Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
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Generally, ripping for personal use is not litigated, only distribution. It may technically be illegal in most places, but then, reproducing someone's work without compensation should be prohibited.
There was a point in the 1980s where PC games fully allowed and encouraged you to copy your games for backup purposes. They even had some companies who gave detailed steps explaining how.
What ended up happening is you owned a PC, your buddy owned a PC. You made two backups of the game. One for you, and one for your buddy. Now between the two of you, you buy half the games, because you buy one, your buddy buys a different one. And now you both have two games.
Now multiply that by however many friends you knew who owned PCs. You might buy 1 game, but own 15 games.
By the 90s, PC game makers did a 180, and were now trying to prevent archiving of their games, but it was too late. Laws had been written to allow for backup of personal data. Yes, you WERE breaking the law by giving your buddy the backup, but they couldn't prevent you from creating the backup.
And in a pre-internet world, how would they ever even know you made a backup?
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Let me know when Diddy Kong Racing's done. GOAT.
Nice try, diddy
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Not just ultrawide support, but also interpolated frames for super smooth frame rate.
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There's no precedent. Nintendo sues, the developer doesn't have money for lawyers to defend themselves so they remove it.
That's how it's been going for a long time.
Problem here is Nintendo doesnt have much to sue them on. They were even pretty careful about how they named the project. Naming it Spaghetti Kart and making no references to Nintendo or even Mario Kart.
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Not really; The emulator doesn’t use any copyrighted code, but the ROM is copyrighted. That’s just basic IP law.
What is fucked up logic is Nintendo encrypting their ROMs, then providing decryption keys on the console. So the emulator itself is legal, but actually booting a ROM requires decrypting it, which requires keys from a legitimate console. Nintendo has argued that those keys are illegal to use in an emulator, even if the user rips them directly from the console that they own. So you have the keys. You own the console they’re stored on. But it’s illegal to use those keys anywhere except on the console they came on, because Nintendo said so.
Because US DMCA law has provisions in it about copyright circumvention. Same thing led to the "you can't repair your own John Deere tractor" debacle.
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For making a port? A succulent Japanese port of a 30 year old game? Unhand me, sir!
This is Nintendo manifest!
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Nice try, diddy
HEY. Diddy Kong does not deserve that slander.
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Not just ultrawide support, but also interpolated frames for super smooth frame rate.
What is that?
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Might as well link to it:
https://github.com/HarbourMasters/SpaghettiKart
You need to supply your own ROM of the correct version.I will honestly never understand why people link shit articles instead
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And Nintendo has not yet sued because…?
Well I think for one, you need to supply your own rom so it doesn't contain any Nintendo stuff?
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What is that?
In a nutshell, interpolated frames are basically just extra generated frames that go between the frames outputted by the video game itself. They're used to combat things like motion blur, and to make animations look smoother.
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I played it on my modded Switch, had to overclock it just to keep a stable 30fps. I hope we get a vulkan renderer in the future.
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POV: you ported an old Nintendo game
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HEY. Diddy Kong does not deserve that slander.
You never heard of the banana oil freakoffs?
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Well I think for one, you need to supply your own rom so it doesn't contain any Nintendo stuff?
Does this differ from emulators with which you have to supply a rom? I thought they sued for that too
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Impressive to see that the software can distinguish between a legal and an illegal ROM file
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I will honestly never understand why people link shit articles instead
They might be former users of FARK, where submitting stories didn't allow duplicate links? And so you would see the top article in the aggregator frequently being blog links and some right weird 'news' websites.
Lemmy has the opposite problem, where the same link can be posted again and again even on the same instance, of course.
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Impressive to see that the software can distinguish between a legal and an illegal ROM file
lol sarcasm aside, it actually can't. This port is being developed by HarbourMasters, the same people behind Ship of Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian (PC ports of OoT and Majora's Mask, for the unaware.)
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I played it on my modded Switch, had to overclock it just to keep a stable 30fps. I hope we get a vulkan renderer in the future.
PC gamers: Look what Nintendo needs to mimic a fraction of our power.
