Post by KostaAndreadis @ 02:50pm 23/03/17 | 35 Comments
What's most impressive is that all the physics and visual effects seem to be in place, hinting that the full game is entirely playable in this state.
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When we originally reported on this back on the 8th of this month, we stated that "Team Cemu (are) currently being funded via Pateron to the tune of just over $8,000 USD per month". That figure now sits at $22,834 per month. A huge increase no doubt due to their efforts in attempting to emulate Breath of the Wild.
Nintendo's stance on emulation has been clear, and any argument relating to the preservation of hardware and software from a bygone era long lost to time is surely moot here. And with Team Cemu's funding growing by the day, it probably won't be long before some form of legal action is taken on behalf of Nintendo.
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Posted 03:53pm 23/3/17
Posted 05:02pm 23/3/17
I got it working and played it for a bit, It's interesting to see what they have done with it.
Posted 05:15pm 23/3/17
There is no reason for Nintendo to do that. They have no need or desire to, they're massively cashed up, enough to make losses for 50 years or something, this is no Sega story.
As someone who has dipped my toes in game dev and understands just a little the staggering effort that Breath of the Wild would have taken to make, the inherent and undeniable piracy attached to projects like this annoying. If you don't want to play Nintendo games enough to buy a Nintendo console, then don't play them IMO.
Posted 05:22pm 23/3/17
Posted 05:29pm 23/3/17
Promises promises.
I will accept a scanned copy of a receipt with fpot written on it next to the opened game at least 7 days old. None of this WiiU version crap either.
Be aware that I've seen some shops in my time, I can tell by the pixels.
Posted 05:41pm 23/3/17
Do Nintendo sell the Switch at a loss? This plan could even end up saving them money!
Posted 06:13pm 23/3/17
Posted 06:29pm 23/3/17
There is a reason why people make emulators in the first place. There is a wanting to play games like Pokemon for example, on their phones and tablets and PCs. Nintendo could have released some of the older games on the app stores and it would save d***ing around with android nintendo emulators. I don't think that playing Pokemon Gold and Silver on your phone will be hurting Nintendo's sales of the Game Boy Pocket and Gameboy Color. There is a want but Nintendo is just sitting there with their thumb up their arse, playing with a glorified Wii U tablet.
I do understand you guys though, It's not difficult to buy a Switch or a Wii U. I am just saying, it would be cool if Nintendo did bring their s*** outside of the Nintendo sphere once and a while.
Posted 08:12pm 23/3/17
Posted 08:56pm 23/3/17
There are games on other platforms that I would love to play (Red Dead Redemption, Last of Us, and that new robo-dinosaur one immediately come to mind - I'm sure my partner would love to play this new Zelda + other Mario/Nintendo titles). I don't see the point in having to buy a TV and another console (especially as I don't plan to be here forever and shipping all that stuff or dealing with it when I leave isa pain) to play a handful of games. But I'd definitely had given money to companies if they made those games available.
But they don't, so I can't. I am not interested in them enough to d*** with emulators.
Also, I made the mistake of buying a console for a game once - I bought an Xbox 360 to play GTA4, arguably the worst of the GTAs. After I finished it I think I played maybe one or two other games for a few hours and never used it again (eventually it RROD'd and I gave it to blahnana). So the idea of buying a console for a small handful of games is extremely uninteresting to me.
Posted 09:23pm 23/3/17
Posted 10:25am 24/3/17
Haha did you just call Zelda a girl's game torgles?! Also that's kind of the point of the Switch my man, no need for a TV :) It's still at the moment an expensive Zelda machine, but I'll be playing this f*****g game for months at my current rate of progress.. I had to buy a second copy for the kid's Switch because they all up in my s*** to play it.
Of course I would love to be able to just buy a PC and play everything legally on it.
Its the fact that people get shirty at Nintendo in particular about platform exclusives. I guess I see it though, because Nintendo has a pretty huge IP offering and make lots of pretty rad games you can only find on their consoles. Sony and MS don't have that sort of coverage - but that's kind of the point. Nintendo's ability to sell consoles is tightly tied to their IP.
As far as I know, Nintendo never sells consoles at a loss. This is part of why they are drowning in money, they don't need to win the console wars because its much easier for them to be profitable while MS and Sony arm wrestle and sell very similar game experiences at a loss.
The WiiU, considered by many a failure, was a profitable console for Nintendo. Have MS ever made any profit on selling XBox hardware?
edit: turns out that the WiiU launched needing to sell one game with the console to make a profit, and became independently profitable later as manufacturing efficiency reduced cost of goods. Still, you get the idea.
Also, The Switch will sell at a profit from day one and considering you need to buy a game for it to actually do anything, and everyone buys Zelda, and they are completely sold out in the USA, they're printing money at the moment.
Posted 10:21am 24/3/17
Posted 01:20pm 24/3/17
as i read down from the top the above line popped out at me and my response was going to be 'why don't nintendo make a decent platform for their games instead of these gimmicks?'
but hoggy just answered that question
they sell s***** below par technology consoles for a bit cheaper than sony and MS and make a killing doing so, combined with the fact people are willing to keep buying the same games with each console generation
Posted 02:20pm 24/3/17
Alternatively, they innovate rather than simply than simply repacking the same console paradigm with the same controller scheme with the same franchises over and over and over.
I just played an hour of Zelda on my lunch break, and when I get home I'll drop the tablet in the cradle and instantly continue the exact same game.
I guess you get to play the next rehashed CoD iteration on MS/Sony so yay.
