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Ummm.... If you own the game, making backups is perfectly legal. This isn't piracy, this is hacking. I agree that most movie and game downloading IS PIRACY. This is not. It's piracy if someone rips the files and distributes it. If they rip it for themselves, it's not.

So yeah, it actually is a murky area here. You'd be going after everyone under the assumption of illegal activity vs actually targeting those commiting piracy.

I support things being hackable, dumpable, flashable, whatever. I also support piracy. But those two aren't as interlinked as you want them to be.

Hacking because it's ownership. Do what you want with the things that you own. Piracy because fuck 'em. That's what happens when you make everything digital - it becomes much, much easier to acquire for free.

come on guys, I do X because of Y, everyone else must do it for the same reason, and if they claim otherwise they're definitely lying.

The majority of people pirate, but insofar as there is a single person who wants to do literally anything else with their hacked system, then it isn't exclusively about pirating, and the narrative to condemn the entire practice of hacking as being solely about pirating is nothing more than another corporation trying to make it harder for people to modify their own property as they see fit.

All the popular switch games have already been dumped & shared online. The cart that lets you download and play those came out MONTHS ago.

THIS cart is so you can download and backup your OWN Switch games, something I want just so I don't lose my save data. Thanks for loudly assuring everyone that you know fuck-all about any of this though!

If it was about pirating, you wouldn’t need the dumper, you could just download the already dumped game online

It’s also about how apparently games run better from a rom using an emulator on a switch rather than through the native software of the switch itself. It’s crazy.

This is the wrong crowd for that, mate. I’ve gone through this rodeo on Lemmy too many times and you’re just going to get dishonest people pretending that what they’re doing isn’t stealing. It’ll be everything from “preservation of games” to “it’s just like renting from a library” and all the extremes of dishonesty.

No one here’s going to be honest about it.

Some people just want to mod a game they love and play it again. There's more than one reason to use these tools.

I am mixed on what you're saying.

As everyone is saying, it doesn't matter if the primary purpose of this is piracy, because this enables legal behavior through the same process as the piracy. You cannot say that this is illegal because it is not piracy until you take the output of this and do something else with it.

But also it sucks that we have to discuss these things with false pretense to avoid Youtube content bans and stuff like that.

But that is the reality of the world we live in, and Nintendo DOES suck and IS an evil company when it comes to consumers rights.

For the record, I do not pirate anything presently. At a certain point in my life I decided that I could go without things or buy them. But I don't judge for people making the opposite choice.

Didn't bother reading the whole thing huh, about how this can effect people that legally buy used games?

I agree. it's always hidden under "backup" but reality is piracy. I pirate too.

I'll join you in the downvotes and say I one hundred percent agree with you here.

People will go on and on about legitimate issues but downvote tooth and nail when you correctly day this was developed and sold primary for piracy.

And let's face it, this is built and sold for mainly piracy with the very few who are using it for legitimate uses like preservation.

Wow you are biased. Piracy is a service problem. Therefore platforms with more service issues become targets for more advanced and rampant piracy. Nintendo basically deserved it. Not an honest people's problem that it takes going that far to make the platform act as user friendly as they expected it to by default in the first place.

You'll burn for this here.

Nintendo Switch cartridge based games have a file that's unique to each individual cartridge. The dumper and accompanying flash cart make use of that file. If Nintendo detects two people playing while connected to the internet with the "same" cartridge, there's a high chance of them banning both consoles. So any used game anyone buys after this point runs the risk that someone dumped it, maybe an old owner who resold, maybe someone who bought and returned it, etc, which means even a legitimate user who hasn't even heard of the flash cart could get banned. There's also the potential issue of people using the tech in the flash cart once people figure out how to use those chips to sell bootlegged reproduction cartridges that have the same issue

I have a guess