5 Mods Nintendo wishes were Illegal

[@LinusTechTips]

Small correction: at 8:00 we erroneously use the "greater than" symbol instead of the "lesser than" one we should have used on screen.

[@itjustcrashed]

ACTSHULLY ITS-

[@narzangrover10]

i cant believe this. unsubscribed

[@gagelehr7568]

This is an outrage and I won't stand for it.

[@thenub641]

I actually went and googled "Less Than/Greater Than usage", because I was certain the usage on screen was wrong....but heck, "This is LTT, they know their stuff, maybe I'm wrong?". No no, silly human make mistake :)

[@BrandenMcNabb]

OH NO. Anyway last week...

[@me.unpredictable280]

Just found out my girl tried to violate Nintendo's intellectual property rights by making a fan game...I think I'm gonna be sick..

[@RayZu-cx2xb]

Thats kinda hot

[@Corridorcrawler]

Let her be the next Toby Fox

[@xXRealXx]

I know this is a joke, but I would be like "that's my girl!"

[@TrevorV]

I hope you mean ex-girl! ;)

[@devinbannish1469]

Somebody call Saul, or get Pheonix Wright on the case.

[@GVG]

Thanks for including us! We love seeing gaming content on LTT!

[@TheMrR9]

based

[@CreeperTheAdvanturer]

i subscribed!

[@gloeckle]

"... if Nintendo Hardware was the best and smoothest way to experience Neintendo software, switch emulation on handheld PCs wouldn't seem like such a threat." Who wrote that sentence? David? I salute you! 👊

[@anarfox]

That has been Linus sentiment for a long time, and he has said similar things on WAN show.

[@henry_tsai]

I heard that, somehow, a switch emulator running on android running on switch, would run smoother than a native switch...

[@sillythewanderer4221]

@@henry_tsai sounds far fetched, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

[@Mikana62]

It's so sad, seeing such great games, harmed so much by performance issues in 2024

[@Dracossaint]

​@@henry_tsaiit really does. Sometimes the textures are a little wonky though.

[@julioiglesias8067]

"piracy is an accessibility issue" looking at the general places where piracy is king (3rd world countries or countries with severe restrictions) the main issue is that people can't get their hands on official hardware/software, or it's just too expensive. in South America, where 1 USD is worth anywhere between 3-10 times the local currency, it doesn't make sense to buy 70 USD games, it's just way too overpriced for the local market.

[@MarioMastr]

Piracy is a direct result of accessibility issues. Blaming piracy FOR said accessibility issues is incredibly slimy and misrepresentative of the situation at hand.

[@n0tg]

i mean this issue has a lot of solution. game studios localize their prices so its lower in 3rd world country. steam also does this with the discounts. but yeah no way the dirty greedy nintendo does that. and like the Ultrakill developer say "culture should not exist only for those who can afford it"

[@ghostbaleada]

I would love to get more games localized. In here we need to eait for games to be 5 years old to have a heavy discount to be able to purchase them without hurting our finances for 3 to 4 montha

[@n0tg]

@@ghostbaleada yea man, thats why i wont feel bad pirating stuffs from these multimillion dollar greedy gaming companies. but i wont steal from small gaming companies. like even alot of indie developers localize their prices.

[@FloatingWeeds2]

3-10x? Do you think that in Japan where the yen it's 159x cheaper than the US dollar they're living on dirt? Change your thinking. It's dollar equivalent wages compared to the dollar equivalent pricing.

[@CragScrambler]

Here's another problem which I've experienced first hand, I bought a second copy of mariokart online for my sons Switch and after playing his console was banned, after reaching out to nintendo support they told us the reason, and despite providing them with the ebay receipt of sale ect it fell on deaf ears. I reached out to the ebay seller, and they accepted the return who wanted to send out another copy of the game, but asked for a refund instead. So it's buyer beware when buying secondhand games online now I guess.

[@infiniterecursion9550]

I hate that this is happening to innocent people. Nintendo doesn't care about it's fans or customers. I expect there's going to be more of the bans happening because of people dumping games then reselling them.

[@Mark-sd4hv]

Thank Linus and pirates like him. He just destroyed the secondhand market. Nintendo doing the right thing

[@invisiblekid99]

@@Mark-sd4hv Oh pleeeease explain this further.

[@ProjectionProjects2.7182]

@@Mark-sd4hv Keep crying Nintendrone lol.

[@wheelbite9]

This is something that I'm terrified of. I bought an OLED model about a year ago, knowing that the Switch is old and going to be replaced by something newer soon, and I was hoping to scoop up cheap used games from ebay, like I always have for old consoles. Then I was suggested a video about these dumpers a few weeks ago, and now I'm stuck paying full price for games that I was hoping to not pay $60 for. Used Switch games are a Russian roulette thanks to dumping, and that makes my new Nintendo into a much sadder product than I thought I was buying. If I had known that this was a thing beforehand, I wouldn't have spent the little fun money I had saved on a Switch.

[@tipoomaster]

Nintendo has 5,501 employees and 4999 are lawyers. They might hire one more engine designer next year for Switch 2. This won't go down well.

[@Djuntas]

i heard they might hire 2 more people to fix pokemon now. 25 million copies sold they will just afford it

[@Nordlicht05]

Army of programming lawyers

[@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung]

Their lawyers make up exactly 2.5 people, and they're both crammed into the body of a single entity with god-like powers.

[@MSTrusAgent]

as an non Nintendo employee, I confirm

[@caiocc12]

The rest are 500 marketing and 2 developers

[@Mawfu]

Garnished his prison wage, that is super fucked

[@russelllapua4904]

ikr? it's North Korea levels of messed up

[@Jehty_]

Doesn't that just automatically happen? Like you can't just choose which wages are garnished and which not, right?

[@johnboy_245]

​@@russelllapua4904not at that level if it was his parents and his kids wages would be garnished as well.

