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781 points HelloUsername | 7 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 1.129s | source | bottom
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joshstrange ◴[16 Jan 25 15:42 UTC] No.42726760[source]▶
At this point I'd be hard pressed to consider this over my Steam Deck. We will see the specs later but I doubt it will really compete processing-wise or screen-wise.

The openness (full arch desktop) of the Steam Deck is also awesome while having a great UI that you never have to leave if you don't want to.

EDIT: I mistakenly called it "fedora desktop", my bad

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irrational ◴[16 Jan 25 15:51 UTC] No.42726902[source]▶
Isn't the point of owning a switch to play games that aren't on the Steam Deck? Zelda, Mario, etc.?
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joshstrange ◴[16 Jan 25 15:53 UTC] No.42726923[source]▶
With emulators those games can also be played on the Steam Deck.
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1. SecretDreams ◴[16 Jan 25 16:27 UTC] No.42727427[source]▶
Which is also a gray area. I personally am fine with it for older, depreciated consoles. But I won't emulate current gen games unless I'm also buying the game.. especially on the Nintendo platform where the games still have some "magic" to them, compared to the more generic games on other platforms that prioritize graphics over seemingly all other attributes.
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2. Dylan16807 ◴[16 Jan 25 18:06 UTC] No.42728663[source]▶
"You need to buy the game" hardly makes it a gray area.
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3. Manuel_D ◴[16 Jan 25 20:27 UTC] No.42730470[source]▶
Even if you buy the game you need to bypass encryption in order to dump the game data to run it on an emulator. A big part of why Nintendo prevailed in their lawsuit against Yuzu is that they proved the emulator could not be used without extracting encryption keys and bypassing copy protection.

So no, there's no legal way to use a switch emulator. At least not for playing commercial switch games, I guess you could theoretically home brew your own game to play on an emulator.

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4. Gigachad ◴[16 Jan 25 21:44 UTC] No.42731313{3}[source]▶
In the US. Most of the world doesn’t have these laws.
5. felideon ◴[17 Jan 25 03:38 UTC] No.42733839[source]▶
Just so you know, it’s _deprecated_.
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6. eredengrin ◴[17 Jan 25 08:44 UTC] No.42735357{3}[source]▶
> A big part of why Nintendo prevailed in their lawsuit against Yuzu is that they proved the emulator could not be used without extracting encryption keys and bypassing copy protection.

Not a lawyer but as I understand it, the case resulted in a settlement and as such no legal determination was made. They didn't prove anything in court and no precedent was set regarding the legality of emulation.

7. SecretDreams ◴[18 Jan 25 17:33 UTC] No.42749885[source]▶
It was a solid autocorrect typo on my part, mb. But fair callout!