• GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    50
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Target them all you want, the links are on gdrive and mega and the owners will just move to advertising them somewhere else, Tumblr, throwaway eBay listings, Spotify playlists,… here.

    Entire romsets for gb, gbc, gba, N64, SNES, etc have all been on piratebay for over a decade, not to mention the 4-5 300Gb+ curated sets out there… wherever they are.

    Good luck there, Nintenbros. Keep swinging that axe. We’ll keep growing heads.

    It also helps that the golden age is over and each system now only gets around 10 or so exclusives worth a shit so there’s less Switch games needed for a good set compared to past generations. Thanks, Nintendo. Quality over quantity.

    • mlg@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      2 days ago

      The main thing they are trying to do is make it more difficult to find this stuff via google, which tbh is still easy without reddit.

      But even Switch homebrew has been a pain. Most of it is one off software made years ago because no sane dev wanted to actually keep up with all the firmware releases and limited control of CFW. Github/Gitlab repos keep getting banned left and right for tools not even related to piracy.

      3DS has full fledged apps with teams behind everything and HShop which makes it very easy for everyone. Switch still doesn’t have a definitive method of handling NSP/XCIs, and all the auto download internet repos are invite only to hide from Nintendo.

      I’m really hoping someone finds some serious hardware bypass in their next console after what they did to the emulation scene. They really deserve to go through the insane R4 piracy age all over again for nuking everything online.

    • Skates@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      advertising them somewhere else, Tumblr, throwaway eBay listings, Spotify playlists,… here.

      You missed a great opportunity to have ‘here’ be a link to an emulator.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      It also helps that the golden age is over

      Even the stone age is coming to an end - in favor of clay dicks. Talking about games.