[@aarong2374]

not only his prison wages, all his wages can be garnished

[@Djuntas]

he should start crowd funding

[@anon_y_mousse]

If they sold ROM's of all of their back catalogue of games and had good emulators available for free on the Switch, hardly anyone would pirate. Just imagine going to their online store and picking up a copy of SMB[1-3] for a buck apiece and just playing them without any modding or copying needed.

[@luisgamercoolgaming]

Wii/3DS/Wii U Virtual Console is crying cause Nintendo is being dumb.

[@brianwilliams645]

​@@luisgamercoolgaming this exactly...we just want to play these games but as it is right now we dont have a way...only way they could do it is if there was a way to buy an accessary that is like the wii u pad (ik ik itd be expensive cus u know nintendo) to allow us to play 3ds/ds games...we have already seen that wii games work fine on switch although the tracking isnt the greatest...just come on nintendo...give us what we want...if u did what we asked we would be paying for older shit u just dont give us the option to

[@mathgeniuszach]

This is a great idea in theory - why would anyone go to a unofficial site when they could instead just buy digital versions of the old games that they know are safe? The problem is, Nintendo believes they can "cash in" on nostalgia instead and have said on their website that you should buy their new games to scratch that itch instead. The irony is that they DO release VC games for the most popular content, when they should really just release an easy way of accessing all official Nintendo games.

[@PlastiGomi]

yeah but I like not paying for things :)

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@mathgeniuszach Yeah, the company being greedy is a huge stumbling block. It would seem that the only way things in this world stay good is if they have a BDFL. Know any altruistic vampires that have billions of dollars and would be willing to run a company?

[@RexCognitionis]

Nintento's "Sorry, not sorry" attitude really hit me when I was working in retail. The day Nintendo announced they were discontinuing the Wii U and no longer going to sell it, it was pulled from my store's shelves. That was despite having roughly 70 in stock. Talk about "end of support."

[@ncrshane1919]

"Mods can significantly increase the life of games you own" said as I have software crunching away at LODs for Skyrim LE in the background while I watch this. 13 years later and I still enjoy the heck out of Skyrim thanks to a lot of mods, and some mild frustration getting them to behave of course.

[@unixtreme]

I've been playing diablo 2 modded last week, and that game is ancient.

[@dakshverma9959]

Nintendo's anti-mod strategy: trying to catch up with modders. When your console mods make Nintendo nervous, you know you're onto something good.

[@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung]

Not all of the time, there were mods to make Xenoblade characters naked that got banned; those were not outdoing Monolith Soft in any capacity.

[@pawnzrtasty]

All this thing has done is make me never buy a used switch game again. Would you trust a scalper of a really expensive or rare game to do the right thing or to make as many copies as possible? I’m just going to steal the game now when at first I wanted to buy it.

[@thekwoka4707]

If they made better hardware, there'd be less threat from mods.

[@peterhindes56]

I don't think Nintendo cares. They don't make any money off of second hand collectible sales ​@@pawnzrtasty

[@killaknight12]

​@@thekwoka4707If they made better hardware people would cry that it's too expensive. I mean most PC gamers want all the Sony and Nintendo exclusives on PC, because they don't want to buy expensive inferior hardware.

[@BringusStudios]

I LOVE PLAYING MY GAME BACKUPS GOD I LOVE IT SO MUCH

[@snintendog]

Time to Cram an SSD into a gamecube... Honestly can wait for the SSD2SP1 to comeout and Retire my SD2SP2 and Load the Side Cart ETH2SP2.

[@tommythelizard1521]

Holy shit Lois, it’s the guy who put a GPU in a google confrence computer

[@alessandrolucariello8529]

Optical media bad

[@arsen3097]

Omgg bringus studios, love your videos ❤

[@johnnymfsu2]

@@alessandrolucariello8529 virtual media bad

[@bengoacher4455]

The last point was the most critical. We want to pay for games, we just don't want to be taken to the cleaners for doing so. If you provide an affordable and convenient shopping experience, then piracy will stop. But if you over charge gamers, put in restrictive EULA and make single player games an online only subscription service then we will turn to Piracy. Just as with most things, the best solution is a compromise between games companies and gamers.

[@Mark-sd4hv]

They sell switch games. People pirate them. Nothing stops piracy except prison. If we have public transportation car thefts would stop! Said no one ever

[@doomslayerdave]

Nintendo shuts down Vimm's Lair and LTT comes out of the gate swinging... Full on Rage Against the Machine mode.

[@jimmynuetron9255]

The only thing better than Nintendo console mods are *Nintendo's lawyers*

[@kerolokerokerolo]

na, they are not good, there are just lots of them (or they ones there are are working a lot)

[@couryswan2448]

@@kerolokerokerolo imagine how much money nintendo could have made if they fully embraced the emulator and FPGA market- they could sell the hardware, sell the software and make a fortune.... but no they got to be total ass holes about it. fuck em- i ant catchin em all.

[@Rumple.]

Only thing more anti-consumer than Nintendo is the guy who used to run Germany back in the day, or the guys who run Russia and North Korea now

[@Rumple.]

@@couryswan2448 imagine how much money they would make if they just release their games on steam and or other platforms….. could literally be one of the richest companies in the world for just releasing old stuff 😂

[@witherking2537]

​@@couryswan2448they did those "classic" consoles that had the roms pre loaded on them, they then stopped selling them. Also emulation wise Nintendo switch online is literally just emulation

[@heyspookyboogie644]

If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft.

[@HHalcyon]

Words to live by.

[@Furluge]

Illegal file-sharing was never piracy (That requires a boat) nor theft (It doesn't remove property form the owner.) It was always just copyright infringement. IP owners keep trying to say it's theft because "theft" tickles the brain a lot more than copyright infringement. No one cares about copyright infringement.

[@13Hyrule]

@@SimplyMattis You'd think that, but games can be rendered completely unusable even if you have the disk or cartridge.

[@MsMRkv]

True

[@snjert8406]

​@@SimplyMattiswell, Nintendo has ruined things with bought games in the past and I have a hunch that it's only gonna be worse with Switch games once the Switch loses support.

