This is completely not an excuse. There are multiple ways to prevent cheating from just restoring an old save, not to mention that on top of that, it's completely unacceptable to bar millions of people from backing up a game they incorporated hundreds of hours into just because a small minority MIGHT abuse it to cheat (of which, as I mentioned, there are ways to mitigate it anyway).
@NEStalgia No, there have been numerous exceptions made over the year to to how over-reaching the original version of the DMCA was. By our argument Jailbreaking my phone would be illegal because it's encrypted, but they specifically allow for that.
And save-cheating is a complete and total non-issue. Modern systems encrypt their saves to a local seed/account, so unless your system is ALREADY hacked you aren't going to be modifying those saves anyway. And even if you do somehow, the games are sandboxed as well, so even if you did manage to gain control of a game through a hacked save, you would not gain full system level control with it, which you would need for piracy. All of this, of course, is a moot point since "People MIGHT find a way to use it for piracy" does not matter in the face of locking a consumer out of their own data. That's like if a CD Burner required online authentication every time you burned a disk to make sure you weren't pirating something with it.
Making a backup of your own firmware is not illegal either.
You still failed to list specific devices, you yet again listed generics. The closest you came to was the GPD, but that thing is more than twice the price of the Switch and lacks some of the Switch's functionality. This is also a moot point because property is property, of someone wants to hack his property, that is fully within their rights.
And again, it's still preservation. You might not like it, but it would be gone forever if it wasn't preserved. And no, for consumer purchase many of them are not, and the ones that are cost significantly more to assemble than the Switch does. And again, moot point, because it's still your property do do as you want.
Seriously, your whole post is "But why would you want to?" I gave multiple reasons, and the fact that it's their property to do as they wish trumps all of your and my reasons. Why would anyone want to paint their front yard purple? I sure as hell would never want to, but if someone wants to, it's their right.
And we again fall into your fallacious "all hackers are pirates!" mentality. As I stated, some hackers added ADDITIONAL anti-piracy to their homebrew or made it not work if piracy software was detected, don't act like they are intentionally allowing it, that's like claiming people who manufactured CD burners planned for them to be used for piracy.
All this nonsense you argued is exactly why laws exist and why people who break them, not the suppliers unless the supplied product itself is illegal, are the ones the laws go after. You want to argue that people should have their RIGHTS to modify hardware they OWN however they chose taken away because a minority, and yes people who pirate on a system are always a minority, might mis-use it.
@NEStalgia Sorry, but I disagree. It's not only both educational and worthwhile for future experience, but also useful in utility as well.
And no, you are misinformed about the legality in the US as well. Breaking the encryption with the intention of illegal acts such as piracy is illegal, and making a backup of your own data is explicitly a right granted by US copyright law. Moreover, nobody here said anything about even playing ROMs, just running homebrew. Believe it or not, many people have interests other than just pirating games when it comes to hacking their Switch.
Do you know what the most common praise I heard was when they announced the Switch was hacked? Not "When can I pirate", even on sites that don't care if you pirate, it was "Now I can finally backup my saves!". And no, before you bring up their online service, we are talking about a LOCAL backup, not to mention that it's ridiculous to be required to pay to backup your data.
And again, if such devices exist, LIST them. It's easy to claim something exists, far harder to prove it.
Also, art is art, allowed to possess or not is irrelevant, many of those would be lost forever if not preserved. There is a mountain of software that still exists today purely because people preserved it when they could, since the originals are gone. Preservation is preservation, period.
Many of these components are NOT available for consumers, and even then, at a significant markup. At the end of it all, it's your property, your property that you have the RIGHT in every single sense of the word to do whatever you want with.
Also, your argument about distributing them is flawed. First of all, NO, many hackers don't do it for "recognition", most hackers because they want people to be able to fully use their hardware, and also because they are not generally solo efforts. Many hacks are built on the shoulders of other hacks. It's the very essence of open source and the FOSS mentality. You seem to have a hard time grasping they could possibly EVER do it for anything other than personal gain or other selfish reasons.
As for your lock pick example. In most of the US, it is not illegal to sell or own lock picks. Thing is, it is also not illegal to sell or own knives.... but if you sold a knife to someone that you know was intending to stab people with it, you would be prosecuted for it. There is a difference between selling something that CAN be misused, and selling it when you KNOW the person will criminally misuse it. In fact, the majority of sites and circles centered around hacking consoles operates on this principle as well. If you ever admit or say that you will use it for piracy, bye bye, insta-pemaban. Knife manufacturers advertise everywhere as well after all, they are no different than hackers putting their hacks out there. In fact, they advertise LESS. Outside of possibly a forum post on their site of choice, what's all the "advertising" they do. Other sites..... like this one... might pick up on it and report it, but they aren't putting up digital billboards everywhere.
