I wanted to say dupe, but I can't really... my submission got no attention. Is it just matter of timing?
Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
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Re: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
#12I wanted to say dupe, but I can't really... my submission got no attention. Is it just matter of timing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26445101
Timing makes a huge difference in my experience
Re: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
#13I have mixed feelings about emulating current-gen consoles. I think there's a very strong ethical case for emulating consoles whose games are no longer made (despite Nintendo's best efforts to shut that down too). But emulating something whose games can still be bought new would tend to encourage piracy, I expect.
Edit: "cracking" -> "piracy", for clarity
Re: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
#14I have mixed feelings about emulating current-gen consoles. I think there's a very strong ethical case for emulating consoles whose games are no longer made (despite Nintendo's best efforts to shut that down too). But emulating something whose games can still be bought new would tend to encourage piracy, I expect. Edit: "cracking" -> "piracy", for clarity
If people who wouldn’t have bought a Switch end up playing those games on PC who has lost out here?
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#15I have mixed feelings about emulating current-gen consoles. I think there's a very strong ethical case for emulating consoles whose games are no longer made (despite Nintendo's best efforts to shut that down too). But emulating something whose games can still be bought new would tend to encourage piracy, I expect. Edit: "cracking" -> "piracy", for clarity
>But emulating something whose games can still be bought new would tend to encourage cracking, imo.
That would be truly terrible!! Making a copy of your owned games is a capital crime.
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#16Starting a betting pool as to how long this makes it before being DMCAd
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#17Considering this is emulating an ARM processor, I wonder how such software might perform if written specifically for the new M1 macs?
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#18Starting a betting pool as to how long this makes it before being DMCAd
what's that mean?
Re: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
#19> The CPU emulator, ARMeilleure, emulates an ARMv8 CPU and currently has support for most 64-bit ARMv8 and some of the ARMv7 (and older) instructions, including partial 32-bit support. It translates the ARM code to a custom IR, performs a few optimizations, and turns that into x86 code.
Interesting... since .Net is cross-platform and can run on ARM, if it's running on an ARM processor does it just run the instructions directly?
Re: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
#20I have mixed feelings about emulating current-gen consoles. I think there's a very strong ethical case for emulating consoles whose games are no longer made (despite Nintendo's best efforts to shut that down too). But emulating something whose games can still be bought new would tend to encourage piracy, I expect. Edit: "cracking" -> "piracy", for clarity
>But emulating something whose games can still be bought new would tend to encourage cracking, imo. That would be truly terrible!! Making a copy of your owned games is a capital crime.
When people refer to "cracked" games/apps there's usually an implication of "pirated". I'll edit my wording.