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- Aug 21, 2019
This whole conversation is retarded because you said they don't care about the bios files and roms for old consoles getting distributed, I disagreed, and now you are writing essays telling me your personal Nintendo head-canon about how they're actually playing 4D chess and they don't care but they have to maintain some plausible deniability to make it look like they do so it doesn't threaten the copyright to their old software. Of course that's where the whole thing falls apart, because if they actually didn't care why would they object to Dolphin going into the app store at all? Why would they care about the plausible deniability at all? They don't want people pirating their old games, they'd rather you get Nintendo Online, but they're not stupid and they don't have infinite money to spend on bullshit lawsuits so they don't go after open source projects for old consoles or every little rom site because that's like trying to cut the head off a hydra. If anyone flies too close to the sun and they see them as a significant threat to profitability, someone selling NES games in the Google Play Store, for example, they'll go after them. Simple as. I don't even think we disagree all that much over what targets the pick, just why they pick them, and we can't really know that because we're not Nintendo. The only one involved that doesn't care at this point is @Never Scored.But what about big projects like Dolphin and Myrient? I have a feeling you don't actually agree with what I said. The takeaway should absolutely not be "Nintendo is afraid of bad PR" () but rather that Nintendo really doesn't want to take down Dolphin because it's beneficial to them. In other words, despite their neuroticism, they don't care about the infringement of their supposed rights as long as it doesn't trickle down onto their current generation.