[@IdealIdeas100]

Nintendo absolutely hates it when their fans make their games run and look better than they can

[@kitsunekaze93]

"you are making us look bad! *sobs*" - nintendo

[@TheGhostThatWas]

Nintendo doesn't even try though

[@PneumaAsh]

To be perfectly clear, that's not what they hate. They hate the potential lost sales. The only emulator to get DMCAd in any recent amount of time was an emulator that earned over one million dollars off of allowing people to pirate Tears of the Kingdom ahead of its release. That's not a matter of people being able to run the game better than Nintendo can, that's an objectively illegal situation

[@saiv46]

*fans outside Japan. They're surprisingly lenient towards Japanese fans, even as they have no "fair use" clause to protect them.

[@AstralDragn]

@@PneumaAsh tell that to the garry's mod modding community as well then lol. They're not 'just attacking people affecting their bottom line directly'. Everyone talking about nintendo's aggressive attitude to anything their IP is not doing it for jokes and there is large amounts of history that shows them being far more problematic for fans in this way than any other developer or publisher.

[@snowjackson2542]

Seeing LTT dabble in console gaming and CRTs is honestly a good way to increase the fan base of retro, and hopefully one day we can get fresh CRTs from a boutique manufacturer.

[@El_Chompo]

I still dream about how good CRTs could be if they made them using modern tech and development. It's surprising to me that nobody even makes them the standard old way when there is clearly a market for them.

[@4RILDIGITAL]

Blows my mind seeing all the tricks gamers pull to max out their consoles. I totally get Nintendo getting antsy about piracy, but let's be real, modding is a game changer. It's all about giving old gear new life and making our gaming sesh more epic.

[@snoops6469]

Absolutely insane that Nintendo got a guy in such indentured servitude that they straight up took his prison wage

[@DJSerpent]

Yeah Nintendo is a very corrupt company, and decided to take advantage of Gary Bowser's case and make an "example" out of him, to deter other hackers. But it isnt going to work, people will continue to do whatever they want.

[@Mark-sd4hv]

That's the law. Nintendo doesn't write laws. Not very smart

[@A_Hat17]

I can’t wait for Nintendo to have their “Steamboat Willy” moment in 80 years Edit: 80 years is just a random guess idk the copyright laws

[@hendrafour7824]

more like 50 for the original mario

[@TheRealKidRed_]

I'ma make sure my grandkids ruin mario. I don't know how. But I've got till I die to figure it out.

[@AceMusubi]

You guys talk like medical science and wise decisions won't bring some of you to the year 2100

[@SamiKankaristo]

​@@hendrafour7824 Isn't it 70 years after the death of the author, not 70 years after creation/publication?

[@XxPermaGrinxX]

@@SamiKankaristo Life of author plus 70

[@dakawans83]

When purchase isn't ownership Piracy isn't theft.

[@jemd5766]

I still remember what they did to "Crimesight". 100% unplayable, online & offline. Thanks Komoni... (mispelled intentionally)

[@pokiblue5870]

Nintendo Ceo is watching this video..👁️👄👁️

[@Hitokiri_Ace]

I'm all for more emulation content. Please cover more aspects of it. Physical hardware, software emulation.. I'd love to have a big overview/test seeing what's the best for what console/games.

[@Mike-cu3kj]

10:27 I want that video. Also would love a mega build of all the major available consoles built using that MisterFPGA tool. I'd be cool to see it in your house with a plug and play form factor. Might be hard to get ads for it though

[@jimmynuetron9255]

After releasing this Linus is going into witness protection

[@zwenkwiel816]

WITNESS PROTECTION FOR WHAT?!

[@GideonXD]

​@@zwenkwiel816darkviperau reference

[@Jehty_]

Nobody was convicted of anything.

[@blarghblargh]

@@Jehty_ except gary bowser. rip

[@zwenkwiel816]

@@GideonXD just have to every time I see the words "witness protection" anywhere

[@TakiUdon]

Thanks for the shoutout! I agree with Bob, the Retro Castle case is awesome.

[@ContendCreators]

Atta boy!

[@FindSimpleGuides]

It's fascinating to see the potential of gaming hardware when untethered from the manufacturers' restrictions. Entire new aspects of equipment we thought we knew.

[@ActuatedGear]

I never understood why they clamp it down so hard. It doesn't have to work perfectly in all use cases. I know that licensing can also be a problem. And also "selling new thing" can be a massive profit driver, but they could have literally opened all the settings and thrown in a "reset all to default" option and everything would have worked just fine with the added options a mile wide.

[@bluephreakr]

Now, understand what your desktop computer can do without the restrictions of Microsoft and their tiered edition garbage for Windows. _That's_ compelling stuff right there.

[@gameroclast486]

Something I like about the N64 modding scene is how some of the very best games made after recompiling the code could be then played on original hardware, just to make the experience a bit more authentic.

[@stevemaricar4350]

It's fascinating to understand the inner workings of these consoles, how they're modified and how this could potentially challenge the rigidity of Nintendo's copyright mechanisms. It becomes more about preserving and improving the gaming experience, breaking the boundaries of what's confined by just the stock console. It's brilliant, dangerous, but truly a test of skill and knowledge for dedicated gamers and coders.

[@MistyKathrine]

Fun fact: If Nintendo just sold PC versions of their games from their own Eshop, the popularity of emulating Nintendo games would be far lower.

[@turtlefrog369]

they would make absolute bank if they sold their old games on android. especially if they emulated the game link with bluetooth or maybe even NFC.

[@karol30660]

@@turtlefrog369 but what would they generously give as a bonus to their totally-not-outrageous backup enabling online subscription then?

[@Pasloooo]

lol true it's much cheaper and almost easier to get emulator to your pc and grab xbox/ps4 controller rather than buy console +100£ and buy game or two +100€ aaand after that u play from 8" screen with 30fps instead of pc emulated zelda beig 60fps and all the image enchanters daymmm :DDDD

[@shortyipper]

if they would do that on Steam, GOG and Epic as well that would be the best. I mean even Sony is (slowly) bringing their bigger titles to PC which is nice. More eyes on the game, more players.

