Nintendo doesn't have Portuguese Subtitles for the Brazilian Community, but one day after the release the community was to able to translate the entire game. Now I can play emulated and translated, not dependent on the company
Actually the first version of the translation was released a day BEFORE the game released which was pretty funny. Although it contained some typos, which were corrected the day next to the game release. Foda os pirateiros prestando um serviço de graça melhor que o da nintentendo pago.
I'm NEVER spending $150 on Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness and $250 to play Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Fk that that's insane, I am so glad Nintendont exists, able to play on my modded Wii with GC controller and it's exactly as if i actually had the games, screw Nintendo so hard for having so many great games in their vault and NOT selling them for digital purchase in any way, what the actual f, do they even know how much money they could be making??
Some dudes really think they leading a crusade against a game company by pirating. Like wtf are you accomplishing against this multibillion dollar company. Woo I just threw a pebble at a steel fortress, it'll crumble any second now
I think there should be a digital version of "public domain". Once a software that isn't being worked on, sold, or updated or anything anymore reaches a certain age, it should just be in the public domain and be perfectly legal to download.
I'm sure that is already a thing after 20 years. It's one of the reasons they release random crappy movies and games every now and then like the latest matrix movie and the remastered GTAs.
my god you all are so incredibly clueless about what copyright and the public domain is. both of those things do apply to software by default. it takes a lot for something to be thrown in the public domain, though. usually, 70 years after the authors death. it's ridiculous.
To be fair, it's only taboo if you don't know the law and just eat up whatever PR mouthpieces say Whoever comes at you with "EmULATioN iS iLlegAL!11" just tell them to look this up: Sony v. Bleem
I like emulation , since i even own PS2 but most of the game disk starting to fail due to normal wear and tear ( just like anything hardware related) so having that emulation is just convienience . Plus my ps2 cant support modern tv . (sure there adapter but like emulation is better )
only U.S cry about emulation, in my country we encourage emulation and piracy, even university will teach you how to pirate photoshop. friends will teach you how to emulate all those old nintendo games so you wont be an idiot that spends hundred dollars for old console.
As long as they don't put Smash Melee on Switch with Online Features and an actual good Netcode, I will continue using Slippi. Yes, I bought Melee 20 years ago.. but I'm happy to be able to play one of my all time favorite games online with people all around the world thanks to emulation! Also Muta, make sure to finish Silent Hill 2 actually :P
I hate that companies take advantage of emulation being a taboo so when people ask "How did you release a remaster that is worse than emulation?" their answer is "That version doesn't exist."
@@Devourlord I'm not even talking about new games in this comment. But even if I was so little people are actually into emulation and most consumers will just go to Walmart and get their game. Just look at Skyward Sword HD.
@@Devourlord That’s literally the smallest subset of people you’re talking about. I’d wager that over 99% of people that use emulators just want to play old games in high fidelity on their modern hardware. Also, you sound like a corporate tool.
I played your music on my gramophone on my school bus and literally got kicked out and got laughed at by all the kids on the bus, I couldn’t even go to school the next day because of you. Thank you so much for being the worst artist of this generation.
@@tausiftaha12 If they ain’t bringing GBA games to the Switch, fine by me I didn’t wanna play them anyways since I successfully pirated The Minish Cap yesterday
“The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. ... It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.” our lord and savior Gabe Newell
Emulators are not exactly hard to setup, but still far from convenient for the average user. I bet many people would pay like $5 for a retro game on PC rather than pirtate on an emulator, assuming both versions are equal quality. But do companies do that? No.
The first time I ran F-zero GX in Dolphin, with all the graphics enhancements, it brought tears to my eyes and child-like joy to my heart. God bless the talented people that make emulation possible. :')
Seriously the incredible talented geniuses who make emulators or do modding/hacks for Nintendo consoles are heroes 🙏 I cannot imagine a world without them, the fans will always care more about Nintendo's games than Nintendo themselves do.
What's surprising about Metroid dread running on emulators is that Metroid dread uses a newer version of the Nintendo Switch SDK with unknown changes and it runs quite well on emulators in spite of that.
@@Kholaslittlespot1 uh you can find it pretty easily if you look I've pirated plenty of switch games and they were all safe just don't download things that have weird file names.
If you think it's gratuitous or unfair that Metroid Dread and other new Switch games are already emulated, just remember the specs for the GameBoy Advance were so well-documented and heavily-leaked ahead of time that there was already a working emulator for it floating around the internet in 2000 nearly a year before you could buy the actual hardware.
lol i got 627 pirated games. granted, it's across 10 systems... and there are several games with different versions... (pokemon for example) and some ports here and there... (ocarina of time master quest) but still, that's too many
@@nintendo_pirate just play them one at a time till finished. I got a old google pixel Xl android and just play one at a time. Also got a powerhouse Samsung note 10+ powerhouse with snapdragon 855 and 12gb ram but the screen got messed up so need to fix it and a iPhone 13 which I can’t wait to never buy a iPhone again although they do emulate GameCube very well
@o it means i will pirate old games that i want to play until germany gets there head out of there Ass. But seriously it just means pepole pirate games because there is no good way of getting the Software legaly for instance if i woud find a non butcherd Version of saints row 2 or gta San Andreas for that i dont need to sell 2 kindneys and a lung i woud buy it until that happens piracy is the only way to play those games without Wanting to shoot a bunch of politicians
@@christophbeck1305 Dont forget updates, i was very glad to not be one of these people who owns legit skyrim se on steam because instead making a seperate game the whole game gets updated to anniversary edition which means that would break almost every mods.
The only way to legally get The Racoons cartoon was on a German DVD release. It was made in goddamn Canada in English but I as an English speaking Canadian can't have it. It's now on my hard drive as VHS rips but it would be nice to have actually good copies.
nah i dont think thats true in third world countries where your 4-6 months of savings for any avg teen will get u one aaa game i see pricing as a problem, tho even for me even if i pirate aaa's i pay for most of the indie games that i play games like hollow knight deserve every penny, as for games like metroid, it is really easy for muta to say that dont pirate it since he is a pretty well off person and can easily afford it, now comes the thing about just dont play it honestly use your brain for once and literally think what an avg person would do when he isn't accountable, so to sum it if in third world countries like india almost every one i know pirates stuff and its a common activity when ever someone refers to download this thing or that thing its probably piracy, imo its justifiably for aaa's cuz heck most of the population makes $60 per month which is what most aaa's charge now a days
Or live in a 3rd world country where a game is literally half your rent for the month. Its so normal where I live like literally every PC gamer has atleast 10 cracked games on their PC and obviously no one gives a shit because our government can't even regulate basic services.
"There's no doubt that people who use emulators probably also download a lot of ROMs." I don't know, it's almost as if Nintendumb should let me pay for and download an image of Metroid Prime or SSX right off of their website, kind of like how GOG handles it. Then maybe those torrent numbers would fly way down. If I wanted to play the PS2 version of Quake 3, or Fighting Force 2, or any Guitar Hero on that system, I can't get those from PSN. This is entirely a developer/publisher created problem, and they're using "Little Timmy copied Halo 1 from Little Billy" as a scapegoat.
That's actually a valid reason if you don't want or can't afford a retail copy. Companies should've a standard when they stop making consoles and that is launching a game dumps store when you can buy and download your games to your device and play them in an emulator, to put an example, MK Trilogy is selled really cheap on GOG but is just a ROM package bundled with DOSbox, that should be standard for something like PSN games.
Or you know stop supporting a company who doesn't care about their users and don't have a moral dilemma about downloading roms it's not the end of the world and no one is gonna come after you for it.
@@ransacked Pirating current gen ROMs _is_ bad, though. You're stealing from the devs who made the game. It's a lot worse than pirating things like old Sega games even though they're widely available. If you don't wanna support Nintendo that much, then buy a console second hand.
I would've never gotten into the Megami Tensei series if I didn't emulate Persona 3 on pcsx2. In fact, a lot of my most magical memorable gaming experiences were through emulation. We're living in an age where people like me were basically raised on this stuff. It honestly feels kind of empowering.
That's me with Animal Crossing. I emulated it for the gamecube and 3ds, and when my saves got corrupted, I suddenly felt compelled to get a switch to play new horizons... now I'm a nintendo switch junkie! :D
@@CarlJohnson-gj1tq Yeah it's totally more productive to pay three times the original price to resellers rather than simply grabbing these otherwise unobtainable games for free and using your money for other more important things! 🤡
I work at a tiny indie studio that publishes stuff officially for the Switch -- we've absolutely used Switch emulators when trying to debug particularly odd glitches where the Switch GPU was crashing :)
Literally so many cult classics wouldn't have gotten re releases, developers wouldn't have been exposed to stories and game design that inspired their own works. Emulation saved gaming. Fuck these anti emulation cuck ass companies.
Man, I've been emulating old games since I was a kid and it really makes me happy that I can considering that some of the old games I wanna play are being physically resold by third party sellers for prices beyond belief. I hate to see it be a problem, it's pretty dumb.
I got a handheld emulation device called the Retroid Pocket 2 Plus and holy shit, the amount of games I discovered, Tetris Blast for example. To your points though, It is dumb. These game companies demand so much but yet, give so little and hoard it like a parody of Smaug
Preservation is always intriguing to me when it comes to video games. I did notice how, even after Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service shut down in 2014, people are still able to play their DS and Wii games online and maintain that functionality with custom servers and whatnot. I would love to see you do a deep dive into this.
Good man! People should buy their new games but until Nintendo puts some effort into their emulation tech and back catalogue, there's no incentive for the customer to abandon emulation. Nintendo, there are many ROM sites/sources out there. You can never stop them all. Instead of endless legal battles, you should simply add content they don't have. Add a new GP to Super Mario Kart or a new world to Mario World etc etc. Next, swallow your silly pride, call up BSnes and buy their emulation tech so you can monopolize that fancy HD Mode 7. Boom! Done! You can now compete with emulation and make real $$$ doing it!
That's something that id Software always did for Doom games. Doom II got a new episode when it rereleased on the Xbox 360, Doom got a new episode fully made by one of the original developers in 2019, Doom 3 got some new levels with the Xbox 360/PS3 era rerelease, and Doom 64 got a new episode with the rerelease last year. It incentivizes old players to rebuy those old games if they play at better graphical levels and with new content. Nintendo already did that with Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario 3D World on the Switch, so they should be able to do it with the older games
@@finkamain1621 Another thing that id Software from the 1990's to early 2010's that makes me admire them so much (especially John Carmack) is that they open sourced their outdated engines (usually putting them under the GNU GPL) ensuring that they can remain supported by their communities, such as porting them to newer platforms, ensuring that those games such as Doom 1/2/Ultimate/TNT/Plutonia/3/RoE/BFG Edition and Quake 1/2/3 can be easily be ran natively (with enhancements too!) on those newer platforms without issues stemming from compatibility and without having to emulate those older systems.
The problem with Nintendo is that they're not a hardware/software company, but a toy company that just so happens to sell hardware/software. While software companies (especially entertainment-based ones) thrive from making their work as available and convenient as possible, toy companies love to manufacture scarcity and exploit FOMO. Look at all the limited-time things that Nintendo used to offer, like the NES/SNES classic, Mario All Stars 3D, and all those amiibos that they never supply enough of. It's no wonder why they despise external emulation so much. And to think that they're still regarded by some as the family-friendly gaming company, while they exploit their players so hard...
