simatron3000
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Think there's a 120fps hack as well. Might try that as got a high refresh monitor.
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How 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' Was Almost Instantly Emulated for PC
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Think there's a 120fps hack as well. Might try that as got a high refresh monitor.
I've had framerate drops, but not full-on freezes. In what sort of circumstances?
Oh they went as far as 120 FPS? No wonder the 60 FPS hack seems so stable then, I was expecting a ton of animation glitches but nah, it's very smooth.
EvilKatarn
Member
Is every emulation thread here full of people screaming about piracy?
Yep pretty much.
JudgmentJay
Member
As someone who bought a Switch for Zelda alone, I can't wait until I can play the game at 4k with locked 30fps and proper texture filtering. The game deserves to look and play better than it does.
This is not true. GameCube and Wii discs need to be ripped to be used in Dolphin.
Crossing Eden
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They got my thread locked due to the concern trolling.
JoeyJungle
Banned
Wait is Xenoblade Chronicles X actually fully playable with good audio and no major glitches? I've been keeping an HD port to the Switch in prayers every night.
I don't really pray
Lots of people just hear '60fps' as some sort of buzz word that implies the game is 30 frames better than 30fps. If that was the case every game would be garbage other than 240fps monolithic computer titles.
That said, some of the improvements I've seen emulating Nintendo games are outstanding, anyone have a link to those 4k windwaker screenshots?
It is open and shut as it can get, unless you think magically movie companies can go against Vlc because it can play pirated movies.
Making money off it is completely irrelevant. DraStic, a DS emulator, has been sold for several years on the Google Play Store without any issues.
EvilKatarn
Member
What
? The GBA had a emulator up before it was even released.
Dolphin was running Wii games decently back in 2009. When the Wii was still alive with many exclusives released and still selling and with other ones still down on the pipeline for later.
CEMU is emulating old hardware a lot more than Dolphin was emulating "old" hardware back in the day.
The games do not come included with the emulator. There are no copyright laws being broken here. It's like saying Vlc is violating copyright laws because some people can use pirated movies on it.
Hell ultra HLE is the best case. It was out while the actual games were out on N64.
Shoot, it did zelda too. Actually the same piracy angle was used back then too.
Well a lot of people who say they will wait to play it on PC will most likely in fact pirate it. Many don't own a Wii U which is required to rip it. I really doubt someone is going to buy a copy to justify downloading it and say they aren't technically pirating.
IrishNinja
Member
yup, and i was just arguing yesterday with a gaffer calling this "the definitive edition"
it was adorable
Collateral22
Member
It's been playable on modded WiiUs since it leaked. You can play it fine there.
Permanently A
Junior Member
Its obviously not the definitive edition right now, but theoretically it could be until it gets re-released on Nintendo's next console
opticalmace
Member
I wanna see the receipts.
60FPS is 30 frames better than 30FPS.
Sometimes when I knock over a Moblin the game will freeze for a second.
Cemu is going to be a uniquely interesting one, however, because it is closed-source and they are taking money. Bleem was successfully able to tackle Sony in court but that's not necessarily guaranteed to happen again if that comes up.
The Bleem! case set the precedent that even commercial emulators for "living" systems are legal. That said, some people suspect Cemu uses Nintendo code and point to it being closed source to support that line of thinking.
Are you telling me the majority those people in fact own a Wii U to rip a copy? Or are going to buy a copy without a Wii U?
Receipts indeed.
Lister
Banned
Who ever says that is an idiot. Not the least reason of why being that they appear to not know what the definition of proof is.
Why don't you fuck off with the piracy chat, its not allowed and is supposed to be bannable on this forum.
I am sick an tired of trying to read about emulation and it turn into a chat about piracy. Create your own thread regarding it if it something you want to discuss.
It wouldn't really be unprecedented, a lot of emulator development has grown because of SDK leaks. It was Cemu's extremely fast development in addition to being closed source and Windows-only that lead some people to believe a non-trivial portion of it was taken straight from Wii U dev software.
There's no way to tell for sure and I don't really have a stance on it, I'm just describing reasoning I've seen from other people.
Why don't you try not be an ass? It's a legitimate argument in the case of the Wii U at this time.
I don't consider emulation in itself related to be piracy, but when someone says they can't wait to play this on their PC and admit to not owning a Wii U or have little to no interest in Nintendo hardware, then it's a little suspect.
I've been part of this community since 1999. Don't tell me how things work around here.
There should and can be discussion for and against without people being dicks about it.
LordRaptor
Member
One of the earlier saturn emulators was a ripped and cracked version of a version of giri giri that sega had purchased for their own commercial releases, in fact.
That's not really the same thing. Sega had no hand in the emulator from the beginning. They just bought it after it became a viable way to emulate games.
Every thread recently has been derailed by piracy chat, its getting pretty tiresome.
Most of us on GAF are not going to pirate, of course there will be some but discussing it is not going to make the slightest diffrence and it is just annoying for the guys thay are doing this legitametly.
To be honest its not even you I am annoyed at so I apologise for being rude.
Mods have frequently stepped into emulation threads in the past to tell people to knock it off when they drive the discussion off-topic. It really is just a thread derailment.
Then I would argue this thread doesn't need to exist because this is all already being covered in the official CEMU thread.
I will state in that thread alone there is at least a dozen or more people who have stated they don't own Nintendo hardware and plan to play it on PC. So it's times like that when the argument should and could be made to call out people.
That is the last I'll post in here about it.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
The courts have already ruled on this issue. Emulators aren't illegal, and selling emulators isn't illegal. Nintendo can't do a thing about it.
Greatest Ever
Member
So I have my Wii U disc of Zelda... What do I do with it?
Feel free to provide actual evidence.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Yes. It's exhausting.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
In the relatively near future Cemu will unequivocally be the best way to play BotW. It's a question of when, not if. You can be salty about it or you can just accept it.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
All I'm saying is don't be surprised if Nintendo tries and they're going to try for a reason you just stated.
Don't think Nintendo's not going to fight a piece of free software that can potentially play their game better than the $300 gaming console they're trying to sell. It's the reason they've been taking down fan games as well.
GregLombardi
Member
When was Horizon Zero Dawn emulated, out of curiosity? Where were the threads / news about that? I wonder why?
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Your fanboy is showing.
What matters is that we're lowering the costs of gaming and giving people access to affordable gaming platforms. The government will always win the war on government-run platforms; if we mandate everybody buys what we say they have to buy, then the government will always estimate that theyll buy it.
I just think thats bogus, that entire premise of that comparison doesn't work. The fact is, we're not going to have the government tell you what you must do, tell you what you must buy.
Affeinvasion
Member
So you're saying if Nintendo really cared about piracy, they'd make a console that couldn't be easily emulated by somewhat modern PCs? It's not a hard point to argue. The fact that Nintendo has had two consoles in a row with games that could be emulated within reason on release day for popular games does seem to suggest that they're not exactly using cutting edge technology in their systems.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
It's a technology thing. PS3 also has an emulator and got Persona 5 running (not well mind you but still).
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