We get frustrated with Nintendo. Then, dig into the 30-year-old backdoor that was recently exploited and the hard lesson we should learn from it. Then, we'll break down some "hot tips" that promise to make you the next DevRel star.
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This is Coder Radio, episode 591, recorded on October 8th, 2024. Hey friend, welcome in to Jupyter Broadcasting's weekly talk show. Taking a pragmatic look at the art and the business of software development and the world of technology. My name is Chris, and joining us over there from Florida, it's our host, Mr. Dominic. Hello, Mike. Hello. Hey, handsome.
You know, I'm sitting here trying not to get worked up. I can't help but get mad. I know Nintendo does Nintendo things. But they're going after a project that I have personally been using on my Steam Deck hooked up to my TV to play Switch games. And it's an open source Nintendo Switch emulator. They've already gone after one of them. And this is the one I was using.
And they kind of like played hardball in a different way than their typical tactic. They kind of like got a hold of him and they're like, it would be good if you were to shut down your GitHub. Let's just say this project should disappear. If you were to go away, our legal team may move on to other things. You know what I mean? They got that kind of contact.
So GitHub gets taken down, voluntarily deleted. Well, voluntarily in response to Nintendo's demands. But the website's still going, and the Discord channel remains active. So, like, maybe there's... I'm sure there's ways you can still pass around a tarball of this thing or something like that. So that's happening.
And then additionally, they're going after the modded hardware folks who make, like, a Nintendo-like device. So now the modded hardware website is private. And they have... They're fighting, though. In this one, this one is a straight-on legal fight, and they're taking it to court. I think... I think they might be self-representing.
I'm not positive, but I think I read that he's self-representing, the guy that runs... That's a wild choice. Yeah, going up against Nintendo? Yeah. Yeah. But he claims he has... Previous legal cases that he can point to that show what he's doing is totally legal.
But so now the lawsuit's progressing to the discovery stage where Nintendo is going to get access to all his books and all that kind of stuff. So they're going after it's just. I don't know, I guess. Where I where I still sit on this. Is these experiences, especially when you're a kid, like Super Mario World for me and the Sega games like Sonic and stuff, which I was more of a Nintendo guy.
But like those games are slow, like they have such nostalgic value for me. You know, 10 out of 10. Right. I just I hate the idea that something like that can get created, which is kind of an art. And then can completely just disappear unless you continue to buy a $300 device. And now you also have to pay a monthly or annual subscription to Nintendo Online Plus or whatever it's called.
So that way you get access to these emulators like they just keep making it more cost prohibitive just to get access to the stuff that you've already bought 30 times in your life. And you want to be able to just experience one more time. And like with Breath of the Wild, I love that so much that I didn't want to play it on a switch anymore.
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