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Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games (www.retronews.com)
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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Because:

Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:

  • Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves
  • Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker's permission
  • Game save and console modding services
    As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget's "Save editor" have been discontinued.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/abk551/save_game_editors_and_console_modding_now_illegal/

It's meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it's worded it just bans them all.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago

Can’t wait for Nintendo to sue Microsoft because VS Code can be used to edit save files.

[–] Fijxu@programming.dev 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lol man is just a game. Let me have fun exploring hidden rooms. No one is committing a crime by modifying their own game save.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

For some of us, finding ways to cheat IS the game.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

In other words, Japan apparently hates property rights.