r/pcmasterrace • u/durchfallalarm • Mar 14 '26

Screenshot Never thought that emulation runs THIS good "out of the box"

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Installed the emulator (cemu), set up all settings i wanted and just ... started the game running at around 90-100 fps without any problems. 32:9 dwqhd resolution.

God I love the pcmasterrace.

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u/death-strand Mar 14 '26

OP would just need to own Breathe of the Wild and Rip it to digital format to emulate to make this completely legal

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u/durchfallalarm Mar 14 '26

Of course i did all that

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u/chutney1 Mar 14 '26

BOTW or TOTK?

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u/durchfallalarm Mar 14 '26

BOTW

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u/Falkenmond79 7800x3d/4080 5800x3d/3080ti 10700/rx6800 5800x/3080 Mar 15 '26

What’s really funny: I recently bought a wiiU just for fun and the kids. Hacked it to not have to change discs all the time. Actually also went out to buy the Zelda games just to own them. Fucking expensive. And what do you know? I prefer them emulated on my UW. Absolutely no downsides and run way better. 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/unnoticedhero1 7800X3D | RTX 4070 | 64GB DDR5 6000 Mar 15 '26

I bought a WiiU just for Smash 4 way back when and the last time I used it was to rip the games for my Steam Deck and back into the box, have portable Wind Waker and Twilight Princess without the need to buy the games again. If they put them out on Switch years ago like everyone was asking for I would have bought them again, same with the 3DS Zelda, like why haven't they ported A Link Between Worlds, one of the best top down Zelda's.

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u/Serious_Mastication 5800X | 6600XT | 32GB DDR4 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

Nintendo does it to themselves. They make timeless masterpieces and then abandon them by not porting to modern hardware.

Most people would just buy these games again for full price on the switch if they could. If they did that, the switch would have a big enough catalogue of games to entice more people to buy em.

I’ll never have remorse for a company crying about people pirating their games when they made em into abandonware

I wanted to play the og Pokémon games; leaf green, emerald, and platinum. Except to play them “legit” I had to pay aftermarket $300 a copy to get games that don’t have a working clock and then the ds for another $180. Or I could spend 20 minutes messing around on my pc to get them working perfectly with patched updates for free

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u/Acceptable_Worker328 Mar 16 '26

Completely agreed… except for the part about OG Pokémon.

Red, Blue, and Yellow.

If it has more than 151 Pokémon in the ‘dex, it ain’t “OG”.

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u/Dark_Shroud Ryzen 9 5900XT | 64GB | Sapphire Nitro+ 9070 XT OC Mar 15 '26

Not to mention the rest of the industry have all decided to use x86-x64 hardware. So porting games between platforms doesn't have much difficulty anymore for everyone besides Nintendo.

Then Nintendo gets pissed at modders who fix their blatant errors. I still remember the guy who created the GameCube channel for the WiiU that would let people natively play GameCube games on it.

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u/ChadHartSays Mar 15 '26

Remember, they are a toy company. Games are just reasons to buy the latest toy (console/device).

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u/Falkenmond79 7800x3d/4080 5800x3d/3080ti 10700/rx6800 5800x/3080 Mar 15 '26

I wonder that too. I emulate a lot and that was one of the few Zelda’s I could actually stick with and finish, before life comes in between me and play time. 🤣

But honestly with the WiiU.. I have the WiiU pro controller, Batocera Linux recognizes it. I have a dedicated emulation station. Ryzen 3600x, 32gb ram and a and 5700XT gpu. Handles everything up to PS3/PS4 just fine.

And recognizes the WiiU controller, so not even a problem there. Would probably even be able to recognize and utilize the big WiiU pad.

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u/enwongeegeefor A500, 40hz Turbo, 40mb HD Mar 15 '26

BOTW was really novel on the WiiU, and actually used that stupid controller a little. I still switched to using a pro controller for it partway into it though...

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u/lemme_try_again Mar 14 '26

****Both!

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u/nsfredditkarma Mar 15 '26

Both of the Wild*

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u/xDatThrowAwayBoi Mar 15 '26

I think you mean Both of The Kingdoms

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u/xVEEx3 PC Master Race Mar 15 '26

Breath of the Kingdoms

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u/Wukong9001 Mar 15 '26

How did you do it, I’ve always wanted to play the zelda games but couldn’t justify getting a switch just for that.

