Cemu emulator 1.7.4 - improvements and Zelda gameplay

[Noob©]

I should hurry up and grab this before Nintendo's pissed for real.

[Mister Sandman]

[QUOTE=Noob4life;52149414]I should hurry up and grab this before Nintendo's pissed for real.[/QUOTE]

Oh, they're pissed for real. Nintendo's been salty as fuck about emulators since emulators existed. I doubt they can do anything about it though.

My personal guidelines for emulation are looser than some people's, but here's mine;
If you can't actually buy the game from anywhere other than a used game store or ebay, it's fine. Your money won't be going to the developers anyway.
If the original developers are [I]dead,[/I] it's fine.
If the game has since been remade, like the FPS Strife, but you're emulating the [I]old[/I] version, it's fine. You're paying for the improvements in the remake.
If the game is more than like, 5-10 years old, and you can't buy it on steam or GoG, it's fine. Most devs worth their salt won't be relying on sales for a game they released in 2007.
If you own the game physically, do whatever the hell you want. You bought the [I]game.[/I] It shouldn't matter what platform you enjoy it on.
If the game is objectively better emulated, like graphical improvements, then that makes it more ok in my books. Especially if combined with one of the other rules.
If it's an arcade game, do whatever you want. The devs are probably dead, it's usually the only way to see the rest of the game without spending 80 bucks in quarters, and finding a machine you want to play physically is a pain in the ass. Your only alternative is to spend like 1000 bucks for a fat ass arcade cabinet that takes up a huge amount of space, just so you can play Carnevil. Fuck that.

Those are some of my personal rules.

[Big D Duchovny]

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;52149278]Man, I don't even know how to feel about this. Usually when you're talking about emulating a game it's for games from like, 2004, that the company isn't even making money on anymore 'cause it's not on any store shelves, digital or otherwise. I've never had to ask myself how I feel about emulation of a game that came out [I]this year[/I] :v:
I guess if you've bought a copy of BotW then you're morally fine? :v:[/QUOTE]

Honestly I'd start wondering if this is gonna hurt Switch sales fairly significantly - at least in the short term - it's not like there are tons of Switch exclusives right now, and Zelda is definitely the most important.

[Mister Sandman]

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;52149635]Honestly I'd start wondering if this is gonna hurt Switch sales fairly significantly - at least in the short term - it's not like there are tons of Switch exclusives right now, and Zelda is definitely the most important.[/QUOTE]

Probably not. Emulation has always been overblown for how much of a niche crowd it is. There's maybe a couple hundred thousand emulation enthusiasts? I don't think enough people will be emulating this to make a noticeable dent in profits. Even videos about this super famous game being emulated don't get as many views as you'd think. Most are around 50,000, and the most viewed have like 350,000.

I reckon it'll probably get 20,000, or 30,000 actual downloads. Consisting of people who wouldn't have bought the game anyway cause it costs too much for them, or people who already bought the game but want to push the graphical fidelity and play it on their pc.

[One Ear Ninja]

It'd still be cheaper for most people to shell out the 300$ than to upgrade their PCs to run the emulator fully it seems.

[Lobstuzz]

[QUOTE=One Ear Ninja;52149792]It'd still be cheaper for most people to shell out the 300$ than to upgrade their PCs to run the emulator fully it seems.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, and even if a console is more expensive, the average person would rather get the console than build a pc for the first time.