Video games is meant to be a toy anyways.. And Nintendo is one of the pioneers in Mainstream Video Game Software and Hardware wise even before Sony PS and Xbox came to life.. They even managed to keep handheld gaming a platform that every company says is already dead repeatedly.. Regarding the limited items. With how many merchandise they manufacture do you expect they will make like 50 Million copies of each figures/Amiibo/etc that they have? Ofc they will base all the supply to the demand. If something is in demand then for sure they will make more of it... Simple as that. They are a business afterall. FOMO has nothing to do with that, that's the mindset of the consumers that wants everything and anything in this world.. And in regards to emulation no going company will approve or be happy with that no matter the circumstances.. There's various reason that a game doesn't get released/localized in certain countries, it's not just Nintendo doesn't want to why will they not want to release a game to make profit right? But sometimes the risk is just bigger than the reward and again: NINTENDO IS A BUSINESS, gamer nowadays only thinks about their own benefit as a consumer but doesn't even factor the complex system a company needs to do just to be able to deliver products in the public.. Ignorance is really a bad thing you know especially when your products are meant for childrens/people that have no idea in such things and only cares for what they want.
This explains so much why Nintendo makes the weird decisions they do, it's a terrible shame with all the incredible first party/IP's they own and most will suffer and never get the great sequels they deserve, Nintendo stopped caring about hardware power after the GameCube...and software? everyone knows what all the Switch is missing compared to Wii U and 3DS.
It doesn't help that their biggest player base, if not just as big as children, is millennials who grew up with Nintendo. These people will buy anything from them and even never wait for sales and even buy products from scalpers. They're also the group that complained about the new OLED Switch, but they bought it anyway despite already owning a Switch and Switch Lite. Nintendo is able to get away with scummy practices people these people are always willing to pay for anything they make. It's no different than the yearly releases of Call of Duty, FIFA, or Madden. They release every year because consumers keep buying them
I just finished Spider-Man 2 yesterday on the Dolphin emulator with HD textures, Widescreen and 60fps code, 4x upscaling. It was soooooooo much better than playing the original game on the original hardware.
Sorry Muta, I've been burned too many times. I'm sailing the high seas exclusively to do a demo, and if the game is good I will buy it. But AAA publishers have gotten too lazy and greedy, that way if the game is shit then I don't have buyers remorse. If they want this to stop, release completed and fully functioning games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is why they should just release bloody demo's for their games. Why the fuck would I trust the cinematic "trailer" that they spent stupid amounts of money on to make the game look way better than it is and showing off things that aren't even in the game. Not like EA would lose anything either with how many brainlets will always die on the Fifa hill
Companies in general are fucking over the consumer at an accelerated rate. It's about time the consumer did it to the company. Imagine defending a multi billion dollar enterprise.
same here , it only seems reasonable in all honesty. the overpricing and the unavailability plays a big factor on why people use Emulators in the first place.
I’m surprised Nintendo is still looking down on emulators, even though half of the games people emulate are next to impossible to track down. Meanwhile, PeTA’s monstrosities that they try to push as games still exist and Nintendo hasn’t bothered to even try to take them down.
A lot of them that I emulate are just for the convenience of playing it on my PC through HDMI at 1080p and with whatever controller I want. No way am I modding my old consoles to run a shoddy HDMI output and destroying the original one, or running the composite video into some useless upscaler that isn't actually HD and that adds massive input lag
@@mynamehasspacesinit8687 because peta, as well as all those mobile games using their IP with no shame likely have Lawers, so there's a chance they can lose.
For context of the Silent Hill HD Collection. Konami gave the team doing the collection an Alpha build of SH2 and just went, "here you, we'll see you in a month"
My take is, if it isn’t available from the company, (like n64, ps1, ps2, etc.) then I will get it. But if it is a situation like the dread emulation, then i will buy it.
I don't think buying the game is a requirement either considering the absolutely insane price of some older games. If I want to replay Haunting Ground for instance, I'd need to shell out $200-$400. Until companies start offering alternative ways to get these games, yar har.
@@Corthmic if a game is not for sale currently I say it’s fair game. Except Pokémon, idk I think buying remakes is important for that but that’s just me
@@Corthmic dont forgett piracy to get around cencoreship now that steam makes it imposible to get aound that with a vpn its the only way i woud pay 80 bucks for a PC Version of gta San Andreas that is Not butcherd
@@JrockProject1 The remakes aren't the same experience, though. They could be better, could be worse. I'm personally buying the remakes of Diamond and Pearl, but I've also got the DS trilogy installed on my modded 3DS.
Pff, one of the best experiences I had with emulation was after the fact I dumped my 3DS games to Citra emulator and played Ocarina of Time and Monster Hunter 4U with HD texture packs full screen, absolutely gorgeous games, and the best part was that my 3DS save files were fully compatible with the emulator and vice versa.
There is a big grey area when it comes to the ROMs and ISOs. I get them from the internet archive. They have written a legal opinion that they are to be considered abandonware and to date they have not had a case against them. I think given the companies realize that it could be the nail in the dmca coffin if they were to actually get a ruling since the archive actually has current dmca immunity for certain abandonware and it is still in legal limbo.
There aren’t even any legit “museums” for gaming hardware or software etc. ppl who emulate or “pirate” are the only ones who preserve these old games for generations to come.
The ZKM (Zeitgenössisches Kunstmuseum) in Karlsruhe Germany has a good video game section. You can even play them on original hardware there. I played on an east german arcade cabinet, it fucking sucked.
Nintendo doesn't always offer what can be emulated. I would have gladly paid them, but even then it would probably be locked at 30 fps unless I emulated.
Playing Super Mario Sunshine currently lol mid level PC Yuzu works 60fps as well had to try it 😂 definitely have my main playthrough on Dolphin though as my original sunshine copy is so scratched my GameCube doesn’t read it anymore lol
I remembered a take on Twitter that was basically "if you own the game, but not the console, it's still piracy".. like damn, so I'm a pirate for buying Super Metroid for the 3DS VC lol.
Great vid, as always, Muta! People really need to stop acting like downloading ROMs for games that are 20, 25, 30 years old (whether or not you own them) is the same as downloading ROMs of games that are 11 days old like Metroid Dread. They are not even remotely in the same ballpark and this shows just how over the knee a lot of people are to these corporations and their drivel. To get a current-gen game like Metroid Dread or Breath of the Wild to the state that it is currently purchasable in an official capacity by the developer and/or publisher, it takes tons of time, money, effort, resources, etc. to do so. Therefore, downloading a ROM of these games at this point when you don't own them is legit piracy and pretty messed up because it communicates to the developers (especially when many do so) that all that is worth nothing to you. In contrast, very few games (as a percentage of the total) that are, again, 20, 25, 30 years old are available to purchase in any official capacity whatsoever (especially since Virtual Console stopped being a thing, unless if you like to settle for just renting out games lmao), so your only option most of the time is to either buy them from some reseller on eBay (which, trust me, 0% of that money is going to the developer or publisher) or to, gasp!, download a ROM of the game. But even for the very few that are available for "officially sanctioned purchase", how much "effort" did it take to get these games to their current purchasable state (I'm not talking about the original development cycle that was done decades ago and already been compensated handsomely for long, long ago, but things like putting them on compilations, VC when that existed, PSN classics, etc. in the current age)? Putting a few ROMs on a cartridge? Paying out some licensing fees that equate to about $20 for you or I (keep in mind that these are multi-million/billion dollar corporations that make, in a week, at least tenfold what many of us make in an entire year or two, and that's on a bad week for them)? Doesn't really seem equatable, huh, especially when you consider that these same corporations nickel and dime more out of us in much worse ways on as much as a weekly basis at times. Drastic subscription price hikes for no good reason here. Microtransactions there. Paywalls for basic game features here. Asking for $60 to do glorified beta testing there. Lying to consumers here. Milking fans' wallets dry there. Need I go on? When they nickel and dime us, it sucks but "what can you do", but when we "nickel and dime" them, it's immoral and should be a crime? It's cyber-terrorism, even? Wake up, people! Nintendo's not going to go bankrupt or even suffer in any way if you download a ROM of Ocarina of Time. It won't even be a blip on their radar. They're just happy that they have so many captive sycophants under their thumb, willing to do their bidding and accept their corporate talking points hook, line, and sinker.
The worst motherfuckers about the "nickel and dime"ing is EA, and it's still got me maulding to this day. Recently, someone added up the price of all the Sims 4 DLC plus base game and it came out to nearly $900 USD. 900!! I'm not entirely sure EA's official stances on ""piracy"" (cough ROMs and Emulation cough) but I imagine it's not good, given their loot crates/microtransactions in Star Wars Battlefront 2. It speaks volumes.
@@autopsyturvy I've even seen some people who, no joke, have a moral objection to buying games on sale. You read that correct. It could be a brand new game you buy at Gamestop/EB Games, Walmart, GAME in the UK, etc., meaning that it is still money going directly to the developers and publisher, but if you don't give them the full MSRP they originally asked for, you're a bad person somehow. Don't believe me? Understandable, but here it is: ua-cam.com/video/BInEYRB1_8k/v-deo.html. I legit think these people would let the CEOs or developers of these companies fuck their wives, husbands, whatever they may have, right in front of them. Not in some open marriage, mind you, but a strictly monogamous one. I mean, Shuntaro Furukawa could walk into their house and say, "let me sow my seed in your spouse!" and these people will say, very meekly, "absolutely, Nintendo, and thank you, Nintendo, but...uh... please use a condom." And then Furukawa will say, "fuck you, bitch!", with the only response of the bootlickers being, "oh. O...okay then. Proceed!" 😂
@FuckOuttaHere it's not really about the money or profits Nintendo makes, but it's about two factors: using your money to show Nintendo "yes this is good keep doing this" especially with a game series that releases so sporadically, as well as the workers getting their fair wages and even staying employed in same cases. Money talks. You have to show Nintendo this is the games you wanna see. It sucks, but it's the only way. The "a-okay" date is when they no longer manufacture disks and they no longer offer it directly from themselves; at that point it's morally alright to emulate. Or, if you own the game already on a console and just want to use your computer for better specs.
Emulation is the one of the reasons why Metroid Dread can get this much of a wide market appeal at it's release - I would guess atleast 70% of the people who have purchased Dread have emulated a metroid title at some point
Man, I honestly forgot about Silent Hill HD Collection until this video brought it up again. I can't get over how they had to go and tamper the voices with Silent Hill 2 and 3 and just get rid of some of the charm that they carried. Even though they did allow original audio for Silent Hill 2, I still hated that they didn't allow original audio for Silent Hill 3 as that was my all time favorite in the series. Same time, can't forget about the broken boss sequence where the first time you're supposed to fight Pyramid Head, the AI doesn't even work correctly lmao.
People who worked on silent hill who mainly stick to their life even wrote tweets, like "different fog". They go in hard with the fake nice public facade in japan. Another tweet was something like "unexpected, different", and i was just imaginging the curse words in their heads, while writing in such a neutral language that it basically forced the reader to either know what was going on, and it was hilarious if you did, but if you diddent know... it seemed very odd that nobody used one positive.
I'm a Translator and I play my own dumps. What got me into emulation is region locking originally, then it turned into finding games in Thrift Stores, online like Amazon or Ebay, etc. I back up my games for later translation on an emulator and at times, I won't find it until a few months when it's listed again. Another reason I emulate games is due to translation or using save states, slow motion on some for very difficult games as I am focused on translation over proving I can beat it. The other part is the controller, I get one controller for everything instead of too many. When taking a break or real life comes up, I pause the software and come back to it with input recording on and I can later render it in HD. I can't do that on a console.