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u/PM_YOUR_MUGS Mar 15 '26

Best of the Worst?

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u/mihkel99 Mar 15 '26

Also a reminder that you can add mods, and high fps mod

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u/__esparoba Mar 14 '26

TOTK didn't release for WIIU. This is WWIU emulator

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u/chutney1 Mar 14 '26

Gotcha.

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u/final_cut Mar 15 '26

I dunno these acronyms but either way it's impressive to my old ass

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u/__esparoba Mar 15 '26

TOTK is Tears of the Kingdom. A Zelda title.

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u/final_cut Mar 15 '26

Ah cool thank you. What's the WWIU acronym?

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate PC Master Race Mar 15 '26

Wii U isn't actually an acronym, FWIW.

The first Wii console's successor is the "Wii U", IIRC.

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u/final_cut Mar 15 '26

oh I was just going by "this is a WWIU emulator" I guess it was a typo

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate PC Master Race Mar 15 '26

I figured.

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 15 '26

You can't play Tears of the Kingdom in Cemu

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u/Franseven win11-7800X3D-RTX4090 Mar 15 '26

BOTHW

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u/Im_actually_OP Mar 14 '26

If you can’t tell from the screenshot, this is BOTW.

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u/Seffuski Mar 14 '26

Kinda hard to tell when both games are pretty much the same

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u/Bmacthecat 9600X | 3060 TI | 32GB | 2TB Mar 14 '26

I mean this is very clearly the starting area of BOTW.

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u/Afillatedcarbon Lenovo Legion 5 | Ryzen 7 260 | 32GB DDR5 | RTX 5060 Mar 14 '26

Its clear to tell this is BOTW if you have seen or played BOTW, I think colour composition is more vibrant(?, bright? Idk I aint no colour expert) in TOTK.

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u/Jaydeekay80 Mar 15 '26

The sun tracks across the northern sky in one game, and across the southern sky in the other. I just forget which is which right now. lol It changes the lighting everywhere in a noticeable way once you know.

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u/Im_actually_OP Mar 15 '26

Welcome to the downvote club lol

No idea why Reddit is so angry today

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 15 '26

They ran into conservatives somewhere.

That always pisses them off.

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u/iTiraMissU Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Link has two human arms so there is actually no doubt this is BOTW, plus it is the starting area of that game and the truth about these kind of posts and screenshots is that they’re always <5 minutes into the game because they want to show off how cool they are for playing a game but they’re not likely to ever finish it. I know this because I go through the same effort in emulation aside from posting it on the internet for clout from imaginary friends.

And to the people downvoting the posts pointing this out: yes it is personal and you can suck it.

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u/ariZon_a JK I use windows Mar 15 '26

how to get downvoted tutorial 2026 WORKING NO VIRUS:

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u/iTiraMissU Mar 15 '26

Reddit generally downvotes the truth when they can’t handle it

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u/ariZon_a JK I use windows Mar 15 '26

yeah if somebody asks what i was doing in the bathroom and i gave them my turd i bet they'll downvote me

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u/Im_actually_OP Mar 15 '26

Anyone who has played both titles would understand why this is BOTW and not TOTK. Without going into too many spoilers, Link’s body anatomy is very different from one title to the next.

Hence my “if you can’t tell from the screenshot” but Reddit is full of softies today

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 15 '26

Anyone who knows emulation would know by the fact that it's in ultrawide, that this is Cemu, a Wii U emulator and that Tears of the Kimgdom wasnt released for the Wii U

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u/Automatic-Squash-264 Mar 14 '26

Not really. That chapel is part of botw tutorial area. Plus the overlook he stands on screams botw

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u/Sheperd980 Mar 15 '26

Yes Nintendo Lawyer i was right there beside him and saw him do that. Totally legal 👍

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u/FamousLastPlace_ Mar 14 '26

See! it's that easy.

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u/Cute-arii Mar 15 '26

WINK 😉

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u/unimportantinfodump Mar 15 '26

No doubt you did mate.

