Xbox 360 Emulator Dev Fights Pirates With Ear-Rape

['Ole Dente]

The most functional solution is to remove the Discord entirely and set up a private means of group communication and filesharing. The public Discord literally serves no purpose beyond being a live FAQ that distracts from development work being done and it's not a small amount of time, either. It's cumulative and probably slows development by months having to answer silly billy questions all day, when an additional FAQ to every git release would suffice.

Seeing this amount of inefficiency actually pisses me off, I have run full teams for software development for 10 years and if I saw this level of idiocy, you would be fucking fired immediately. This Discord channel only exists to fellate your tiny micro-peckers and make you feel important, you create your own problems by allowing the avenue of piracy related questions to continue for that reason, you have full dev team meetings on an application that has no E2E encryption, and you litter your code with fantastically ridiculous arguments that have nothing to do with the project code. It is un-fucking-professional and borderline mentally handicapped.

Whoever your team lead is, get it together, this is fucking embarrassing. If I found out who you were, you would never be hired by me or any professionals I work with ever.

 

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That reminds me of a RIAEvangelist faggot who's anti-war protestware nuked some war crime evidence.

There were no war crimes on the Russian side, retard. All this filthy zionist-lover did was attack some random Russians.

 

[cybertoaster]

I'm frankly baffled at the current hate towards piracy in gaming specially among old gamers when gaming companies have never been as anti-consumer as they are today.

Like imagine SEGA or Nintendo back in the day being like "lol you can't play this game anymore because fuck you that's why!" which happens often now for any reason. Gamers back then would've hanged them by the balls, but now? nothing, they roll over and keep buying the same shit while literally earraping people for using ISOs.

Specially current Nintendo users, some have already bought the same fucking game 6 times in different platforms at full price.

And really why pay for emulated games? if consoles came with a FPGA chip to get actual simulated old hardware sure, but I'm paying for what exactly? a lazily coded emulator that's not even cycle-accurate? come on now...

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

I'm frankly baffled at the current hate towards piracy in gaming specially among old gamers when gaming companies have never been as anti-consumer as they are today.

Like imagine SEGA or Nintendo back in the day being like "lol you can't play this game anymore because fuck you that's why!" which happens often now for any reason. Gamers back then would've hanged them by the balls, but now? nothing, they roll over and keep buying the same shit while literally earraping people for using ISOs.

Specially current Nintendo users, some have already bought the same fucking game 6 times in different platforms at full price.

And really why pay for emulated games? if consoles came with a FPGA chip to get actual simulated old hardware sure, but I'm paying for what exactly? a lazily coded emulator that's not even cycle-accurate? come on now...

This goes beyond just emulation: I'm seeing a ton of people acting really weird/skitzo about "copyrights", "piracy", etc. Hell, just look at the AI art/Chat GPT threads here and elsewhere constantly yelling about "stealing" (even though there's no nuance in any of these arguments). I kinda wonder if these terminally-online types are trying to "make a living" or "pull the ladder up" in this modern internet hellscape?

 

[cybertoaster]

"pull the ladder up" in this modern internet hellscape?

Most likely that, I used to be in the tech startup sector and there was a lot of that going on coupled with "I can't tell you my idea because you'll steal it" BS and I mean come on buddy unless you're already have a working product that solved the issue then there's nothing to steal.

 

[whogoesthere]

He ain't trying to protect piracy, or any bullshit excuse like that.

He is a discord janny, he just wants less piracy or gaming talk, and more grooming of children and the submental.

Never forget, on discord, if you are not grooming, you are being groomed.

 

[Staffy]

I did a partial dox of Mar*in Kor*h, developer of a very old Game Boy emulator, a few years ago. It's here (supporters only), and I discovered he did a similar thing. In one of his readmes:
View attachment 5237296

That was for an emulator he was trying to sell, for money. Here's a thread on romhacking.net where someone calls him out for that, and some random simp comes to his defense.