>last game is Climax >with it, the series climaxed Pottery, every stanza rhymes. That said, only 4 more years until we surpass the Kid Icarus hiatus, 3 if you prefer to count GX (or GP Legend, I forget which is more recent) as the last release instead of the JP exclusive GameBoy game.
@@wompastompa3692 For a climax, it was a bit weak. I mean, it seems like a pretty solid entry in the series, but it's with the 3D games on consoles that F-Zero really reached the greatest heights. Crazy to think that it's been almost 2 decades since the last one. :(
I like emulating games that I can’t play in my region. Some games I play in Spanish because I enjoy the voice acting more and I can’t do that without emulating those same games but that were made for the Spanish speaking market.
If I already bought the console at the time of its release and bought the game at that time as well, I can't see why I can't download the bios from any source and the roms for the games I already bought anytime I want and play.
Look, I’m on your side. Generally, I don’t care if a major company starts losing profits, especially with how greedy Nintendo has started to be. But arguing that piracy isn’t bad because Metroid Dread is selling well _despite_ the piracy isn’t a good argument.
Pirates' gonna be pirates. It's hard to force someone to buy when they genuinely can't afford said games which is mostly the case when it comes to pirating new games. Yes, video game is luxury but these peep on 3rd world or developing country couldn't care less about this.
@@braxinIV often pirated versions will be used as a demo to see if people like it. Most games don't have all features enabled when pirated. Compared to used games, the chance to make a pirate, a first hand buyer, is many times bigger. Used games is basically piracy+
Honestly, the only thing I never understood when it comes to this whole thing is the stance when it comes to downloading ROMs from websites, like, just downloading them from somewhere on the internet and not having the actual disc/cartridge/whatever with you along with any external software to extract whatever you need to play the game on an emulator; I've been kind of hesitant when it comes to pirating in general nowadays and have been considering actually buying stuff upfront instead of relying exclusively on it, but I'm poor and don't have any actual income outside of what I get from my family, so rn it's just hard for me to even think about something like that lol
Emulation is becoming mandatory as we see like remasters or new editions of old games get censored/broken and therefore impossible to play without issues whereas original releases work flawlessly
You can do that with emulation too. The gamecube version of megaman x command mission has purple tokens that you can find by using your gameboy. You can emulate a rom to trigger the radar for the game, is pretty neat.
I don't remember exactly what subreddit it was but I casually mentioned emulating old games and preservation being a part of it and was super surprised at the hostility and accusations of entitlement....like...seriously? people would prefer to live in a world where the only way to access old games is to invest hundreds of dollars in 30 year old hardware? for what? who does that benefit? and I OWN and play all my actual SNES games on the actual hardware too...I'm not pro piracy but there is nuance in some cases
Im sure you could read the Rom with an arduino, probably even has been done I’m sure there’s some info out there. Edit: Or mod the console as junglezone suggested
@@ordinary_magician Perfect time to do it now, with all these OLEDs coming out you can probably nab a Lite or Vanilla for cheap from someone replacing theirs. Just don't sign into it and enjoy.
Gonna sound a bit odd on this one, but I wish someone could find a way to emulate the older versions of iOS. Im a huge fan of the Ace Combat series, and there is a whole frikin game that was exclusive to older versions of iOS (which was so different fron modern iOS, modern iOS can't even run the app files when jailbroken). Not to mention classics like Tap Tap Revenge, Jelly Car, and 2 (yes, 2) Crash Bandicoot racing games. These games weren't ported to android, and, at best, got a lackluster port to some odd game system or another, often with botched controls. The best way to play any of the Jelly Car games nowadays, is the port of Jelly Car 2 to the Wii, which you can play through Dolphin. But if you want an example of what will happen when you leave your games to a tight fisted company, look no farther than Apple and realize without emulation, one day many of the things you love will die and go away. Don't end up like an Apple fanboy, or one day you will wake up to find games you want to play gone, and no way to play them.
Caddicius did a video on the Crash Mobile games, he got some of them to work but on original hardware. Seems like it'd be easy enough to do, there's PC android emulators. There is a whole world of mobile games from 2000-2010 that are lost to time.
It sucks being a Nintendo fan at times. It’s difficult supporting a company that seems to be so anti-consumer. It hurts seeing them do things like refusing to acknowledge the physical problems with their products, flat-out SUING their own fans directly for emulating games they themselves haven’t sold in decades, and be unable to release reasonably-priced products at a reasonable rate (especially when it comes to old games they own like Earthbound or Super Mario All-Stars). These aren’t just minor problems you can pin down on one person/a few people. These problems are company-wide. It seems like it’ll be a LONG time before they learn better and start treating consumers reasonably. On the other hand, as a person that happily emulates every game I already own -and some I don’t,- it also sucks being on the side of the pirates. Emulating games you genuinely don’t have access to because the game is rare or too expensive in the second-hand market is one thing, but acting like you’re being righteous for pirating games is just obnoxious. For example, I’ve been a fan of Jim Sterling for a while, but she’s been really obnoxious in recent times with how often she acts like pirating games is something heroic or morally superior. To not single her out, even the comments in Muta’s videos about the topic have been filled with these tacky comments. On the Metroid Dread video, I remember seeing someone argue that pirating Metroid Dread is good because... Nintendo already has money. That’s the entire reason. I can’t even begin to talk about every problem a statement this stupid has, and I hope anyone reading this doesn’t need me to say why. Anyways, terms like “X is good, actually” and “late-stage capitalism” are just ruined for me. I can’t even hear them without imagining a liberal I mostly agree with that’s about to drop one of the shittiest takes I have ever heard _again._ I guess I have to pick a side if I want the situation to improve, and I guess I’d rather be on the side of the consumers (even if some of them can be very obnoxious). I just wish Nintendo had the wisdom to move past this. They have the ability to fix everything here. They just need to make old games available and affordable. Mix the eShop AND the NSO instead of choosing only one. Give the consumer options. Want to play offline, or end your NSO subscription but still be able to play Super Metroid? Just buy it for $5. And for God’s sake, make every old game available at once. Don’t add 2-4 games every couple of months. Add the entire library of N64 games Nintendo owns the rights to all at once, and then start focusing on the libraries of other consoles. And don’t make it cost $50 for some god-forsaken reason. It wouldn’t be a good price even then. Nintendo needs to realize they’re losing all of the good-will they have gotten out of their fans with all of these predatory business decisions, and they won’t always be able to release good games to patch up this relationship. Their boat may be going fast, but it’s running on fumes.
Bro no one is gonna sit here and read this novel. No one cares if you pirate roms only people who do are the same people doing it without admitting to it. Piracy is fine and as long as you're not using it to make money it's perfectly okay.
@@ransacked - I’m sure people can read. You’re doing more harm than good here in more ways than you think. I hope you know that the law is a thing that still exists here, right? You can’t always get away with stealing? You can’t just ignore laws with no consequences forever? Sure, you might not personally get sued, but what about ROM sites? Or even... emulator developers? By pirating, you’re giving Nintendo a better argument proving why not just piracy sites, but emulation as a whole should be unambiguously illegal. The laws right now are vague, but generally on the side of emulation because a set of court cases from decades ago decided that emulators themselves had legitimate uses that outweighed the bad uses. However these court cases were made back when the internet wasn’t as widespread and ROM downloading wasn’t as easy. If Nintendo tried suing again now, it’s entirely reasonable that a court could side with Nintendo because it could be argued that emulators facilitate piracy too much. That emulators are half of what’s necessary to pirate games. The more you support emulators, the more against piracy you should be. Emulators are a great way to play games the way we remember, or even in entirely different ways than originally intended. By pirating, you could be helping take that away.
the first no more heroes and it's PS3 remake had a song named "Heavenly star" which was copyrighted and used some times Sylvia was on screen, and on subsequent releases like the switch and PC versions got the song removed because of licensing issues
A lot of songs went missing with GTA re releases and ports due to licencing, you'd think they'd write the contract for the life of the game not just the first pressing 🤷
I'd rather buy an old console off a family that needs the money more than the console, and support those who need it, rather than buying a new Nintendo console for the 200+ game ports they suck their own genitals over. Even emulation can be forgiven at this point from the sheer incompetence I've seen 🤦🏻♂️
@@s0vnds nah but they try to upsell it like “play your old games on the go like you couldn’t before” when android has just as viable emulators as computer. It’s a sham either way you look at it to sell it like that. Especially locking on-the-go SNES and NES gaming behind an online subscription paywall. Locks you out if you’re offline too long.
Nintendo stopped trying when they shut down the virtual console on Wii... honestly, Nintendo, as well as Sony & Microsoft, will never bother replicate the dope marketplace that gave us some of the best ports on those stores. Nintendo will never bother porting classic titles and will continue to shill to their fanbase. Emulation ftw
@@Nicomanism Microsoft focuses more on selling people movies and music now, to the point where last time I used my Xbox One you had to go through the movies and the music tabs to get to the game store. Even then, they weren't listed in alphabetical order or genre and it was a hassle to find any games you might be interested in compared to the Xbox 360 store. Got a gaming PC in 2017 and Steam still has 95% of the same layout as it did while playing Gmod on a crappy laptop back in 2008
@@finkamain1621 Yah I am not familiar with Xbox One, 8th Gen hardware. I only remember the Xbox 360, PS3, & Wii marketplace from the late 2000s to early 2012. Obviously, you're younger or older, whichever fills who you be. I grew up in 6th & 7th Gen era. Never cared nor gave a flip about the movies / music from 7th Gen era. Finding games on PS3 ( before the migration PS4 Update store ) was simple, a breeze, fast and cool. Xbox 360 was simple to navigate the marketplace. Virtual Console, while barebones, was still dope also. Didn't even know thats what Microsoft does now 🤷♂️: sell movies and music- assuming thats what you say. Own a custom PC since 2019, and still have my consoles from 5th to 7th gen. So yeah...
Yeah... I'm not going to spend $760 (AUD) to buy a copy of Kuon when I can just emulate it on my PC lol The game is a great experience. And no casual gamer is going to be open minded enough to fork over that much cash on a PS2 game.
LOL the message of this video is perfectly clear and correct BUT like you stated people who emulate download! Emulation goes hand in hand with downloading older games no matter what way you try to spin it. I think it is safe to say that everyone on the internet has pirated something at some point in their life, give people the tools and they will find the requirements to make those tools work.
Always great to see someone defending emulation, enjoying the benefits of it, and pointing out many of said benefits. Thanks to Dolphin, I'm finally playing games like Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles the proper way: with 4 players. I had the game back in the day, but not a GBA. And I barely knew anyone else at the time who had one, despite it apparently being really popular. Also, some disc-based games had annoying or even unbearable load times, and these can be more or less skipped via emulation, even if you just have a regular hard drive.
Ah i see, i need to check that game out, it seems very interesting. i would love to play it sometime. i love exploring old school JRPG games or similar games in general : ).
I was originally going to wait until a few months after release to buy Dread but because of Kotaku I went and bought it right away as it's one of my favourite Nintendo IPS
I played your music on my gramophone on my school bus and literally got kicked out and got laughed at by all the kids on the bus, I couldn’t even go to school the next day because of you. Thank you so much for being the worst artist of this generation.
