The Daily Populous Tuesday October 29th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by nintendolife.com and submitted by DataLore19

Under UK law, residents are allowed to make backups of "permanently owned" media such as music, film, and e-books.

However, upon reviewing this, it actually doesn't appear to cover software or video games like I had thought.

This is likely because it's uncommon to back up video games from games consoles, as compared to music or films from DVDs and blu-rays.

I'm actually concerned that the UK might not anything that protects a user's backups of games software.

In any case, my main motivation for backing up my Nintendo Switch games, like you, is so I can play them with performance and graphical upgrades, like my recent playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom at a rock solid 4K 60 FPS.

However, if the upcoming Nintendo Switch successor hardware is capable of playing my back catalogue of Switch games with such enhancements with no issues, I would actually have far less of a reason to take up emulating.

Nintendo may be very unhappy that consumers make copies of their games and play them on devices which are not sold by NIntendo, but they don't have any legal control over that. They are not a governing body.

However, the part about circumventing copy protections may hold water. Or it may not, DVDs technically have copy protection but they are trivial to circumvent and a lot of legal PC software is sold on the means to rip films from DVDs.

Japanese law as I understand it is far stricter about this, and even simply modifying save data outside of the software is apparently a criminal offence? I recall something about this being about fair play in games as to disallow cheating (e.g. giving yourself maximum resources or funds).

jalog100 on October 29th, 2024 at 15:41 UTC »

Every Nintendo emulator will take vacations till mid April 2025 I think, because the new Nintendo console will come out soon and the Nintendo lawyers are in heat ready to fk up anyone that dares to sour the party

powerhcm8 on October 29th, 2024 at 15:30 UTC »

It was not a legal takedown; rumor is that they paid the main dev to fuck off.

Battlefire on October 29th, 2024 at 15:17 UTC »

"Cut off one head, two more will take it's place."