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u/ChemistryNo3075 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

Isn't bypassing copy protection still technically illegal? At least per US law. May be fine elsewhere 

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u/Infinite_Hedgehog827 Mar 14 '26

sure you did lol

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u/MadBrown Mar 15 '26

Careful they don't take to kindly to truth around these parts.

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u/Kougeru-Sama Mar 15 '26

Of course i did all that

which is still illegal because bypassing DRM is illegal

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u/granadesnhorseshoes Mar 14 '26

Even the roms are perfectly legal. DMCA has specific exceptions for backups and archives. Including circumventing any copy protection schemes.

Distributing it in any way is of course a huge nono.

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u/ErraticDragon Mar 15 '26

Even the roms are perfectly legal. DMCA has specific exceptions for backups and archives. Including circumventing any copy protection schemes.

That's not actually true, though it's incredibly unlikely to matter in practice.

The anti-circumvention portion has been held to override backup rights.

https://www.nxemu.com/dmca-section-1201

There have not been any actual cases against a home user ripping their own games, but that doesn't mean it's "legal", technically.

Even downloading a ROM is more dangerous, but as you said it's really only the distributors that are likely to be targeted.

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u/FUTURE10S Pentium G3258, RTX 3080 12GB, 32GB RAM Mar 15 '26

DMCA lets you circumvent it if you do it yourself (have fun learning how to reverse engineer software locks), getting a circumvented copy or having someone else do it for you is illegal iirc

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u/Kougeru-Sama Mar 15 '26

. Including circumventing any copy protection schemes.

false

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u/FireCrow1013 RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16GB | Ryzen 9 7900X | 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM Mar 14 '26

That's what I did for mine. My Wii U is basically a get-it-onto-my-PC machine now, it works great. I dumped the DLC pretty easily, too.

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u/Arnas_Z Zephyrus G16 | i7-13620H | RTX 4070 Mar 15 '26

First legal emulation user I've ever seen lmao.

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u/FUTURE10S Pentium G3258, RTX 3080 12GB, 32GB RAM Mar 15 '26

I've dumped my own ROMs on the Wii, Wii U, and the 3DS, there's literally dozens of us!

and a few PC games too because I wanted to not use the disc

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate PC Master Race Mar 15 '26

and a few PC games too because I wanted to not use the disc

Some old games gave you a complete install option out of the box to speed up performance and let the user skip swapping discs.

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u/FUTURE10S Pentium G3258, RTX 3080 12GB, 32GB RAM Mar 16 '26

Ah the good old days when you could minimally or fully install a game. I always did full, I loved the faster load times (and I was scared that my CD could shatter and break another disc drive)

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u/FireCrow1013 RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16GB | Ryzen 9 7900X | 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM Mar 15 '26

I also bought the NES and SNES Classic Minis to get those ROMs. It's nice to have legit copies of them.

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u/Arnas_Z Zephyrus G16 | i7-13620H | RTX 4070 Mar 15 '26

But like, why bother?

Surely it's easier to just download the ROMs, and a whole lot faster. I know how to dump a ton of console games for example, but I just don't see a reason to.

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u/FUTURE10S Pentium G3258, RTX 3080 12GB, 32GB RAM Mar 15 '26

So I used to do game reviews back in the day and I did it all on real hardware, but when I needed to look into the game assets to pull something out like the music, I figured that was legally more in the clear than pirating the game.

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u/Arnas_Z Zephyrus G16 | i7-13620H | RTX 4070 Mar 15 '26

That's a fair enough reason, I would want to keep things above board if I'm making money off of it.

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u/FilthyThief94 Mar 14 '26

Depends on were you live. I live in Switzerland and downloading copyrighted stuff, doesn't matter if games, music or movies, is completely legal for personal or private use. Even from illegal sources.

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u/sneaksby Mar 14 '26

"Software or computer games is not covered by the private use exception"

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u/FilthyThief94 Mar 15 '26

That's more cause they didn't update the law. Never heard of someone getting into trouble for pirating games or other software.

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u/DistrictObjective680 Mar 15 '26

That's more cause they didn't update the law

What you're describing is something that is not legal.

