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Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games(www.retronews.com)

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toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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…Recent laws in Japan have criminalized console and game modding, as well as save file editing…

WHAT? why?..what???

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Because:

Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:

  • Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves
  • Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker’s permission
  • Game save and console modding services
    As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget’s “Save editor” have been discontinued.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/abk551/save_game_editors_and_console_modding_now_illegal/

It’s meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it’s worded it just bans them all.

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model_tar_gz@lemmy.world
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Can’t wait for Nintendo to sue Microsoft because VS Code can be used to edit save files.

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Fijxu@programming.dev
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lol man is just a game. Let me have fun exploring hidden rooms. No one is committing a crime by modifying their own game save.

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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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For some of us, finding ways to cheat IS the game.

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grue@lemmy.world
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In other words, Japan apparently hates property rights.

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NebLem@lemmy.world
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We really need to push for more right to repair laws and things not produced by the copyright holder (say for 5 years) should lose all copyright protections.

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mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world
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Successful lobbying by Sony and Nintendo I imagine.

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