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[–] 26 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Although the fact that these programs were named means that Nintendo's Eye of Sauron is on them - the extra attention makes me nervous. I definitely would have modded it this weekend if I hadn't already decided to last weekend.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is no world where these tools exists and Nintendo does not know them. It's not some deep darknet secret lore hidden behind seven-VPN. Anything that happens online about emulation, all the company knows it exists and how it works. The threat never goes away.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Good point.

    Of these, I would only really be concerned about nxDumpTool, nxDumpFuse, and Lockpick_RCM as possible to come after using the same strategy, though. And even then, Lockpick_RCM was already taken down and mass redistributed.

    It's not illegal to modify the hardware you own, and the rest of those aren't directly interacting with Nintendo's DRM-protected software. The only one that they could arguably go after is Atmosphère, but SciresM has held a very strong public pro-homebrew and anti-piracy stance which makes it extremely hard for Nintendo to argue that it's primary purpose is DRM circumvention.

    I plan on making offline archives of Hekate and Atmosphère at some point, in either case.

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