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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • IMO, everything has to do with piracy.

    Ever since the r4 for the DS spring boarded Nintendo piracy, every single console they’ve released since then has been ripped open and has had very easy-to-use tools developed for it to make it really, really, easy to put pirated games on. You can buy a flashcard from amazon with DS games on it. You can mod a 3ds in 15 minutes. You can play switch games on the steam deck.

    They hate this. They want to do everything they can to lock down their systems and prevent this.

    On the Wii (or maybe it was 3ds or Wii U) when updating, you used to get a notification “…this update will also check for unauthorized material and remove it.” Now they’re simply saying it there’s unauthorized stuff they’re not going to account for it and let things break (or force it to break)

    Now they’re locking down the usb-c port, again making it harder to crack the console. They failed with every console this far, so now they’re trying something different.

    In the long run it may get cracked eventually. But for now, like denuvo, it delays piracy.