You know Nintendo shills that think emulation is the devil are so down horrendous that muta has to make a 30 min video to explain why it's better than the lowest option Nintendo gives us on the switch
If you actually think the most people emulating dread when the game came out actually bought it and dumped the files onto their pc, then you’re being naive.
“Just because they have a right to do something doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.” -Nerrel I really recommend anyone who sees this to watch Nerrel’s videos on emulation.
@@dragonandavatarfan8865 if I didn’t watch a UA-cam because I disagreed with some of their opinions, I wouldn’t watch any UA-camrs, the best UA-camrs are entertaining, informative, and give their honest opinion, nerrel definitely has these qualities regardless of whether I disagree about the last Jedi and hollow knight
@@PatrickThomasBrady Just because someone's opinions are honest, doesn't mean that they are not stupid or dogshit and I have every right to stop listening to their bs. If you enjoy low-quality misinformed or downright dishonest critiques of products then sure good for you.
@@dragonandavatarfan8865 absolutely, my only point was your saying that like it’s a fact, to call him misinformed or dishonest isn’t true, it’s just his opinion, your free to not watch because you disagree or he rubs you the wrong way, but I’ve yet to watch any video where he’s not informed or lies about the topic because that’s where I stop watching so what’s he misinformed or being dishonest about
I feel like it shouldn’t even be an issue to download roms if the company doesn’t sell the game any more. I own a ps2 but I don’t fuckin know how to download and backup my own PS2 BIOS to some cloud server and whatever other bullshit that I would have to tech myself how to do to play ps2 emulations “legally”. Likewise I own tons of gameboy advance games but don’t have the hardware or knowledge to get the data off of them, so I download a rom to play them. As long as I’m not downloading a rom for a game that is currently for sale in an accessible place (ie not secondhand on eBay but say available online from the developer) then it should not be a problem or even looked down upon.
sometimes emulation is one of the only thing keeping certain games alive, at least in a practical way, it’s how my friends and I have been able to play the original Phantasy Star Online together as I’ve been on a MMO kick ever since I started playing FF14. Yes you can still get it running on original dreamcast hardware but that can be costly depending on what route you take
Fr if it wasn't for emulators I would have never completed the original castlevania for the nes, because what other reason would I have to try games that are from well before my time. Not everyone is willing to invest a bunch of money into an old system they don't even know they'll like.
The thing I never understood is what is the difference between downloading an ISO of the Digimon World 2 copy next to me or just dumping it myself? I still have the original copy I bought when I was a kid, I just saved myself some effort.
I've always emulated games mainly because I grew up poor and couldn't afford games like that or have the latest console so many of the games series I love I emulated.
It also doesn't help that they came out with another type of DLC which is borderline a microtransaction with what little content it has. I highly support long term support for games but The Sims 4 is the worst way to do it, especially when you need a DLC for a DLC to work
As a Nintendo and Pokemon Fan, when I finally got money to buy a Switch, playing Solo in The Legend of Zelda BoW, and while waiting for the release of Pokemon Sword and Shield... One thing I realized... To fully enjoy the upcoming Pokemon Online Features (or other Online Switch Games) you need to buy the Game (duh... of course), Pay for Online Service (which is free in DS Era) and what I hate most is they chopped the Game via DLC to squeeze more money on you... Damn... My Third World Money and Income as a Commoner won't take it... And I say, THAT'S IT! ENOUGH! Sold those MONEY MILKERS AND BEEF UP MY PC! FREEDOM! HAHAH! =D
@@ransacked Thanks bro, I considered that too, but I really wanted a Genuine Online Experience, well... Since I can't afford it anymore, I'll focus all my resources in PC, no regrets! =D
Get an mClassic. It’s supposed to be used in tandem with those HDMI adapters, and it does a lot to help the image quality. It’s a bit pricy, but I personally thought it was worth it. It seems to work best for GameCube/Wii games.
Nintendo Games are really good, they're very high quality; however, I ain't paying 70 dollars for a game I'll finish in less than a week only for it to look nicer.
He just said subtly that piracy isn't gonna land you behind bars if the company or developer isn't making money off of their licensed games years ago. So in other words, he doesn't condone it, but he doesn't care if you do it.
I will say that I have to thank emulation for finally being able to mod Gran Turismo 2 and Gran Turismo games in general. Being able to finally drive a Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR that was scrapped from GT2 is fantastic. or right now a Gran Turismo 3 mod project being worked on right now that brings all of the content from GT Concept 2002 Tokyo Geneva, bringing that game to its fullest pontential.
I have had a friend that used to pirate tons of games, but when steam became a stable platform he went and got all the games there that he pirated because of convince. All games nearly placed in one library that needs no cracking and have new and auto updates on the games is what won him over, plus the steam sales are pretty insane.
I think piracy can also be okay when used in a "try before you buy" way. Game companies no longer give a shit about making demos for their products these days, but I really want to make sure I like the game before I potentially give my money away to a bad product (See: Cyberpunk 2077), so I'll often "yarr-harr" a product, decide that I like it, then buy it from a legitimate source.
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Nintendo doesn't have Portuguese Subtitles for the Brazilian Community, but one day after the release the community was to able to translate the entire game. Now I can play emulated and translated, not dependent on the company
Become ungovernable
Actually the first version of the translation was released a day BEFORE the game released which was pretty funny. Although it contained some typos, which were corrected the day next to the game release. Foda os pirateiros prestando um serviço de graça melhor que o da nintentendo pago.
Yo dammnnn how they do us Brazilians like that
Even though I suck at speaking Portuguese
A pirataria no Brasil sempre foi uma alternativa, e a melhor na maioria das vezes, nunca morreu, nunca morrerá
Please keep in mind that a game at launch can come out costing almost 20% of the minimun wage here in Brasil.
My rule is if it's not readily available, I'll emulate it. I'm not spending $200 on a copy of Paper Mario TTYD.
Same here, I would literally buy Paper Mario TTYD re-release seconds after announcement, but Nintendo being Nintendo.
I'm NEVER spending $150 on Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness and $250 to play Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Fk that that's insane, I am so glad Nintendont exists, able to play on my modded Wii with GC controller and it's exactly as if i actually had the games, screw Nintendo so hard for having so many great games in their vault and NOT selling them for digital purchase in any way, what the actual f, do they even know how much money they could be making??
Yep, same. I'm not paying an inflated price just to fill some other guy's pocket, lol.
What I have that game just no console
My rule is that if i want it, And there is a way to get a priced thing on pc for free, I'll get it.
"Emulation doesn't hurt Nintendo, but I wish it did" - some absolute CHAD in a subreddit
Some dudes really think they leading a crusade against a game company by pirating. Like wtf are you accomplishing against this multibillion dollar company. Woo I just threw a pebble at a steel fortress, it'll crumble any second now
Average reddit users
@@iaqh beta male
CHAD and reddit dont add up
@@iaqh bro Nintendo is literally horrible
I think there should be a digital version of "public domain". Once a software that isn't being worked on, sold, or updated or anything anymore reaches a certain age, it should just be in the public domain and be perfectly legal to download.
That's why there needs to be updates in copyright law. It's so archaic
I'm sure that is already a thing after 20 years. It's one of the reasons they release random crappy movies and games every now and then like the latest matrix movie and the remastered GTAs.
my god you all are so incredibly clueless about what copyright and the public domain is. both of those things do apply to software by default. it takes a lot for something to be thrown in the public domain, though. usually, 70 years after the authors death. it's ridiculous.
Yeah there's a name for that. Its abandonware
Abandonware
Glad there’s a voice out there normalizing emulation, use to be such a taboo subject.
To be fair, it's only taboo if you don't know the law and just eat up whatever PR mouthpieces say
Whoever comes at you with "EmULATioN iS iLlegAL!11" just tell them to look this up: Sony v. Bleem
I like emulation , since i even own PS2 but most of the game disk starting to fail due to normal wear and tear ( just like anything hardware related) so having that emulation is just convienience . Plus my ps2 cant support modern tv . (sure there adapter but like emulation is better )
only bootlickers cry about emulation
@@sangan3202 Only people with a sad existence cry about emulation
only U.S cry about emulation, in my country we encourage emulation and piracy, even university will teach you how to pirate photoshop. friends will teach you how to emulate all those old nintendo games so you wont be an idiot that spends hundred dollars for old console.
As long as they don't put Smash Melee on Switch with Online Features and an actual good Netcode, I will continue using Slippi.
Yes, I bought Melee 20 years ago.. but I'm happy to be able to play one of my all time favorite games online with people all around the world thanks to emulation!
Also Muta, make sure to finish Silent Hill 2 actually :P
the homie Luigikid 🧎
no
His laugh meme is related to scary website yet he never finished one of the greatest horror games ever released lmao
@@m2b785 god bless you my friend
I used to watch this guy, odd
I hate that companies take advantage of emulation being a taboo so when people ask "How did you release a remaster that is worse than emulation?" their answer is "That version doesn't exist."
I hate that consumers take advantage of emulation to steal new games, but whatever.
@@Devourlord I'm not even talking about new games in this comment. But even if I was so little people are actually into emulation and most consumers will just go to Walmart and get their game. Just look at Skyward Sword HD.
@@Devourlord That’s literally the smallest subset of people you’re talking about. I’d wager that over 99% of people that use emulators just want to play old games in high fidelity on their modern hardware.
Also, you sound like a corporate tool.
@@Devourlord you described piracy not emulation
@@Devourlord I hate that robbers take advantage of guns to rob stores, but whatever.
I emulate them because it costs some of my PC’s storage instead of my entire life savings for a 10 year old game
I played your music on my gramophone on my school bus and literally got kicked out and got laughed at by all the kids on the bus, I couldn’t even go to school the next day because of you. Thank you so much for being the worst artist of this generation.
punch out wii is like $45 bro, fuck that load up the dolphin
@@bruv1835 what?
@@enragedbear 45 dollars pshhh I want to play earthbound on the snes
Bruh can't tell between piracy and emulation
the more people defend emulation the better
Ye
Ye
@@blackpantherepic3104 yee
I agree.
Screw Nintendon't, I'm always gonna pirate games, software etc.
Power of third world.
@@tausiftaha12 If they ain’t bringing GBA games to the Switch, fine by me I didn’t wanna play them anyways since I successfully pirated The Minish Cap yesterday
“The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. ... It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.” our lord and savior Gabe Newell
Gabe is terrible. Anything BUT a savior, dude.
@@DillonintheDetails that last bit was pose to come off sarcastically
Emulators are not exactly hard to setup, but still far from convenient for the average user. I bet many people would pay like $5 for a retro game on PC rather than pirtate on an emulator, assuming both versions are equal quality. But do companies do that? No.
@@moona2452 That's exactly what I said. Did you not read my comment?
@@MobyDrip im sorry i read it wrong. you are correct
"Emulation is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.” - Papa Palpatine (Battlefront 2 Classic on the PS2)
I love how shitposty this comment is.
Starfox can run at more than 7-8FPS so yeah lmao
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well
The first time I ran F-zero GX in Dolphin, with all the graphics enhancements, it brought tears to my eyes and child-like joy to my heart. God bless the talented people that make emulation possible. :')
Emulators are awesome
Emulation=nostalgia=euphoria=pure joy!
GX is the best👍
Seriously the incredible talented geniuses who make emulators or do modding/hacks for Nintendo consoles are heroes 🙏 I cannot imagine a world without them, the fans will always care more about Nintendo's games than Nintendo themselves do.
F-Zero bros...
What's surprising about Metroid dread running on emulators is that Metroid dread uses a newer version of the Nintendo Switch SDK with unknown changes and it runs quite well on emulators in spite of that.
