My uncle works at nintendo and he said its okay to emulate their games
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Pokémon might be the rare exceptionnwhere emulation is missing a key feature, which is interoperability with other games in the series. You can't move your captured pokémon up the series to more recent games, unless that's changed since I last checked.
Even so, I'm not spending 20 on a game I don't get to keep forever. Fuck that
In the crowds that I hang out with, paying for something when you can get it for free makes you a sucker.
This is a rerelease of a 2008 remake of a 1996 game.
In a reasonable market economy this kind of shit would be public domain.
Charging $20 for a 20+ year old ROM file is wild.
Like holy shit, not even a remake or anything.
Pokemon Infinite Fusion is free.
Honestly one of the final nails in the coffin for me wanting anything to do with Nintendo was their shitty little ROM subscription service. Like not only are they charging you money for access to ancient ROMs, they have the gall to make it so you lose access the moment you stop paying. Gross. Obligatory "all games companies suck and do this." But man, fuck Nintendo.
Me playing romhacks which are just the original roms except with a single pixel changed in the title screen so I won't be called a pirate
There are some genuinely fantastic romhacks out there. Pokemon Unbound is good if you're looking for one.
I was like wait, FireRed/LeafGreen is a remake, it's not...
Oh god this remake is a 20+ year old rom 
I'm sorry 
You want to get really mad? Look up how much a genuine copy of the original cart is going for now
“Emulation is currently being used to try & hurt Nintendo’s revenue”
I do agree the whole "oh no I'm just emulating to preserve games that can't be acquired otherwise" excuse cringy.
I emulate everything, because I want to. Because piracy is cool. Because I want the entire ROM set. I'll pirate everything, I don't give a shit, I don't have noble reasons. Intellectual property means nothing to me.
Refusing to respect intellectual property is a noble enough reason all on its own
there are a whole shitload of lost films from early cinema and even TV shows as late as whatever doctor who episodes are missing
mainline pokemon isn't in danger of becoming lost media but a bunch of other stuff is or has been lost.
Either reason is fine.
Emulation is currently being used to try & hurt Nintendo's revenue
damn, i wish it worked
Noooo, piracy is hurting Nintendo!!
Piracy is hurting Nintendo!
(Nintendo made a debt slave out of Gary Bowser, so they're never seeing another fucking coin from me)
Oh no, not Nintendo's revenue!
(I admit I have always loved Nintendo's games but that love applies solely to the creativity and skill of its laborers, not the profit-maximizing corporate entity)
The industry has been brutal to so many of the authors of my childhood. People who in cases spent crunch time away from their children for the benefit of stranger’s children only to get laid off the next quarter.
i can already play that on my switch 
But if they can't rent seek on the same games for a third time what will they do to fill their platinum bowls?
“See Daddy Nintendo, I have defended the honor of your slop franchise riding on nostalgia! Please love me Daddy Nintendo!”
But what if i take short position on nintendo stock, and then pirate their games 
that'd be a great plan if piracy actually did anything lol
Holy shit, they're trying to say nintendo made it available but like, no, its locked onto their platform. This isn't a release I can take anywhere but where they deem it. Release it on Steam, GOG, or even another console or all of them. Thats availability.
20 usd for a more than 20 year old game is also a crime
maybe as a physical release because the store and manufacturer take a cut, but when nintendo gets all the money for no marginal effort on their part it should be $2
nintendo's playbook has always been platform exclusivity, you need to buy their box to play their games, lmao, fullstop, i think the company will prefer to go bust before they cross this principle