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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • What is defined as copy here? Cartridge data (game data, not firmware etc) is encrypted and can only be accessed by a protocol that is like spi, but is proprietary, by a specific chip running nintendo code. Or is a copy a full backup of everything on the chip?
    Is the copy a raw copy? Has the data been modified/decrypted/or any algorithm processed it?
    These things define wether a copy falls under this or not. Check what the fineprint or laws defines what ’ a copy’ is exactly in this case.
    If it doesnt, what i mentioned are important to see if what you said apply here or not.

    Like @[email protected] said, its only legal if nothing is done with the data. Any decryption using a nintendo key is infact, illegal, and falls under piracy.

    This is why dolphin was removed from steam, because they do exactly that. Decrypt the data to use it.

    If the process of dumping does any encryption or decryption, you also get in trouble in what they said.

    These are the laws, and the lawyer you asked this too must not have been specialised in ip law, copyright and games, or doesnt know the technical details to decide on this.

    The mig chip uses a proprietary protocol to send data of a partly, semi decrypted, game image. That will not go well in court, no matter if the rom was obtained legally.









  • Its not that i disagree with you, they should have used them and its pretty bad ( though a lot can be fixed with some good old wd40 for electronics lol)

    However, its not a few cents more. Its way way more. A regular stick is around 1.84 - 2.73 euro a piece depending on how many you order from official components store. A hal sensor stick is often 2-4 euro.

    Lets say 150mil switches are sold, each having 2 sticks and its 0.2 more per stick. That gives us the following
    150,000,000 * (0.2 * 2)=60mil
    60mil difference in cost for the company, at least, for using different sticks. And thats just sticks that come with the console, not separately sold controllers or pro controllers.

    Manufacturing cost is very different than just ‘its a few cents more’.









  • Huh, i thought ps5 (pro) was 4k native, but looks like its via some hardware upscaler. Good to know hehe. That changes some things, but lets see. The ps5 pro gpu is equivalent to a rx 7700 xt, which is a 400 msrp card. In reality its way more, but lets work with msrp prices to give this the best chance of success.
    Ps5 pro is 700$ msrp, so thats 300$ you have left for cpu, ram, ssd, case, and psu. I dont think you can do that, but lets look at the next part: cpu
    Cpu is equivalent to a ryzen 7 3700x, which is an old cpu so is cheap atm, 120$.
    Ok, 180$ left in the budget, next: motherboard.
    I found a board on amazon for 65$, which was the ASRock A520M-HDV. 120$ left.
    Ok so, ssd. Ps5 pro comes with a 2TB ssd. I found some sketchy, offbrand, m.2 ssd’s from brands i never even heard off for 94$. There is probably cheaper, but amazon’s website was being an arse and lets face it, how trustworthy or slow are those. 36$ left in budget.

    Thats 36 for ram, case and psu… As much as i hate to admit it, as a pc person, you cant make a pc with equal strength as ps5 pro and it sucks arse.
    Second hand might give us more leeway but i dont think its a lot.
    I will agree that yes, with pc you have a lot more options and its easier to put in a bit more into the budget to build a way better pc than a ps5 pro.
    But from a pure budget standpoint, no pc isnt worth it.
    As soon as you add other arguments, the choice changes