work Guys!
@@ArniesTech I think Anthony is also part of the writing team, based on videos they posted if their writers meeting, but yeah im sure a lot of the scripts are a team effort. No one person can make content of this quality and consistency, which is what makes LTT so special!
Honestly, I can easily see Nintendo not only going after LTT for copyright infringement, but I can also see Nintendo going after them for piracy. They just created a video instructing people to pirate Nintendo's copyright.
Yuzu did it to themselves by doing shit like allowing online play by circumventing nintendos servers. They were practically asking for it and I’m surprised that didn’t get them taken down sooner. Ryujinx has multiplayer but only between other ryujinx users and hacked switch consoles, with no connection to real Nintendo servers. I still think it’s bullshit, but to call it bullying is a bit strong. Not defending the billion dollar corporation, just pointing out a big mistake yuzu made.
@@monkeybase01 I mean I am sure that's just a factor that Nintendo got to take yuzu down, and will do the same with Ryujinx if they find anything contentious for a legal case. But as a general case a hacked/device that would offer modability (mod device let's say) in an area of multiplayer game where that is not possible is certainly an issue for players as well due to unfair advantage to the prior. And this arises only when the mod device owners can connect to same servers as to original device owners. Still Nintendo is shitty and a bully in this area imo, no doubt about it!
I love the big "TRY ME" from Linus with this video, after Nintendo have been so blatantly anti-consumer for so long. Now we know what the backpack money is going to ... those lawyers don't work for free afterall.
Nintendo don't care about videos on here. There's hundreds of videos of Switch emulation and RCM guides on TH-cam. IDK why LTT is running with this narrative that they're doing something risky when they're not.
This is not so much Nintendo hitting LTT directly, it's also about Google's lowly paid compliance team who will just roll over and say "yes sir" when Nintendo demand that the content is taken down. In many ways it is up to Google to revert back to Nintendo and demand that Nintendo prove that the content should be removed. Therefore this is not just a potential fight between Nintendo and LTT, it's Nintendo via Google and LTT via Google.
Google can't do that without putting themselves in a high amount of risk (hence their hands-off approach). Submitting a DMCA request requires accepting to the possibility of going to court over it (which does not include Google). Legally, it's Nintendo hitting LTT. Using the platform to do it is just how DMCA tends to work.
@@ella4406 well, the end user gets the same form as if it was a dmca but the company itself is not even monitoring it really since you can just enable it to match X using TH-cam's system or use an API and match automatically whatever you want... Once you got access abusing it is stupid easy since you're assumed to be correct on your claim
there is no google paid complience team, its all automated. ltt may have a contact at google, but if a big company like nintendo flags something, its only about an automated "review" in 99,999999999% never a human eye will review anything.
Here's the problem. This generation Nintendo is extremely aggressive at preventing aftermarket software from running on their hardware. They're lobbying to make it illegal to mod consoles in Japan and they have even stated in court that they have redesigned the Switch specifically to prevent running non-Nintendo software multiple times. Unlike going through a similar process for, say, the Wii and Dolphin, Nintendo is arguing you're in the wrong either way. You can either pirate the stuff, which is illegal, or you can jump through these hoops and have them come at you for 'circumventing protection measures'. They will only look at the illegal stuff you _could_ do to it, and decide that you are immediately a criminal the moment you even think of buying an RCM jig. They don't care about you, the costumer, not breaking the law or even their ip, they just care about money. Unfortunately for us, they have enough money to make sure they can impose their envisioned way of using a product we bought onto us
They're so desperate about killing emulation because they know hardware from 1880 could run their titles. Anyone with a blackberry could play their games. Patents and IP's are all they have.
Even if it's illegal in Japan they'll have a hard time lobbying this on EU or US. I feel bad for Japan but at least in all likelyhood we won't be subject to that, especially as "right to repair" movements grow
TBH I dont think the "It can emulate Switch" Is a valid reason to say the Deck is better, you still have to buy a Switch (a specific model at that), and the games to do it legally after all. Though if you do actually own the Switch and games there is no problem in emulating them, only problem is a lot of people dont
Yeah, the fact that smaller youtubers are prevented from showing this despite it being COMPLETELY LEGAL is kind of insane. Talk about the justice system being a plutocracy. Also, if it wasn't for Nintendo's psychotic behavior, you wouldn't even need a Switch, a company could just build a device that automagically copies the data from the card.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m viewing it “for informational purposes only” because this isn’t something I’ll ever do. Honestly, I’m too lazy to bother. The Switch OLED is good enough for me, but I appreciate the free sharing of information and I’m sure other gamers really wanted to know this stuff.
Like the _actual_ pirates who sailed the seas, Nintendo has targeted those without the ability to defend themselves. LTT has become a ship of the line, with Captain Anthony at the helm, saying "come at us, scoundrels, if ye dare".
A couple years ago a port of Super Mario was released on the Commodore 64 (yes, really), and Nintendo performed a cease and desist. Really for the independent programmer who spent 8 years making it work they should have praised his achievement.... but they have proven over and over again that they actually hate their fans.
Why do fans think they can infringe on other peoples property and say, "Well, look, you should be happy we paid you in exposure, right?" Nintendo doesn't give a shit. Buy the game and play it on the console it was made for is their business model.
@@MN-jw7mm literally nobody was going to use the commodore 64 fan port as a way to play it instead of playing the original. the only people who'd give a shit about it have already got the original game. it doesn't hurt sales at all.
@@MN-jw7mm Troll much? This was a fan product of a game over 30 years old to prove it could be done with no financial incentive as they were giving it away. But hey, you should go order that brand new NES and Super Mario in ~2018 when it came out to make yourself feel better... Oh.. .wait, you can't! Because it was a 30 year old game on obsolete 30 year old hardware. There is literally no financial loss to Nintendo.
@@MN-jw7mm Copyright is not property. It is a limitation of property. Treating it as property is dysfunctional, and gives companies like Nintendo way too much power. Remaking a 30 year old game should not "infringe" on the rights on anyone, and morally speaking, no one is getting hurt.
I do not think there's a strong argument in favour of emulating software WHICH IS STILL ACTIVELY SOLD thought. The only reason to emulate here is "I don't want to pay for a Switch" which basically proves Nintendo right in their "emulation equals piracy" line.
@@Alias_Anybody To be fair with certain emulators you can use mods to increase performance or resolution. But yeah most people just use emulators to pirate because they don't want to pay for anything.
@@Alias_Anybody If you buy a Switch used, Nintendo doesn't make any money either. So, is buying used consoles piracy now? Of course not. Doesn't prove anything Nintendo says right.
This is legitimately easier and more user friendly to back up your save game data then the options Nintendo gives you, and this is what I've been saying for years, not everything involving jailbreaking is illegal rom downloading, we just want completely fair and legal access to our video game consoles that we paid for and own, I should be able to play my Animal Crossing island on multiple switches if I so choose to
@@user-ng2ts8xr5s 1. You don't agree to any policy when you purchase the console, and that can be circumvented by going into recovery before pressing "agree" to whatever they force you to do on startup. 2. Any EULA term (or policy) that is deemed to be against the law will not stand in court, so if they say that you are not allowed to do this but it's protected by law, they will get nothing. Generally, backups and modifications of your physical goods are protected ny law. 3. Even if you breach a EULA that is legal, at most you'll have to pay a fine if you didn't do anything illegal. Breaking the law and breaking a contract are two different things. Especially since if you own all the games, they cannot claim any damages having been done to them and hence will not be able to have you pay a fee. Nintendo only bans hacked switches that go online because it is so hard to prove that you did anything. At most they might have proof of you pirating games, but since you weren't buying them anyways and didn't share them, there's little to earn from the trouble they'd go through. Not to mention how hard to prove this may be; you can smash the switch before they can check if you pirated anything. You can purchase the game they found you playing once they banned you. Only if you actually distributed them online can legal pursuit have any worth.
Not only the moral path, but the legal path. As he said, US copyright law has set a precedent that consumers have a right to use software they own as they wish
I *really* hope lots of people aren't, *right now*, using whatever browser plug-ins they have for downloading TH-cam videos to grab and keep their own permanent copies of this video... I mean it would be just *terrible* if Nintendo went to all the trouble of making LTT cease and desist, only to then have thousands of other TH-camrs all re-posting the same video *everywhere* on TH-cam, on Facebook, on Twitter, on the side of the Houses of Parliament... =:oo =>;o]
Love the risk LTT just took for the betterment of smaller content creators and to spread suppressed information to a larger audience amazing work everyone involved and exceptional presentation Anthony :)
@@zaidlacksalastname4905 So, doesn't mean there isn't risk. Nintendo can still sue, likely lose, but force LMG to incur legal fees that would hurt their bottom line. The risk is there regardless of the expected outcome of a lawsuit.
@@ignitionnight LMG could counter sue or have an attorney who takes it pro bono (ie for free). One of the bad workplace videos elsewhere had somebody who had the some idea (drag it out rack up legal fees) but the other person had a pro bono attorney so not only did they loose but they lost even more money even though they settled out of court.
@@ignitionnight Why would Nintendo sue LTT? There are many videos of Switch emulation and modding guides on TH-cam with no blur. This is just LTT clickbaiting and being drama queens.
I know I'm 6 months late but just a heads up to anyone wondering, Yuzu and Ryujinx (Switch emulators) both use what's called shader caches. Basically you can download shader caches from different places of people that have completed them (I believe there are some subreddits out there) or you can do certain actions and inputs in the games and those shaders will cache overtime. So that's why you see a lot of stuttering seemingly at completely random intervals, because it's caching those shaders. (Assuming the LTT team didn't know this and just ran the dumped games right away without prep)
@@jiali5165 That thing is borderline a Handheld, so a comparison doesn't make much sense imo. All Reviews i watched said that the formfactor is not nice to hold at all, the display weights so much that your arms get tired fast and the battery life, even at a conservative TDP setting of 15W is just in the 1,5-2h range. So in the end, sure the performance is better, but my Tower-PC has also better performance, doesn't tell the whole story.
Glad to see the big boys taking a crack at Switch Homebrew. Nintendo's shady business practices and non-existent return policy makes custom firmware a must have for switch owners.
Wii, 3DS, and Wii U are objectively better with homebrew mods too, I can play my PC copy of Halflife on my "new" 3DS now and it's hilarious yet cool that that's possible
Damn LTT. I almost never comment on YT videos: but two thumbs way up. Good on you for standing up for what is absolutely right. And legal. Screw you nintendo for being butt heads. This actually convinced me to go pre order a steam deck (not to do this specifically, but to support projects like this overall).
your money will be well spent if you want to support this kind of stuff! valve is one of, if not, the most consumer friendly, pro right to repair companies in the video game space. they straight up said if you buy a steam deck, you own it. do what you want with it. they actively encourage people to break into it and have fun. they even posted a how to break down and repair guide themselves. when's the last time you saw a game company offer any of that?
Perfectly put on why Nintendo is such a frustrating company to be a fan of. Maybe it's that same stubbornness that attributes to the quality of Mario and Zelda games (although everything else falls to the wayside). We would all hope that they are a few more weird choices away from being humbled, but time has shown that that is not the case.
@@dcard228 Second this. As someone who's been a fan of Pokemon/ Nintendo through my youth, it's gone down hill. The Xenoblade and Fire Emblem franchises are also good IPs, but other than those two as well as Mario, Zelda and Smash, Nintendo really has nothing else unique to it. I still love my switch, but once Valve makes a Steam Deck 2.0/ 3.0 with a significantly better battery life or at least one that rivals the switch, I'm dropping it.
@@PyromaniacShrub the Steam Deck is fantastic. The battery life isn't fantastic for sure though. I'm hoping when they release a new Deck with better batteries that they're backwards compatible with the OG Deck
"Nintendo believes that any emulation is piracy" That wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the fact that they love charging high prices for old games on their Virtual Console, which don't carry over to the next console generation, thus forcing people to buy the same decades old game multiple times right? No that has to be a coincidence.
Which is hilarious because Virtual Console / Nintendo Online titles are emulated. They don't port stuff either. If any emulation is piracy, Virtual Console is piracy ;)
It's not so much Nintendo illegally taking down the video, it's Google lowly paid compliance team who will just roll over and say "yes sir" when Nintendo demand that the content is taken down. In many ways it is up to Google to revert back to Nintendo and demand that Nintendo prove that the content should be removed. Therefore this is not just a potential fight between Nintendo and LTT, it's Nintendo via Google and LTT via Google.