[@terpfen]

Fun fact: If Nintendo just sold PC versions of their games from their own Eshop, they would lose out on marginal sales of hardware, ultimately reducing revenue. It's really cringe when the internet tries to act like Nintendo has never run P&L projections for selling their games on other platforms. If they could get rid of the cost of researching, manufacturing, warehousing, and distributing their own hardware and make as much if not more by just selling software, they would have already made that decision. People who want to play Nintendo games on non-Nintendo platforms better hope the Nintendo Cinematic Universe is a smash success. The waves of basically cost-less revenue coming in from movie sales and royalties would change the P&L calculations for distributing Nintendo software on other platforms.

[@idkwhattohaveasausername5828]

Surprised they didn’t mention a 3DS with cfw. Easily the easiest mod and you get access to a basically unlimited library

[@ElNeroDiablo]

Jailbreak a Vita and you have the PS1, PSP & Vita libraries at your fingertips via homebrew. Jailbreak a 3DS (N3DS/N2DS is the best option for the stronger processors) and you get pretty much the whole GB, GBC, GBA, DS, DSi & 3DS libraries at your fingertips via homebrew. In both cases the companies that produced the hardware and sold the games no longer sell the hardware new, nor make new copies of those games for said hardware (small caveat in that PS3 & Vita can still buy games off the PSN... once you've jumped through hoops to add funds via PC, PS4 or PS5, but no new game carts/discs are being produced either way), so they pretty much have no ethical, moral or legal leg to stand on claiming "lost sales" on platforms they've deemed End Of Life and prevented people from legally purchasing digital copies of games from their online platform (particularly in 3DS case, as noted by the caveat earlier).

[@TatsuyaWow]

@@ElNeroDiablo vita can do GBA and under as well

[@Grandwigg]

I'm out of my original 3DS of good while back . And then I did my new 3DS after the systems shut down. it's so nice not have to carry around my booklet of cartridges anymore

[@FoxxFire]

The very subtle wink at 1:50 is just perfect.

[@CByers-lh3zq]

I loved the wink @1:49 - "did he actually wink? did he get something in his eye?" the world may never know... 😉

[@NyaronVT]

With Nintendo's habit of dropping support for their older consoles/online shops, and the crazy price bump in second-hand physical games (looking at you GBA games), it's amazing to learn about this stuff!

[@TrevorV]

David becoming a writer has been one of the greatest things that has happened for a large community of LTT fans. Including myself! Keep up the great work!

[@hyzenthlay7151]

My only real problem with the MIG is the people that will buy games, rip them, and then sell the cartridge, which could seriously mess with anyone that buys it.

[@basicus0]

@@corruptedpoison1then there would be no reason to buy the switch because there would be handhelds with a comparable price but much more power and much less restrictions.

[@TAMAMO-VIRUS]

@@basicus0 They could do something like "You can buy the base game on Steam, but the DLC and some skins are only available on our hardware". It'd piss a lot of people off, and someone would eventually mod that stuff into the PC port, but it is something they could do to make their hardware more enticing.

[@kuebby]

Good. Because Nintendo can't afford to screw over people buying second-hand games (and might not be allowed to legally), so anything that throws sand in their eyes is A-ok in my book.

[@haydenw8691]

@@kuebby Definitely agree. Unfortunately, they would just make the games digital only if they really wanted to screw over the second hand market going forward.

[@zarteen]

Perhaps companies should be forced to innovate if they don't want to be pushed out of the market. Nintendo might as well be filing a patent for time capsules at this point.

[@jbruning1291]

When it comes to Nintendo, I advocate for all to fly the colors and to start singing their favorite shanties.

[@Mark-sd4hv]

Why Nintendo should keep going after pirates. When you condone theft, you justify the actions of the victims

[@hyperbole1153]

​@@Mark-sd4hvI disagree with your opinion

[@hipepleful]

@Mark-sd4hv I condone theft if in any legal way doesn't benefit the original devs. For example, if you want to play an obscure SNES game that you had as a child, what are your options? Switch's app store? Sure, but what if it doesn't have the game? Buy the original copy? The devs aren't getting that money, and since it's rare, you're probably paying multitudes more than it cost when it came out, including inflation. You then have to hope your cartridge works, plus hope to have a working SNES. If you bought both at the same time and it doesn't load, you have no idea (depending on SNES's errors) whether it's the game or console. Even if it is for sure one of those things, there's no guarantee you or anyone you know can fix it. Pirate it. You have to have a beefy enough computer, phone, or console, and be able to use a rip you find of said game. You have the possibility that your rip comes with a virus, is just not the game you wanted, doesn't work well with the specific emulator, or just doesn't decide to work for some reason. The only downside (if you are smart and don't click on exe's) would be wasted hours, and you can try again. If Nintendo released an official emulator as well as an app store (perhaps ran by the original rippers, so there's no cost in servers), can easily get any game, perhaps for the same price Nintendo has certain ports (if I recall, 1 to 5 dollars), and now lose any worry of viruses, as they are officially branded. This would give avenues for them to have even games that they would never have any desire of remaking because of profits being at least some amount of income.

[@jbruning1291]

@@hipepleful Well put and thought out. I appreciate the effort to convey your opinion.

[@hipepleful]

@@jbruning1291 thank you.

[@oBrxtn]

Linus I hope you’re able to take time off with your family. Pumping out 2 or 3 bangers and releasing them somewhat close together works for me. Enjoy your family Linus. We need you, just not all of the time.

[@lahmyaj]

LTT does console and retro console gaming videos now? 🤷🏻‍♂️ That’s gooood! 😁👍🏻

[@the_0hd251]

imagine hetzner paid thousands of dollars to get a ad spot in a ltt video and the video gets taken down

[@migidid]

I dont think Hetzner paid anything, LTT probably uses their services and they give out the service for free of charge in exhange of some ad spots.

