Okay but they still need to distribute it if they want others to use it. And you don’t reach a lot of people through sneakernet alone. Nintendo will just shut down every place the software gets distributed. Then no legitimate site wants to touch that with a ten yard stick.
What I don’t get is why emulator devs don’t develop completely anonymously, you can’t shut them down if you don’t know who they are
Okay but they still need to distribute it if they want others to use it. And you don’t reach a lot of people through sneakernet alone. Nintendo will just shut down every place the software gets distributed. Then no legitimate site wants to touch that with a ten yard stick.
Torrent on an anon vps or .onion and tech savvy users spread it to the clearnet. I think that’s how drm crackers do it.
Selfhosted git on .onion or .i2p.
What percentage of the gamers that you know would just be able to find and download an emulator from a git repo hosted on .onion or .i2p?
For me, that’s just me. None of my gamer buddies would put in that effort, they’d just buy a product or play a game from steam.
I think we’re still a long way from privacy focused protocols being mainstream in the way the web has become in the last 15 years.
torzu currently does this, though iirc the development is slowing because it’s a big time commitment
@pipe01 @fne8w2ah part of the reward for developing is the recognition from others…
Online handles are still a thing. Most of these devs aren’t known by their legal names in the gaming space at large anyway.