Just a heads up: if you have multiple Switch consoles, the console you're backing up *must* be marked as your primary console in the Nintendo eShop, ideally before you start this process. Otherwise, your system's keys won't be valid for the games you back up and yuzu might fail to launch certain games.
I have been a LTT viewer for many years, and I've always enjoyed the content from every staff member. In the last few months, I find myself watching more and more of Anthony's videos and they are truly incredible. We live in a pretty blessed time for tech enthusiasts. There are so many resources and youtube channels at our fingertips. But I don't see many that can effectively 1) take on a major corp with class and tact, 2) show you in detail how to jail break a console, 3) show you in detail how to run emulation software, all while having 4) a great host and great video production quality. The combo of Anthony's knowledge and resourcefulness, with LTT's incredible resources, budget, and editing & support staff, make these videos truly shine. I think what makes me respect Anthony so much is that he is simultaneously a complete expert, but also an excellent educator. One conundrum in life is that it tends to get harder to think like a noob the more you become an expert on a subject, which can make teaching difficult topics to new students a challenge. But Anthony really breaks down complex and technically challenging tasks into bite sized pieces and explains the process along the way. As a long time PC gamer who is flustered by archaic console exclusivity, thank you for content like this. Great idea for a great video, I look forward to the next. PS: I really like the series where you bought a bunch of dollar store electronics junk and tested it with legit tools to see which are worth buying expensive vs buying cheap. As much as I love the reviews on crazy expensive tech, I also really enjoy the more practical series like these, too.
It is a pretty simple concept. Right person in the right place. Would not eatch a bathing suite review with Anthony but for tech video's he is the perfect guy with the amount of stuff he knows.
I find it hilarious that Nintendo will just never understand that you can't stop a globally connected network of gamers, engineers and programmers to get what they want anyway, even if they say no. Fuck you, Nintendo. And god bless you, Anthony and every unknown person who made this all possible
Yeah, it's also incredibly frustrating that Nintendo can really only take down the guys who genuinely and transparently attempt to archive video game history at little or no profit, while countless shady Amazon vendors of 100,000-in-one rom packs and malware-ridden pirate sites are basically immune and laughing their way to the bank. It's even MORE frustrating when Nintendo's digital stores are historically the worst place to buy games, because once those stores (or your consoles) disappear, so do your game libraries. For that reason I'd happily jailbreak a Switch just to backup the games I've bought, because god knows when Nintendo's gonna just remove those games from existence.
i find it hilarious that you and your family will just never understand that you cant stop junkies, robbers, and cold hearted criminals to get your hard earned money, assets and life, even you beg them no 😈
@@LemtemPoktui this video doesn't show piracy at all actually, it shows an owner of a 1. NINTENDO SWITCH 2. GAME FOR NINTENDO SWITCH 3. STEAM DECK Jailbreaking their Nintendo switch (legal), then dumping the ROM of the game (legal), and putting it on a steam deck to play using emulation (also legal!)
Big respect to Anthony. Any big corporations believe that media preservation had nothing to do with piracy if library was lost, really need to rethink.
we lose games all the time . I think a few have been saved by some random person related to the office saving the main copy away in some area while the company loses the files .
@@tobiwonkanogy2975 Only Ninterndo aren't one of those, they usually keep their sources and files properly backed up. it's why we got that meg aleak with SNES/N64 era Nintendo stuff a while ago. In the meantime S-E and Sega for one, have been notorious with losing their source code for ,many of their older titles.
I'm not hacking my Switch until either the eShop or the online services shut down and I can't play Nintendo's retro games legally. Currently, I only have the standard NSO membership, but I hope to sign up for the expansion pack soon... Though let's be serious. Paying more than double the standard price for the expansion pack is extorsion.
When I was in the Sony vs Connectx lawsuit, one of Sony's arguments was that the mere act of copying data from *from the media* to elsewhere, including to a computer's memory so it can be played by an emulator constituted copyright infringement so therefore all emulation is illegal. That was a wild ride :)
No one mention to them that you have to copy a game to memory to play it even on native hardware. We've all been pirating by playing our PS4 discs. These companies need to fucking stop.
@@PrograError from a google search it sounds like connectx won they ruled that copying bios or whatever was not copy right infrigment but I suck at law and court endings so I could be wrong
I love the fact Linus, Anthony & LTT has had enough of Nintendo's bully-boy tactics and challenging them now! As long as you legally own the game (have a licence) you can legally play it on any device/emulator.
A "license" only gives you limited ability to do with it what the license says you can do. A license does not mean that you own the game or the software that makes the game playable. That license might only give you rights to play it on official hardware. In which case you would be in breach of contract playing it on any other console other than the one it was designed for.
@@Rickbearcat yeah most licenses try to make you agree with strict terms to tell you as an owner can't do what you want with your own stuff. Just because those terms exist doesn't mean they hold any legal value, as proven again and again by rulings in many countries. In most countries, you are the owner of whatever you bought and can do whatever you want with it. The only limitations by law are the distribution of said content to be utilized by many people at the same time in any given moment
@@Rickbearcat No, they're not... Everything they're doing is 100% legal, and the intent of the publisher is not protected in the context of consuming legally owned content (unless you live in japan).
@@MrGamelover23 good news is that this situation has already played out in the past with Sony and Sony lost, so case law is on their side. Nintendo has been abusing DMCA against smaller creators because they know they don’t have the funding to actually challenge them. The company that beat Sony had to declare bankruptcy pretty much immediately after because their lawyers were so expensive.
I respect LTT even more for having the guts to make this video. Emulation is all about letting consumers have a right to play THEIR games on the platform THEY decide to. No piracy was mentioned at all.
While I totally agree with everything said in the video and Nintendo can eat it, it would be a bit naive/willfully ignorant to suggest that anything less than 99% of all emulation is done with ROMs of games people do not own.
@@Renuclous To be fair, many of the games are no longer sold or were once bought by the users. Also, most people who download a lot don't actually play the games... meaning the so the so called damage is much more minimal than these companies would like to admit.
After doing emulation on various devices most of my life I realized a few years ago that the most conventient way is just to use your laptop + a USB/Bluetooth controller. Only other type of emulation I find useful is editing the games on the mini consoles/having a retropie for party games
@@Prophes0r I would like to see your video where you fight against Nintendo and you talk pro right to use emulation. You are doing well helping people, keep going. Please share the link. ;-)
@@Alias_Anybody You are right about games being sold nowadays. But the more you use your copy the more It gets broken. Emulation allows to people to keep their copy on a good state longer. So physical preservation of the copy and digital preservation at the same time. Yeah, It is counterintuitive that a person likes to emulate the same system he owns.
@@Alias_Anybody Come on. You know why so many old games had to be recreated from scratch essentially? Because nobody at the time thought to preserve the code then. They couldn’t or wouldn’t see into the future in just a few years to the potential they truly had.
I agree with stuff like this. You bought both the switch and the game, so you should be able to use them as you wish (without distributing the games, of course)
I could see potential legal trouble with playing a game on both devices at the same time. But for the rest this method is pretty much legal in most western countries. If you care about the legality of running Nintendo games that is.
@@CheapBastard1988 If you're capable of playing both games at the same time, I really doubt there'd be any problem. If, however, it's you and your brother playing the game at the same time, it could be called "distribution".
@@Markus-zb5zd That's the usual argument: remove rights from people because some individuals might commit crimes. Knives are not banned because people can use them to kill other people, neither ban cars because some crackheads might run on purpose over some pedestrian. Piracy is illegal, so when anyone is caught distributing the games they'll have to pay for it. There's no need to ban a perfectly reasonable practice just because Nintendo is greedy.
Dude.... Super worried about accessibility to my games over the long term, tons of games and systems, no idea how to mod... And this video made me confident I could work my way through it, because you literally showed the whole dang process. This makes it sooooooo much easier to approach. Subbed, looking forward to more of this quality content. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank youuuuu
True. I think it's essential to be able to own your purchases. I lost my 3DS which had a huge..huge library of Digital games and an attempt to get assistance from Nintendo was just complicated and I really regret those digital purchases, None of my current switch games is digital, even if some games require a download to work at least I will have the physical game to launch on another switch or backup with this method just in case...
Steam did a really good thing with the runtime thing If you have a pc game, steamos will freeze its libs inside a container to keep the game workig (not available for windows)
It's important to note that video guides can get out-of-date quite quickly for this sort of thing as new tools and exploits are developed. It's always best to use the latest version of the guides from the homebrew community itself.
Yes. Preserving your library is what this is about. Nintendo is less likely to target anyone doing that than the people who simply DL game ROMs for free. I think Nintendo would be really pushing the rationale to justify striking this video.
If you all really wanna poke the bear, make the title of the video actually have "Nintendo Switch", "emulation" and "Steam Deck" in it. They might not pick up on it otherwise.
@@corruptedpoison1 Yeah, but they may think twice about trying to take LTT down. They can go after the smaller channels, but they would have to shell out some money for something that isn't even illegal.
This channel has pretty much become a game/technical news outlet and I LOVE IT 💖💖 I always loved these long style/investigations/indepth reviews and it looks like LTT is doing more of them. Thank you so much guys & gals for this divine content (even tho you probably wont see this comment). Keep it up!!
For Smash it is recommended you turn on asynchronous shader caching in the Yuzu graphics settings. It will really help with the stutters from shaders compiling. But also the stutters will just subside after you've played for a bit.
So what you think would happen if I re-posted all of LTT videos on my channel, would he let me "stand up" against TH-cam or will he copyright strike me.* *STOP THE CAP!!!*
@@Hack--rz1io LOL stop the cap, so the whole emulation scene is for people that own all the games they plan to play on their SteamDeck. Yeah no one is going to go to ROM sites and download these games, this is ONLY for people who onwn their Nintendo games.
@@TiVo2Go people using a tool wrongly doesn't make all uses of the tool invalid. Sure some people use emulators to bypass paying but what LTT is doing and advocates is completely different. They do not encourage stealing but preservation, flexibility, and right to own software. Your comment is again making a completely void point
If they don't, it only shows Nintendo doesn't have the guts to go after a major player. And by major player I mean a channel that doesn't get their video blocked by an automatic process and can spend a week calling tech support to put things right. Only for Nintendo to do the same after it's no longer blocked and the creator can start over again (UFD Tech for their Android on Switch video, before Linus did it).
@@CheapBastard1988 I'm sure Nintendo will attempt to issue a takedown, but honestly I don't see TH-cam rolling over on this one. Linus has repeatedly said he can pick up the phone and talk to higher ups at TH-cam, so unless laws are actually being broken I don't think Nintendo has the authority to demand anything here.
I doubt it will be taken down since they didn't show anything illegal, and they even blurred the screen to avoid showing nintendo "property" (characters and content). Sure nintendo can file a DMCA but if they do LTT can sue them for abuse of DMCA, since DMCA isn't just "youtube take down pls", it's an actual legal filing involving lawyers. And if it's used incorrectly, you can easily get sued for whatever damage your false DMCA caused. In this case revenue loss for LTT for having a video taken down. Super illegal.
@@CheapBastard1988 LTT also gave them no ground. They did their best to give Nintendo no case. They should've done the nopposite if they wanted a legal battle. IOf anything LTT chicken out a bit (I understand why). Nintendo not going after LTT would just show that they are smart.
I laughed maniacally just seeing this video. I heard about it in a WAN show but I didn't expect the title to be filled with as much spite. I love it and I love this video for being able to convey all the necessary information for homebrew Edit: typo
Nintendo knows the value of nostalgia, hence releasing A LOT of old games on newer Nintendo platforms. Since they don't want anyone else doing that with their games, they go after anyone running their older games on different hardware. And since they go after that, they also do the same to newer games for consistency. I "jailbroke" almost every M$/Nintendo/Sega/Sony consoles I have, the next one will be the Gamecube with the new Raspberry Pico method. I'm just waiting for the components to arrive, then I'll play until my fingers bleed or until Nintendo knocks at my door. In case they're already looking for me, I'll save them some time: I live on Mars, right next to the Jezero Crater.
If you looked up the name of a crater on mars for that joke you have earned my respect. (Or you're just a xenogeologist, which is equally worthy of respect)
LMG to Nintendo: "Bring it" Fantastic video as always. Saw the WAN show when Linus said you guys were going to essentially issue this challenge to Nintendo, and god you delivered!!
Nintendo is like Apple. It’ll clearly have a vision, and goal that it’ll set out to do. It’ll do it on its own accord and go down their own route. The double edge sword of that is, you play by their rules or you don’t play at all. Most people won’t mind this (since the only reason they are still around is because they make products that outvalue those compromises.