@NEStalgia The Switch that you purchased is also your property however. You are not Nintendo, it's only in Nintendo's best interests that you are locked out of your own property, not yours. In fact, that goes against your best interests.
I also heavily disagree that there is no utility in learning how it works, nearly all of modern computing and technology was spearheaded due to people figuring out how tech works and messing with it. And I especially disagree that the only utility would be piracy. Again, most hackers are against piracy, and they learned by hacking their property. I repeat, the Switch you own is your property, you have every right to do whatever you want to it, just like you have every right to dfo whatever you want with your cd burner or your scanner. Now, if you were to use your cd burner to pirate a DVD, that's copyright infringement and illegal, but that doesn't mean that there is no utility outside of piracy to using your DVD burner.
But on top of that, again, the Switch is a very powerful portable device with a large multitouch screen, USB, MicroSD, detachable physical inputs, and internal storage. It is a perfect device for all sorts of uses that homebrew software would allow for, as well as a good price for that whole package.
Also, you are wrong about preserving art that can be lost. Software, especially digital, does not remain up forever. And this doesn't even account for betas, unreleased software, revisions, and other such issues outside of just commercially released software. Nintendo only gives those devkits out to specific people, and even then they are only allowed to do specific things with them. Again, the Switch is YOUR property according to any and all laws about ownership in just about every major country, you are not in any way, shape, or form required to adhere by Nintendo's guidelines that you may only develop software on their devkits and by their rules if you don't want to.
Also, you falliciously seem to think hacking a Switch is illegal, it is not. And show me what is essentially a X1 powered tablet with detachable physical bluetooth controllers that have IR cameras and all the other features the Switch itself and the joycons have for the same pricepoint. Don't forget you will need to include ac adapters, cables, and a dock as well.
Your entire post is littered with yet again attempting to act like pirates and hackers are one and the same, so your very fundamental argument is flawed because you refuse to see any other viewpoint other than your own that hacking=piracy, I am starting to think you can't even see it from any other viewpoint than your own that you clearly don't seem to have any intent on acknowledging is flawed or changing.
@NEStalgia Yes, it can open the ways, but if you take that conservative approach that they never should since it could pave the way for abuse then we would have never gotten anywhere. Just about every invention ever made can be misused, even the very tools people use to storage pirated media are not made for pirating in mind such as harddrives and MicroSD cards. It's up to the individual to not misuse something, not up to everyone to never advance just because someone MIGHT misuse it. There are limits of course where something clearly only has the potential for being misused, such as devices clearly intended specifically for piracy, but this is like saying that copying machines/scanners should have never been invented because people can pirate books with them, or that disk burners should have never been invented because people can pirate software, music, and movies with them.
There are many legitimate uses to wanting to be able to run your own software on a powerful portable device as well, not just piracy ones, and many of those can transform into official implementations. The only reason the iPhone got an appstore originally was because people Jailbroke it to add their own apps to it, originally it had none and Steve Jobs was against the idea of people installing their own apps on it.
@NEStalgia I would say that one flaw in that argument is that you label all of the hackers under the same banner. Many of them are anti-piracy, in fact, some of then during the Wii era implemented further anti-piracy checks in their hacks or would refuse to let their homebrew run if they detected anything that could be used for piracy on your system. One of the most prolific ones stopped short of adding essentially DRM in their application and closing it's sourcecode because they realized then they were turning into what they were originally against. To think that all of them just want to blow the system open and pave the way for piracy is inaccurate.
@Mountain_Man No, Nintendo themselves said it, they didn't just parrot what others said, they themselves admitted it. You also failed to provide both the proof and the technical specs I asked for. We both know why you failed to provide those though, don't we?
@Mountain_Man Nintendo THEMSELVES said that the update bricked unmodified systems. If you are going to make a claim as ridiculus as "Nobody took advantage of this because all of them were hacked", then you better post proof of this wild claim. So far, all you have done is insist it happened... which flies in the face of both how the update worked for anyone who actually understood it, as well as Nintendo's own statements.
Do you have any actual PROOF that nobody took them up on their offer and EVERY bricked system was a hacked one?