Yes it runs flawlessly on my ryzen laptop
@@tamimdari997 what's your specs ?
My problem is I just don't trust any rom sites these days. Pretty sure my machine would blitz it.
@@Kholaslittlespot1 uh you can find it pretty easily if you look I've pirated plenty of switch games and they were all safe just don't download things that have weird file names.
@@ahirbhattacharjee2352 hp probook g4 ryzen 7 2700u vega 10 16gb dual channel ram.
If you think it's gratuitous or unfair that Metroid Dread and other new Switch games are already emulated, just remember the specs for the GameBoy Advance were so well-documented and heavily-leaked ahead of time that there was already a working emulator for it floating around the internet in 2000 nearly a year before you could buy the actual hardware.
really that's amazing i did not know that
they both suck tbh
Not equivalent at all.
" piracy is a federal crime "
*me with 17 pirated games on my pc:* oh no.
lol i got 627 pirated games.
granted, it's across 10 systems...
and there are several games with different versions... (pokemon for example)
and some ports here and there... (ocarina of time master quest)
but still, that's too many
@@nintendo_pirate bruh how do you have that much, send us some aswell
Your getting 25 years of community service, no video game usage 😂
@@nintendo_pirate just play them one at a time till finished. I got a old google pixel Xl android and just play one at a time. Also got a powerhouse Samsung note 10+ powerhouse with snapdragon 855 and 12gb ram but the screen got messed up so need to fix it and a iPhone 13 which I can’t wait to never buy a iPhone again although they do emulate GameCube very well
Dude I have been pirating games since when I got my first laptop
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem” - Gabe Newell, 2011
@o it means i will pirate old games that i want to play until germany gets there head out of there Ass.
But seriously it just means pepole pirate games because there is no good way of getting the Software legaly for instance if i woud find a non butcherd Version of saints row 2 or gta San Andreas for that i dont need to sell 2 kindneys and a lung i woud buy it until that happens piracy is the only way to play those games without Wanting to shoot a bunch of politicians
@@christophbeck1305 Dont forget updates, i was very glad to not be one of these people who owns legit skyrim se on steam because instead making a seperate game the whole game gets updated to anniversary edition which means that would break almost every mods.
The only way to legally get The Racoons cartoon was on a German DVD release. It was made in goddamn Canada in English but I as an English speaking Canadian can't have it. It's now on my hard drive as VHS rips but it would be nice to have actually good copies.
nah i dont think thats true in third world countries where your 4-6 months of savings for any avg teen will get u one aaa game i see pricing as a problem, tho even for me even if i pirate aaa's i pay for most of the indie games that i play games like hollow knight deserve every penny, as for games like metroid, it is really easy for muta to say that dont pirate it since he is a pretty well off person and can easily afford it, now comes the thing about just dont play it honestly use your brain for once and literally think what an avg person would do when he isn't accountable, so to sum it if in third world countries like india almost every one i know pirates stuff and its a common activity when ever someone refers to download this thing or that thing its probably piracy, imo its justifiably for aaa's cuz heck most of the population makes $60 per month which is what most aaa's charge now a days
Or live in a 3rd world country where a game is literally half your rent for the month. Its so normal where I live like literally every PC gamer has atleast 10 cracked games on their PC and obviously no one gives a shit because our government can't even regulate basic services.
"There's no doubt that people who use emulators probably also download a lot of ROMs."
I don't know, it's almost as if Nintendumb should let me pay for and download an image of Metroid Prime or SSX right off of their website, kind of like how GOG handles it. Then maybe those torrent numbers would fly way down. If I wanted to play the PS2 version of Quake 3, or Fighting Force 2, or any Guitar Hero on that system, I can't get those from PSN. This is entirely a developer/publisher created problem, and they're using "Little Timmy copied Halo 1 from Little Billy" as a scapegoat.
You're the only other person I've seen that knows about Fighting Force 2
That's actually a valid reason if you don't want or can't afford a retail copy. Companies should've a standard when they stop making consoles and that is launching a game dumps store when you can buy and download your games to your device and play them in an emulator, to put an example, MK Trilogy is selled really cheap on GOG but is just a ROM package bundled with DOSbox, that should be standard for something like PSN games.
I swear to god, I've been seeing at least one scalie in just about every comment section lately.
Or you know stop supporting a company who doesn't care about their users and don't have a moral dilemma about downloading roms it's not the end of the world and no one is gonna come after you for it.
@@ransacked Pirating current gen ROMs _is_ bad, though. You're stealing from the devs who made the game. It's a lot worse than pirating things like old Sega games even though they're widely available. If you don't wanna support Nintendo that much, then buy a console second hand.
I would've never gotten into the Megami Tensei series if I didn't emulate Persona 3 on pcsx2. In fact, a lot of my most magical memorable gaming experiences were through emulation. We're living in an age where people like me were basically raised on this stuff. It honestly feels kind of empowering.
yea
SpongeBob: (heavy breathing)" I feel empowered!)
Me with Super Metroid on a PS2 emulator lol
That's me with Animal Crossing. I emulated it for the gamecube and 3ds, and when my saves got corrupted, I suddenly felt compelled to get a switch to play new horizons... now I'm a nintendo switch junkie! :D
me too games like zelda and mario and sonic and kirby i got to play through emulation
Welp. You know what they say: It’s never illegal to emulate ass years old Nintendo games if they charge you an abysmal price for it
Or if they literally don’t sell it anymore lol
@@officialrohinmusic that too
Yeah Nintendo is essentially asking you to pay for roms.
Then why these fat man emulate switch game and calls it legal lol. Broke people always complain about price. Get a job and stop being poor.
@@CarlJohnson-gj1tq Yeah it's totally more productive to pay three times the original price to resellers rather than simply grabbing these otherwise unobtainable games for free and using your money for other more important things! 🤡
I work at a tiny indie studio that publishes stuff officially for the Switch -- we've absolutely used Switch emulators when trying to debug particularly odd glitches where the Switch GPU was crashing :)
Emulation is never a bad thing. In fact, we wouldn't be able to preserve said games without Emulation to begin with.
Literally so many cult classics wouldn't have gotten re releases, developers wouldn't have been exposed to stories and game design that inspired their own works. Emulation saved gaming. Fuck these anti emulation cuck ass companies.
Emulation is the only reason I knew that games like legend of Zelda OoT and MM existed
Very interesting name you got there
It's that or buy Physical Hardware and Software that are obsolete and will give a headache to use and set up
@@billymercury3897 And sinking a month's salary into buying 1 copy of Harvest Moon
Muta is actually giving us subtle hints that he is the hack lord leader
Subtle hints? I thought it was common knowledge by now
He's a hack alright.
It’s crazy to think I’ve watched this dude since I was like 13 and am now 21, I remember showing my brother him. It’s been crazy to see the growth
I still don’t know the name of the old outro song he used to have back in his creepypasta reading days, but it’s still stuck in my head.
Thanks, Muta!
THICCER BADDER SOG. ughg.
From creepypasta to deep web analysis and now comentary, Muta is the GOAT
Lmao same bro since I was like 10 now 18
We need to start emulating Muta before he grows old and dies
Man, I've been emulating old games since I was a kid and it really makes me happy that I can considering that some of the old games I wanna play are being physically resold by third party sellers for prices beyond belief. I hate to see it be a problem, it's pretty dumb.
I got a handheld emulation device called the Retroid Pocket 2 Plus and holy shit, the amount of games I discovered, Tetris Blast for example.
To your points though, It is dumb.
These game companies demand so much but yet, give so little and hoard it like a parody of Smaug
Preservation is always intriguing to me when it comes to video games. I did notice how, even after Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service shut down in 2014, people are still able to play their DS and Wii games online and maintain that functionality with custom servers and whatnot. I would love to see you do a deep dive into this.
hamachi ftw I still play old online games using random custom roms with random servers xD its usually the same 100 people but its fun
Good man!
People should buy their new games but until Nintendo puts some effort into their emulation tech and back catalogue, there's no incentive for the customer to abandon emulation.
Nintendo, there are many ROM sites/sources out there. You can never stop them all. Instead of endless legal battles, you should simply add content they don't have. Add a new GP to Super Mario Kart or a new world to Mario World etc etc.
Next, swallow your silly pride, call up BSnes and buy their emulation tech so you can monopolize that fancy HD Mode 7.
Boom! Done! You can now compete with emulation and make real $$$ doing it!
@@m2b785 Stop spamming these comments
That's something that id Software always did for Doom games. Doom II got a new episode when it rereleased on the Xbox 360, Doom got a new episode fully made by one of the original developers in 2019, Doom 3 got some new levels with the Xbox 360/PS3 era rerelease, and Doom 64 got a new episode with the rerelease last year. It incentivizes old players to rebuy those old games if they play at better graphical levels and with new content. Nintendo already did that with Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario 3D World on the Switch, so they should be able to do it with the older games
Have you heard of the place Afro-eurasia?
@@finkamain1621 Another thing that id Software from the 1990's to early 2010's that makes me admire them so much (especially John Carmack) is that they open sourced their outdated engines (usually putting them under the GNU GPL) ensuring that they can remain supported by their communities, such as porting them to newer platforms, ensuring that those games such as Doom 1/2/Ultimate/TNT/Plutonia/3/RoE/BFG Edition and Quake 1/2/3 can be easily be ran natively (with enhancements too!) on those newer platforms without issues stemming from compatibility and without having to emulate those older systems.
@@fzerowipeoutlover Yeah that move was amazing and it allows people to play those games without having to use DOSBox
The problem with Nintendo is that they're not a hardware/software company, but a toy company that just so happens to sell hardware/software. While software companies (especially entertainment-based ones) thrive from making their work as available and convenient as possible, toy companies love to manufacture scarcity and exploit FOMO. Look at all the limited-time things that Nintendo used to offer, like the NES/SNES classic, Mario All Stars 3D, and all those amiibos that they never supply enough of. It's no wonder why they despise external emulation so much. And to think that they're still regarded by some as the family-friendly gaming company, while they exploit their players so hard...
I like your comment friend.
Nintendo actually did sell toys before moving on to video games, so maybe that toy selling mentality never completely left them.
Video games is meant to be a toy anyways.. And Nintendo is one of the pioneers in Mainstream Video Game Software and Hardware wise even before Sony PS and Xbox came to life.. They even managed to keep handheld gaming a platform that every company says is already dead repeatedly..
Regarding the limited items. With how many merchandise they manufacture do you expect they will make like 50 Million copies of each figures/Amiibo/etc that they have? Ofc they will base all the supply to the demand. If something is in demand then for sure they will make more of it... Simple as that. They are a business afterall. FOMO has nothing to do with that, that's the mindset of the consumers that wants everything and anything in this world..
And in regards to emulation no going company will approve or be happy with that no matter the circumstances.. There's various reason that a game doesn't get released/localized in certain countries, it's not just Nintendo doesn't want to why will they not want to release a game to make profit right? But sometimes the risk is just bigger than the reward and again:
NINTENDO IS A BUSINESS, gamer nowadays only thinks about their own benefit as a consumer but doesn't even factor the complex system a company needs to do just to be able to deliver products in the public..
Ignorance is really a bad thing you know especially when your products are meant for childrens/people that have no idea in such things and only cares for what they want.
