Actually you can, as long as you own the game and are playing a backup of it.
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kandoh@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Yeah but you can’t legally play Mario on it
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Very much a thing within the reach of the average consumer with something like the MigSwitch Dumper. You get the game you paid for and none of the nasty bits (other than some emulation pain here and there).
TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
You don’t. You see, Nintendo encrypts their games and basically outlaws any way to access decryption keys from your own console. In your proposal you don’t even own a Switch to lawfully or unlawfully obtain the keys from, meaning that you’ll 100% have to acquire those “illegally”.
Not that I care for the record
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I own three switches for what it’s worth. I’ve purchased them legally and I purchased the games legally as well. I’m not a lawyer, but I feel like I’m operating within the law here.
can@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You really got them!
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 6 months ago
There are Switch owners who buy Switch games, dump (in other words backup copy) that on their PC as a ROM and then play it on the Switch Deck. Even this best case scenario is a grey area in some countries. And that is something most people won’t do.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Who gives a fuck whether it’s legal?
kandoh@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Please do not swear at me
blindsight@beehaw.org 6 months ago
You can if you own the Mario game…
… but I just downloaded a 1TB Batocera Switch image to run from MicroSD.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 6 months ago
You can if you own the Mario game…
Owning alone is not enough. You need to dump it yourself. Downloading others Roms, even if you own the game, is illegal. Because you are only allowed to play what you dumped yourself, not the backup copy of a different individual cartridge.
blindsight@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Depends on your jurisdiction.
As far as I know, that’s never been tried in court in Canada, and there’s reason to suspect that may not be the case here. (Although I’m not a lawyer, so I may be mistaken.)
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Downloading Roms from others is basically taking their copy. Its not a copy of your individual cart. And that’s the thing. You have the right to make a copy of your cart and use it. But you are not allowed to distribute the copy. One could probably get away by using Roms from others, but that is open to interpretation of law for individual countries. However the distribution itself is not allowed, in any (normal) country. And I also don’t believe (believe is not knowledge, I have no knowledge of Canadas laws) distributing personal backup copies is allowed in Canada as well.
Using copies from libraries is something different BTW, as these are not personal backups and are meant to be used by many other people. But that can be complicated too, in example in case of Archive.org. It’s a library in the US, but not other countries in the world.
Petter1@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Actually, you can download and play roms legal in switzerland.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I don’t legally play Mario on my switch either
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 6 months ago
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