How is this legal? Very glad it exists
The Entire Jak And Daxter Trilogy Now Have Native PC Ports, And They Are Great on Steam Deck - Steam Deck HQ
Submitted 3 weeks ago by commander@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
https://steamdeckhq.com/news/entire-jak-and-daxter-trilogy-native-pc-ports/
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overload@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The project and launcher itself is completely free and legal to download, but if you wanna play the games, you will have to supply legally dumped copies of each of these games from their PS2 versions
overload@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ah fair enough lol. Reading comprehension issue of the day for me.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nintendo isn’t involved
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How is this legal?
In a world where Meta got caught torrenting entire book archives, anything goes these days.
But strictly speaking, it’s not because it’s based on decompilation and not a clean room reimplementation of the engine. That’s like using a translation service to translate a copyrighted book into another language and then manually iron out the kinks. But in a world of mass piracy for LLM training, nobody gives a shit about such little projects any longer.
HeavenDeparts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Truly can’t wait to set this up.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Never played these games, looking forward to giving them a go.
n4sdaq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Can confirm. I’ve played the first one on Steam Deck and it plays great. The new launcher is super easy to use as well.
afaix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Playing through the third one right now, the first 2 ran great already, and the launcher really is convenient, before it was all manual commands in the terminal.
One advice I would give is to delete the rom file and the iso_data/{gamename} folders after the games are fully installed to save space, since it’s several gigabytes per game that are not used after the installation