Tell me.... how did the update work? How did it brick hacked systems only? I know EXACTLY how the update worked as I studied it, but please, I would love to hear your explanation since you seem to be so knowledgeable about the subject. And no, no "it just saw if you had homebrew channel and bricked you" excuse, I want actual technical details on how it worked, because I definitely have technical details on how it did NOT work and had the potential to brick ANY system hacked or not.
@PlywoodStick Heh, I love how Nintendo was trying to downplay it by claiming "that the reported symptoms usually occur with modified consoles". The flaw had ZERO to do with if your system was hacked or not for anyone that read up on how it works and what causes it.
@Mountain_Man That is NOT what happened. The update itself was badly made and had the potential to brick ANY Wii whether it was hacked or not, and many of the people hit by it didn't have a hacked Wii. The reason Nintendo fixed all of them for free hacked or not is because THEY screwed up and released an update that could brick systems. Whether you had hacks installed or not made no difference.
@Rocketjay8 You realize that an account ban won't prevent you from still just connecting to the store and downloading whatever, right? You could use stuff similar to freeshop without even owning a 3DS on a PC.
@BenGrimm This is more that the response to someone scratching your car is to take a baseball bat to their skull. Banning the console from online would have been the response, banning their ACCOUNT even though they didn't mess or cheat with the online in any way is uncalled for and excessive. ESPECIALLY the part where they cut you off from your own legitimate purchases.
Believe it or not, a corporation can't just do whatever they want and claim "Well, your broke our rules" Sony, MS, and Nintendo were all found in violation with how they handled returns in the UK and warranties in the US despite it being their "rules".
@jimi That is exactly how I feel about it. Go ahead and ban the hacked console, that's fine, but banning the ACCOUNT (and cutting off access fro all your purchases) is not only uncalled for, but encourages people to pirate.
I am sure this comment will be lost in the wake of people who know nothing about hackers outside of a horrible movie form the early 90s, but it sounds like they didn't just ban his hacked system (which I don't have a problem with) but his ACCOUNT and even his eShop access.
That is just uncalled for personally. Go ahead and ban the hacked system, but unless he was cheating online, then the account should not be banned (especially eshop access, taking away all your digital purchases, how does that DIScourage piracy instead of ENcourage it?). Considering his UNhacked system got banned too, it sounds like his account itself was banned and will ban any system it gets logged into. I cannot agree with that.
People defending digital with the "I went all digital" are the exact same arguments people used to use to defend digital music stores with DRM-locked music, which was the standard back then, even iTunes... but then they started to notice the issues.
Notice how all those who claim they went digital just did it recently this generation? The oldest consoles with digital service don't have their access cut off yet, hell, even the Ouya still has it's storefront up.
But these cracks will start to show, just as they did with music, today the only reason digital music survived is because they gave up and removed all DRM, even Apple was not able to fight against this in iTunes, now music being DRM-free will be the standard.
Digital has zero consumer protection or ownership laws like physical does.... once those cracks start to show in due time and people get angry... do you think the console manufacturers are just going to sit back and let this heavily one-sided cash cow die... or do you think they are going to fight and bribe legislators like crazy to prevent any consumer-protection laws for digital content from being passed? You have seen in the last few years how insanely greedy they are becoming with nonsense like endless microtransactions, online passes, loot boxes, etc.
@Shiryu It's hardware is more powerful than the original Wii, which has N64 VC games, so most likely yes, you are also looking at the internals of the N64 Mini.
I don't get why there even needs to be a list? I mean, MicroSDHC is a standard. At most, they might have to recommend a certain minimum sped (Class) and/or minimum size, but other than that, it's supposed to accept any MicroSDHC card no problem.
And yes, I know other cards not explicitly on this list will work, I'm just saying why there even needs to be a list on something that is supposed to be a standard in the first place.
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Re: Indie Game Removed From Switch eShop After Dev Reveals It Contains A Hidden Code Editor
@Caterplease By that argument any non-1st-party game should be banned.... and even then you can't be sure.
Re: Indie Game Removed From Switch eShop After Dev Reveals It Contains A Hidden Code Editor
@KayFiOS The dev specifically said it could NOT be used for this or to access anything outside the game.
Re: Nintendo Website Suggests Multiple Switch Games Will Not Support Cloud Saves
This is completely not an excuse. There are multiple ways to prevent cheating from just restoring an old save, not to mention that on top of that, it's completely unacceptable to bar millions of people from backing up a game they incorporated hundreds of hours into just because a small minority MIGHT abuse it to cheat (of which, as I mentioned, there are ways to mitigate it anyway).
