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i'm not kidding when i say that this video could be gone tomorrow nintendo's

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unleashed their army of lawyers for less than all i've done

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but i managed to smuggle it out here

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this is what they don't want you to see hey what are you doing

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nintendo games on the steam deck it's more likely than you think nintendo

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would never do it in fact they took down videos from smaller youtubers for just

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showing it but as much as they'd like to do the same to

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me everything you're about to see is perfectly above board and has obvious

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benefits to you the nintendo gamer like

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saving you the trouble of packing your switch and game cards whenever you go

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out and i'll save you the trouble of not having to listen to this sponsor segue

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by giving it to you anyway kiwiko kiwiko sends out crepes that contain hands-on

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projects for kids and teens to help develop creativity confidence and

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problem-solving skills learn more at the end of the video or at the link down

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before we get to the how-to let's have a look at the experience

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my steam library's got a bunch of switch games just chilling in it including all

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of the artwork and if i launch one it just loads up like any other game just

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there we go i even get playtime stats it does take a little bit longer than usual

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because it has to load shaders and stuff but once it's done

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well you'll see or maybe you won't because nintendo is famously litigious

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and we may or may not actually show this on youtube

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mario kart 8. all right that's not a ah one thing about the steam deck a is not

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a in terms of the switch because if you look at the switch a is in fact the

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right hand side all right let's just do a grand prix let's just do it at the 50

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cc because i'm a games journalist i mean so far everything seems very smooth and

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that's honestly been my experience with pretty much every game that i've played

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yeah check that out a little bit of a stutter there

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i mean it looks like mario kart and it plays like mario kart in fact it plays

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better than you would typically be able to play with mario kart on the

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standard switch because you've got way better sticks

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i'm not the best person in the world at mario kart this is basically 60 FPS if

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it's dropping it's dropping very seldomly the input lag seems pretty good

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too all right let's uh let's pop out of

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mario kart 8 deluxe here let's try

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uh smash let's do it now i will freely

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admit that if i'm bad at mario kart i am

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very bad at smash okay so there's some

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uh shader compilation lag there

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oh a lot of shader compilation like this is stuff that'll happen basically the

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first time after the shader is compiled you basically don't have to worry about

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it anymore as you can see it is now pretty solid in terms of frame rate up

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and the chain the stage changed again so

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that uh that threw a wrench in that but yeah as you can see it

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picks right up and now it's actually very good i actually have no idea what

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this item is it's like a

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weird version of the fire flower from smash 64.

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well i mean i didn't win that that was bad but you know the actual

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performance is pretty good at least after the shaders are finished compiling

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sorry all these clips are blurred we believe that fair use protects gameplay

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footage for the purposes of creating reviews and tutorials

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but nintendo believes otherwise and has proven to be aggressively litigious

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about third-party exhibition of their games and has repeatedly misused the

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dmca to punish third parties when they feel that they're being harmed in some

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other way even if there is no law against whatever you're doing nothing is

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blurred over on Floatplane.com of course by this point i'm sure you've got some

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questions like really bother if i'm still using a handheld anyway valve's

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steam deck is way bulkier

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to carry and it has less battery life than the switch but

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it's tough to deny that a full pc is a more versatile device so if i wanted to

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carry just one handheld this is my only real option this isn't

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to say that the steam deck is a superior console i mean for one it lacks switch

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grade motion controls and hd rumble i just want to avoid packing two handhelds

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for travel once i finally get my steam deck this one is

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minuses that you can plainly see now if you're with me so far your next question

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has to be how do i get this

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into this one word jailbreak here's a list of

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everything we'll need to get going and while most of it is free the big one

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that's not and might be hard to find is a jail broken or jail breakable switch

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there's a great write-up by aaron donald over on alpher with a listing of serial

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number ranges that you can use to figure out if your switch is modable but the tl

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dr is that any switch purchased within about the first year or so should work

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just fine it just so happens that the switch i borrowed from one of our new

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hires is a very early serial number the

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other big piece of hardware is

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the rcm jig you can get one like this on amazon for about five dollars which we

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will link below but what these are doing at the end of the day is simply jumping

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some pins on the right joy-con rail to place it in recovery mode here are some

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other methods if you're inclined to hack a spare joy-con an old one that's got

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stick drift is a good candidate since this will definitely void the joy-con's

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warranty a fair warning by the way if you go any further i wouldn't recommend

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connecting your switch to wi-fi maybe this is the excuse you've been waiting

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for to pick up a switch lighter OLED for daily driving i'll be using this

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excellent guide by the nintendo homebrew discord server and you can find download

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links for everything there as well once you've got a hackable switch and the jig

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go ahead and power off the console and slide the jig into place at the very

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bottom of the right joy-con rail hold the volume up button while pressing

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power and you should see a blank screen with no backlight congratulations you're

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in recovery mode that's actually a good thing if not power off and try again it

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might help to take a sip from a water bottle from ltdstore.com soon to be

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available in chung is 64 ounces although this video might be down by the time

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that's true now launch the app on your pc mac or Android host device or perhaps

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you might even use the steam deck here and plug in the usb cable before we can

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proceed with a full jailbreak we'll first need to partition our sd card

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using tegra explorer so make sure you've made a backup of anything you have on

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the sd card select the tegra explorer payload and

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send it to launch it on the switch select partition the sd then fat32 plus

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mu mmc once it's done select reboot to rcm and

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eject the sd card insert the sd card into your host device and copy these

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files to the sd card not all the stuff that's listed in the guide is strictly

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necessary for what we're doing today but the bootloader hekate gold leaf

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atmosphere dbi and lockpick are non-negotiable move the sd card back

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into the switch and inject the hekate payload using the switch's touch screen

