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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by NRinc on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:04PM (#25600747)
I asked this a few days ago but did not get any responses...

Given that I find myself strongly compelled to stand up to this ridiculous behavior on the part of Nintendo and I have the time and resources to do so ...

I am going to purchase, on ebay ... what ? A plain old retail Nintendo Switch ?

Then I will send that switch (or two, or three) to ... who ?

Let's say I have a budget of USD $10,000 - who can I pay to do original, clean-room reverse engineering of this device ?

The goal here would be to publish everything that I can pay people to find.

Suggestions ? Who should I be in contact with ?

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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by Pfhreak on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:28PM (#25600857)
No clue. And I'm not sure your post even makes sense?

Like, what are even hoping to achieve? Aren't modders and the like probably already trying to do what you are trying to do?

And why do you think $10k is a significant amount of money to anyone who could achieve what you want done?

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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by abnercoimbre on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:05AM (#25601268)
Wait, isn't $10k a seriously meaningful amount to hobbyists? E.g. Cleanly reverse-engineering SM64 was done by clever folks in their spare time.
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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by adventured on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:51AM (#25601412)
What difference would $10,000 make? That's the primary question.

You can buy a decent engineer's spare time for two or three months, if they're being generous about it and particularly want to help. Where would one place $10k that it would meaningfully accelerate reverse engineering the Switch?

You either do it for anything but the money, or the money has to be a lot larger than $10k.

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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by NRinc on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:59AM (#25601441)
"Like, what are even hoping to achieve?"

I am hoping that Nintendo attempts to stop me from doing this.

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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by tubularhells on Friday January 01, 2021 @08:58AM (#25603268)
That would be via lawyers, not private eyes.
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Re:Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world by moonchild on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:33PM (#25600881)
https://yuzu-emu.org/

https://ryujinx.org/

https://github.com/dekuNukem/Nintendo_Switch_Reverse_Enginee...

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