[@the_0hd251]

@@migidid if it was supermicro i could understand what you mean but hetzner getting a free ad spot where other people pay thousands maybe hunderts of thousands is very unlikely

[@migidid]

@@the_0hd251 yeah instead of paying 10k they give out service worth 100k for ad spot seems reasonable. I'd do it.

[@Ornithopter470]

Hey Linus, at least in the US, piracy has been definitively demonstrated to NOT be theft. It fails to meet the definition of theft in the legal sense. It is copyright violation, which is a crime. But that crime is not theft.

[@snintendog]

The moment Disney collapses I am sure Copywrite will collapse as well.

[@RippahRooJizah]

@@snintendog Nah, although Copyright shouldn't collapse, just be reconfigured to be less absurd.

[@ChaseMC215]

The line "If Buying isn't Owning, then Piracy isn't Stealing" means absolutely nothing now, it's just a copypasta for people who don't understand that piracy is copyright violation.

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

In Mexico is similar but with the extra of it being legal as long as it isn't for profit, so stuff like the Mig Switch and the dumper can be openly sold as long as you claim that you aren't profiting from it as a product and the same applies for ROMs, they can be freely exchanged and legally avaible online as long as they are free.

[@kitsunekaze93]

@@ChaseMC215 a better one would be "If Buying isn't Owning, then Piracy isn't wrong". because pirating old games IS objectively fine

[@Gubers]

What's odd to me is how companies like Nintendo don't just do some in-house work to enable backwards compatibly themselves and then make more money selling more games. They could easily produce a "retro Wii" device which is basically the Wii U they already designed with firmware and software modifications to make it a GameCube, Wii and Wii U box then sell all those titles on their store.

[@arnox4554]

Nobody said Nintendo was being intelligent here. Project M/Project Plus, for example, sold a ton of Wiis and previously unwanted copies of Smash Bros. Brawl. Did Nintendo care? Nope.

[@Jehty_]

I wonder the same about old PC games. Recently I wanted to play the old NFS games. But EA doesn't sell them anymore. I would have gladly spend some money on them. But no, there's just no way to buy them. So 🏴‍☠️it is.

[@stevecole90099]

@@Jehty_ For NFS/EA, they usually delist games due to cameo, music, or some other license expiring and the games sales not being enough profit to renew. This has happened to a lot of games on both console and PC which is why being able to buy physical games is what a lot of people prefer because they usually can't just disappear overnight like digital games can.

[@travisv6408]

This device is definitely designed for playing your backup legally, with all the ids intact for your own use. I wouldn't use this one though as I don't like how you have to wear out your systems card slot to cycle through your backup. I'm just sticking to the illegal method using atmosphere, borrowing or renting games and ripping them in my switch and removing ids.

[@DemoncF]

They recently put a new version out that has a button on top of the cartridge for cycling so you no longer need to eject, and I believe supports cycling more games now. Still a really inelegant solution for moving through ROMs though.

[@DeadBaron]

Hacked my 3DS and glad I did. Shutting down such a massive library is so bogus. It would have been so simple to continue supporting the 3DS. Now I can have all my games on the MicroSD and even expanded it to 256GB, I can hold as many games as I want. Throw in DS and GBA (and others!) emulators and my entire library is on a device I can carry in my pocket.

[@rushsilliness]

you know whats crazy my first ever nintendo game experience was emulating super mario sunshine on pc because nintendo didnt market nor make it easy for me to actually play/buy their games where i live i loved the experience so much that i ended up spending 600$ just to import a switch to play their games aka money they would have never gotten if i hadnt pirated a 20 year old gamecube game

[@leviathan19]

out of curiosity where do you live?

[@taronzgaming7739]

Don't answer him, it's a trick. Well played Nintendo lawyer, but it won't work this time!

[@leviathan19]

@@taronzgaming7739 reported ¬¬

[@aksGJOANUIFIFJiufjJU21]

@@leviathan19 no

[@Maxjoker98]

1:50 You didn't think I'd notice that wink, but I see what you did there ;)

[@alecs7506]

He literally just blinked

[@Triflixfilms]

It's so weird that Linus decided to take a bath while making toast after this video went live.... He should have known it would just make the bread soggy.

[@danielross971]

I've always wondered why my dad ever even wanted toast in the bath. I would never want soggy toast

[@jpguitaristcomposer]

God bless you all the modders out there for sticking with your passion and love for gaming. It's so refreshing to have an episode where their hard work can be vocalized.

[@hoylematt1]

I bought a Wii right before the pandemic for $25 with 4 controllers, and modded it shortly after. It has been one of the best purchases ever, putting the entire Wii and GC library on a big old hard drive has lead to hundreds of hours of fun for my kiddos.

[@daltonmcmaster3489]

These are my favorite LTT videos. This is why I have so many old consoles. Give it enough time and there will be a mod of it. So sweet

[@zipperbricks]

Here before nintendo nukes canada

[@7katter-gr2nn]

Here after nintendo nuked canada

[@Informatic1]

Damn all hell broke loose in those 30 minutes

[@michaelwalker8250]

Lol

[@stu729]

Ok, not discounting Nintendo's lawyers and nuclear lawfare, but if they really went after Canada they could find out what Canadians call it the Geneva Checklist. You don't want to mess with Canada. (All said in good fun!)

[@Nordlicht05]

Nintendo style mushrooms

[@oighor]

Linus was found shot dead in the streets of Brazil by the hands of an opposing gang (Nintendo)

[@AngelUribe18]

Caught in the cross fire of and off duty cop

[@lsoldeMaduschen]

nah, they were aiming at him but he was just too small to get hit

[@Kyanite.]

"I asked for a statement from Brazilian authorities, but Furukawa appeared, I got really scared" said Elijah, former Linus protégé.

