{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T18:35:23.100Z","source":{"name":"Hacker News public API","url":"https://github.com/HackerNews/API","attribution":"Stories and comments are public Hacker News submissions by their respective authors. HackerHub is an independent reader, not affiliated with Y Combinator.","content_is_untrusted":true},"story_id":50469994,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50469994","total_comments":62,"returned":12,"scope":"Up to the requested number of top-level comments in Hacker News ranked order. Deleted comments are omitted. Nested replies are not fetched; this is not the complete thread.","comments":[{"id":50471042,"author":"skeledrew","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:35:53.000Z","text":"May the forks live on. Also people seriously need to consider Radicle.\n- https://radicle.network/","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471042"},{"id":50470852,"author":"Rabbit504030201","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:25:22.000Z","text":"The outcome was obvious.\nAnyway, the team behind Yuzu is still at large and the development will continue elsewhere, from aside, like in older days of emulation. Not everything has to default to GitHub, and not everything can.","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470852"},{"id":50470629,"author":"haunter","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:10:04.000Z","text":"Every single Switch 2 emulator is still available on Github and Gitlab.\nAnd just checked most Switch 1 emulator is still available too because they are not hosted on Github but rather on self hosted repos with their own domains.\nNot that it matters because they will be back next week either way.\nThe only surprising thing is the PicoFly firmware but that's such a niche. Most peope who have a chipmodded Switch never touch that.","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470629"},{"id":50470352,"author":"glimshe","created_at":"2026-11-12T16:53:12.000Z","text":"I thought I had the right to use circumvention procedures to back up my own games. If I own game and run it on an emulator with a firmware extracted from my device, what law am I breaking?","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470352"},{"id":50470446,"author":"eska","created_at":"2026-11-12T16:59:27.000Z","text":"In the long term, the only way for them to fight this is streaming video games. But even then AI can be used to recreate gameplay from video material..","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":4,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470446"},{"id":50471891,"author":"andrewclunn","created_at":"2026-11-12T18:29:21.000Z","text":"As somebody who is involved in the rom hacking scene and cares a lot about game preservation, I think the \"bleeding edge\" emulators do us a lot of harm. Want to emulate the Game Cube? Awesome. Want to allow people to run the Ocarina of Time remake on PC less than a month after its release? I mean come on. I want to support these projects for purposes of preservation, but because we often do so little to distinguish between retro and current, the outright piracy makes the whole community look bad.","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471891"},{"id":50471262,"author":"lloydatkinson","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:50:25.000Z","text":"When will people learn to stop putting Nintendo emulators on GitHub?","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471262"},{"id":50471209,"author":"dude250711","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:47:22.000Z","text":"That makes sense if their hardware is so bad that it's not a strong enough differentiator.","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471209"},{"id":50470921,"author":"doctorpangloss","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:29:38.000Z","text":"the discourse on this stuff has really gone downhill. that said...\n17 years ago, there was this guy who thought suing college students for pirating music was righteous, as it was the RIAA's only real recourse to enforce their rights. now he is president of the greatest copyright violating institution in all of history.\nit is really unfair to go and point at the end user and say, \"cognitive dissonance.\" the polite way of saying that someone is a moron. because the harvard and stanford dropouts leading these near $1T valuation companies, well, they changed their minds for money. to me, flip floppers are also morons. or perhaps, nobody's a moron. at the end of the day, piracy will lead to less Crysis titles and more Monopoly Go and Roblox brainrot, so time will tell if culturally we are better off.","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470921"},{"id":50470987,"author":"sergiotapia","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:33:14.000Z","text":"On the one hand game preservation is a wonderful thing, a gift to humanity. It's the reason why I can play Eternal Sonata today on my computer in 4K instead of never again probably.\nOn the other hand, it's fucked up people are playing Ocarina of Time for free 2 days after launch.\nWhat's the answer here?","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470987"},{"id":50470328,"author":"FLeXMurphy","created_at":"2026-11-12T16:51:47.000Z","text":"Should use that leak of GitHub source code from some years back to fire up an `.ru`-based clone at this point. These people are clowns.","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470328"},{"id":50471127,"author":"SoftTalker","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:41:29.000Z","text":"> ... This process protects Nintendo’s copyright-protected video games\nDoes Nintendo use LLMs to write games? AIUI, LLM output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. I guess maybe there's an argument for their older catalog.","parent_id":50469994,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50471127"}]}