This explains so much why Nintendo makes the weird decisions they do, it's a terrible shame with all the incredible first party/IP's they own and most will suffer and never get the great sequels they deserve, Nintendo stopped caring about hardware power after the GameCube...and software? everyone knows what all the Switch is missing compared to Wii U and 3DS.
It doesn't help that their biggest player base, if not just as big as children, is millennials who grew up with Nintendo. These people will buy anything from them and even never wait for sales and even buy products from scalpers. They're also the group that complained about the new OLED Switch, but they bought it anyway despite already owning a Switch and Switch Lite. Nintendo is able to get away with scummy practices people these people are always willing to pay for anything they make. It's no different than the yearly releases of Call of Duty, FIFA, or Madden. They release every year because consumers keep buying them
"Downloading ROMS and isos are illegal"
Me downloading linux isos : oh shit
Better hide those live boot USBs
Hide before Bill Gates finds you
"You wouldn't download a Linux distribution"
I remember some dude got reported to law enforcement by his ISP for downloading a ubuntu iso 😂
Fitting profile pic
I just finished Spider-Man 2 yesterday on the Dolphin emulator with HD textures, Widescreen and 60fps code, 4x upscaling. It was soooooooo much better than playing the original game on the original hardware.
Did you take a look inside the pawn shop?
@@Skelterbane69 the devs arn;t making money off of it or selling it digitally it;s abandonware
Sorry Muta, I've been burned too many times. I'm sailing the high seas exclusively to do a demo, and if the game is good I will buy it. But AAA publishers have gotten too lazy and greedy, that way if the game is shit then I don't have buyers remorse. If they want this to stop, release completed and fully functioning games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
no kidding.
Nick Brawl seems like a promising platform fighter.... but at release? it was incomplete trash.
This is why they should just release bloody demo's for their games. Why the fuck would I trust the cinematic "trailer" that they spent stupid amounts of money on to make the game look way better than it is and showing off things that aren't even in the game.
Not like EA would lose anything either with how many brainlets will always die on the Fifa hill
I love that attitude because quite honestly fuck all these game companies nowadays, except for a few like santa monica or insomniac
Companies in general are fucking over the consumer at an accelerated rate. It's about time the consumer did it to the company. Imagine defending a multi billion dollar enterprise.
For me, if the game is not available on any modern system for sale and it’s ridiculously overpriced, I just use an emulator.
same here , it only seems reasonable in all honesty. the overpricing and the unavailability plays a big factor on why people use Emulators in the first place.
@@piccolo56000 like I emulated the Namco Museum PS1 games because the games got delisted on the PS3 store
Fr aunt now way imma pay 21 dollars for a membership just to play fnv
I’m surprised Nintendo is still looking down on emulators, even though half of the games people emulate are next to impossible to track down.
Meanwhile, PeTA’s monstrosities that they try to push as games still exist and Nintendo hasn’t bothered to even try to take them down.
Wow why dont they like piracy
They cant legally take peta games down because they all fall into the category of parody
@@valletas They take down fan games all the time though
A lot of them that I emulate are just for the convenience of playing it on my PC through HDMI at 1080p and with whatever controller I want. No way am I modding my old consoles to run a shoddy HDMI output and destroying the original one, or running the composite video into some useless upscaler that isn't actually HD and that adds massive input lag
@@mynamehasspacesinit8687 because peta, as well as all those mobile games using their IP with no shame likely have Lawers, so there's a chance they can lose.
Somehow I don't believe Mutahar actually uses Raycons as his everyday earbuds, even when he's on the go.
Yeah, Raycons are trash
Raycons are trash, none of the people that Raycon sponsors actually uses them lmao
Yeah they do it just to get paid, can't blame em tho
muta have to pay his bills bro
We aren’t pirates, we’re preservationists and enthusiasts.
why wouldnt you want to be a pirate
@@giggoty4926 argh, right matey
Pirating old games that aren’t making companies money might even be a benefit because it might bring in new fans
Actually, emulating any retro game. As long it isn't a new game that's recently made.
Most of the companies that made those old games aren't even around anymore.
For context of the Silent Hill HD Collection. Konami gave the team doing the collection an Alpha build of SH2 and just went, "here you, we'll see you in a month"
this is the best take on emulation. as long as you buy the game run it however u want!!
My take is, if it isn’t available from the company, (like n64, ps1, ps2, etc.) then I will get it. But if it is a situation like the dread emulation, then i will buy it.
I don't think buying the game is a requirement either considering the absolutely insane price of some older games. If I want to replay Haunting Ground for instance, I'd need to shell out $200-$400. Until companies start offering alternative ways to get these games, yar har.
@@Corthmic if a game is not for sale currently I say it’s fair game. Except Pokémon, idk I think buying remakes is important for that but that’s just me
@@Corthmic dont forgett piracy to get around cencoreship now that steam makes it imposible to get aound that with a vpn its the only way i woud pay 80 bucks for a PC Version of gta San Andreas that is Not butcherd
@@JrockProject1 The remakes aren't the same experience, though. They could be better, could be worse. I'm personally buying the remakes of Diamond and Pearl, but I've also got the DS trilogy installed on my modded 3DS.
Pff, one of the best experiences I had with emulation was after the fact I dumped my 3DS games to Citra emulator and played Ocarina of Time and Monster Hunter 4U with HD texture packs full screen, absolutely gorgeous games, and the best part was that my 3DS save files were fully compatible with the emulator and vice versa.
There is a big grey area when it comes to the ROMs and ISOs. I get them from the internet archive. They have written a legal opinion that they are to be considered abandonware and to date they have not had a case against them. I think given the companies realize that it could be the nail in the dmca coffin if they were to actually get a ruling since the archive actually has current dmca immunity for certain abandonware and it is still in legal limbo.
There aren’t even any legit “museums” for gaming hardware or software etc. ppl who emulate or “pirate” are the only ones who preserve these old games for generations to come.
The ZKM (Zeitgenössisches Kunstmuseum) in Karlsruhe Germany has a good video game section. You can even play them on original hardware there. I played on an east german arcade cabinet, it fucking sucked.
Nintendo doesn't always offer what can be emulated. I would have gladly paid them, but even then it would probably be locked at 30 fps unless I emulated.
Steam makes games available and easy to access and download.
piracy and emulation rates drop drastically
wow what a concept
Playing Super Mario Sunshine currently lol mid level PC Yuzu works 60fps as well had to try it 😂 definitely have my main playthrough on Dolphin though as my original sunshine copy is so scratched my GameCube doesn’t read it anymore lol
I wish I could make yuzu run in my pc so that I could emulate switch games now, I really wanna play some switch games lol
I mean if you're not using the full HD texture mod then you are already messing up. Regardless of your framerate
Is. Beautiful
yoo its the herobrine dude
@@666slateran666 Hey. At least it runs in 60. That's really the main goal. Looks come after stabilization.
I remembered a take on Twitter that was basically "if you own the game, but not the console, it's still piracy".. like damn, so I'm a pirate for buying Super Metroid for the 3DS VC lol.
High iq take
It is piracy, except it's "legal" since it's done by the big company themselves. What a bitch move right?
So basically, you're a pirate regardless. Well in that case....
YARRRRRGH!
Great vid, as always, Muta! People really need to stop acting like downloading ROMs for games that are 20, 25, 30 years old (whether or not you own them) is the same as downloading ROMs of games that are 11 days old like Metroid Dread. They are not even remotely in the same ballpark and this shows just how over the knee a lot of people are to these corporations and their drivel. To get a current-gen game like Metroid Dread or Breath of the Wild to the state that it is currently purchasable in an official capacity by the developer and/or publisher, it takes tons of time, money, effort, resources, etc. to do so. Therefore, downloading a ROM of these games at this point when you don't own them is legit piracy and pretty messed up because it communicates to the developers (especially when many do so) that all that is worth nothing to you.
In contrast, very few games (as a percentage of the total) that are, again, 20, 25, 30 years old are available to purchase in any official capacity whatsoever (especially since Virtual Console stopped being a thing, unless if you like to settle for just renting out games lmao), so your only option most of the time is to either buy them from some reseller on eBay (which, trust me, 0% of that money is going to the developer or publisher) or to, gasp!, download a ROM of the game. But even for the very few that are available for "officially sanctioned purchase", how much "effort" did it take to get these games to their current purchasable state (I'm not talking about the original development cycle that was done decades ago and already been compensated handsomely for long, long ago, but things like putting them on compilations, VC when that existed, PSN classics, etc. in the current age)? Putting a few ROMs on a cartridge? Paying out some licensing fees that equate to about $20 for you or I (keep in mind that these are multi-million/billion dollar corporations that make, in a week, at least tenfold what many of us make in an entire year or two, and that's on a bad week for them)?
Doesn't really seem equatable, huh, especially when you consider that these same corporations nickel and dime more out of us in much worse ways on as much as a weekly basis at times. Drastic subscription price hikes for no good reason here. Microtransactions there. Paywalls for basic game features here. Asking for $60 to do glorified beta testing there. Lying to consumers here. Milking fans' wallets dry there. Need I go on? When they nickel and dime us, it sucks but "what can you do", but when we "nickel and dime" them, it's immoral and should be a crime? It's cyber-terrorism, even? Wake up, people! Nintendo's not going to go bankrupt or even suffer in any way if you download a ROM of Ocarina of Time. It won't even be a blip on their radar. They're just happy that they have so many captive sycophants under their thumb, willing to do their bidding and accept their corporate talking points hook, line, and sinker.
The worst motherfuckers about the "nickel and dime"ing is EA, and it's still got me maulding to this day. Recently, someone added up the price of all the Sims 4 DLC plus base game and it came out to nearly $900 USD. 900!!
I'm not entirely sure EA's official stances on ""piracy"" (cough ROMs and Emulation cough) but I imagine it's not good, given their loot crates/microtransactions in Star Wars Battlefront 2. It speaks volumes.
@@autopsyturvy I've even seen some people who, no joke, have a moral objection to buying games on sale. You read that correct. It could be a brand new game you buy at Gamestop/EB Games, Walmart, GAME in the UK, etc., meaning that it is still money going directly to the developers and publisher, but if you don't give them the full MSRP they originally asked for, you're a bad person somehow. Don't believe me? Understandable, but here it is: ua-cam.com/video/BInEYRB1_8k/v-deo.html.
I legit think these people would let the CEOs or developers of these companies fuck their wives, husbands, whatever they may have, right in front of them. Not in some open marriage, mind you, but a strictly monogamous one. I mean, Shuntaro Furukawa could walk into their house and say, "let me sow my seed in your spouse!" and these people will say, very meekly, "absolutely, Nintendo, and thank you, Nintendo, but...uh... please use a condom." And then Furukawa will say, "fuck you, bitch!", with the only response of the bootlickers being, "oh. O...okay then. Proceed!" 😂
@@INXSibleStones-ItaliaFTW74 lmao the last part of your comment is hilarious bro
@FuckOuttaHere it's fine to emulate say, Metroid dread, but the line of piracy is drawn when you download a rom of it without paying for a copy.
@FuckOuttaHere it's not really about the money or profits Nintendo makes, but it's about two factors: using your money to show Nintendo "yes this is good keep doing this" especially with a game series that releases so sporadically, as well as the workers getting their fair wages and even staying employed in same cases.
Money talks. You have to show Nintendo this is the games you wanna see. It sucks, but it's the only way.
The "a-okay" date is when they no longer manufacture disks and they no longer offer it directly from themselves; at that point it's morally alright to emulate. Or, if you own the game already on a console and just want to use your computer for better specs.