Thanks for doing this LTT, Nintendo deserves every bit of flak it catches when it comes to getting in the way of legal emulation. They're as bad as Apple on several business practices.
@@Prophes0r If they were actually scared they wouldn't have made this video. You want to stop Jerktendo? Don't buy their games and don't play their games. Once their IP's are worthless then they'll change.
I do not think there's a strong argument in favour of emulating software WHICH IS STILL ACTIVELY SOLD thought. The only reason to emulate here is "I don't want to pay for a Switch" which basically proves Nintendo right in their "emulation equals piracy" line.
@@Prophes0r Oh god, who will save the multi-million dollar company!?! Someone please think of the multi-million dollar company! I assume you mean nintendo, and not LTT, because I don't think LTT is as big as nintendo. Now, Idk if you know this, but courts have already ruled in favor for things like jailbreaking your iphone. They can remove warranty, but they can't sue you for it. It's not illegal. You own the iPhone. This is the precedent set in US courts. The problem is JP courts are more in favor of the company. There's no fair use there. Things like Dojin (fan made manga)are illegal, but if no one brings it up, then nothing happens. So generally companies look the other way, as it helps them. But there's an anti-western bias with these Japanese companies. It may not be as bad as it was, but culturally there's this sort of superiority that's been around, though it's slowly diminishing. Plus you will naturally gravitate toward your domestic market. Copying games you own is legal in the US. I can't speak for JP courts, but, while you can't download copies of games you own, you can rip your own carts/discs here. That's the law. Nintendo wants to change that purely because they assume that the people doing this would buy more copies and it would result in greater profits. Problem is, these people, and for that matter pirates, generally just don't buy products that they can't pirate. Take me. I pirate switch games to play on Yuzu. I'm happy to play that way until I can afford a switch. If yuzu didn't exist, I'd just wait to buy a switch around end of life when I can afford it and games are cheaper. Nintendo didn't gain a sale. They aren't loosing money, but they are pissing people off.
this is basically a challenge to nintendo. saying "What are you going to do about it?" and I'm here for it. Ive said for years that if they just put old titles on switch, not through their subscription model, that I would buy them again. because I no longer have my old consoles. But I want to play the old games.
@@bradhaines3142 OR, and I know this might sound crazy, what if we had BOTH options? What if we gave consumers options so they picked the only that best fits their play style and/or budget?
I have kept up with the Sony homebrew scene for years and honestly, I feel like a big reason nobody has taken Sony to task like this is that Sony hasn't been nearly as hostile to their fans and customers as Nintendo. If anything, Sony has actually started doing the smart thing and been paying bounties on exploits so... Of the big 3, Nintendo is definitely the most backwards of the 3 and at this point, things like this are probably the ONLY thing that's going to get through to them to change their ways. Or, they'll get ground into dust by the competition entering their space. Your move Nintendo.
Nintendo is still just figuring out what the internet is. It's ok, they're a brand new company, it's not like they've been around since the start... Oh wait.
To be fair, Sony does also counter with firmware updates that are explicitly made to counter an exploit that allows CFWs to be installed. Hell, they're STILL updating the PSP of all things to try and stop it. Still, compared to Nintendo, Sony is more of a saint. In addition, I never had an issue calling their support people and getting things fixed, so I'm less inclined to mess with anything because of it. Nintendo? We still have joycon drift being denied of existence.
@@FlameSoulis I mean, but that's the nature of the game, isn't it? Exploit is found to run unsigned code. They patch it, it resumes again. At least Sony hasn't been nearly as litigious about it.
They’re not going to change unless corporate management changes. Nintendo has been doing this type of stuff since the beginning of emulation. What makes you think they’ll suddenly change directions?
To be frank, Nintendo hasn't had a Geohot situation - from my personal experience, Sony has done more hostile actions to homebrew enthusiasts than Nintendo, and I always felt more confident working on homebrew for the latter. In addition, Nintendo's bug bounty program launched in late 2016, while PlayStation's only in 2020.
@@Prophes0r they still have to be logical and protect their own business. LTT has a lot of employees who have families. It’s not worth risking their livelihood to “stick it to the man” tbh.
@@Prophes0r Nintendo doesn't care that it's ok. It's better to have the video remain than to not have people get to see it due to Nintendo taking it down, and having no video would be more "cowardly"
I respect LTT, especially Anthony for trying to prove how terrible Nintendo has been towards its own content creators. I like my new switch and will probably never need to "jailbreak" one, but this video definitely proves a point.
It SHOULD be legally mandatory to allow user backup and storage of all game media. Which includes PS5 AND XBOX digital games. That would end the horrible games lost to history crisis
This takes game ownership to the level it should be It should be illegal for companies to make their games with measures to prevent playing them on other systems
Agreed. I wish every game was open source to better facilitate porting to alternative platforms. It's not like they couldn't distribute the assets of the game in some password protected zip file that is keyed to you as the end user or some such.
@@anon_y_mousse exactly They should put their money and time into bettering their game and system instead of making it exclusive to their stuff Even if the community had to do the grunt work to make it playable elsewhere Even when they try to prohibit it we still get around it xD The better idea would be to cut your losses and double down on better games instead of forcing loyalty xD
Businesses will always try to find a way to make money in anyway possible. Really what needs to happen is countries need to write laws that protect the consumer.
HELP: At 9:15 he says copy "those keys from earlier" earlier when?? I've only got a steam deck not a switch and I'm trying to do this and stuck right at the gate. Anybody know where I can find the keys/goldleaf/ whatever he said you need to move to yuzu??
I need help trying to copy the game firmware form gold leaf I couldn’t follow along with Anthony zooming past that part. Can someone tell me how he copy his system firmware files during the gold leaf part step by step?
The legality on this is clear in the US: making backups of your software is legal (17 U.S. Code § 117), and using emulator software is legal, even in a commercial/competitive setting (see Sony v Bleem). Only pirating and distributing copies are illegal. Nintendo likely assumes (and this may be correct) that most people doing this are pirating their games, and so you could **kind of** apply the DMCA here. But it's definitely lazy on Nintendo's part, and instead of making their platform better they want to wave their giant legal team around to make you submit.
In Brazil redistribute is fine unless you charge for that. The idea of this is that if you own the software, as the owner you are free to give it someone else (even a copy) This do not apply to licensed software like windows or photoshop, but they are legally required to provide at least a single option to purchase the software forever (and if you have this, then you can copy it). I will not quote any law because this hole happens because we do not have any regulation on that but "Selling things that are not yours is illegal"
@@mikeuk666 No one who emulates owns the software. No one in general owns software. Most software people use is proprietary, meaning licensed, not sold. You don't own Microsoft Windows. You don't own any Super Mario game, even if you have a physical copy. The only kind of software you can own is Open Source software. You can own your operating system if you use something like Linux instead of Windows, but when it comes to games, pretty much everything is proprietary. The concept of ownership as a justification for emulation doesn't make sense. You mean purchased a copy? Sure, but I would rather adopt a pay for production model rather than a individual sale model.
@@mikeuk666 Relevance? Seriously, even if your stat is true, what does that have to do with the fact that a means of doing it legally exists>? (absolutely nothing, IMO)
It's great seeing a large channel using their platform to promote methods of digital history preservation. I know a lot of people and companies only see piracy when it comes to modding and emulating, but software preservation is akin to keeping old books intact for future generations to discover. Clearly SOME corporations don't really care about preserving their history.
Not only that, but this opens up ways for modding to continue a game's lifespan for years or decades. Don't have to look further than most Bethesda games for proof of that effect. And the longer people are playing a game, the more likely someone new is to stumble into it and potentially buy a copy (as I did with Fallout: New Vegas and Oblivion). By having a game that is modifiable, you both extend the shelf life of that game and open it up for digital archival by exposing it to even more people than would have otherwise played it.
I’m done sticking up for Nintendo. They sent a guy to prison for years, recently, and rubbed their hands together over what an opportunity it was to “educate” the public against messing with their narrow concept of copyright. I’m ashamed to even own a Switch, now.
I own a switch too... And I got two new joycons since they started drifting. Then the new ones drifted after a few months. I have sworn to never give this company money ever again.
Thanks to the community, I was able to take an old game boy advanced game I had as a child, and was able to get these save file off of it, so in the future I can use it for emulated games, and if my cartridge ever breaks, I'll never lose my precious Charizard
Nintendo downloaded ROM files online for use in their NSO subscription, while simultaneously suing the hosts of those sites. Absolute hypocrisy. Glad to see someone standing up for the emulation community.
@@jorismak iirc one of the roms was a modded and nintendo did not realize or smth Although I am not so sure about that, I just remember something along the lines of that
That’s actually false. They once employed the developer of the iNES when the were digitizing their library for a game (I think it was animal crossing or something similar). People claimed it for years because they cited the iNes headers found but that’s because they had one of the devs on staff in Japan.
It's not uncommon many companies rely off of community made tools. Sony famously downloaded an open source fan emulator to use it on PlayStation instead of spending time developing their own
@@jorismak The proof of nintendo pirating their own files is just some roms having ines headers. The ines header contents themselves are factual information, not copyrightable, and a random pirate site wouldn't be able to claim.
While digital storefronts like the eShop make it easier to buy a copy of a game and still support the developers, it's not a perfect system. Titles get taken down due to licensing issues or the shops themselves get closed like the 3DS eShop is set to soon. Being able to backup your games and play them on emulators is key to preserving your own purchase, especially since backwards compatibility is an afterthought these days. There always comes a time where it is justified to be able to backup and emulate your own games. The Switch is still an active system so I can understand potential hesitation to do it today but some year it will be in the same position as every other past console. The groundwork shown (and blurred) in this video is important for that far off day.
I mean, not like physical copies are safe from licensing issues or shop closures. Once the licenses run out, everything that's out there is all there will ever bee and you either gotta find a copy (used or new) or you're out of luck. Doesn't the 3DS Shop still allow downloading though and it only closes down purchasing new games or was that another closing storefront?
@@Shakzor1 I wasn't happy with how I worded it but I was essentially saying that digital copies today are supposed to be the answer to supply and accessibility issues of old. In theory, you'd never be gouged on prices due to resellers, the dev studios are still getting some sales credit rather than some unconnected person selling a used copy, and they're supposed to solve the physical media problem of distribution and availability. But, they're not without the problems I mentioned in my comment. Even physical copies are less safe with each generation. It became more common with the PS4 and Xbox One to have either required day one patches or downloading the rest of the game in the case of particularly big games. The Switch continues that with some titles that straight require additional download from the internet to play. It's mainly third party titles but I would not be surprised to see Nintendo do it some year or maybe with the next console. All digital store closures start with no more purchases but then will move to fully closed later with no way to redownload. Today, it's not too much of a problem for the Switch since the pains and worries are far enough in the future that owners can relax for now. But, it is a problem that thankfully has some solutions already as Anthony showed in the video. Backups and ways to play them are the best for longevity.
My respect for LTT just grew significantly. For standing up to overbearing corporations in defense of the enthusiast community they’re a great community resource!
bruh they have the screen blurred
@@unicornsrdabest they have to for legal reasons, they are trying their best
@@unicornsrdabest Well yeah, obviously. Nintendo literally DMCA strikes anything showing their games, running on anything other than their own systems.
What they're doing isn't all they can do, but caution around Nintendo is a good idea.
LTT cares about authenticity. If they don't agree with something, they'll let everyone know regardless of the cost.
Will be interesting to see if Nintendo tries anything with this one. Explaining how to boot the switch into RCM mode with the jig is the same thing that resulted in Nintendo issuing a CTM (Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures) complaint about one of my videos. It was subsequently removed from TH-cam.
If it can be done (and works as a means to access internal menus designed to be used) then there is no such "circumventing" nor "protection".
Just because they left their backdoor open does NOT MEAN people are "breaking in".
@@Jadebones I agree but Nintendo clearly doesn't see it that way.
Huge fan
Oh its Mr. Warfare! Iove your content!
@@destructodisk9074 wouldn't that analogy be more like using a lockpick to open your own door? Which is totally legal. You are getting access to a diagnostic menu of hardware device you own.
Emily is not the hero that we deserve but the one we need
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
He is the one Nintendo deserves
My here
@@shawn3817 Nintendo sees him as the villain but the people sees him as the hero
YESSSS
Wow, I can't believe Linus was found in a ditch after shooting himself 50 times in the chest and snapping his own neck, what a coincidence.
Strange that they found a Luigi Amiibo in his pocket....