Posted 02:40pm 24/3/17
There is going to be a new build of Cemu on april 2 for Patreon followers and it will be released on April 9 for the rest of us.
A thread about BotW Emu stuff on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/cemu/comments/5z7j51/botw
Posted 03:05pm 24/3/17
lolz
THIS GAME NEEDS WAY MORE POLYGONS
Posted 03:31pm 24/3/17
does it bro? why do you say that?
Hoggy plz, for starters COD isn't an IP locked to a single console developer and you are totally right COD is rehashed s*** that people from multiple platforms buy
luckily they don't need to go and buy new hardware every time they want to play a new version
Posted 04:09pm 24/3/17
WiiU owners didn't need to buy new hardware to play Zelda though? How do PlayStation 3 owners play any of these games?
/mic drop
Hay guys, no way that official 'interest only' posts about emus leads to linking to and promotes actual use of the software.
Of course not.
Posted 04:11pm 24/3/17
this indicates you dont believe fun can be had without the latest technology bro
you still dont get it.
Posted 04:27pm 24/3/17
like the wii
but i had no idea they were so flush with cash, i had heard differently a while back
maybe they make a stack from the other handhelds
Posted 05:17pm 24/3/17
Maybe you should get a hold of Nintendo H.O. and explain to them how they are doing all the wrong things Pave, its obviously the best idea to just create another PC-in-a-box, they're doing everything wrong and need to do what Sony and MS do.
Posted 06:44pm 24/3/17
Also, a few years ago when the WiiU launched Nintendo were all about trying to get those 3rd parties on board, and one of the COD games was even a launch title for the Wii U, so the whole self righteous indignation like Nintendo are somehow above games like that falls a bit flat. I'm sure if they could they'd love to be publishing games like that on the Switch and get some of that COD money, but because they're more interested in "innovating" than putting out competitive hardware, I can't see them getting a lot of 3rd party support as far as new triple A titles are concerned.
The Switch is in danger of becoming another Wii U if its not careful, where theres only 2 or 3 first party games a year that come out for it (and a few re-releases most likely to milk the nostalgia) and outside of that its dead. It sold a boatload on launch because it launched with Zelda, but its not going to keep selling at that rate unless they have more to offer. The reason the Wii was so successful is because it broke into the mainstream and sold to people who would never usually buy a gaming console. I mean, my mother bought a Wii to play Wii Sports and Wii Fit and stuff like that on, but I can't see that happening at all with the Switch.
Plus with the other consoles, they have appeal outside of gaming too. The XBox One S is actually the cheapest UHD Bluray player on the market at the moment, people are buying it just for that reason and getting a gaming console at the same time is a bonus. Then you can use it (or the PS4) as a media centre type of deal too with apps for things like Plex and Netflix and Youtube, or just using DLNA to play your stuff over the network.
I don't draw lines though, I'll buy whatever platform has the games I want to play at the end of the day. Console wars and all this fanboy nonsense is just daft, they've all got their pros and they've all got their cons.
Posted 07:44pm 24/3/17
And yeh Switch looks like a cool device but without a bunch more good games it's not up my alley. Also it needs Dota.
Posted 07:45pm 24/3/17
it totally proves how f*****g good nintendo are with new ideas, rather than just MOAR POLYGONS, which is obviously important to pave.
Posted 08:11pm 24/3/17
So many bought it and shelved it in less than 6 months, once they realised there were barely any good games for it once they got over the sports and party pack bundles that came with it. Whether it was people buying it for games or chicks buying it for the fitness board thing you could buy.
Posted 08:46pm 24/3/17
it got thrashed to death over its 5 year life span.
Posted 08:57pm 24/3/17
You going to get a switch bro? Or keep your ps4
Posted 08:58pm 24/3/17
Posted 10:47pm 24/3/17
Why? The Switch is handheld. Sony also made a couple of handhelds that performed poorly. Maybe we should discount their performing products because ... reasons?
The complaint is that Nintendo should just make a normal console like a PlayStation or XBox and don't know what they are doing, waving around aimlessly peddling gimmicks and somehow randomly making f***loads of money. Handhelds are central to the Switch strategy in case you missed the point of my graphic.
If they successfully merge their handheld and traditional console markets then the Switch will be a behemoth. I don't understand why people think they should enter a market that has 2 distinct players when they're making f*****g bank doing what they do.
Posted 12:12am 25/3/17
Posted 01:23am 25/3/17
Because we were talking about consoles I thought, not handhelds? Nintendo already dominates the handheld market, thats beyond dispute, they pretty much have no competition, but the conversation was about consoles, not handhelds. So it seemed a bit disingenuous to hold their success with handhelds up as proof of their success with home consoles. They've had as many failed consoles in the last 15 years as they've had successful ones, so it's not like they're constantly hitting home runs. When they nail it, it can be great, but they miss just as often.
But yeah, it's different business strategies. Nintendo gamble and do crazy s*** and sometimes it pays off and sometimes it doesn't. Sony and Microsoft mostly play it safe and push the media centre angle and push tech a bit more. That's fine with me, different strokes for different folks, I don't think Nintendo should do the same things the other guys do, but I also don't think they've stumbled on some magic formula and everyone else is wrong.
Realistically it's not a three way console "war", it's Sony vs Microsoft and Nintendo off doing its own thing. They pretty much play by their own rules, for better or worse
Posted 07:14am 25/3/17
Posted 05:56am 28/3/17
I'd buy a switch, but then it would sit there unused like every other console I ever owned after getting a PC.
Posted 01:41pm 28/3/17
That was my point, f*** off and get your own Khel!