This is just completely an unacceptable answer.
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@NEStalgia No, there have been numerous exceptions made over the year to to how over-reaching the original version of the DMCA was. By our argument Jailbreaking my phone would be illegal because it's encrypted, but they specifically allow for that.
And save-cheating is a complete and total non-issue. Modern systems encrypt their saves to a local seed/account, so unless your system is ALREADY hacked you aren't going to be modifying those saves anyway. And even if you do somehow, the games are sandboxed as well, so even if you did manage to gain control of a game through a hacked save, you would not gain full system level control with it, which you would need for piracy. All of this, of course, is a moot point since "People MIGHT find a way to use it for piracy" does not matter in the face of locking a consumer out of their own data. That's like if a CD Burner required online authentication every time you burned a disk to make sure you weren't pirating something with it.
Making a backup of your own firmware is not illegal either.
You still failed to list specific devices, you yet again listed generics. The closest you came to was the GPD, but that thing is more than twice the price of the Switch and lacks some of the Switch's functionality. This is also a moot point because property is property, of someone wants to hack his property, that is fully within their rights.
And again, it's still preservation. You might not like it, but it would be gone forever if it wasn't preserved. And no, for consumer purchase many of them are not, and the ones that are cost significantly more to assemble than the Switch does. And again, moot point, because it's still your property do do as you want.
Seriously, your whole post is "But why would you want to?" I gave multiple reasons, and the fact that it's their property to do as they wish trumps all of your and my reasons. Why would anyone want to paint their front yard purple? I sure as hell would never want to, but if someone wants to, it's their right.
And we again fall into your fallacious "all hackers are pirates!" mentality. As I stated, some hackers added ADDITIONAL anti-piracy to their homebrew or made it not work if piracy software was detected, don't act like they are intentionally allowing it, that's like claiming people who manufactured CD burners planned for them to be used for piracy.
All this nonsense you argued is exactly why laws exist and why people who break them, not the suppliers unless the supplied product itself is illegal, are the ones the laws go after. You want to argue that people should have their RIGHTS to modify hardware they OWN however they chose taken away because a minority, and yes people who pirate on a system are always a minority, might mis-use it.
Your entire argument is flawed from the start.
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@NEStalgia Sorry, but I disagree. It's not only both educational and worthwhile for future experience, but also useful in utility as well.
And no, you are misinformed about the legality in the US as well. Breaking the encryption with the intention of illegal acts such as piracy is illegal, and making a backup of your own data is explicitly a right granted by US copyright law. Moreover, nobody here said anything about even playing ROMs, just running homebrew. Believe it or not, many people have interests other than just pirating games when it comes to hacking their Switch.
Do you know what the most common praise I heard was when they announced the Switch was hacked? Not "When can I pirate", even on sites that don't care if you pirate, it was "Now I can finally backup my saves!". And no, before you bring up their online service, we are talking about a LOCAL backup, not to mention that it's ridiculous to be required to pay to backup your data.
And again, if such devices exist, LIST them. It's easy to claim something exists, far harder to prove it.
Also, art is art, allowed to possess or not is irrelevant, many of those would be lost forever if not preserved. There is a mountain of software that still exists today purely because people preserved it when they could, since the originals are gone. Preservation is preservation, period.
Many of these components are NOT available for consumers, and even then, at a significant markup. At the end of it all, it's your property, your property that you have the RIGHT in every single sense of the word to do whatever you want with.
Also, your argument about distributing them is flawed. First of all, NO, many hackers don't do it for "recognition", most hackers because they want people to be able to fully use their hardware, and also because they are not generally solo efforts. Many hacks are built on the shoulders of other hacks. It's the very essence of open source and the FOSS mentality. You seem to have a hard time grasping they could possibly EVER do it for anything other than personal gain or other selfish reasons.
As for your lock pick example. In most of the US, it is not illegal to sell or own lock picks. Thing is, it is also not illegal to sell or own knives.... but if you sold a knife to someone that you know was intending to stab people with it, you would be prosecuted for it. There is a difference between selling something that CAN be misused, and selling it when you KNOW the person will criminally misuse it. In fact, the majority of sites and circles centered around hacking consoles operates on this principle as well. If you ever admit or say that you will use it for piracy, bye bye, insta-pemaban. Knife manufacturers advertise everywhere as well after all, they are no different than hackers putting their hacks out there. In fact, they advertise LESS. Outside of possibly a forum post on their site of choice, what's all the "advertising" they do. Other sites..... like this one... might pick up on it and report it, but they aren't putting up digital billboards everywhere.
