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The last time I tried to use Yuzu or Ryujinx it was still quite difficult. I had to get out my switch and physical game cartridges and manually dump a bunch of decryption keys and game files. It is absurd that Nintendo is trying to claim these emulators are piracy tools or intended for piracy when they don't seem to do anything to make it easy to play a pirated game copy.

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It took me 15 minutes from downloading Yuzu to playing Mario Kart on my PC. You're doing something wrong

Did you start from the Yuzu documentation? I installed it and walked through their official quick start guide. I didn't type "mario kart free rom" into google or anything.

That's the "legal" way, dumping your own copy of horizon OS, your console's keys, your carts and their keys. Of course it's quicker and easier to just download someone else's keys and dumps, and you're not protecting yourself from Nintendo by using your own stuff, you just get the peace of mind knowing it's your stuff you're using.

It's also very quick if you're already set up with atmosphere & homebrew. Longest part was just waiting for my console's nand to dump.

Is Yuzu providing or linking to those dumps?

They aren't (that would make Nintendo's case pretty clear cut), but you can find them fairly easily through the regular channels if you're familiar with piracy.

You forgot to mention whether you pirated the game or were playing it legally

My guess is that the number of people using Yuzu to play switch games they own is approximately 0

I use it to play my switch games at better than 640p 20-30 fps. Tranformative experience for games like Xenoblade.

You don't sound very knowledgeable about the space.

The Switch has a vibrant modding and homebrew scene. People also like modding their consoles to dump their games.

Lots of power users want to dump their games to play the top games on their PC. Tears of the Kingdom runs in 8k, at 60fps, with lots of QOL improvements on PC.

Most people just google for a dumped copy and your up and playing in minutes (as long as it takes to download.)

Switch piracy is massive. Almost everyone I know is doing it. I’m not, but I still emulate because switch performance is poo. So I buy the game, and then emulate it in 4K/60, it’s how I finally finished BOTW.

I stopped emulating when my game crashed and I lost weeks of BotW. I moved back to the switch after that lol.

Emulation was awesome. Until...

That doesn't make sense. Botw keeps like five autosaves and they're all separate files which are never written to at the same time. You'd have to manually delete them to lose them.

You can say it doesn't make sense... but the emulator crashed and my game was unrecoverable.

I don't have the PC anymore but I know what I had happen.

Your yuzu/ryujinx installation could've become messed up and stopped looking in the right folder but your save files were still there and recoverable, I promise.

I went through the old save files and it was dead. I know where they were located. I found the same manuals and the same walkthroughs.

My game files were trashed. Restoring the different saves did nothing.

I promise you, I know how to restore saved files and follow instructions on how to do as such.

The emulators we easy to use. beautiful. responsive. After TOTK, the energy behind them had them getting constantly updated and was a good experience.

Until it wasn't.

Restarted TOTK on my Switch. I had bought it because I support games that are worth it even if I emulate them. I've got a Powkiddy RGB10 where I also emulate games. I've got a plex server where I host my own library.

When I, a random person on the internet you can believe or not believe, say that my emulator died and I lost weeks of progress on my game? I lost weeks of progress on my game. I can't remember which I was using (I switched between them at one point because one was faster/better but I can't remember which one it was)

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