Is No$GMB the same as No$GBA? Because I find some messages in the emulator that are retarded shit and I deduced even back then that this guy needs to be collectively bullied, shoved into lockers, given a toilet swirlie and so on and so forth.

 

[Pissmaster]

Is No$GMB the same as No$GBA? Because I find some some angry retarded shit and I deduced even back then that this guy needs to be collectively bullied, shoved into lockers, given a toilet swirlie and so on and so forth.

I don't know if he ever merged the two. Original Game Boy uses a completely different CPU than the GBA, so even if he merged the emulators, they'd have two different cores.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

I just wanted to play Fable 2. I didn't wanted my ears to be raped because of some soydev decided that piracy is bad, mkaaay. Might be preaching to the choir, but there's plenty of abandonware that cannot be played on anything aside from emulator

 

[Stasi]

Literally nothing wrong with piracy and anyone who virtue signals about it just outs themselves as a low IQ corporate cocksucker.

These people are also usually hypocrites. I remember getting into an argument with one of these people on an emulation forum and he was adamant ROMs were piracy and morally wrong and you must own the original game. After a bit of prodding he admitted he had fan translated ROM hacks of some shitty anime Japan only games and proceeded to twist himself in knots with mental gymnastics trying to justify it "well it's different...there is no legal way to get the game where I live so in that case it's an exception and is actually ok". I hate these tards so fucking much.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

It contains bangers such as being nearly-helpful, then launching a Google search anyway:

} else if (extension == ".7z" || extension == ".zip" || extension == ".rar") {
xe::ShowSimpleMessageBox(
xe::SimpleMessageBoxType::Error,
fmt::format("Xenia does not support running {} files, the file you "
"actually want to run is inside of this {} file.",
extension, extension));
// user likely compressed the file themselves, then suffered a traumatic
// brain injury that caused them to forget how archives work

LaunchWebBrowser(fmt::format(
"https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+extract+{}+file", extension));

xe::FatalError("Terminating due to user's lack of basic computer skills.");
}

This is somehow even more offensive to me. A lot of emulators CAN run archive files. This is (as I understand it) a technical limitation of ISOs VS ROMs. Trying to run an archived ISO won't work, but it isn't necessarily STUPID, especially if you're used to emulating older games.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

This is somehow even more offensive to me. A lot of emulators CAN run archive files. This is (as I understand it) a technical limitation of ISOs VS ROMs. Trying to run an archived ISO won't work, but it isn't necessarily STUPID, especially if you're used to emulating older games.

Personally, I'd be furious if some shithead forced my browser to open jewgle.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Banning ISOs only makes sense if it's a current-gen console. One of the reasons why Sony got so huffy about VGS back in the day and started the emulation ball rolling is because VGS was emulating a current-gen console. The last Xbox 360 game was released five years ago (Just Dance 2019, which has also stuck around with other dying consoles) but most retailers clearanced their Xbox 360 games years ago.

When did the emulator scene get so crowded with trannies and simps?

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

The most functional solution is to remove the Discord entirely and set up a private means of group communication and filesharing. The public Discord literally serves no purpose beyond being a live FAQ that distracts from development work being done and it's not a small amount of time, either. It's cumulative and probably slows development by months having to answer silly billy questions all day, when an additional FAQ to every git release would suffice.

Discord is a curse for communities. It tries to replace fora, file storage, instant messaging/IRC, Ventrillo/TS3/mumble and mailing lists all at once, at the same time being inferior to each of them. It's a walled garden built around a misnomer of a "server" that was introduced to cater to online games players, but servers no purpose now after they started marketing as a general purpose communicator. It's crippled rank system and centralized accounts cause cliques to form around gathering power. It's full of trannies who will happily join any community "server" to turn it into their personal exhibitionist space/echo chamber.

 

[Ass to Ass]

It is piracy, but it's also based.

Piracy is the best way to fight the globohomo. No more paying $60 for Woke of Duty or paying $15 a month to Cuckflix. It's the ultimate form of voting with your wallet.