[@AngelUribe18]

@@Kyanite. I would've expected Elijah to deflect the bullet with his helmet

[@Sicho84]

Nintendo is planning to re-release many games, especially those worth playing or from popular franchises. This could be through collections (e.g., Super Mario 3D All-Stars), HD remasters (e.g., Metroid Prime 1 Remastered), remakes (e.g., Super Mario RPG), online subscriptions (e.g., GoldenEye with Online Multiplayer), or mini consoles (e.g., SNES Mini). Their aggressive stance against modding and piracy is driven by their desire to continually monetize their portfolio. Nintendo is not alone in this approach. Konami, for example, is heavily focused on remakes (e.g., Silent Hill 2) and retro collections (e.g., the Cowabunga Collection), and they have found success with this strategy. In this context, piracy can be maybe somewhat harmful to their bottom line. If you download an old game because you cannot buy it anymore and then it becomes available to buy again, you are less likely to purchase the new release. On the other hand, the fact that millions of people still want to play their old games and that there are huge communities dedicated to running them on modded hardware is a big compliment to Nintendo. It means that many of their games are good, beloved, and still stand the test of time. And this means they are leaving a lot of money on the table by not making accessing their old games easy and convenient. While there are significant efforts for many other platforms as well, I believe the Nintendo scene-alongside the Arcade scene-is one of the most active and vibrant modding and pirating communities in gaming. I'm very interested to see if the Switch 2 or whatever it will be called will be fully B/C to the original Switch. IMO it would be madness if it wasn't.

[@MissJaeMusic]

Don't use this Mig Swtich you will get banned from Nintendo Online services meaning you can longer trade your pokemon between your games.

[@TaMasterr]

LOL Linus when he says 'the content of your own authentic game cartridge' *wink*

[@DumDumN1]

Yea....I did not missed that ''wink'' at 1:49 Linus 😉

[@Prosencrantz]

If you need to use hdmi - i would still recommend going for the Wii U, not only because of the complexity of modding your own wii, but availability for these kind of mods are very scarce, and even if you get to power through month-lengthed waitlists, they're not that cheap either.

[@Dudewitbow]

the con is that Linus doesnt mention is that depending on how you run the gamecube game, the game itself incurs input latency penalty. Running it in WiiU mode iirc causes a 2 frame input latency and depending on the kind of game you're playing, would be detrimental.

[@bingegamer]

This is one of my favorite LTT videos, hands down. As a lurker that is knee-deep in both the traditional console gaming & emulation scene, I love that you guys mentioned noteworthy chaps such as GVG, Macho Nacho, Taki Udon. Also Majora’s Mask will hopefully one day get an Android port. The discourse I’ve seen on Zelda64Recomp’s GitHub sounds promising.

[@blackwing88cyper51]

good thing this is LTT makingthis video nintendo wont be able to push LTT around the same way they do a smaller youtube channel etc

[@SumeaBizarro]

as owner of one: One additiona thing your "unlocked Wii U" Definitely needs is an external HDD, but Wii U is also notorious for not supplying as much power as "unofficial standard" has been. Wii U actually follows the standard to the T and the dot but nobody else actually does not even nintendo in past with Wii and future with Switch. So your HDD is recommended to have it's own power supply, so, get one of those huge 3.5 inch external buffalos that have not been sold for years now. I know I did about 8 years before Wii U's release and I was golden. Extrenal HDD these days is almost required given either 8 gig (about 6 or less usable) or 32 gig (about 28 or less usable) models of Wii U. You also will be much happier getting 32 or 64 gigabyte SD card even if you are not using it as much as your HDD but backing up and installing back ups needs up to 25 gigs of space, if you install retroarch SD card is best storage for it to access, and there might be few gamecube games that are not as friendly running in Digital Downloadable Wii game package installed and run from Wii U's system or USB storage that is used for Wii games officially and also now unofficially.

[@brendanblair64]

You should definitely cover N64 Recomp at some point, along with other similar efforts like Ship of Harkinian. It's such a cool scene.

[@arnox4554]

Yeah but... MVG already put out a great video regarding that.

[@brendanblair64]

@@arnox4554 More than one person can cover the same topic. I just want more people to know about these cool projects.

[@stephend0002]

at 1:51, was the worlds fastest wink LOL Awesome Job!!!

[@TheBoomerBoss]

Glad someone else noticed it lmao. I had to rewind and double check

[@TheSOSDude]

While I absolutely LOVE playing Gamecube games on the Wii U, it does have some strange display issues. If you don't manually switch your Wii U's resolution to 480p before launching a Gamecube game, you'll notice that your image is slightly squished. Using any resolution higher than 480p will result in this problem. This issue is also present on the Gamepad with no way to properly fix it.

[@starkle]

So cool to see N64Recomp covered here! Worth noting the separate RT64 project is responsible for the graphical enhancements like high FPS, widescreen, and soon ray-tracing. Also, any gameplay enhancements requires an understanding of the decompiled source code, which is next to impossible without an active reverse engineering effort like Majora's Mask has.

[@AirKhanFPV]

1:49 I didnt see the blinking! 😂

[@98SE]

Same here, I didn't see it XD

[@tarvest]

The MigSwitch is something that everyone needs to be wary of, as it could be a huge problem for people who buy used games. People have been known to buy games, dump them, then trade them back in. What that means is that if you buy a cartridge that has had this done and connect to the internet with it, Nintendo will potentially see that there are multiple versions of the same game signature and ban your console for piracy. They do this as a measure against the same handful of copies that are distributed in mass across the internet.

[@snintendog]

Yeah this is just MAD. Mutually assured destruction. Nintendo does this The US and EU will rip them apart the pirates will still win and modders uneffected.

[@Wheels35]

this is the clarification they needed when they mentioned 'it will impact second hand games', they need to clarify its only if those games have been dumped, which as you pointed out, is now definitely more of a problem, and no way to determine if a game cart has been dumped.

[@JerziTBoss]

MIGSwitch can easily destroy second hand market if it spreads. Nobody will risk their console being banned.