@@vilebastage I thought it was a Wario one.
This is a really dark comment the deeper you think about it
@@thegrizzler534 then don't think about it lol
@@thegrizzler534 not really that derep, being shot in the chest 50 times and snapping your own neck is pretty dark without digging deeper what?
Note: It is possible to set things up so you can connect to WiFi safely on a hacked Switch but if you don't follow the instructions *EXACTLY* you'll get banned and LTT likes to keep things as simple as possible so they probably just felt that things like DNS settings and the difference between SysNAND and EmuNAND was too complicated for a general audience.
But the instructions are in the guide they linked if you are comfortable with that stuff.
Hmmmmm... 🤔...
Yeah, running my switch with wifi on the sysnand and still with wifi but blocked nintendo servers on the emunand
pretty sure they didnt mention dns settings because that's technically circumventing nitendo.
;)
Combined with incognito it's great!
This is ballsy and especially comforting given the recent Ubisoft news, that at least someone has our backs for game preservation, right to repair and actual ownership of the things we pay for.
You mean the server shutdowns? They don't actually sell you access to their servers, the game you bought just allows access to them for free, and they are entirely in their right to shut down these free services at any point. Companies can't be expected to keep paying for servers forever, so I think that's reasonable.
However, I do find it annoying as they could have made multiplayer modes available in LAN rather than always rely on external servers.
@@Thornskade Except Ubisoft in their infinite wisdom decided that you should have to connect to their servers to access DLC content, meaning that, for example, if you bought the deluxe edition of Assassin's Creed 2 on steam you're unable to access any of the extra content including two whole story chapters in the middle of the game. They had to remove "deluxe edition" from the title because of this last year and now this is going to affect all the other games on the list
@@Thornskade I would say they should still have an obligation to make it where DLC you PAYED for is still accessible somewhere if they're gonna pull this crap though otherwise they're just screwing people over.
@@theninjamaster67 Thats how things are going to be in the future. Look at what Bungie has done with Destiny 2. Years and hundreds of dollars worth of content just gone.
If I remember correctly the cost for running a server is roughly $10/month.
That's peanuts in terms of total revenue and a single server can support many multiplayer games especially if the total online presence is low.
Or yeah, P2P conversion would be a good option for them to do too, or allow the community to make themselves.
With the DLC, the original titles are losing the dlc but not the remastered copies. So they are trying to force you to buy the same game again... On PC!
All hardware eventually breaks down over time; software preservation via emulation is essential to keeping these pieces of history intact for future generations to experience.
something i can hold and feel is cooler than data stored inside computers
@@pickle24 but whatever you can hold can be broken, this the point of preservation
Technically mine never has in the past, hell even my 360.
@@celphalonred1999 I can assure you that there'll be a component that doesn't work as well as it used to or at all - that's the point of their comment
@@celphalonred1999 Wait till it red ring of deaths, or the HDD fails, or the graphic cards fails, or the CPU fails. itll happen
its very impressive that LTT are bassically calling out nintendo and standing up for fair use. Great job.
It's called Legal Emulation for a reason :)
@@WhoTheDev Yeah this is easily the best video about it because they are actually honest about the legality of it and talk about all the upsides (all being on one device, runs better if its more powerful device than a steam deck) as well as the downsides (no online play which makes games like Splatoon or Mario kart pointless on emulator and the steam deck having much worse battery life, and the imperfections of early days emulation with stutters or crashes). Most people are just like "free games lol fuck Nintendo" which obviously isn't helpful for anyone.
LDN u can play with modded switch and other emulator players. Been doing this with all my friends and its fun@@Bargate
I haven't laughed this hard from an LTT intro until now, lmao good job Emily!
imagine having to blur out gameplay, what a weird world we live in, big ups LTT for all you do for the enthousiast community
imagine having to blur your house window..
@@generalbutz8477 if your referring to the Linus house videos he does that too protect himself because sharing the view out your window online can reveal what your address is and for obvious reasons he doesn't want random strangers ("fans") showing up at his house
@@davidfernelz yeah sure, but it's still taking stuff out of context, it's not about having to blur, it's about the loophole a stupid situation that Nintendo sadly has the power to do whatever they want...
@@gonzalolog barking at the wrong tree there mate.
@@gonzalolog how does that have anything to do with him blurring out his house windows? Are u high?
Nintendo's number one fear, emulation
The funny thing is it's perfectly legal in the US, just like game cartridge rental... But It's illegal in Japan and since Nintendo is japanese-based the considerate theft regardless of it actually being legal in the US... So they pursue it relentlessly.
Pog. A wild Mischief appeared.
Hey-o. How it going my dude?
@@TravisFabel emulation is. As long as it's a copy of your own game. Though I believe in UK and Europe it's also illegal or on the way. But people confuse piracy and emulation. Piracy isn't legal..
@@rhysjones8506 well, it is legal until you get caught ;)
Good news! Nintendo didn't take the video down.
Bad news! Nintendo took down the emulator instead!
Thing's that get to the internet never go away, you can use suyu/try to find a working trusted link for last version of yuzu
good news, everyone has a copy of it
good news! the other emulator (ryujinx) never got taken down, and theres an actively maintained (maybe, last commit was 1 month ago as of writing this) fork of yuzu that exists now (suyu)
@@whyis2plus2 The point is that maybe we'd still have Yuzu in active dev (alongside Citra) if videos like these weren't putting targets on the back of emulator devs.
We know Nintendo is like this! We've KNOWN Nintendo is like this. Why antagonize them and give them ammo to nuke good projects from orbit like we know they will if they know the project exists?
@@tomikun8057 The point is that maybe we'd still have Yuzu in active dev (alongside Citra) if videos like these weren't putting targets on the back of emulator devs.
We know Nintendo is like this! We've KNOWN Nintendo is like this. Why antagonize them and give them ammo to nuke good projects from orbit like we know they will if they know the project exists?
Once again: it's great to throw your weight around and all, but Nintendo _knows_ they'll lose fights like this in court so they _will not_ pick them. It's much better for them to leave it in a grey area and be able to threaten the little guy with legal action that the little guy isn't sure they'll win or can even afford to win. In order to stop Nintendo's blatant BS, somebody needs to file suit _against Nintendo_ asking for a declaratory judgement that all this stuff is legal. That would pin them against the wall and help to neuter their litigiousness by giving the little guys more surety of victories in court and a greater likelihood of recovering attorney's fees. Somebody with chops needs to take the fight to Nintendo, Game Genie-style.
Here's the thing, though. If tomorrow Jimmy-nobody posts a video tutorial to his three subscribers showing far less and gets hit with a takedown, he can appeal it by pointing out that similar content remains up. Maybe he gets ignored, but just maybe Jimmy happens to have the resources or connections to take the case to court, and that case is far stronger the more videos like this exist and stay un-challenged.
I am not a lawyer but I am pretty sure in my country it is forbidden to bypass and or disable anti-piracy measures. It is like as if I would film myself robbing a bank.
@@tmicecave This isn't piracy
@@Psychx_ It isn't just money though. Actually letting a matter like this go to court means spending years embroiled in a highly technical legal matter too. It means that if you or your lawyer fuck up Nintendo get a beneficial judgment and you just turned legal bullying into case law that any company in a similar situation can fall back on. If public support dries up midway through the case - than can take years - then you'll have to drop the whole thing. This isn't H3H3 getting sued by another TH-camr, this is hoping that public support and whatever lawyer that support can buy will stand up to team of legal experts with all the financial backing they could ever need.
And even then, if Nintendo is suing you they can always retract their suit if it becomes inconvenient for them, or offer to settle out of court without creating precedent.
@@colinhobbs7265 Read again. I said nothing about this being piracy.
This is why they, publishers, want to push cloud gaming. :)
Cant "pirate a rom" if you never touch the real data. They see legal, rightful use of their old products, as loss of profit. Cant lose profit if we can never own the game.
Exactly this.
Similar to films exclusive to streaming platforms. Owning anything nowadays is either made a chore or you end up sailing the high seas. Yo ho yo ho...
I think the reason Nintendo specifically is so aggressive with anti emulation is because their product is mostly reliant on the fact that it's their system. Sony and Microsoft might compete to make a more powerful system, but at the end of the day, they're not relying on the fact that their consoles are "unique" to stay afloat, especially since they're also putting their games on several platforms. Nintendo on the other hand depends on people buying into whatever special gimmick they have to get people to buy their console and games.
At first I thought this was just a hunch, but researching into it, this difference is actually true. While other game console companies sell their consoles at no profit or even at a loss, Nintendo is the outlier where they make the majority (55%) of their money from the console sales. This actually makes sense from a hardware perspective too. People are confused by Nintendo's decision to intentionally stick with extremely outdated hardware despite better alternatives being available, but viewing it from a consoles profits first perspective would clarify why Nintendo doesn't want to come out with a "Switch Pro". They probably don't want to cut into those profits by messing with the supply chain and buying more expensive parts for new switches.
@@_GLXC their games and IPs are what makes Switch works. Nobody would buy it only to play The Witcher in 480p.
@@alminhelex Except that there are plenty of ways to capture a video stream whereas you can not do such things with interactive media.
Was hoping you wouldn't need to blur the screen, but happy to see emulation getting a shout out.
A lot of my old childhood ps1 disks are toast, but I made backups of them years ago so still get to enjoy them without having to pay hundreds of dollars for Digimon World 2 on ebay
there was one unblurred loading screen with a nintendo logo and appearently it's not blurred on floatplane.
i am eager to see how nintendo reacts
Look at the hipster over here playing the objectively inferior Digimon game on the PSX.
In case it is not clear: just kidding.
I just watched the FP upload, it's shown in all its bloody glory. I guess owning your own video platform means you can react to DMCA requests any way you see fit
The short that was posted on the channel does not have it blurred.
Two years in and Nintendo still hasn't taken this video down lol
Thanks for supporting the emulation scene!
Love your content too.
@Oghenetega Idogun you make him sound like a gaming Yetti 😆
Mr.campman 👍
Years ago I dumped my whole GameCube library, just for my own personal use. My original GameCube stopped working, and some of the disks had gotten scratched over years of play sessions. Yeah, I could go buy a beat up Wii or GameCube at a flea market, but even my old laptops could easily run Dolphin at upscaled resolutions.
Nintendo and most of the third parties won't rerelease the games I owned from that era. I would buy most of them again if they were properly ported to new hardware, but only a few like LucasArts bothered to take the effort. Until then I feel completely fine about emulating my old library.
If only Nintendo see further than the yen they can count...
I dumped my GB, GBA, DS, Wii/Wii U and PlayStation 1/2/PSP games from my consoles/memory cards. I'd just like to note that I didn't do this because I gave a crap about the legality of downloading games I own from the internet, because I don't. The outcome is the same. However, I wanted to get ahold of my save files. I got worried when one of my cartridges died so I saved the rest. I'm glad to have these backed up, it was worth the hassle.
My DS and PSP are both dead and no doubt the other consoles won't be lasting too long anymore either. Instead of scrolling through eBay to buy ancient overpriced hardware every few years, it's simply much more reasonable and comfortable to play these games on modern devices with open platforms. I got a vertical controller attachment for my Android phone for DS games and the rest I play on whatever I feel like, such as the Steam Deck.
I feel fine pirating current switch games too, never wouldve bought them anyway with those prices.
If I remember correctly, the ridiculous part is that you can only legally emulate a game, if you have a working copy of the original. So if your game cartridge gets worn out or the console dies, you are required to stop emulating, completely defeating the purpose of archival...
I swear there are games I bought like 3 or 4 times, sometimes in different platforms, sometimes just because I lost the floppys or cds or w/e. Now with the current internet speeds I "pirate" those games, don't care if it is my own backup. Even back in the day I went on IRC channels to get NOCD cracks for games I owned, DRM is a pita
Absolute example of which LTT deserves their massive fanbase - they're doing it FOR THE CULTURE. Well done.
They are somewhat in a special place at moment, they actually have the resources to fight Nintendo. They are Canadian, so certain legal tactics from Nintendo would need to actually stand up against a legal system that is not completely controlled by corporations. I may disagree with Linus on what are basically superficial points, but his overall position is something I am behind 100%. This video is an intentional challenge to Nintendo, but also the broader industry.
Every single thing within video, and how precisely it was worded and delivered, is pretty much the definition of 'come at me bro'
@@benwu7980 what did you disagree with Linus on?
*well said sir.*
@@user-op8fg3ny3j As I said superficial stuff, I give no cares about smart home stuff, generally. A phrase I sometimes use is ' the S in IoT stands for Security'.
