Thread 719909771

why are they like this?

>>719909771 (OP)
Dont like it?
Male your own emulator.

>>719909867
Did you just misgender the devs? Shameful.

>>719909867
tranny Freudian slip

>>719909771 (OP)
>piracy puts game preservation at high risk.
If not for piracy, tons of games would become lost media.

>>719909771 (OP)
>piracy puts game preservation at high risk
compared to what lmao

>>719909771 (OP)
Report the devs to nintendo and see if they care what file extension you use to emulate their games.

>>719910456
To some people, like emulator developers, "game preservation" just means being able to run games you legally bought, and fuck anyone who doesn't have a copy. So really, their preservation interest is exclusively in preparing for a future in which all of the consoles are broken but all of the game discs are miraculously intact (and everyone has the special hardware to dump them, of course).
To others (e.g. CD Projekt), "game preservation" means altering games so that they run on Windows 11.
I think most people know that actual game preservation is about making sure that playable copies of games continue to exist after they're abandoned by the copyright holders, but you can't talk about that if you're a potential target for DMCA attacks.

>>719909771 (OP)
because nintendo will rape them and make them indentured servants to bowser if they dont

>>719914217
I don’t think the file extension they use will make an iota of difference to Nintendo.

Is it literally just a file extension or is it an entirely different data format?
A good program shouldn't be freaking out about just the name of a file. Obviously the file extension is a hint that can be used for filtering what files are shown by default in the file picker or whatever, but if you explicitly give a file to a program and say "open this as a [some format]" then it shouldn't be second-guessing based on the name. For example, I should be able to use a text editor to open a text file called "photo.jpg" if I want to, and any text editor that fails to open that file is garbage.

>>719915559
Just an extension, you can literally rename your .3ds files to .cci and they'll work. A bigger issue is how Azahar doesn't run encrypted roms at all so you might have to redownload a few of your roms.