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@NEStalgia The Switch that you purchased is also your property however. You are not Nintendo, it's only in Nintendo's best interests that you are locked out of your own property, not yours. In fact, that goes against your best interests.
I also heavily disagree that there is no utility in learning how it works, nearly all of modern computing and technology was spearheaded due to people figuring out how tech works and messing with it. And I especially disagree that the only utility would be piracy. Again, most hackers are against piracy, and they learned by hacking their property. I repeat, the Switch you own is your property, you have every right to do whatever you want to it, just like you have every right to dfo whatever you want with your cd burner or your scanner. Now, if you were to use your cd burner to pirate a DVD, that's copyright infringement and illegal, but that doesn't mean that there is no utility outside of piracy to using your DVD burner.
But on top of that, again, the Switch is a very powerful portable device with a large multitouch screen, USB, MicroSD, detachable physical inputs, and internal storage. It is a perfect device for all sorts of uses that homebrew software would allow for, as well as a good price for that whole package.
Also, you are wrong about preserving art that can be lost. Software, especially digital, does not remain up forever. And this doesn't even account for betas, unreleased software, revisions, and other such issues outside of just commercially released software. Nintendo only gives those devkits out to specific people, and even then they are only allowed to do specific things with them. Again, the Switch is YOUR property according to any and all laws about ownership in just about every major country, you are not in any way, shape, or form required to adhere by Nintendo's guidelines that you may only develop software on their devkits and by their rules if you don't want to.
Also, you falliciously seem to think hacking a Switch is illegal, it is not. And show me what is essentially a X1 powered tablet with detachable physical bluetooth controllers that have IR cameras and all the other features the Switch itself and the joycons have for the same pricepoint. Don't forget you will need to include ac adapters, cables, and a dock as well.
Your entire post is littered with yet again attempting to act like pirates and hackers are one and the same, so your very fundamental argument is flawed because you refuse to see any other viewpoint other than your own that hacking=piracy, I am starting to think you can't even see it from any other viewpoint than your own that you clearly don't seem to have any intent on acknowledging is flawed or changing.
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@NEStalgia Yes, it can open the ways, but if you take that conservative approach that they never should since it could pave the way for abuse then we would have never gotten anywhere. Just about every invention ever made can be misused, even the very tools people use to storage pirated media are not made for pirating in mind such as harddrives and MicroSD cards. It's up to the individual to not misuse something, not up to everyone to never advance just because someone MIGHT misuse it. There are limits of course where something clearly only has the potential for being misused, such as devices clearly intended specifically for piracy, but this is like saying that copying machines/scanners should have never been invented because people can pirate books with them, or that disk burners should have never been invented because people can pirate software, music, and movies with them.
There are many legitimate uses to wanting to be able to run your own software on a powerful portable device as well, not just piracy ones, and many of those can transform into official implementations. The only reason the iPhone got an appstore originally was because people Jailbroke it to add their own apps to it, originally it had none and Steve Jobs was against the idea of people installing their own apps on it.
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@NEStalgia I would say that one flaw in that argument is that you label all of the hackers under the same banner. Many of them are anti-piracy, in fact, some of then during the Wii era implemented further anti-piracy checks in their hacks or would refuse to let their homebrew run if they detected anything that could be used for piracy on your system. One of the most prolific ones stopped short of adding essentially DRM in their application and closing it's sourcecode because they realized then they were turning into what they were originally against. To think that all of them just want to blow the system open and pave the way for piracy is inaccurate.
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@Mountain_Man No, Nintendo themselves said it, they didn't just parrot what others said, they themselves admitted it. You also failed to provide both the proof and the technical specs I asked for. We both know why you failed to provide those though, don't we?
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@Mountain_Man Nintendo THEMSELVES said that the update bricked unmodified systems. If you are going to make a claim as ridiculus as "Nobody took advantage of this because all of them were hacked", then you better post proof of this wild claim. So far, all you have done is insist it happened... which flies in the face of both how the update worked for anyone who actually understood it, as well as Nintendo's own statements.
Do you have any actual PROOF that nobody took them up on their offer and EVERY bricked system was a hacked one?