Emulation is the one of the reasons why Metroid Dread can get this much of a wide market appeal at it's release - I would guess atleast 70% of the people who have purchased Dread have emulated a metroid title at some point
Nah, only broke probably like you who emulate it.
@@CarlJohnson-gj1tq I’ve been emulating super Metroid before you were born and make more than your parents lmao
nah, its probably around 1-2%.
@@kylemason2836 you mean you're 50years broke? Damm man get a life and job. Should i donate some $ to you so you can afford sht?
@@CarlJohnson-gj1tq No you don’t need share your social security checks with me I make enough on my own
Man, I honestly forgot about Silent Hill HD Collection until this video brought it up again. I can't get over how they had to go and tamper the voices with Silent Hill 2 and 3 and just get rid of some of the charm that they carried. Even though they did allow original audio for Silent Hill 2, I still hated that they didn't allow original audio for Silent Hill 3 as that was my all time favorite in the series. Same time, can't forget about the broken boss sequence where the first time you're supposed to fight Pyramid Head, the AI doesn't even work correctly lmao.
People who worked on silent hill who mainly stick to their life even wrote tweets, like "different fog". They go in hard with the fake nice public facade in japan. Another tweet was something like "unexpected, different", and i was just imaginging the curse words in their heads, while writing in such a neutral language that it basically forced the reader to either know what was going on, and it was hilarious if you did, but if you diddent know... it seemed very odd that nobody used one positive.
I'm a Translator and I play my own dumps.
What got me into emulation is region locking originally, then it turned into finding games in Thrift Stores, online like Amazon or Ebay, etc.
I back up my games for later translation on an emulator and at times, I won't find it until a few months when it's listed again.
Another reason I emulate games is due to translation or using save states, slow motion on some for very difficult games as I am focused on translation over proving I can beat it.
The other part is the controller, I get one controller for everything instead of too many.
When taking a break or real life comes up, I pause the software and come back to it with input recording on and I can later render it in HD.
I can't do that on a console.
"It's tough being a Metriod fan"
F-Zero fans say hi...
>last game is Climax
>with it, the series climaxed
Pottery, every stanza rhymes. That said, only 4 more years until we surpass the Kid Icarus hiatus, 3 if you prefer to count GX (or GP Legend, I forget which is more recent) as the last release instead of the JP exclusive GameBoy game.
chess fans in the background:
F-Zero doesn't even get fan games. Depressing.
@@wompastompa3692 For a climax, it was a bit weak.
I mean, it seems like a pretty solid entry in the series, but it's with the 3D games on consoles that F-Zero really reached the greatest heights.
Crazy to think that it's been almost 2 decades since the last one. :(
I like emulating games that I can’t play in my region. Some games I play in Spanish because I enjoy the voice acting more and I can’t do that without emulating those same games but that were made for the Spanish speaking market.
If I already bought the console at the time of its release and bought the game at that time as well, I can't see why I can't download the bios from any source and the roms for the games I already bought anytime I want and play.
I support piracy of all first-party Nintendo games.
@@m2b785 No... no you dont
Because more than likely the people that were going to emulate it weren’t going to buy it anyways.
Look, I’m on your side. Generally, I don’t care if a major company starts losing profits, especially with how greedy Nintendo has started to be. But arguing that piracy isn’t bad because Metroid Dread is selling well _despite_ the piracy isn’t a good argument.
Pirates' gonna be pirates. It's hard to force someone to buy when they genuinely can't afford said games which is mostly the case when it comes to pirating new games. Yes, video game is luxury but these peep on 3rd world or developing country couldn't care less about this.
@@braxinIV often pirated versions will be used as a demo to see if people like it.
Most games don't have all features enabled when pirated. Compared to used games, the chance to make a pirate, a first hand buyer, is many times bigger.
Used games is basically piracy+
Honestly, the only thing I never understood when it comes to this whole thing is the stance when it comes to downloading ROMs from websites, like, just downloading them from somewhere on the internet and not having the actual disc/cartridge/whatever with you along with any external software to extract whatever you need to play the game on an emulator; I've been kind of hesitant when it comes to pirating in general nowadays and have been considering actually buying stuff upfront instead of relying exclusively on it, but I'm poor and don't have any actual income outside of what I get from my family, so rn it's just hard for me to even think about something like that lol
Emulation is becoming mandatory as we see like remasters or new editions of old games get censored/broken and therefore impossible to play without issues whereas original releases work flawlessly
27:27 That speech is so moving ❤
Piracy is good for getting rare anime and games. Like a bunch of rental release only 80s anime. Stuff like that would be lost without piracy
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on the game cube had an attachment were you connect you Gameboy and could use it to find treasures underwater. :D
You can do that with emulation too. The gamecube version of megaman x command mission has purple tokens that you can find by using your gameboy. You can emulate a rom to trigger the radar for the game, is pretty neat.
EXACTLY.........can't pirate something that's dead.
Can't pirate something of which you cannot buy (anymore).
I don't remember exactly what subreddit it was but I casually mentioned emulating old games and preservation being a part of it and was super surprised at the hostility and accusations of entitlement....like...seriously? people would prefer to live in a world where the only way to access old games is to invest hundreds of dollars in 30 year old hardware? for what? who does that benefit? and I OWN and play all my actual SNES games on the actual hardware too...I'm not pro piracy but there is nuance in some cases
Honestly if I knew how to dump my cartridges, I would’ve been playing three houses on my PC in 144 FPS long ago
U can mod your switch and dump the files that way
Im sure you could read the Rom with an arduino, probably even has been done I’m sure there’s some info out there.
Edit:
Or mod the console as junglezone suggested
It's super easy.. If you mod your switch
@@junglezone7323 I’m too pussy to mod my switch
@@ordinary_magician Perfect time to do it now, with all these OLEDs coming out you can probably nab a Lite or Vanilla for cheap from someone replacing theirs. Just don't sign into it and enjoy.
Emulation will always exist in some way or another, no matter what a game company wants or thinks
Gonna sound a bit odd on this one, but I wish someone could find a way to emulate the older versions of iOS.
Im a huge fan of the Ace Combat series, and there is a whole frikin game that was exclusive to older versions of iOS (which was so different fron modern iOS, modern iOS can't even run the app files when jailbroken). Not to mention classics like Tap Tap Revenge, Jelly Car, and 2 (yes, 2) Crash Bandicoot racing games.
These games weren't ported to android, and, at best, got a lackluster port to some odd game system or another, often with botched controls. The best way to play any of the Jelly Car games nowadays, is the port of Jelly Car 2 to the Wii, which you can play through Dolphin.
But if you want an example of what will happen when you leave your games to a tight fisted company, look no farther than Apple and realize without emulation, one day many of the things you love will die and go away.
Don't end up like an Apple fanboy, or one day you will wake up to find games you want to play gone, and no way to play them.
Caddicius did a video on the Crash Mobile games, he got some of them to work but on original hardware. Seems like it'd be easy enough to do, there's PC android emulators. There is a whole world of mobile games from 2000-2010 that are lost to time.
It sucks being a Nintendo fan at times. It’s difficult supporting a company that seems to be so anti-consumer. It hurts seeing them do things like refusing to acknowledge the physical problems with their products, flat-out SUING their own fans directly for emulating games they themselves haven’t sold in decades, and be unable to release reasonably-priced products at a reasonable rate (especially when it comes to old games they own like Earthbound or Super Mario All-Stars). These aren’t just minor problems you can pin down on one person/a few people. These problems are company-wide. It seems like it’ll be a LONG time before they learn better and start treating consumers reasonably.
On the other hand, as a person that happily emulates every game I already own -and some I don’t,- it also sucks being on the side of the pirates. Emulating games you genuinely don’t have access to because the game is rare or too expensive in the second-hand market is one thing, but acting like you’re being righteous for pirating games is just obnoxious. For example, I’ve been a fan of Jim Sterling for a while, but she’s been really obnoxious in recent times with how often she acts like pirating games is something heroic or morally superior. To not single her out, even the comments in Muta’s videos about the topic have been filled with these tacky comments. On the Metroid Dread video, I remember seeing someone argue that pirating Metroid Dread is good because... Nintendo already has money. That’s the entire reason. I can’t even begin to talk about every problem a statement this stupid has, and I hope anyone reading this doesn’t need me to say why. Anyways, terms like “X is good, actually” and “late-stage capitalism” are just ruined for me. I can’t even hear them without imagining a liberal I mostly agree with that’s about to drop one of the shittiest takes I have ever heard _again._
I guess I have to pick a side if I want the situation to improve, and I guess I’d rather be on the side of the consumers (even if some of them can be very obnoxious). I just wish Nintendo had the wisdom to move past this. They have the ability to fix everything here. They just need to make old games available and affordable. Mix the eShop AND the NSO instead of choosing only one. Give the consumer options. Want to play offline, or end your NSO subscription but still be able to play Super Metroid? Just buy it for $5. And for God’s sake, make every old game available at once. Don’t add 2-4 games every couple of months. Add the entire library of N64 games Nintendo owns the rights to all at once, and then start focusing on the libraries of other consoles. And don’t make it cost $50 for some god-forsaken reason. It wouldn’t be a good price even then. Nintendo needs to realize they’re losing all of the good-will they have gotten out of their fans with all of these predatory business decisions, and they won’t always be able to release good games to patch up this relationship. Their boat may be going fast, but it’s running on fumes.
Bro no one is gonna sit here and read this novel. No one cares if you pirate roms only people who do are the same people doing it without admitting to it. Piracy is fine and as long as you're not using it to make money it's perfectly okay.
@@ransacked - I’m sure people can read. You’re doing more harm than good here in more ways than you think. I hope you know that the law is a thing that still exists here, right? You can’t always get away with stealing? You can’t just ignore laws with no consequences forever? Sure, you might not personally get sued, but what about ROM sites? Or even... emulator developers?
By pirating, you’re giving Nintendo a better argument proving why not just piracy sites, but emulation as a whole should be unambiguously illegal. The laws right now are vague, but generally on the side of emulation because a set of court cases from decades ago decided that emulators themselves had legitimate uses that outweighed the bad uses. However these court cases were made back when the internet wasn’t as widespread and ROM downloading wasn’t as easy. If Nintendo tried suing again now, it’s entirely reasonable that a court could side with Nintendo because it could be argued that emulators facilitate piracy too much. That emulators are half of what’s necessary to pirate games.
The more you support emulators, the more against piracy you should be. Emulators are a great way to play games the way we remember, or even in entirely different ways than originally intended. By pirating, you could be helping take that away.
@@jerryborjon yes people can read, but are you sure people will bother to read a 2000 word essay?
@@BetaMaster2 - Sure.
@@jerryborjon didn't read your novel again. Piracy is based and always will be.
Buuut Mewda, Nintendo is offering you a way to play your olden times game completely legal now. $85 only
the first no more heroes and it's PS3 remake had a song named "Heavenly star" which was copyrighted and used some times Sylvia was on screen, and on subsequent releases like the switch and PC versions got the song removed because of licensing issues
A lot of songs went missing with GTA re releases and ports due to licencing, you'd think they'd write the contract for the life of the game not just the first pressing 🤷
I'd rather buy an old console off a family that needs the money more than the console, and support those who need it, rather than buying a new Nintendo console for the 200+ game ports they suck their own genitals over.
Even emulation can be forgiven at this point from the sheer incompetence I've seen 🤦🏻♂️
They don't have as many ports as you think on the switch, it's rather dissapointing
@@s0vnds nah but they try to upsell it like “play your old games on the go like you couldn’t before” when android has just as viable emulators as computer.