I can't really point to anything specific, I think he aligns with most of my views.
doing it for potential support for piracy? well done.
4 months have passed and this video is still surviving nintendo
Anthony is a sneaky sneaky boi, he knows how to evade those laywers.
I thought it was a new video, honestly. Until I saw the publish date.
Grow
8 now lol
Bless the LTT team for being on the side of game preservation.
In what world is current gen emulation "Game preservation"??????????????????
@@ziggbro All games get old eventually????????????????
@@marcogenovesi8570 Sure you're not wrong, but can you really make that argument when the game has no death in sight?
@@HilbertXVI can't tell if you are serious or just trolling but I'll answer anyways.
Current gen emulation is ALMOST always a pirate thing, as you lose alot of the benefits of the console and game playing on a emulator. like online and other experience.
woah
Any video promoting the emulation scene AND the homebrewing scene is an incredibly important one. So much misinformation is spread in both areas.
I agree
@@Plumjet09 thanks for agreeing
Seeing Anthony smiling warms my heart!
He has changed a lot through theese years.
I do believe that while on his first days at ltt he wasn't at ease being filmed, he now is really enjoying the situation and he finally has the fun he deserves. The support and all the good comments that came from the community are awesome. Thank you man for sharing your knowledge and experience with us while making difficoult things easy and fun. People like you was, is, and will be the reason why pcs are fun. Thank you Anthony and thank you all!
i fuckin love anthony, dude
He is one of my favorites lol. Know what you mean
The guy looks like Jabba the Hutt.
Anthony is one of their best on camera people.
He's really good these days
"this video could be gone tomorrow" 4 months later.
it proves that theyre too afraid to delete the video
the big ones are dragging the dim spotlight to themselves then
"Could"
4 months later from when this comment was made
@@mariofanl1ve It's now been at least a full year since this video was uploaded.
Still going 1 year later
With what we pay for these games, it should be illegal to for makers dictate where they are played. We owe no loyalty to hardware.
I agree, Nintendo shouldn’t take down videos showing the games on the steam deck, but then again it is their intellectual property.
@@rickastleygaming A video of the game being played that’s literally just being used to show how it runs isn’t copyright infringement, it’s fair use otherwise reviews would be illegal
@Gavin Seim
It's called Intellectual Property for a reason. Just so you remember that.
@@rickastleygaming
That's not how it works. It's fair use, you paid for the game and under fair use you are allowed to film yourself playing ot
@@MauroSanna once it's paid for and delivered, it's the consumers, the manufacturer has no say anymore. That's why you're free to customize your car however you want. Could you imagine if Samsung sued you for adding an extra wash cycle to your washer or took out the basket and used it in a separate base? And that even is actually a dangerous appliance not a console.
So much respect for Anthony writing this video, Linus allowing it to go ahead despite the possible legal issues, and all the support from the rest of the team! Though, knowing LTT this is a fight they would enjoy to have, regardless of how much of a pain in the ass it may end up being. Good work Guys!
Im not sure if Anthony or any host writes the content himself. But Anthony is my #1 favourite presenter/host period 💪😌
@@ArniesTech I think Anthony is also part of the writing team, based on videos they posted if their writers meeting, but yeah im sure a lot of the scripts are a team effort. No one person can make content of this quality and consistency, which is what makes LTT so special!
@@ArniesTech It's on the credit at the last who wrote it, an dit was Anthony alone.
Anthony doesn't write the videos so calm down.
This is Linus’s idea. In one the WAN shows way back he promised they will make a video like this and that he is prepared to fight Nintendo over this.
I can smell Nintendo’s lawyers snooping through the entirety of LTT as we speak.
Let’s prepare our 50TB servers that Linus taught us how to build, a make a backup of the channel :)
hopefully they dont get them for something else now that they are in the spotlight~
@@Just-View PetaByte
Honestly, I can easily see Nintendo not only going after LTT for copyright infringement, but I can also see Nintendo going after them for piracy. They just created a video instructing people to pirate Nintendo's copyright.
something tells me LTT videos are all backed up somewhere(s)
They didn't bother taking down this video, they took down the whole emulator in stead. Wonderful bullying from Nintendo once again!!
ryujinx still active.. yuzu on other hand is gone..
Yuzu did it to themselves by doing shit like allowing online play by circumventing nintendos servers.
They were practically asking for it and I’m surprised that didn’t get them taken down sooner.
Ryujinx has multiplayer but only between other ryujinx users and hacked switch consoles, with no connection to real Nintendo servers.
I still think it’s bullshit, but to call it bullying is a bit strong.
Not defending the billion dollar corporation, just pointing out a big mistake yuzu made.
@@Willowposting Why would that matter though?
@@monkeybase01 I mean I am sure that's just a factor that Nintendo got to take yuzu down, and will do the same with Ryujinx if they find anything contentious for a legal case.
But as a general case a hacked/device that would offer modability (mod device let's say) in an area of multiplayer game where that is not possible is certainly an issue for players as well due to unfair advantage to the prior. And this arises only when the mod device owners can connect to same servers as to original device owners.
Still Nintendo is shitty and a bully in this area imo, no doubt about it!
Anthony as a smuggler looks so funny
Dangerous*
its the most threatening thing ive ever seen
Yeah
You got any more of those *scratches neck* nintendo games??
He run fast too!!
I love the big "TRY ME" from Linus with this video, after Nintendo have been so blatantly anti-consumer for so long. Now we know what the backpack money is going to ... those lawyers don't work for free afterall.
I like the joke but if you watch the WAN show you know all their money is going into LTT Lab lol.
Lawyers run on water, drank from our LTT.store bottles.
Nintendo don't care about videos on here. There's hundreds of videos of Switch emulation and RCM guides on TH-cam. IDK why LTT is running with this narrative that they're doing something risky when they're not.
But in the end, any lawyer just represents their client as best as they can, the entire responsibility is with Nintendo
They are anti-consumer because people pirate their stuff. and now they are gonna be MORE anti-consumer cuz people like you are now gonna pirate games.
"50cc because I'm a games journalist" made me laugh more than it should
1:57 "let's just to 50cc because I'm a games journalist" If only other news industires have an easy button
This is not so much Nintendo hitting LTT directly, it's also about Google's lowly paid compliance team who will just roll over and say "yes sir" when Nintendo demand that the content is taken down. In many ways it is up to Google to revert back to Nintendo and demand that Nintendo prove that the content should be removed. Therefore this is not just a potential fight between Nintendo and LTT, it's Nintendo via Google and LTT via Google.
Google can't do that without putting themselves in a high amount of risk (hence their hands-off approach). Submitting a DMCA request requires accepting to the possibility of going to court over it (which does not include Google).
Legally, it's Nintendo hitting LTT. Using the platform to do it is just how DMCA tends to work.
@@maxlyrenhex it's not even dmca at this point, Nintendo has access to TH-cam's CMS system to directly take down a video
@@UndercastEsmeganitrospeed that's still dmca
@@ella4406 well, the end user gets the same form as if it was a dmca but the company itself is not even monitoring it really since you can just enable it to match X using TH-cam's system or use an API and match automatically whatever you want... Once you got access abusing it is stupid easy since you're assumed to be correct on your claim
there is no google paid complience team, its all automated. ltt may have a contact at google, but if a big company like nintendo flags something, its only about an automated "review" in 99,999999999% never a human eye will review anything.
Here's the problem. This generation Nintendo is extremely aggressive at preventing aftermarket software from running on their hardware. They're lobbying to make it illegal to mod consoles in Japan and they have even stated in court that they have redesigned the Switch specifically to prevent running non-Nintendo software multiple times.
Unlike going through a similar process for, say, the Wii and Dolphin, Nintendo is arguing you're in the wrong either way. You can either pirate the stuff, which is illegal, or you can jump through these hoops and have them come at you for 'circumventing protection measures'. They will only look at the illegal stuff you _could_ do to it, and decide that you are immediately a criminal the moment you even think of buying an RCM jig. They don't care about you, the costumer, not breaking the law or even their ip, they just care about money. Unfortunately for us, they have enough money to make sure they can impose their envisioned way of using a product we bought onto us
They're so desperate about killing emulation because they know hardware from 1880 could run their titles. Anyone with a blackberry could play their games. Patents and IP's are all they have.
I mean, they call emulation illegal, despite them emulating their own games and selling that to their customers.
Sound worse than Apple.
they can't sue everyone kekw
Even if it's illegal in Japan they'll have a hard time lobbying this on EU or US. I feel bad for Japan but at least in all likelyhood we won't be subject to that, especially as "right to repair" movements grow
Finally someone gives Nintendo what they deserve.
The video was posted a minute ago, how have you watched the entire thing in that time?
Like 10 comments are saying the same shit. Stfu
@@Mr1Senk hello brother what slavic brotherhood nation are you from
@@isgn1088 he didn’t but who cares
TBH I dont think the "It can emulate Switch" Is a valid reason to say the Deck is better, you still have to buy a Switch (a specific model at that), and the games to do it legally after all.
Though if you do actually own the Switch and games there is no problem in emulating them, only problem is a lot of people dont
Yeah, the fact that smaller youtubers are prevented from showing this despite it being COMPLETELY LEGAL is kind of insane. Talk about the justice system being a plutocracy.
Also, if it wasn't for Nintendo's psychotic behavior, you wouldn't even need a Switch, a company could just build a device that automagically copies the data from the card.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m viewing it “for informational purposes only” because this isn’t something I’ll ever do. Honestly, I’m too lazy to bother. The Switch OLED is good enough for me, but I appreciate the free sharing of information and I’m sure other gamers really wanted to know this stuff.
Like the _actual_ pirates who sailed the seas, Nintendo has targeted those without the ability to defend themselves. LTT has become a ship of the line, with Captain Anthony at the helm, saying "come at us, scoundrels, if ye dare".
LTT didn't entirely dare though. They went the route they knew Nintendo wouldn't dare on YT 🥱
Fr man 😂
With captain Anthony? Isn't linus the head of LTT?
But this kinda sounds like Barbossa vs Sparrow
The people you're talking about were slavers. Not the greatest analogy.
@@_GhostMiner Anthony could still be captain of the ship while Linus is admiral of the fleet or something.
A couple years ago a port of Super Mario was released on the Commodore 64 (yes, really), and Nintendo performed a cease and desist. Really for the independent programmer who spent 8 years making it work they should have praised his achievement.... but they have proven over and over again that they actually hate their fans.
Why do fans think they can infringe on other peoples property and say, "Well, look, you should be happy we paid you in exposure, right?"
Nintendo doesn't give a shit. Buy the game and play it on the console it was made for is their business model.
@@MN-jw7mm literally nobody was going to use the commodore 64 fan port as a way to play it instead of playing the original. the only people who'd give a shit about it have already got the original game. it doesn't hurt sales at all.
@@MN-jw7mm Troll much? This was a fan product of a game over 30 years old to prove it could be done with no financial incentive as they were giving it away. But hey, you should go order that brand new NES and Super Mario in ~2018 when it came out to make yourself feel better... Oh.. .wait, you can't! Because it was a 30 year old game on obsolete 30 year old hardware. There is literally no financial loss to Nintendo.
@@MN-jw7mm But hey, Sonic the Hedgehog C64 was release too, for free.. and guess what? Sega, who still exists, didn't give a damn.
@@MN-jw7mm Copyright is not property. It is a limitation of property. Treating it as property is dysfunctional, and gives companies like Nintendo way too much power. Remaking a 30 year old game should not "infringe" on the rights on anyone, and morally speaking, no one is getting hurt.
glad you showed how to legally get ROMs to emulate, I'm so tired of everyone defaulting to "emulation = piracy"
Doesn't stop Nintendo from calling it piracy, lol.
I do not think there's a strong argument in favour of emulating software WHICH IS STILL ACTIVELY SOLD thought. The only reason to emulate here is "I don't want to pay for a Switch" which basically proves Nintendo right in their "emulation equals piracy" line.
Who cares if it's illegal or not. Nintendo's own service for retro games is trash.
@@Alias_Anybody To be fair with certain emulators you can use mods to increase performance or resolution. But yeah most people just use emulators to pirate because they don't want to pay for anything.
@@Alias_Anybody If you buy a Switch used, Nintendo doesn't make any money either. So, is buying used consoles piracy now? Of course not. Doesn't prove anything Nintendo says right.