[@arnox4554]

Oh nooooo... We won't be able to sell our overrated Nintendo games for triple the MSRP. Whatever will we dooooo...

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

Why the hell are the games serialised‽

[@123leop]

Surprised your legal department allowed this title!

[@roidnerd2501]

because its not illegal its perfectly legal what is not legal is downloading games you dont own

@NajeebGamer99 get a job and you can buy your own things.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

@NajeebGamer99 you should try a job, you complete things and get money

[@Wickery.]

@NajeebGamer99hopefully that DOESNT happen

[@dragon1130]

​​@@roidnerd2501not really. It isn't illegal to download games/software you don't own. It is illegal to upload them for others to download however. It's not theft either since nothing is being taken away, It's copyright infringement which... I don't think is as severe as theft, though, I could be wrong on that.

[@markkilborn512]

I have a "good" Wii and an "evil" Wii, as well as with GameCube, and a couple hundred games across the two systems. But I have to be honest, I use Dolphin for almost everything now. I know it's not 100% accurate but for most games it's so close, and with the upscaling and improvements the experience is just better. Get a Dolphinbar for the Wii Remote games, use an Xbox- or GameCube-style controller for the games that support traditional controls. It's glorious. F-Zero GX in 4K with a texture pack is absolutely stunning. Also +1 for the MiSTer. Most of my old machines are collecting dust now.

[@sassafrasofficial3695]

I don't get how Nintendo can care what someone does with a GameCube for example. They aren't making money off of it, it's all second hand and I don't want to pay 60+ dollars for Luigi's f-ing Mansion.

[@sassafrasofficial3695]

I will though because it's a cool ass collector's item

[@kendallchaos]

@@sassafrasofficial3695 I think the fact that they aren’t making money off it is the main reason Nintendo hates mods, why extend the life of a game that they don’t get any profit from when they can just release an almost identical game at full price

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

The outro is so true. I got Citra and Yuzu set up on my ROG Ally and it gets double the framerate on Tears of the Kingdom that Switch does. It's insane that Nintendo is so focused on piracy when so many of us only pirate Nintendo content because they refuse to make competent current gen hardware.

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

I only mentioned Citra because I thankfully got them both setup about a week before the takedown but yeah Ally emulation is the best way to play Switch games.

[@no_misaki]

So you paid like twice as much for a handheld PC that can emulate TotK for like an hour?

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

@@no_misaki no I paid $500 new on a crazy sale for the best in bed gaming experience ever imaginable. Obviously it's not great on battery but that's not what I wanted it to do.

[@simsim6990]

10:25 PLEASEEEEE

[@youju26]

+1

[@tito_me_doe676]

Same

[@sh5w1kr]

The Mig Switch is from Russia (who else would call it Mig, right?) And yes, nintendo is already banning consoles for using ripped roms. There is a russian youtuber who already done some experiments and got his switch banned. He explained, that every physical cartridge is signed with a certificate and when you rip the game, your certificate is getting copied to the rom too. (Maybe?) nintendo is logging all of this certificate/serials and when two (or more) switches get online with a game with the same certificate - it get's banned. That may also impact the market of the second held cartridges, because you can never know which of the cartridges have been ripped and got online, so you may have get your switch banned even when buying and using genuine cartridge.

[@yphoenix5957]

This is a sick video! I was aware but not enough to notice how epic Wii or Lunchbox modding is. I love hardware modding, I first got into PC building and tinkering through modding my Switch on a idle wim!

[@Madvizion]

"Remember, hacking is more than just a crime. It's a survival trait." Razor "HACKERS"

[@Lenxaid]

The whole Gary Bowser thing, it wasn't because of the jailbreaking and stuff, on top of selling access to a pirated libary of Switch games, there was also charges against him for money laundering, wire fraud. Also you know, on top of this he was putting DRM on their CFW which is also pretty shitty. He literally went out of his way as much as possible as not being a good guy homebrew guy headlines like to paint them as, they were literal criminals in multiple senses of the word.

[@ElNeroDiablo]

Criminals attacking other criminals for providing a somewhat better end product using the same base hardware. *shrug* No skin off my nose.

[@Daniel_VolumeDown]

what is CFW ?

[@byrd3242]

I'm not defending him and I never looked into the legal cases, but keyword there is "charges" not convictions. So whether you like him or agree with what he was doing or how he was doing it or not, when it's a big media case like that you can't just take everything in headlines at face value.

[@Fakenamelance]

@@Daniel_VolumeDownCFW stands for "custom firmware" and it is the thing most people are referring to when they talk about "Hacking" or "Jailbreaking" something.

[@Daniel_VolumeDown]

@@Fakenamelance thanks

[@pompomaddons]

We bought a hit on you. Sincerely, Nintendo Ninjas

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

Nintendo wishes _everything_ is illegal

[@LookHearMeOut]

Underrated comment.

[@CreativityNull]

Except their rampant DMCA abuse. They still want that to be legal.

[@Peh84]

Nintendo does not wish, Japan law makes it illegal. Like: modding consoles in Japan can send you to prison. They simply have stricter laws about that stuff.

[@HarmonicDuality]

@@Peh84 Nintendo still goes out of their way to find any opportunity to sue people though.

[@lockinhinddanger934]

That's illegal

[@chronicnugget5595]

You guys need to make a N64 decompiled video, it's by far the coolest thing I've seen in retro gaming in years. I've been playing Majora's Mask at high refresh rates and resolutions flawlessly. It even works with ray tracing!!! The old games look fantastic with RT

[@4w3rftwegrf54]

6:00 Linus, no. It's called anamorphic widescreen. Don't know how serious you were with the widescam comment, so I'm just going to leave it at that. Surely, you understand the limitations there were back in the "SD" era. Although modern TVs seem to treat the Wii's output as some form of 16:10 for some reason.

[@scienceontheright]

3:52 And here I thought I was American. Now apparently, I'm Cuban. Huh. Interesting.

[@flmalegre]

AZÚCA'!