 

[seri0us]

Discord is a curse for communities. It tries to replace fora, file storage, instant messaging/IRC, Ventrillo/TS3/mumble and mailing lists all at once, at the same time being inferior to each of them. It's a walled garden built around a misnomer of a "server" that was introduced to cater to online games players, but servers no purpose now after they started marketing as a general purpose communicator. It's crippled rank system and centralized accounts cause cliques to form around gathering power. It's full of trannies who will happily join any community "server" to turn it into their personal exhibitionist space/echo chamber.

Their appropriation of the word "server" pissed me off. No, that not "your server", you merely clicked some buttons and you own none of it.

 

[Pissmaster]

When did the emulator scene get so crowded with trannies and simps?

Most of them are the same retards that've been around all along, but tons of them, within a few years, decided they're ackshually women all their life and decided to troon out by sheer coincidence, because transtrenders aren't real and these are all true and honest revelations that have always been true, and will always be until the next autism fad comes along.

 

[Pee Cola]

Literally nothing wrong with piracy

I'm mainly on board with this, but I do have slight reservations. Mainly to do with publishers, pricing and intended audience. An indie developer making games for vintage platforms and charging just a few dollars for the game... there's not really an excuse to pirate that, especially if you want that developer to keep making new stuff.

If it's an AAA game from a big studio or it's a game that was released 30 years ago... then yeah, piracy is one of the most based things one can do..

anyone who virtue signals about it just outs themselves as a low IQ corporate cocksucker

Hopefully my point about certain exceptions where piracy is uncool doesn't count as virtue signalling. I'm not the kind of person to get online and start actively moralfagging about how pirating some $5 Amiga game from itch.io is literal genocide of the Amiga community. This post is about as moralfaggy as I get on this topic

 

[ZMOT]

I'm mainly on board with this, but I do have slight reservations. Mainly to do with publishers, pricing and intended audience. An indie developer making games for vintage platforms and charging just a few dollars for the game... there's not really an excuse to pirate that, especially if you want that developer to keep making new stuff.

If it's an AAA game from a big studio or it's a game that was released 30 years ago... then yeah, piracy is one of the most based things one can do..

Hopefully my point about certain exceptions where piracy is uncool doesn't count as virtue signalling. I'm not the kind of person to get online and start actively moralfagging about how pirating some $5 Amiga game from itch.io is literal genocide of the Amiga community. This post is about as moralfaggy as I get on this topic

another problem is that "piracy" is a wide as fuck term, that also got abused harder than some naive 10yo in an emulation discord with a rainbow icon...

case a) see game, download game, play for 20 minutes, decides it's either shit or great, purge the download or buy the game. maybe keep playing if you're either cheap af or poor.
case b) download game, burn it on cd, sell it out of the trunk of your car.

both considered piracy, but one infringed on your copyright, the other possibly lead to a sale - and the price for the "lost sale" was probably still lower than any advertisements you had to pay for, while generating positive word of mouth which in the end is still marketing the game.

and that's before you run into any retards like @Stasi mentioned who are retarded on purpose or disingenuous at best lying to themselves they're not corporate cocksuckers...

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

You're preaching to the choir. I already know this shit. I'm just telling you why THEY do it.
I'm not stupid enough to think that somehow I can't play Ducktales on the NES until I find it at a garage sale or some hipster ass website where they're charging 120$ because somehow that will magically put money back in nintendo, Disney, and Capcom's pockets.

I agree it's stupid, but it's what they're choosing to do.

The only consoles worth actually buying the games are portable ones like the Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance and the PSP due to the portability of the consoles being kind of the point. Even then, buying more than a handful of games and buying them at the typical ebay prices is beyond retarded. It's better to just mod the damn thing or find homebrew cart to put multiple games on it than create a fucking library of games thinking I'm supporting the devs. You'd have to be a brainwashed idiot to think that these mega-corporations care for one and think you are a good person for doing this. Objectively speaking, there is notbing wrong with piracy and anyone that acts against their own self-interest by caring about poor old globohomo corps and dead studios is a fucking simp retard.