I really want to see the watch analytics after the yuzu shutdown
This is legitimately easier and more user friendly to back up your save game data then the options Nintendo gives you, and this is what I've been saying for years, not everything involving jailbreaking is illegal rom downloading, we just want completely fair and legal access to our video game consoles that we paid for and own, I should be able to play my Animal Crossing island on multiple switches if I so choose to
As someone who lost their entire deck of save data, I will likely look into this more as the official Nintendo method is indeed shit.
I think it is illegal if it goes against the company policies.
@@user-ng2ts8xr5s company policies aren’t laws
@@user-ng2ts8xr5s Nintendo isnt the government, they dont make laws, you have no obligation to listen to them if your country’s law allows for it
@@user-ng2ts8xr5s
1. You don't agree to any policy when you purchase the console, and that can be circumvented by going into recovery before pressing "agree" to whatever they force you to do on startup.
2. Any EULA term (or policy) that is deemed to be against the law will not stand in court, so if they say that you are not allowed to do this but it's protected by law, they will get nothing. Generally, backups and modifications of your physical goods are protected ny law.
3. Even if you breach a EULA that is legal, at most you'll have to pay a fine if you didn't do anything illegal. Breaking the law and breaking a contract are two different things. Especially since if you own all the games, they cannot claim any damages having been done to them and hence will not be able to have you pay a fee.
Nintendo only bans hacked switches that go online because it is so hard to prove that you did anything. At most they might have proof of you pirating games, but since you weren't buying them anyways and didn't share them, there's little to earn from the trouble they'd go through.
Not to mention how hard to prove this may be; you can smash the switch before they can check if you pirated anything. You can purchase the game they found you playing once they banned you. Only if you actually distributed them online can legal pursuit have any worth.
Anthony shows us the moral path and tells Nintendo how immoral they've been. I love it and I doubt this video will be up in a week.
Not only the moral path, but the legal path. As he said, US copyright law has set a precedent that consumers have a right to use software they own as they wish
@@MrGamelover23 gonna wait for someone else to chime in on that one
I think it will be down soon but LTT will bring it up again even if it means going to court against Nintendo
I *really* hope lots of people aren't, *right now*, using whatever browser plug-ins they have for downloading TH-cam videos to grab and keep their own permanent copies of this video... I mean it would be just *terrible* if Nintendo went to all the trouble of making LTT cease and desist, only to then have thousands of other TH-camrs all re-posting the same video *everywhere* on TH-cam, on Facebook, on Twitter, on the side of the Houses of Parliament... =:oo
=>;o]
It will. That is all just to push clicks.
Love the risk LTT just took for the betterment of smaller content creators and to spread suppressed information to a larger audience amazing work everyone involved and exceptional presentation Anthony :)
@Stein Mauer this, plus the more drama they get, the more views they get, which results in more money. They hope Nintendo will try to remove this.
Risk? It's all legal
@@zaidlacksalastname4905 So, doesn't mean there isn't risk. Nintendo can still sue, likely lose, but force LMG to incur legal fees that would hurt their bottom line. The risk is there regardless of the expected outcome of a lawsuit.
@@ignitionnight LMG could counter sue or have an attorney who takes it pro bono (ie for free). One of the bad workplace videos elsewhere had somebody who had the some idea (drag it out rack up legal fees) but the other person had a pro bono attorney so not only did they loose but they lost even more money even though they settled out of court.
@@ignitionnight Why would Nintendo sue LTT? There are many videos of Switch emulation and modding guides on TH-cam with no blur. This is just LTT clickbaiting and being drama queens.
I know I'm 6 months late but just a heads up to anyone wondering, Yuzu and Ryujinx (Switch emulators) both use what's called shader caches. Basically you can download shader caches from different places of people that have completed them (I believe there are some subreddits out there) or you can do certain actions and inputs in the games and those shaders will cache overtime. So that's why you see a lot of stuttering seemingly at completely random intervals, because it's caching those shaders. (Assuming the LTT team didn't know this and just ran the dumped games right away without prep)
Anthony is astronomically based for making this video. We're so lucky to have him delivering such great content so consistently.
Sus.
yes, but did he tested GPD WIN.MAX 6800U, i think the performance is better.
@@jiali5165 That thing is borderline a Handheld, so a comparison doesn't make much sense imo. All Reviews i watched said that the formfactor is not nice to hold at all, the display weights so much that your arms get tired fast and the battery life, even at a conservative TDP setting of 15W is just in the 1,5-2h range. So in the end, sure the performance is better, but my Tower-PC has also better performance, doesn't tell the whole story.
"Based", I so hate that word. Don't we have plenty more eloquent and better words to describe/ascribe the concept?
"astronomically based"
Glad to see the big boys taking a crack at Switch Homebrew. Nintendo's shady business practices and non-existent return policy makes custom firmware a must have for switch owners.
Wii, 3DS, and Wii U are objectively better with homebrew mods too, I can play my PC copy of Halflife on my "new" 3DS now and it's hilarious yet cool that that's possible
they dont have to let you return anything
@@OriginalKanyeTPain Technically they do as not offering returns is against consumer protection laws in many countries
What do you mean non-existent return policy? It's listed right at the bottom of the My Nintendo Store under Returns & Exchanges.
@@will_it_work IP is such a joke. And yes they do have shady business practices. Remember when they took a kid to court??
Damn LTT. I almost never comment on YT videos: but two thumbs way up. Good on you for standing up for what is absolutely right. And legal. Screw you nintendo for being butt heads. This actually convinced me to go pre order a steam deck (not to do this specifically, but to support projects like this overall).
your money will be well spent if you want to support this kind of stuff! valve is one of, if not, the most consumer friendly, pro right to repair companies in the video game space. they straight up said if you buy a steam deck, you own it. do what you want with it. they actively encourage people to break into it and have fun. they even posted a how to break down and repair guide themselves. when's the last time you saw a game company offer any of that?
@@marcogenovesi8570 ever heard of the concept called competition?
@@marcogenovesi8570 before we continue, are you genuinely that dense? or are you just being argumentative?
@@marcogenovesi8570 well clearly cost wasn’t a concern since the most bought steam deck has been the $650 model.
@@S7ARBOY pro right?!?! conservative gabe newell 😲
Perfectly put on why Nintendo is such a frustrating company to be a fan of. Maybe it's that same stubbornness that attributes to the quality of Mario and Zelda games (although everything else falls to the wayside).
We would all hope that they are a few more weird choices away from being humbled, but time has shown that that is not the case.
Nintendo, to me, just feels like the Mario and Zelda company at this rate. They're the cash cows and it's obvious. Maybe Smash as well
@@dcard228 pokemon. You literally forgetting pokemon. Its pokemon, zelda and mario
@@OwenTurnbull I didn't say Pokemon because they haven't made a good one in years
@@dcard228 Second this. As someone who's been a fan of Pokemon/ Nintendo through my youth, it's gone down hill. The Xenoblade and Fire Emblem franchises are also good IPs, but other than those two as well as Mario, Zelda and Smash, Nintendo really has nothing else unique to it. I still love my switch, but once Valve makes a Steam Deck 2.0/ 3.0 with a significantly better battery life or at least one that rivals the switch, I'm dropping it.
@@PyromaniacShrub the Steam Deck is fantastic. The battery life isn't fantastic for sure though. I'm hoping when they release a new Deck with better batteries that they're backwards compatible with the OG Deck
"Nintendo believes that any emulation is piracy" That wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the fact that they love charging high prices for old games on their Virtual Console, which don't carry over to the next console generation, thus forcing people to buy the same decades old game multiple times right? No that has to be a coincidence.
Which is hilarious because Virtual Console / Nintendo Online titles are emulated. They don't port stuff either. If any emulation is piracy, Virtual Console is piracy ;)
SIMPLY AMAZING! Love to see this!!
I second this
@@t-dizzletheframemaniac5540 I third this
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In before nintendo illegaly takes down the video
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It's not so much Nintendo illegally taking down the video, it's Google lowly paid compliance team who will just roll over and say "yes sir" when Nintendo demand that the content is taken down. In many ways it is up to Google to revert back to Nintendo and demand that Nintendo prove that the content should be removed. Therefore this is not just a potential fight between Nintendo and LTT, it's Nintendo via Google and LTT via Google.
They are definitely putting this video up to bait a law suit
ripped in case nintendo takes it down!
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Just a heads up: if you have multiple Switch consoles, the console you're backing up *must* be marked as your primary console in the Nintendo eShop, ideally before you start this process. Otherwise, your system's keys won't be valid for the games you back up and yuzu might fail to launch certain games.
I have been a LTT viewer for many years, and I've always enjoyed the content from every staff member. In the last few months, I find myself watching more and more of Anthony's videos and they are truly incredible. We live in a pretty blessed time for tech enthusiasts. There are so many resources and youtube channels at our fingertips. But I don't see many that can effectively 1) take on a major corp with class and tact, 2) show you in detail how to jail break a console, 3) show you in detail how to run emulation software, all while having 4) a great host and great video production quality.
The combo of Anthony's knowledge and resourcefulness, with LTT's incredible resources, budget, and editing & support staff, make these videos truly shine. I think what makes me respect Anthony so much is that he is simultaneously a complete expert, but also an excellent educator. One conundrum in life is that it tends to get harder to think like a noob the more you become an expert on a subject, which can make teaching difficult topics to new students a challenge. But Anthony really breaks down complex and technically challenging tasks into bite sized pieces and explains the process along the way. As a long time PC gamer who is flustered by archaic console exclusivity, thank you for content like this. Great idea for a great video, I look forward to the next.
PS: I really like the series where you bought a bunch of dollar store electronics junk and tested it with legit tools to see which are worth buying expensive vs buying cheap. As much as I love the reviews on crazy expensive tech, I also really enjoy the more practical series like these, too.
The assimilation of knowledge is so empowering!
Always loved Anthony's videos. Total Chad.
King
My man’s typing an essay over here.
It is a pretty simple concept. Right person in the right place. Would not eatch a bathing suite review with Anthony but for tech video's he is the perfect guy with the amount of stuff he knows.
I find it hilarious that Nintendo will just never understand that you can't stop a globally connected network of gamers, engineers and programmers to get what they want anyway, even if they say no. Fuck you, Nintendo. And god bless you, Anthony and every unknown person who made this all possible
Yeah, it's also incredibly frustrating that Nintendo can really only take down the guys who genuinely and transparently attempt to archive video game history at little or no profit, while countless shady Amazon vendors of 100,000-in-one rom packs and malware-ridden pirate sites are basically immune and laughing their way to the bank.
It's even MORE frustrating when Nintendo's digital stores are historically the worst place to buy games, because once those stores (or your consoles) disappear, so do your game libraries. For that reason I'd happily jailbreak a Switch just to backup the games I've bought, because god knows when Nintendo's gonna just remove those games from existence.
i find it hilarious that you and your family will just never understand that you cant stop junkies, robbers, and cold hearted criminals to get your hard earned money, assets and life, even you beg them no 😈
@@happysatanproduction8854 it does not harm Nintendo rofl
@@mooseeggs4999 I hope one day you become an indie dev and watch people pirate your games. Rolf
@@LemtemPoktui this video doesn't show piracy at all actually, it shows an owner of a
1. NINTENDO SWITCH
2. GAME FOR NINTENDO SWITCH
3. STEAM DECK
Jailbreaking their Nintendo switch (legal), then dumping the ROM of the game (legal), and putting it on a steam deck to play using emulation (also legal!)
Big respect to Anthony. Any big corporations believe that media preservation had nothing to do with piracy if library was lost, really need to rethink.
we lose games all the time . I think a few have been saved by some random person related to the office saving the main copy away in some area while the company loses the files .
@@tobiwonkanogy2975 Only Ninterndo aren't one of those, they usually keep their sources and files properly backed up. it's why we got that meg aleak with SNES/N64 era Nintendo stuff a while ago. In the meantime S-E and Sega for one, have been notorious with losing their source code for ,many of their older titles.
I'm not hacking my Switch until either the eShop or the online services shut down and I can't play Nintendo's retro games legally. Currently, I only have the standard NSO membership, but I hope to sign up for the expansion pack soon... Though let's be serious. Paying more than double the standard price for the expansion pack is extorsion.
Same here,. It’s way too risky right now. For now, I’ve installed some switch games on my steam deck.
When I was in the Sony vs Connectx lawsuit, one of Sony's arguments was that the mere act of copying data from *from the media* to elsewhere, including to a computer's memory so it can be played by an emulator constituted copyright infringement so therefore all emulation is illegal. That was a wild ride :)
Ah yes.
Let me just copy this .exe from my usb to my pc.
Whoops just breached copyright.
