PegaSwitch: Exploit Toolkit for Nintendo Switch

Re:PegaSwitch: Exploit Toolkit for Nintendo Switch by voltagex_ on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:41PM (#13864807)

The emulation and homebrew scene is at a crossroads now. cemu [1] is on track to earn 250k through Patreon (h/t byuu), which is a good way to get stomped on by Nintendo legal.

Open source is critical for the success of projects like Dolphin, but what do you think the emulator developers of the future are going to do when they see the cash they can earn by being secretive?

[1]: cemu.info

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Re:PegaSwitch: Exploit Toolkit for Nintendo Switch by cookiecaper on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @07:59PM (#13881098)

I just started playing with CEMU, very exciting piece of software.

I'm looking forward to a world where systems have workable emulators within several months of release, not several years. That will only bring the legal issues into more stark relief. So few of us realize that our intellectual property regime is holding back a lot of major accessibility and practicality improvements.

We need to fix it. Amazing projects like CEMU should not have to live in fear that someone is going to squash them and cause a lot of real harm just to protect someone else's bottom line.

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Re:PegaSwitch: Exploit Toolkit for Nintendo Switch by Retr0spectrum on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:11PM (#13889217)

I think emulators are great, but I'm certainly not excited by for-profit(?) proprietary emulators like CEMU.

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Re:PegaSwitch: Exploit Toolkit for Nintendo Switch by slantyyz on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:04AM (#13865384)

>> which is a good way to get stomped on by Nintendo legal.

Having a pile of people running the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild on their gaming PCs will do it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmf0xA6aVM4

I hadn't been keeping up with CEMU progress, but looking at the 1.7.3 progress preview video, it's damn impressive.

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