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select mumc and then create once that finishes

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and down and the power button to select we're specifically after the sysnand so

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select that and it should dump out to the sd card under the switch folder

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we'll copy these into the emulator's keys folder later now we can launch

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custom firmware go back into recovery mode and inject tecate again go to

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launch then atmosphere damn you are now

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in custom firmware

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which you can verify in settings now we can launch the homebrew menu by holding

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r and launching a game that's currently installed the first thing we need to do

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is dump the system files needed by a few games by going to gold leaf and then

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explore content go to console memory system and then copy all of the items

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there into the sd card exit gold leaf now it's finally time to dump some games

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launch dbi choose run mtp responder then

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plug the switch into your computer bam look at that

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you've got your sd card your installed games your saves and your game card

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that's everything backing up is as simple as copying the files though you

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don't need both the trimmed and not trimmed files from your game card

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trimmed should be fine unless you want a perfect backup including the garbage

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data that fills the unused space on the card with our keys in the games all we

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need now is emulation software i'll say upfront that switch emulation isn't

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perfect yet but many games do run just fine installing one of the two available

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switch emulators yuzu or ryujinx is pretty straightforward but both require

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that the deck be in desktop mode to configure first open up the discover

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store to grab them from flathub we'll use yuzu as an example here you don't

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once downloaded open yuzu and it will complain that there aren't any keys

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we have a solution to that go to file then open user folder see that keys

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folder in there copy those keys from earlier into there and while you're at

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it copy the system folder we backed up with gold leaf into the nand folder then

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restart the emulator from here there's a few options we

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should configure for the emulator starting with disabling this setting

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which would make exiting from the deck ui frustrating next in controls we want

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to emulate a switch pro controller and make sure that the emulator itself is

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using our steam virtual gamepad which should automatically map everything

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correctly for us then in graphics we should make sure

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that we're set to 1x native resolution and running borderless windowed mode for

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later then under advanced make sure fast GPU time is enabled you can disable it

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per game later but i found that you generally get better performance with it

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on finally set full screen under view then on the bottom strip you'll see some

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options click on docked to change it to handheld for better battery life and

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performance since we only have a 720p class screen anyway go ahead and copy

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over the games you backed up from your switch to an easy to remember folder like your downloads and point the

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emulator to it yes switch games try running one here to

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make sure everything works and don't worry it's normal for a minor stuttering

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to happen during load screens or when shaders are compiling for the first time

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they'll either go away soon or happen when they're least likely to be problematic now it's time to integrate

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all of this into steam while still in desktop mode open up discover and look

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for steam rom manager install that and fire it up under community presets type

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yuzu and choose the flat pack version it'll automatically set everything up

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for you except for your roms folder which you'll have to set to where you copied your games earlier click save and

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then test to make sure that the games show up with that done go to the settings page

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and select your steam directory this will be here under home

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finally go to the preview page and click on generate app list if all looks good

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click save app list now log out and go back into your library on the main deck

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ui check it out in the non-steam games

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list there's all your steam games you can even use this for other console

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emulators too now there are some drawbacks to this approach like you're

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not able to use nintendo's online services which could be a deal breaker

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for you to be clear you can play multiplayer games but only via local

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play or via local wireless through ryujinx's ldn build which is a bit

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tougher to set up on the steam deck by actually quite a lot that's a tough pill

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to swallow for some after all of those hoops you already have to jump through

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there are also benefits though like easy backups of saved games without nintendo

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online i mean i'll certainly sleep better knowing that a lost switch

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doesn't mean hours of lost game progress and while the first generation steam

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deck with modern emulators doesn't offer any performance advantages over a real

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switch that will change in the future and you could expect to run games at

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higher frame rates or resolutions or even with experimental mods on better

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hardware and nothing we're doing here is in my opinion immoral or unethical for

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those who are concerned about the damage that piracy does to game developers you

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can rest easy knowing that we didn't download any roms or firmware from the

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internet and we didn't circumvent any protections we got the games and keys to

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decrypt them fair and square from our own device using its own firmware

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recovery mode that matters legally even if it is a

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little less clear-cut than the aacs decryption keys leaked back in the day

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but why is this so contentious that nintendo fans will call you a bad person

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for doing it well i already talked a little bit about how

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nintendo is right to fair piracy in our previous legal emulation video

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especially now that there's a similarly priced handheld that can also run nearly

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every pc game ever and the back catalogs of nearly every historical console with

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that being said if you don't turn around and distribute the keys or roms in our

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opinion you haven't done anything wrong nintendo of course doesn't seem to care

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they went so far as issuing a dmca takedown of the fox's video showing the

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steam deck running switch games despite him neither showing nor suggesting where

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to get the rom files i guess now we'll see if they have the appetite to pick a

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fight with a bigger fish doing a full guide you can probably guess at this

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point that we have something of a love-hate relationship with nintendo i

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mean as a known sega kid i obviously have a little bias but even ignoring the

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responses to the foxes video you'll need only look at how nintendo treats their

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own biggest fans to see why despite the

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wellspring of creativity and childhood memories they represent

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they're kinda dicks about it sega meanwhile is surprisingly chill

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overall so i feel pretty vindicated but it doesn't stop people like Linus or

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even me from continuing to give nintendo their money even if Linus would feel

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awkward taking theirs the thing is one of nintendo's longest hell beliefs is

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that emulation itself is piracy that you're only allowed to play

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the games that you buy on original media with the original hardware every legal

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precedent that i know of has leaned otherwise and nintendo to date has yet

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to score victories in court against anyone who hasn't been actively

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distributing roms of their ip if they tried my gut tells me that the u.s

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courts would side with the individual but

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