(Joke)
Well... Who won? Don't hang us ...
No one mention to them that you have to copy a game to memory to play it even on native hardware. We've all been pirating by playing our PS4 discs.
These companies need to fucking stop.
@@PrograError from a google search it sounds like connectx won they ruled that copying bios or whatever was not copy right infrigment but I suck at law and court endings so I could be wrong
@@Gaklioo * Johnny Depp smuck Italian lips *
I love the fact Linus, Anthony & LTT has had enough of Nintendo's bully-boy tactics and challenging them now! As long as you legally own the game (have a licence) you can legally play it on any device/emulator.
A "license" only gives you limited ability to do with it what the license says you can do. A license does not mean that you own the game or the software that makes the game playable. That license might only give you rights to play it on official hardware. In which case you would be in breach of contract playing it on any other console other than the one it was designed for.
@@Rickbearcat yeah most licenses try to make you agree with strict terms to tell you as an owner can't do what you want with your own stuff. Just because those terms exist doesn't mean they hold any legal value, as proven again and again by rulings in many countries. In most countries, you are the owner of whatever you bought and can do whatever you want with it. The only limitations by law are the distribution of said content to be utilized by many people at the same time in any given moment
@@FAQUERETERMAX ...Is not LTT "distributing" protected IP information on content made for the express purpose of playing it on only official hardware?
@@Rickbearcat No, they're not...
Everything they're doing is 100% legal, and the intent of the publisher is not protected in the context of consuming legally owned content (unless you live in japan).
@@MrGamelover23 good news is that this situation has already played out in the past with Sony and Sony lost, so case law is on their side. Nintendo has been abusing DMCA against smaller creators because they know they don’t have the funding to actually challenge them. The company that beat Sony had to declare bankruptcy pretty much immediately after because their lawyers were so expensive.
I respect LTT even more for having the guts to make this video. Emulation is all about letting consumers have a right to play THEIR games on the platform THEY decide to. No piracy was mentioned at all.
While I totally agree with everything said in the video and Nintendo can eat it, it would be a bit naive/willfully ignorant to suggest that anything less than 99% of all emulation is done with ROMs of games people do not own.
@@Renuclous does it count if I used to own it?
@@user-op8fg3ny3j Not really, because you then sold it, gave it away or lost it. In which case there's a chance somebody else might be using it.
@@Renuclous To be fair, many of the games are no longer sold or were once bought by the users. Also, most people who download a lot don't actually play the games... meaning the so the so called damage is much more minimal than these companies would like to admit.
While true, majority of the games aren’t easily available to buy. Majority of people emulate older stuff
After doing emulation on various devices most of my life I realized a few years ago that the most conventient way is just to use your laptop + a USB/Bluetooth controller. Only other type of emulation I find useful is editing the games on the mini consoles/having a retropie for party games
We need more videos like this.
Digital preservation is important.
@@Prophes0r I would like to see your video where you fight against Nintendo and you talk pro right to use emulation.
You are doing well helping people, keep going.
Please share the link. ;-)
@@Prophes0r do not deep throat the boot
Preservation of something that's still sold both digitally and in retail?
@@Alias_Anybody You are right about games being sold nowadays.
But the more you use your copy the more It gets broken.
Emulation allows to people to keep their copy on a good state longer.
So physical preservation of the copy and digital preservation at the same time.
Yeah, It is counterintuitive that a person likes to emulate the same system he owns.
@@Alias_Anybody Come on. You know why so many old games had to be recreated from scratch essentially? Because nobody at the time thought to preserve the code then. They couldn’t or wouldn’t see into the future in just a few years to the potential they truly had.
I agree with stuff like this. You bought both the switch and the game, so you should be able to use them as you wish (without distributing the games, of course)
Yea I'll back this
I could see potential legal trouble with playing a game on both devices at the same time. But for the rest this method is pretty much legal in most western countries. If you care about the legality of running Nintendo games that is.
Yeah but like 80% or more of people doing this do it to play games they haven't bought
@@CheapBastard1988 If you're capable of playing both games at the same time, I really doubt there'd be any problem. If, however, it's you and your brother playing the game at the same time, it could be called "distribution".
@@Markus-zb5zd That's the usual argument: remove rights from people because some individuals might commit crimes. Knives are not banned because people can use them to kill other people, neither ban cars because some crackheads might run on purpose over some pedestrian. Piracy is illegal, so when anyone is caught distributing the games they'll have to pay for it. There's no need to ban a perfectly reasonable practice just because Nintendo is greedy.
Dude.... Super worried about accessibility to my games over the long term, tons of games and systems, no idea how to mod... And this video made me confident I could work my way through it, because you literally showed the whole dang process.
This makes it sooooooo much easier to approach.
Subbed, looking forward to more of this quality content.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank youuuuu
True. I think it's essential to be able to own your purchases. I lost my 3DS which had a huge..huge library of Digital games and an attempt to get assistance from Nintendo was just complicated and I really regret those digital purchases, None of my current switch games is digital, even if some games require a download to work at least I will have the physical game to launch on another switch or backup with this method just in case...
Steam did a really good thing with the runtime thing
If you have a pc game, steamos will freeze its libs inside a container to keep the game workig (not available for windows)
It's important to note that video guides can get out-of-date quite quickly for this sort of thing as new tools and exploits are developed. It's always best to use the latest version of the guides from the homebrew community itself.
There will always be emulators, and there will always be dumps of games somewhere. I’m confident we’ll always find a way to play these things
Yes. Preserving your library is what this is about. Nintendo is less likely to target anyone doing that than the people who simply DL game ROMs for free.
I think Nintendo would be really pushing the rationale to justify striking this video.
Rest in Peace Yuzu
“50 cc because i’m a games journalist” made me belly laugh
If you all really wanna poke the bear, make the title of the video actually have "Nintendo Switch", "emulation" and "Steam Deck" in it. They might not pick up on it otherwise.
They absolutely will catch wind of this
They know, which is why they didn't do it.
They're just dumbass edgelords that are actually scared of lawyers lol
@@corruptedpoison1 Yeah, but they may think twice about trying to take LTT down. They can go after the smaller channels, but they would have to shell out some money for something that isn't even illegal.
This channel has pretty much become a game/technical news outlet and I LOVE IT 💖💖 I always loved these long style/investigations/indepth reviews and it looks like LTT is doing more of them. Thank you so much guys & gals for this divine content (even tho you probably wont see this comment). Keep it up!!
yea love the work they put into it and love how they change up so much so its always like "ohhhhhhh i must see this one lol"
Yes and they are building another lab for more in depth review just how in depth can they go is the question
0:14 THIS would have been the perfect spot for a sponsor segway!
For Smash it is recommended you turn on asynchronous shader caching in the Yuzu graphics settings. It will really help with the stutters from shaders compiling. But also the stutters will just subside after you've played for a bit.
I love how LTT stands up against nintendo and their BS practices.
So what you think would happen if I re-posted all of LTT videos on my channel, would he let me "stand up" against TH-cam or will he copyright strike me.*
*STOP THE CAP!!!*
@@TiVo2Go completely unrelated? You want to steal LTT's content whereas they want to emulate something they already bought and own
@@Hack--rz1io LOL stop the cap, so the whole emulation scene is for people that own all the games they plan to play on their SteamDeck. Yeah no one is going to go to ROM sites and download these games, this is ONLY for people who onwn their Nintendo games.
@@TiVo2Go people using a tool wrongly doesn't make all uses of the tool invalid. Sure some people use emulators to bypass paying but what LTT is doing and advocates is completely different. They do not encourage stealing but preservation, flexibility, and right to own software.
Your comment is again making a completely void point
@@TiVo2Go delete your account, or ill delete it for you
I'm imagining Nintendo will come out in full force for this one. That said, I'll be delighted if this comment ages poorly :)
If they don't, it only shows Nintendo doesn't have the guts to go after a major player.
And by major player I mean a channel that doesn't get their video blocked by an automatic process and can spend a week calling tech support to put things right. Only for Nintendo to do the same after it's no longer blocked and the creator can start over again (UFD Tech for their Android on Switch video, before Linus did it).
@@CheapBastard1988 I'm sure Nintendo will attempt to issue a takedown, but honestly I don't see TH-cam rolling over on this one. Linus has repeatedly said he can pick up the phone and talk to higher ups at TH-cam, so unless laws are actually being broken I don't think Nintendo has the authority to demand anything here.
Idk, even Nintendo has to realize the Switch is starting to wane and is severely outdated now. They may just ignore it.
I doubt it will be taken down since they didn't show anything illegal, and they even blurred the screen to avoid showing nintendo "property" (characters and content).
Sure nintendo can file a DMCA but if they do LTT can sue them for abuse of DMCA, since DMCA isn't just "youtube take down pls", it's an actual legal filing involving lawyers. And if it's used incorrectly, you can easily get sued for whatever damage your false DMCA caused. In this case revenue loss for LTT for having a video taken down. Super illegal.
@@CheapBastard1988 LTT also gave them no ground. They did their best to give Nintendo no case. They should've done the nopposite if they wanted a legal battle. IOf anything LTT chicken out a bit (I understand why).
Nintendo not going after LTT would just show that they are smart.
"Pirating" Nintendo is a moral obligation of any honorable citizen.
Indeed
It's crazy because if Nintendo had their own online service like Xbox game pass for all their heavy hitter classic games they'd be filthy rich
@@Ncloudexactly, they’d be drowning in dollars
I laughed maniacally just seeing this video. I heard about it in a WAN show but I didn't expect the title to be filled with as much spite. I love it and I love this video for being able to convey all the necessary information for homebrew
Edit: typo
WAN shoe 👞
@@ToTheGAMES Ah shit I didn't notice that, I was typing with my shoe
Welcome to piracy tech tips
@@nikkoa.3639 Shouldve kept it :D
@@zachreynolds5630 have u even watched the video? There was NO piracy 😒
Nintendo knows the value of nostalgia, hence releasing A LOT of old games on newer Nintendo platforms. Since they don't want anyone else doing that with their games, they go after anyone running their older games on different hardware. And since they go after that, they also do the same to newer games for consistency.
I "jailbroke" almost every M$/Nintendo/Sega/Sony consoles I have, the next one will be the Gamecube with the new Raspberry Pico method. I'm just waiting for the components to arrive, then I'll play until my fingers bleed or until Nintendo knocks at my door. In case they're already looking for me, I'll save them some time: I live on Mars, right next to the Jezero Crater.
If you looked up the name of a crater on mars for that joke you have earned my respect. (Or you're just a xenogeologist, which is equally worthy of respect)
I wanted to jailbreak my old ps4, but then realised, that disc games for nowadays cost a lot less, than they did 2 years ago.
LMG to Nintendo: "Bring it"
Fantastic video as always. Saw the WAN show when Linus said you guys were going to essentially issue this challenge to Nintendo, and god you delivered!!
@@lucasrem everything on Steam. It isn't a "console" in the traditional sense. It's a handheld PC, and can do everything a PC can do.
They blurred the Nintendo first party games so they're not going to care.
Nintendo is like Apple. It’ll clearly have a vision, and goal that it’ll set out to do. It’ll do it on its own accord and go down their own route. The double edge sword of that is, you play by their rules or you don’t play at all. Most people won’t mind this (since the only reason they are still around is because they make products that outvalue those compromises.
except with nintendo i will "pirate" till i die
I mean apple makes some pretty dogshit engineering decisions sometimes for the hell of it
Anthony is a legit tech wizard, as someone who has been a hardware guy and a dev, this guy has the most seriously, seriously good tech chops
Anthony chad tips
Anthony and Wendell, maybe the two most legit tech TH-camrs.
@@zachreynolds5630 fr
he just knows his thing, its not that hard to find stuff which is already documented and reproduce, but he does have the knowledge indeed
I mean he knows a lot but just followed tutorials in this video
Thanks for doing this LTT, Nintendo deserves every bit of flak it catches when it comes to getting in the way of legal emulation. They're as bad as Apple on several business practices.
Shitendo is true to its name whenever emulation is a topic of discussion
𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲,,,,
@@Prophes0r If they were actually scared they wouldn't have made this video. You want to stop Jerktendo? Don't buy their games and don't play their games. Once their IP's are worthless then they'll change.
I do not think there's a strong argument in favour of emulating software WHICH IS STILL ACTIVELY SOLD thought. The only reason to emulate here is "I don't want to pay for a Switch" which basically proves Nintendo right in their "emulation equals piracy" line.
@@Prophes0r Oh god, who will save the multi-million dollar company!?! Someone please think of the multi-million dollar company!