[@jima1135]

"The contents of your own authentic game cartridge." The wink at 1:50 did not go unnoticed. Lawsuit incoming.... haha

[@laith66dude]

Nintendo legal departmant: "YOU DARE QUESTION MY POWER? YOU MORTAL SCUM"

[@Xmanant03_Mr03]

The MiG switch is such an interesting part of backing up switch games. Love the device(s).

[@bobbobby1624]

honestly I was expecting less of this kind of content after Linus decided to hand over most of the reigns of LTT, kinda cool to see that wasn't the case

[@robertlinke2666]

so the migswitch is an R4 card, for the switch

[@ElNeroDiablo]

Effectively an R4 cart that paired with the company's dumper (or a hacked switch with CFW) makes perfect data-clones of original carts so you can have like 5-10 games on-cart without risking many hundreds of dollars worth of physical carts being lost (especially if you live in a country that has consumer laws that say as long as you can provide evidence of owning the physical original of a piece of software/media; you can make and use a copy of that software/media for daily use and put the original physical media in storage for preservation... Hello~ Australia!), only risk losing the console and a $70-odd cart.

[@IDonotHaveAGoodName]

Honnestly since nintendo's makes so many backward decisions to fuck over their fans, easier pirating is the least they deserve.

[@jeremydale4548]

Honestly I am shocked they haven't been sued into the ground yet

[@RandomNon-interestingguy]

​@@jeremydale4548hard to, the issue is they are legally in the right, especially since they are a japanese company and copyright there is EVEN more ridiculous than in the west

[@M3di3valG]

@@RandomNon-interestingguy Just goes to show that the legal isn't necessarily moral.

[@suuslime3908]

@@jeremydale4548 Are you a literal kid or something?

[@Skillnoob_]

9:45 Isn't project64 insecure now? There are a few emulators that don't have security issues and emulate more accuratly than Project64. Kaze Emanuar made a great video explaining why.

[@1Mackinzoid]

I recently replayed Ocarina of Time and I purposely tried to keep as vanilla as possible. There's a certain charm to that old frame rate, resolution and polygon count, maybe it's just nostalgia but I do still think it's special. How perfectly square the boxes were, we never had hit reg issues back then. They were also made for that frame rate etc. so it's almost better in a way. The only thing I changed in the game was swapping to more PC-friendly textures for performance but it still looked identical. The other thing that's cool about playing games in their original version is that you contemplate the history of video games and graphics. You think of how ground-breaking it was at the time and how it would be considered terrible graphics today. It's almost like a little time capsule, you get to see something that is 25 years old in it's original form, almost perfectly preserved, even more so if you have an old tube television or CRT monitor. PS: Don't get me wrong, I also love playing games with updated graphics via mods, texture packs, emulation magic, whatever. I just think it's worth playing certain classics in their original form now and then.

[@apurpledragon]

I'd like to point out that the MIG cartridge is 100% safe if used in a single player setting, as you don't run the risk of getting your console banned. It becomes dangerously risky when you do try to connect with people online as Switch cartridges have a sort of tell and if Nintendo catches that it's dumped well...yeah best to save an extra $300-$400.

[@michaelmu6765]

I haven't watched the video but if that migswitch gets shown, oh boy

[@devinbannish1469]

Lmaoo

[@JFTSwiertz]

Not even two seconds.

[@screwball69]

Its literally in the thumbnail

[@michaelmu6765]

I just realized I should explain, if memory serves the members behind the migswitch had tried to make their own closed source alternative to the switch homebrew scene, and they weren't nice about it (even having code to brick under specific conditions). That's why I'm not exactly positive with it being shown whatsoever.

[@Spikyzzzz]

Nintendo : Breathes heavily down Linus neck..

[@choder9956]

i think you underestimate a man who tried to water cool a 8k camera

[@recordedanemone6399]

Here before LMG gets shut down by Nintendo

[@kerolokerokerolo]

they have the power to fight Nintendo at the tribunals, if necessary. I see this video as a challenge to Nintendo. Sue us, if you want to.

[@themightyredemption]

They also live in Canada, where Nintendo has less power then in the US And Europe. Canada doesn't recognize international civil suits in copyright cases. It has to be a criminal case for Canada law to allow foreign litigators.

[@HedgehogY2K]

Aw yes. the simple letterbomb trick for getting homebrew setup on your 2GB Wii SD card. All I gotta do is load up some compatible x264 encodes onto a 32GB flash drive and play them on WiiMC. I'm thinking Avatar and Samurai Jack. Spoiler alert, I've already completed converting Samurai Jack to Xvid, also removed letterboxes for widescreen whenever content allows for it, this show loves dynamic black pillars for dramatic effects.

[@iiambrez]

Definitely gonna need that dedicated N64Recomp video sometime soon. That LoZ clip looked AMAZING!

[@TTEREVE]

the dislike counter is nintendo fanboys who like third-party paywalls from scalpers.

[@sniperlif3]

Screw Nintendo for selling old games for new game prices, even if you bought the previous versions. Nintedo is so far behind that I am suprised that they are still a thing. They are like Ferrari of consoles, their prodcuts are pretty bad, but they stay in business because of nostalgia.

[@bakutie]

wait the old games they bring back on switch arent priced lower?

[@sniperlif3]

@@bakutie Not always, I often see the old games selling at the same price as new on release.

[@Zenku763]

The wink at 1:49 was devious.😈

[@balsalmalberto8086]

That was smooth af

[@zeroapplause]

Of the things shown, highly recommend modding your Wii U as it gives such a nice touch to have the native hardware, though PC can emulate with CEMU/Dolphin just fine to do 90% the same thing. The Sony side of this would be a Playstation/Vita TV which is even rarer but is currently the only way to play Vita games on TV, let alone the PSP and PS1 games it shines at. And yes, a deep dive into N64Recomp would be amazing, the Digital Foundry video on it and Zelda64Recomp was utter magic. The way the game looks and feels makes nostalgia go "I was right."

[@BobaFettOnMoped]

retro mods are so fun, please keep doing these!