It’s a sham either way you look at it to sell it like that. Especially locking on-the-go SNES and NES gaming behind an online subscription paywall. Locks you out if you’re offline too long.
Nintendo stopped trying when they shut down the virtual console on Wii... honestly, Nintendo, as well as Sony & Microsoft, will never bother replicate the dope marketplace that gave us some of the best ports on those stores. Nintendo will never bother porting classic titles and will continue to shill to their fanbase. Emulation ftw
@@Nicomanism Microsoft focuses more on selling people movies and music now, to the point where last time I used my Xbox One you had to go through the movies and the music tabs to get to the game store. Even then, they weren't listed in alphabetical order or genre and it was a hassle to find any games you might be interested in compared to the Xbox 360 store. Got a gaming PC in 2017 and Steam still has 95% of the same layout as it did while playing Gmod on a crappy laptop back in 2008
@@finkamain1621 Yah I am not familiar with Xbox One, 8th Gen hardware. I only remember the Xbox 360, PS3, & Wii marketplace from the late 2000s to early 2012. Obviously, you're younger or older, whichever fills who you be. I grew up in 6th & 7th Gen era. Never cared nor gave a flip about the movies / music from 7th Gen era. Finding games on PS3 ( before the migration PS4 Update store ) was simple, a breeze, fast and cool. Xbox 360 was simple to navigate the marketplace. Virtual Console, while barebones, was still dope also. Didn't even know thats what Microsoft does now 🤷♂️: sell movies and music- assuming thats what you say. Own a custom PC since 2019, and still have my consoles from 5th to 7th gen. So yeah...
Yeah... I'm not going to spend $760 (AUD) to buy a copy of Kuon when I can just emulate it on my PC lol
The game is a great experience. And no casual gamer is going to be open minded enough to fork over that much cash on a PS2 game.
LOL the message of this video is perfectly clear and correct BUT like you stated people who emulate download! Emulation goes hand in hand with downloading older games no matter what way you try to spin it. I think it is safe to say that everyone on the internet has pirated something at some point in their life, give people the tools and they will find the requirements to make those tools work.
Always great to see someone defending emulation, enjoying the benefits of it, and pointing out many of said benefits.
Thanks to Dolphin, I'm finally playing games like Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles the proper way: with 4 players. I had the game back in the day, but not a GBA. And I barely knew anyone else at the time who had one, despite it apparently being really popular.
Also, some disc-based games had annoying or even unbearable load times, and these can be more or less skipped via emulation, even if you just have a regular hard drive.
I’m currently emulating harvest moon a wonderful life game cube edition : D
One of my favorite games growing up
Ah i see, i need to check that game out, it seems very interesting. i would love to play it sometime. i love exploring old school JRPG games or similar games in general : ).
I'm starting to think Muta emulates his games
I'm not so sure, maybe he could do a video about that sometime 😂
no way, idiot...next, youll suggest that he uses virtual machines...
@@CyberCripX Look up the word "sarcasm" and try to study the definition as hard as you can
@@CyberCripX lmao that isn’t even realistic muta hates preservation vms and emulators he always buys games and doesn’t emulate them
@@ArisenAshes i looked and i think the definition is in 4k, now whyd you need to know?
Thank you muta I was waiting all day for this 🙏🏾
"I dont want a metroid game every 5 years, i want it to be like zelda"
So, the same?
Super Mario Advance 4 on the Wii U Virtual Console also has the e-Reader stuff which is very cool
I was originally going to wait until a few months after release to buy Dread but because of Kotaku I went and bought it right away as it's one of my favourite Nintendo IPS
And you’re a king for doing so
I played your music on my gramophone on my school bus and literally got kicked out and got laughed at by all the kids on the bus, I couldn’t even go to school the next day because of you. Thank you so much for being the worst artist of this generation.
He's a "king" for choosing between playing the games on his switch or on his PC?
That's a very weird point for being "a king"
You know Nintendo shills that think emulation is the devil are so down horrendous that muta has to make a 30 min video to explain why it's better than the lowest option Nintendo gives us on the switch
If you actually think the most people emulating dread when the game came out actually bought it and dumped the files onto their pc, then you’re being naive.
Quickly becoming one of my favorite UA-camrs this guy rarely misses the mark
How do you feel about him now?
@@Young_buck2423 I can’t stand his rhetoric! No think he’s still very good 👍 about to catch up on some videos did I miss something?????
Muta: it's tough being a Metroid fan
Me : it's tough being a boktai/.hack fan
Also copyright should never infringe on property rights
“Just because they have a right to do something doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.”
-Nerrel
I really recommend anyone who sees this to watch Nerrel’s videos on emulation.
I'm gonna get around to playing his Majora's Mask 3DS Restoration project someday eventually lol
Ah yes the idiot who said that the last jedi is good and that Hollow Knight's level design is bad because its not Metroid. Nope no thanks.
@@dragonandavatarfan8865 if I didn’t watch a UA-cam because I disagreed with some of their opinions, I wouldn’t watch any UA-camrs, the best UA-camrs are entertaining, informative, and give their honest opinion, nerrel definitely has these qualities regardless of whether I disagree about the last Jedi and hollow knight
@@PatrickThomasBrady Just because someone's opinions are honest, doesn't mean that they are not stupid or dogshit and I have every right to stop listening to their bs. If you enjoy low-quality misinformed or downright dishonest critiques of products then sure good for you.
@@dragonandavatarfan8865 absolutely, my only point was your saying that like it’s a fact, to call him misinformed or dishonest isn’t true, it’s just his opinion, your free to not watch because you disagree or he rubs you the wrong way, but I’ve yet to watch any video where he’s not informed or lies about the topic because that’s where I stop watching so what’s he misinformed or being dishonest about
I feel like it shouldn’t even be an issue to download roms if the company doesn’t sell the game any more. I own a ps2 but I don’t fuckin know how to download and backup my own PS2 BIOS to some cloud server and whatever other bullshit that I would have to tech myself how to do to play ps2 emulations “legally”. Likewise I own tons of gameboy advance games but don’t have the hardware or knowledge to get the data off of them, so I download a rom to play them. As long as I’m not downloading a rom for a game that is currently for sale in an accessible place (ie not secondhand on eBay but say available online from the developer) then it should not be a problem or even looked down upon.
I've got like 20 different consoles/handhelds. I'm not carrying my entire collection with me wherever I go just because "emulation bad."
sometimes emulation is one of the only thing keeping certain games alive, at least in a practical way, it’s how my friends and I have been able to play the original Phantasy Star Online together as I’ve been on a MMO kick ever since I started playing FF14. Yes you can still get it running on original dreamcast hardware but that can be costly depending on what route you take
Fr if it wasn't for emulators I would have never completed the original castlevania for the nes, because what other reason would I have to try games that are from well before my time. Not everyone is willing to invest a bunch of money into an old system they don't even know they'll like.
Based you should do a tech vid on setting up multiplayer on older games (maybe Dreamcast)
Bro emulation came in clutch back in the day. Thanks to it, I was able to play treasure planet (ps1) on my psp that game hella slaps 🙏🏽🙌🏼
I am saving all this Muta Metroid videos for when I finally get and finish the game. Avoiding spoilers at the moment
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None of this video is about the game lol
I take the same approach to emulation as game companies do, "It's ok if I do it"
Based
The thing I never understood is what is the difference between downloading an ISO of the Digimon World 2 copy next to me or just dumping it myself? I still have the original copy I bought when I was a kid, I just saved myself some effort.
I've always emulated games mainly because I grew up poor and couldn't afford games like that or have the latest console so many of the games series I love I emulated.
Brazil moment
No need to justify your reason for piracy friend. Enjoy life and play whatever you want don't let anyone tell you otherwise
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The only time I’ve ever pirated a game was sims 4 because it costs you more then 700 dollars to get all of the expansions
That's the right thing to do
I got a whole bunch of expansions for birthdays and Christmas as a kid and I very much regret it
It also doesn't help that they came out with another type of DLC which is borderline a microtransaction with what little content it has. I highly support long term support for games but The Sims 4 is the worst way to do it, especially when you need a DLC for a DLC to work
i pirate games all the time an dim not stopping, cry about it
@@lukecotton3076 nooo pls no pirate
i've been playing breath of the wild at 1440p 140fps with some additional graphic packs this past week, legally, and it's been a blast
As a Nintendo and Pokemon Fan, when I finally got money to buy a Switch, playing Solo in The Legend of Zelda BoW, and while waiting for the release of Pokemon Sword and Shield... One thing I realized... To fully enjoy the upcoming Pokemon Online Features (or other Online Switch Games) you need to buy the Game (duh... of course), Pay for Online Service (which is free in DS Era) and what I hate most is they chopped the Game via DLC to squeeze more money on you... Damn... My Third World Money and Income as a Commoner won't take it... And I say, THAT'S IT! ENOUGH! Sold those MONEY MILKERS AND BEEF UP MY PC! FREEDOM! HAHAH! =D
Could kept your switch if it was Gen 1 and hacked it and pirated all the switch games to your hearts content and upgraded your pc....
@@ransacked Thanks bro, I considered that too, but I really wanted a Genuine Online Experience, well... Since I can't afford it anymore, I'll focus all my resources in PC, no regrets! =D
@@mrgtmodernretrogamingtech6891 based I'm happy for you enjoy gaming however you want don't let anyone tell you otherwise :)
@@ransacked You too brother! Happy Gaming! =D
I have never used a HDMI adapter for old consoles that looked anywhere remotely near acceptable on a modern television set.
Get an mClassic. It’s supposed to be used in tandem with those HDMI adapters, and it does a lot to help the image quality.
It’s a bit pricy, but I personally thought it was worth it. It seems to work best for GameCube/Wii games.
Use a Retrotink 5x.
Nintendo Games are really good, they're very high quality; however, I ain't paying 70 dollars for a game I'll finish in less than a week only for it to look nicer.
wdym by "for it to look nicer"?
@@willuigi64 better graphics
Yea I mostly buy indies on my switch but I’m waiting for the new Pokémon game a BOTW2
My fav UA-cam video right now no lie ua-cam.com/video/cvs9q-RAg64/v-deo.html
$70? Here in the USA it's $60, you might live somewhere else idk
Next phase to this arc will be "Why I'll Always Pirate Nintendo Games No Matter What..."
He just said subtly that piracy isn't gonna land you behind bars if the company or developer isn't making money off of their licensed games years ago. So in other words, he doesn't condone it, but he doesn't care if you do it.
I will say that I have to thank emulation for finally being able to mod Gran Turismo 2 and Gran Turismo games in general. Being able to finally drive a Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR that was scrapped from GT2 is fantastic. or right now a Gran Turismo 3 mod project being worked on right now that brings all of the content from GT Concept 2002 Tokyo Geneva, bringing that game to its fullest pontential.
I have had a friend that used to pirate tons of games, but when steam became a stable platform he went and got all the games there that he pirated because of convince. All games nearly placed in one library that needs no cracking and have new and auto updates on the games is what won him over, plus the steam sales are pretty insane.
I think piracy can also be okay when used in a "try before you buy" way. Game companies no longer give a shit about making demos for their products these days, but I really want to make sure I like the game before I potentially give my money away to a bad product (See: Cyberpunk 2077), so I'll often "yarr-harr" a product, decide that I like it, then buy it from a legitimate source.