I assume you mean nintendo, and not LTT, because I don't think LTT is as big as nintendo.
Now, Idk if you know this, but courts have already ruled in favor for things like jailbreaking your iphone. They can remove warranty, but they can't sue you for it. It's not illegal. You own the iPhone. This is the precedent set in US courts. The problem is JP courts are more in favor of the company. There's no fair use there. Things like Dojin (fan made manga)are illegal, but if no one brings it up, then nothing happens. So generally companies look the other way, as it helps them. But there's an anti-western bias with these Japanese companies. It may not be as bad as it was, but culturally there's this sort of superiority that's been around, though it's slowly diminishing. Plus you will naturally gravitate toward your domestic market.
Copying games you own is legal in the US. I can't speak for JP courts, but, while you can't download copies of games you own, you can rip your own carts/discs here. That's the law. Nintendo wants to change that purely because they assume that the people doing this would buy more copies and it would result in greater profits. Problem is, these people, and for that matter pirates, generally just don't buy products that they can't pirate. Take me. I pirate switch games to play on Yuzu. I'm happy to play that way until I can afford a switch. If yuzu didn't exist, I'd just wait to buy a switch around end of life when I can afford it and games are cheaper. Nintendo didn't gain a sale. They aren't loosing money, but they are pissing people off.
This is without a doubt one of the best LTT vids ever made.
It's Def up there with that firetruck vid
Looks like Nintendo didn’t care
this is basically a challenge to nintendo. saying "What are you going to do about it?" and I'm here for it.
Ive said for years that if they just put old titles on switch, not through their subscription model, that I would buy them again. because I no longer have my old consoles. But I want to play the old games.
💯
not sure I'd be opposed to a subscription model if it included EVERY game.
Yeah, I would definitely buy old Nintendo games (as long as they’re not $30, I’d probably pay at most $10)
@@bradhaines3142 OR, and I know this might sound crazy, what if we had BOTH options? What if we gave consumers options so they picked the only that best fits their play style and/or budget?
Just pirate the Games! If Nintendo doesn't wanna sell to you, fuck them!
Criminal Anthony needs to be a character that stays around
I have kept up with the Sony homebrew scene for years and honestly, I feel like a big reason nobody has taken Sony to task like this is that Sony hasn't been nearly as hostile to their fans and customers as Nintendo.
If anything, Sony has actually started doing the smart thing and been paying bounties on exploits so...
Of the big 3, Nintendo is definitely the most backwards of the 3 and at this point, things like this are probably the ONLY thing that's going to get through to them to change their ways.
Or, they'll get ground into dust by the competition entering their space.
Your move Nintendo.
Nintendo is still just figuring out what the internet is. It's ok, they're a brand new company, it's not like they've been around since the start...
Oh wait.
To be fair, Sony does also counter with firmware updates that are explicitly made to counter an exploit that allows CFWs to be installed. Hell, they're STILL updating the PSP of all things to try and stop it.
Still, compared to Nintendo, Sony is more of a saint. In addition, I never had an issue calling their support people and getting things fixed, so I'm less inclined to mess with anything because of it. Nintendo? We still have joycon drift being denied of existence.
@@FlameSoulis I mean, but that's the nature of the game, isn't it?
Exploit is found to run unsigned code. They patch it, it resumes again.
At least Sony hasn't been nearly as litigious about it.
They’re not going to change unless corporate management changes. Nintendo has been doing this type of stuff since the beginning of emulation. What makes you think they’ll suddenly change directions?
To be frank, Nintendo hasn't had a Geohot situation - from my personal experience, Sony has done more hostile actions to homebrew enthusiasts than Nintendo, and I always felt more confident working on homebrew for the latter. In addition, Nintendo's bug bounty program launched in late 2016, while PlayStation's only in 2020.
Nintendo played the long game on taking this video down.
This is absolutely a gigachad move from LTT. Anthony once again proves he is one of the greatest hosts.
The greatest (in my opinion) 😎
Except for the misinformation regarding the motion control of the Deck, it’s very good
@@Prophes0r they still have to be logical and protect their own business. LTT has a lot of employees who have families. It’s not worth risking their livelihood to “stick it to the man” tbh.
@@Prophes0r Nintendo doesn't care that it's ok. It's better to have the video remain than to not have people get to see it due to Nintendo taking it down, and having no video would be more "cowardly"
I’m hoping you all stay out of Nintendo’s clutches.
I respect LTT, especially Anthony for trying to prove how terrible Nintendo has been towards its own content creators. I like my new switch and will probably never need to "jailbreak" one, but this video definitely proves a point.
Anybody standing up to Nintendo gets my respect
Because they make the best games?
@@georgejungle138 bruh
@@georgejungle138 enjoying the games they make ≠ enjoying the company itself
@@georgejungle138 they never make skyrim, I don't see any good games by them
@@georgejungle138 who ever said that?
It SHOULD be legally mandatory to allow user backup and storage of all game media. Which includes PS5 AND XBOX digital games. That would end the horrible games lost to history crisis
This takes game ownership to the level it should be
It should be illegal for companies to make their games with measures to prevent playing them on other systems
Agreed. I wish every game was open source to better facilitate porting to alternative platforms. It's not like they couldn't distribute the assets of the game in some password protected zip file that is keyed to you as the end user or some such.
@@anon_y_mousse exactly
They should put their money and time into bettering their game and system instead of making it exclusive to their stuff
Even if the community had to do the grunt work to make it playable elsewhere
Even when they try to prohibit it we still get around it xD
The better idea would be to cut your losses and double down on better games instead of forcing loyalty xD
@@ahstinfixsnhc9765 True, that's a huge part of why I only play really old games I got as a kid or open source ones.
Businesses will always try to find a way to make money in anyway possible. Really what needs to happen is countries need to write laws that protect the consumer.
@@anon_y_mousse same I've put hundreds of hours in the last 10 years into AoE, AoE 2 and Mount and Blade warbands lmfao
I love seeing Antony’s on-screen confidence grow every video. He’s the best next to Linus ♥️
HELP: At 9:15 he says copy "those keys from earlier" earlier when?? I've only got a steam deck not a switch and I'm trying to do this and stuck right at the gate. Anybody know where I can find the keys/goldleaf/ whatever he said you need to move to yuzu??
He's referring to the Keys for loading Switch games in Yuzu, you need a switch to get these keys and a Switch to backup your games
If you need keys bro I gotchu
@@yty2780 nice. I found one. Ow but it's something I hear you wanna update every so often so new games that come out have keys too?
@@rajgill7576 yeah just cause some games will crash on older keys sometimes, but if its working for you rn you should be fine
I need help trying to copy the game firmware form gold leaf I couldn’t follow along with Anthony zooming past that part. Can someone tell me how he copy his system firmware files during the gold leaf part step by step?
The legality on this is clear in the US: making backups of your software is legal (17 U.S. Code § 117), and using emulator software is legal, even in a commercial/competitive setting (see Sony v Bleem). Only pirating and distributing copies are illegal. Nintendo likely assumes (and this may be correct) that most people doing this are pirating their games, and so you could **kind of** apply the DMCA here. But it's definitely lazy on Nintendo's part, and instead of making their platform better they want to wave their giant legal team around to make you submit.
In Brazil redistribute is fine unless you charge for that. The idea of this is that if you own the software, as the owner you are free to give it someone else (even a copy)
This do not apply to licensed software like windows or photoshop, but they are legally required to provide at least a single option to purchase the software forever (and if you have this, then you can copy it).
I will not quote any law because this hole happens because we do not have any regulation on that but "Selling things that are not yours is illegal"
He should have explained this in video
@@mikeuk666 No one who emulates owns the software. No one in general owns software. Most software people use is proprietary, meaning licensed, not sold. You don't own Microsoft Windows. You don't own any Super Mario game, even if you have a physical copy. The only kind of software you can own is Open Source software.
You can own your operating system if you use something like Linux instead of Windows, but when it comes to games, pretty much everything is proprietary. The concept of ownership as a justification for emulation doesn't make sense. You mean purchased a copy? Sure, but I would rather adopt a pay for production model rather than a individual sale model.
@@mikeuk666 source?
@@mikeuk666 Relevance? Seriously, even if your stat is true, what does that have to do with the fact that a means of doing it legally exists>?
(absolutely nothing, IMO)
It's great seeing a large channel using their platform to promote methods of digital history preservation. I know a lot of people and companies only see piracy when it comes to modding and emulating, but software preservation is akin to keeping old books intact for future generations to discover. Clearly SOME corporations don't really care about preserving their history.
Not only that, but this opens up ways for modding to continue a game's lifespan for years or decades. Don't have to look further than most Bethesda games for proof of that effect. And the longer people are playing a game, the more likely someone new is to stumble into it and potentially buy a copy (as I did with Fallout: New Vegas and Oblivion).
By having a game that is modifiable, you both extend the shelf life of that game and open it up for digital archival by exposing it to even more people than would have otherwise played it.
I’m done sticking up for Nintendo. They sent a guy to prison for years, recently, and rubbed their hands together over what an opportunity it was to “educate” the public against messing with their narrow concept of copyright. I’m ashamed to even own a Switch, now.
Yo gimme some details or a source on that, wanna read into it!
uhm link?
@@promero14 the SXOS guy... got 5 years I think?
@@mikeuk666 what did he do
I own a switch too... And I got two new joycons since they started drifting. Then the new ones drifted after a few months. I have sworn to never give this company money ever again.
Thanks to the community, I was able to take an old game boy advanced game I had as a child, and was able to get these save file off of it, so in the future I can use it for emulated games, and if my cartridge ever breaks, I'll never lose my precious Charizard
Thats wholesome. I could never believe losing my very first pokemon. This also reminds me to backup my old pokemon fire red save
Nintendo downloaded ROM files online for use in their NSO subscription, while simultaneously suing the hosts of those sites. Absolute hypocrisy. Glad to see someone standing up for the emulation community.
proof please
@@jorismak iirc one of the roms was a modded and nintendo did not realize or smth
Although I am not so sure about that, I just remember something along the lines of that
That’s actually false. They once employed the developer of the iNES when the were digitizing their library for a game (I think it was animal crossing or something similar). People claimed it for years because they cited the iNes headers found but that’s because they had one of the devs on staff in Japan.
It's not uncommon many companies rely off of community made tools. Sony famously downloaded an open source fan emulator to use it on PlayStation instead of spending time developing their own
@@jorismak The proof of nintendo pirating their own files is just some roms having ines headers. The ines header contents themselves are factual information, not copyrightable, and a random pirate site wouldn't be able to claim.
I love that you blurred the game footage but it is still clearly visible. Good job.
That's... contradictive
While digital storefronts like the eShop make it easier to buy a copy of a game and still support the developers, it's not a perfect system. Titles get taken down due to licensing issues or the shops themselves get closed like the 3DS eShop is set to soon. Being able to backup your games and play them on emulators is key to preserving your own purchase, especially since backwards compatibility is an afterthought these days. There always comes a time where it is justified to be able to backup and emulate your own games. The Switch is still an active system so I can understand potential hesitation to do it today but some year it will be in the same position as every other past console. The groundwork shown (and blurred) in this video is important for that far off day.
I mean, not like physical copies are safe from licensing issues or shop closures. Once the licenses run out, everything that's out there is all there will ever bee and you either gotta find a copy (used or new) or you're out of luck.
Doesn't the 3DS Shop still allow downloading though and it only closes down purchasing new games or was that another closing storefront?
@@Shakzor1 I wasn't happy with how I worded it but I was essentially saying that digital copies today are supposed to be the answer to supply and accessibility issues of old. In theory, you'd never be gouged on prices due to resellers, the dev studios are still getting some sales credit rather than some unconnected person selling a used copy, and they're supposed to solve the physical media problem of distribution and availability. But, they're not without the problems I mentioned in my comment.
Even physical copies are less safe with each generation. It became more common with the PS4 and Xbox One to have either required day one patches or downloading the rest of the game in the case of particularly big games. The Switch continues that with some titles that straight require additional download from the internet to play. It's mainly third party titles but I would not be surprised to see Nintendo do it some year or maybe with the next console. All digital store closures start with no more purchases but then will move to fully closed later with no way to redownload. Today, it's not too much of a problem for the Switch since the pains and worries are far enough in the future that owners can relax for now. But, it is a problem that thankfully has some solutions already as Anthony showed in the video. Backups and ways to play them are the best for longevity.
What this video doesn't dare say for legal reasons is that pirating Nintendo is actually the only ethical way to play their games.