sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoNintendo wipes out 400 more Switch emulator repositories on GitHub as it continues its fight on piracywww.videogameschronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1101
arrow-up1101external-linkNintendo wipes out 400 more Switch emulator repositories on GitHub as it continues its fight on piracywww.videogameschronicle.comsanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareTheOctonaut@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 days agoYour understanding is correct and it’s literally why Dolphin emulator is still going strong 20 years later, it doesn’t do this. “Developers” haven’t do this because this is people clicking the fork button or copy-paste-upload. The actual developers have long since moved on.
minus-squareLink@rentadrunk.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoAren’t Wii Games encrypted? I’ve never decrypted a Wii game and they all boot on Dolphin. Unless the ripper is decrypting them? Also wasn’t there a post a while back of the Wii encryption key being found in the Dolphin code?
Your understanding is correct and it’s literally why Dolphin emulator is still going strong 20 years later, it doesn’t do this.
“Developers” haven’t do this because this is people clicking the fork button or copy-paste-upload. The actual developers have long since moved on.
Aren’t Wii Games encrypted? I’ve never decrypted a Wii game and they all boot on Dolphin. Unless the ripper is decrypting them?
Also wasn’t there a post a while back of the Wii encryption key being found in the Dolphin code?