Tell me.... how did the update work? How did it brick hacked systems only? I know EXACTLY how the update worked as I studied it, but please, I would love to hear your explanation since you seem to be so knowledgeable about the subject. And no, no "it just saw if you had homebrew channel and bricked you" excuse, I want actual technical details on how it worked, because I definitely have technical details on how it did NOT work and had the potential to brick ANY system hacked or not.
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@PlywoodStick Heh, I love how Nintendo was trying to downplay it by claiming "that the reported symptoms usually occur with modified consoles". The flaw had ZERO to do with if your system was hacked or not for anyone that read up on how it works and what causes it.
Re: Fake Nintendo Switch Game Piracy Software Is Bricking Systems
@Mountain_Man That is NOT what happened. The update itself was badly made and had the potential to brick ANY Wii whether it was hacked or not, and many of the people hit by it didn't have a hacked Wii. The reason Nintendo fixed all of them for free hacked or not is because THEY screwed up and released an update that could brick systems. Whether you had hacks installed or not made no difference.
Re: Nintendo Bans Online Services For Prominent Hacker's Switch Console
@Rocketjay8 You realize that an account ban won't prevent you from still just connecting to the store and downloading whatever, right? You could use stuff similar to freeshop without even owning a 3DS on a PC.
Re: Nintendo Bans Online Services For Prominent Hacker's Switch Console
@BenGrimm This is more that the response to someone scratching your car is to take a baseball bat to their skull. Banning the console from online would have been the response, banning their ACCOUNT even though they didn't mess or cheat with the online in any way is uncalled for and excessive. ESPECIALLY the part where they cut you off from your own legitimate purchases.
Believe it or not, a corporation can't just do whatever they want and claim "Well, your broke our rules" Sony, MS, and Nintendo were all found in violation with how they handled returns in the UK and warranties in the US despite it being their "rules".
Re: Nintendo Bans Online Services For Prominent Hacker's Switch Console
@jimi That is exactly how I feel about it. Go ahead and ban the hacked console, that's fine, but banning the ACCOUNT (and cutting off access fro all your purchases) is not only uncalled for, but encourages people to pirate.
Re: Nintendo Bans Online Services For Prominent Hacker's Switch Console
I am sure this comment will be lost in the wake of people who know nothing about hackers outside of a horrible movie form the early 90s, but it sounds like they didn't just ban his hacked system (which I don't have a problem with) but his ACCOUNT and even his eShop access.
That is just uncalled for personally. Go ahead and ban the hacked system, but unless he was cheating online, then the account should not be banned (especially eshop access, taking away all your digital purchases, how does that DIScourage piracy instead of ENcourage it?). Considering his UNhacked system got banned too, it sounds like his account itself was banned and will ban any system it gets logged into. I cannot agree with that.
Re: Soapbox: I'm Secretly Terrified Of An All-Digital Gaming Future
People defending digital with the "I went all digital" are the exact same arguments people used to use to defend digital music stores with DRM-locked music, which was the standard back then, even iTunes... but then they started to notice the issues.
Notice how all those who claim they went digital just did it recently this generation? The oldest consoles with digital service don't have their access cut off yet, hell, even the Ouya still has it's storefront up.
But these cracks will start to show, just as they did with music, today the only reason digital music survived is because they gave up and removed all DRM, even Apple was not able to fight against this in iTunes, now music being DRM-free will be the standard.
Digital has zero consumer protection or ownership laws like physical does.... once those cracks start to show in due time and people get angry... do you think the console manufacturers are just going to sit back and let this heavily one-sided cash cow die... or do you think they are going to fight and bribe legislators like crazy to prevent any consumer-protection laws for digital content from being passed? You have seen in the last few years how insanely greedy they are becoming with nonsense like endless microtransactions, online passes, loot boxes, etc.
Re: The SNES Classic Mini Uses the Same Hardware as the NES Mini
@Shiryu It's hardware is more powerful than the original Wii, which has N64 VC games, so most likely yes, you are also looking at the internals of the N64 Mini.
Re: Nintendo Lists Formally Tested Micro SDHC Cards for the New Nintendo 3DS
I don't get why there even needs to be a list? I mean, MicroSDHC is a standard. At most, they might have to recommend a certain minimum sped (Class) and/or minimum size, but other than that, it's supposed to accept any MicroSDHC card no problem.
And yes, I know other cards not explicitly on this list will work, I'm just saying why there even needs to be a list on something that is supposed to be a standard in the first place.