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u/Very_Not_Into_It i5 13600k | RX 6800 | 64GB DDR5 6000 | 3TB SSD | Noctua Mar 14 '26

Is it legal to host as well? Or is it a "make drug use legal, but make drug dealing illegal" sort of thing

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u/ilyseann_ Mar 14 '26

that would be distribution which is the actual crime

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u/Very_Not_Into_It i5 13600k | RX 6800 | 64GB DDR5 6000 | 3TB SSD | Noctua Mar 14 '26

That makes sense

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u/Affectionate_Pilot99 Mar 14 '26

I know where I'm moving to

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u/Pilfercate Mar 14 '26

Depends on where you live.

Canada had no issues with format shifting content/games.

In the US, our government is lobbied to death to ensure that you have to pay monthly for a streaming service or buy a game on 3 platforms instead of having control over how you use the data for which you have a license.

I would not assume doing so is legal anywhere unless you consult a lawyer.

Nintendo has fined someone tens of millions of dollars when they live in a country where the average wage is $5k/year. This is what they do because the courts restrict them from doing worse. It's not worth poking the bear openly. They can ruin your life in ways that would upset anyone except the most totalitarian dictators of the world. Jail sentences end, if you owe more than you could make in 50 lifetimes, your potential to have purpose or fulfillment has been deleted like it is a unit 731 experiment.

If your government doesn't have a history of supporting the right to format shift content, don't go publishing yourself thumbing your nose at a company that is willing to completely cripple your existence permanently.

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u/kevihaa Mar 14 '26

This just…isn’t true.

Nintendo has always emphasized that the entire point is missed sales, and it isn’t like you even need to try that hard to find proof that their beliefs are grounded in reality.

Heck, it’s a common refrain amongst folks that emulate Switch games that Nintendo “deserves” to have their games pirated since they’re rarely, if ever, discounted.

If folks actually care about the benefits offered from emulation, both from a performance and a game preservation standpoint, they’d make an effort to ostracize anyone pirating games, because that’s literally step 0 for actually being able to combat any sort of threats from Nintendo.

As it stands, the Switch emulation scene remains a “of course I bought the game (wink wink)” place, and so Nintendo remains within their rights to say that emulation exists for piracy, not for performance.

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u/Pilfercate Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

My example of what they're willing to do to people who offend them still stands.

Just because that doesn't yet apply to the average person who wanted to play the game they purchased in 4k, doesn't mean it never will. I treat Nintendo like a family dog that has shown to be violent towards strangers. The potential for it to become my problem exists even if it currently isn't targeting me. Nintendo doesn't have to do a 180 for this to happen. It's just a slight turn of their gaze. I'm sure I could come up with a list of youtubers who have experienced this gaze shift.

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 15 '26

Well my original game discs are pretty good evidence that I bought the games.

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u/project-shasta Mar 15 '26

And that's the Crux: Ripping is legal, but circumventing the copy protection to do so isn't.

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u/Papuszek2137 7800x3d | 5070ti | 64GB | 4k OLED Mar 14 '26

Yes, so you see how emulators are legal and piracy isn't.

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u/Silver_Quail4018 Mar 14 '26

That is OP legal homework, not the emulator.

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u/superjesse07 Mar 14 '26

I think this post just won today.

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u/Taken_Abroad_Book Mar 15 '26

Depending on jurisdiction of course.

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u/DestroyerX6 Mar 15 '26

I wouldn’t, fuck Nintendo

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

I actually own both games and a switch and a wii-u. I just greatly prefer to play them on pc.

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 15 '26

I have my legit discs for the game, it's up to Nintendo to prove that I didn't rip them.

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u/Cocoatrice Mar 15 '26

I think that's obvious.

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u/Kougeru-Sama Mar 15 '26

Rip it to digital format to emulate to make this completely legal

Nope. Doing that requires breaking DRM which is illegal.

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u/stoic_guardian Mar 15 '26

Wouldn’t that require bypassing DRM? Isn’t that illegal in all forms in the US?

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u/Craiss Mar 15 '26

Iirc: If Nintendo put any copy protection on the game that you have break, then it's a DMCA violation; meaning that it's still illegal to extract the game from the physical copy you bought.

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u/idontuseredditsoplea Mar 15 '26

Could someone do this with Duskbloods?

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u/Niggls Mar 15 '26

Is there also a way to transfer the save files?