Still piracy, it has to be from your owned physical copy.
I always wonder what percentage of people who use emulators actually do this :)
Because:
Yeah, that's not how things work mate.
When purchasing games (like any other software), whether physical or digital, what you're actually purchasing is a licence to use it. The method of distribution is not relevant. As long as I have a licence to use the software, then I'm not breaking the law and it's not piracy because I have the necessary licence to use the software.
Yeah that's true, although if it's an early model it's so easy to do and undo that it wouldn't be a huge barrier.
you're not entitled to an illegal digital copy of the game you have a physical copy of. i can't demand an eshop copy of my physical switch games either.
Lmao that's not how it works. You can't download a ROM, even if you own the physical copy. You license to play the game doesn't give you a right to be a pirate. If you want it legal, dump it yourself using a switch since that's the only way you are going to read the cart.
Any particular copy of a game is not inherently "legal" or "illegal". It only has that status in conjunction with the person who is in possession and use of it.
I think the point is that the emulator is good enough to do it, not that it improves on the original performance.
No if someone uploads a ROM to a file sharing website it's illegal period.
I own all the games I emulate, which I don't do often (I'm a collector and have all the retro consoles I care for hooked up).
Nothing to do with what I was saying, but whatever.
Nope, you're wrong.
Nope, you should probably educate yourself. You are not entitled to any and every copy of a game, of which you own a particular copy. Only the copy you bought and the backup you made.
No it is not gray. It is considered piracy and illegal.
Downloading from illegal sources is illegal and not in any way grey area. The only grey area comes from the download method used and if it's a copyright infringement or straight up crime depending on your country's legislation. The only way downloading is legal for emulating is if you download from the rightholder's server and rip it from your device to use on your emulator.
It may be technically illegal, but who the fuck cares as long as you aren't helping to distribute it? And if that's the case I'll just borrow a Switch and rip my games.
Same reason I play my Wii U games on PC when I still have my console, and why I choose to uprgrade my CPU to a 8700k :
that IQ.
When it's done correctly, as is most of the time, a game engine doesn't care about the "frames" of animation when translating it into motion. Everything you're seeing inbetween is reinterpolated. That's how you can have games with unlocked framerates not look broken.
That's not how software licensing works. But you refuse to learn, so I'm just going to dump you on ignore.
Ethically if you feel like it sure, but no law says so. You only buy a switch cart that can be used on your console, you don't buy the right to download the rom.
Why would would it? Cemu's graphic pack functionality already supersedes what game mods alone can do because it can affect how things are rendered at the rendering pipeline level. Outside of that, the assets themselves are identical.
Sorry, you really need to research the issue more.
https://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom
https://www.zophar.net/articles/FairUseROMs.html
That AI network is incredible. Although it seems to have added extra clothes in TLS screenshots lol.Also the sooner emulation, the sooner they might allow things like using higher resolution texture. I was amazed at how easy it was to do when I gave it a try on Dolphin to test that AI Neural Networks thingy to increase texture resolution for Baten Kaitos and The Last story :
3 in game comparison BK : http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/127238
2 in game comparison TLS :http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/127220
The sooner I'm able to do this for Xenoblade X & 2 the better. <3
Yeah, there's no visual difference between the Cemu and Switch ports of BOTW so Cemu will be the best way to play it for a long time.
Yeah that was quickly done, I didn't realize png were loosing their alpha channel/transparency with the AI tool, so I didn't do any correction at the time.
Software has stricter copyright protection than other works such as books and music. In legal sense if the dumping was done by another person, it's a no no. If it was done by yourself, it's ok. Dumping library cd's for your own private use can be legal depending on your local legislation.
I believe Cemu needed this as well until cemuhook came along with shared fonts. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happens with Yuzu, but it's definitely not possible currently.
It wouldn't be made by Nintendo/MonolithSoft if the game was on PC.
