I don't hate SX OS, but please don't spread lies. Homebrew (and thus, Atmosphere) isn't illegal.
Have you been living under a rock?
Nintendo has been explicitly going after SXOS modchip distributors for a while now (src 1, src 2), and also took measures to have a number of TX's sites blocked in the UK (src 3).
Ironic.
Atmosphere's github has been public since Jan 2018, and SXOS released 5 months later.
nintendo thinks it is so it must be
Except it IS illegal, their boot.dat includes several Nintendo binaries.Nintendo have managed to scare the company that have been offering sx core installation to shut down(mod chip) only.
SX OS have been selling their dongle along with their operating system for the last 3 years and none are in jail. So I may well ask you the same question?
Are you living under a rock..
The question was, is their operating system illegal, the answer is NO, they operate in a very grey area but it is blatently obvious that no concrete laws to prevent them selling their operating system are currently in place.
If their were, nintendo would not need 3 years to shut them down, not with their net worth and lawyers. The fact a few ISPs are taken down in the UK means nada, especially when nintendo tried & failed to do it in a vast majority of other countries, including the US.
Except it IS illegal, their boot.dat includes several Nintendo binaries.
They're not allowed to sell it, but it's difficult to go after them because they seem to be in China.If that has been proven then why are they still licensed to sell their OS? More importantly how did nintendos lawyers fail to bring down ISPs in countries as prominent as Australia/Us and the majority of Europe. Im not saying something might not change in the future, im talking about their current status.
PS don’t misunderstand my post as someone that believes what they are selling is by any means moral(I come here purely for the love of emulation), but until nintendo can prove they are crossing the boundries of copyright infringement(which shouldn’t be hard if true for a company with nintendos resources), they can do very little.
It should be illegal to use SX anyways, you do know its the least advanced of them all right?
I don't hate SX OS, but please don't spread lies. Homebrew (and thus, Atmosphere) isn't illegal.
All cfw is illegal soon as you run unsigned code on your Nintendo Switch then that device becomes illegal, it breaks Nintendo's terms & conditions!
Until you apply the patches. Atmo rests in a legal grey area. In some countries you would lose in court just for possesion of it. I was pre law a long long time ago. Few lawyers in my family. They all agree that the grey area is enough to keep the developers safe. Not my fault what they do. But the act of running Atmosphere breaks the EULA and a few other laws technically. Running unauthorized code, breaking the EULA and running software that is capable of circumventing any part of the security is illegal. Atmo certainly does all of that. The bootloader is part of security. But since it doesn't enable piracy out of the box, those are all grey area problems. The inclusion of ninty code(sx) or the specific code needed to tun pirated software(patches) is 100% illegal.Atmo has no patches.. But Atmosphere is intended to use patches..Grey..That's where it stands. Not quite illegal. Still doesn't mean that everywhere in every country it's legal to possess and run atmosphere.
They're not allowed to sell it, but it's difficult to go after them because they seem to be in China.
And it has been proven, we know that they include every mariko pkg1, some cart header shit, and a bunch of keys in their boot.dat
All cfw is illegal soon as you run unsigned code on your Nintendo Switch then that device becomes illegal, it breaks Nintendo's terms & conditions!
So if you have a Switch Lite, the only means of running hombrew is SX chip no? What about all these new people coming to the scene with these chips asking for advice on homebrew apps?
I dunno about the fighting, I genuinely ask if you have a Mariko unit and want to be part of the homebrew community, will they ban/shun you? SX is the only option on those.Stop fighting about this? Ok, thanks!
I run both on the same SD Card, never had problems in Retroarch on neither.Yeah switch lite requires SX OS modchip.
The mariko units only support sx os at the moment.
You can’t dual boot, launch atmosphere, and retroNX dont openly support them, so retroarch will run into problems. Basically all you can do is run their operating system.
I would say 99% of the community that are ordering the chip right now are probably mainly interested in the piracy aspect.
I dunno about the fighting, I genuinely ask if you have a Mariko unit and want to be part of the homebrew community, will they ban/shun you? SX is the only option on those.
I run both on the same SD Card, never had problems in Retroarch on neither.
I don't know if it makes a difference but I always use R on album or a game icon to enter Homebrew and never use the homebrew menu on SX OS itself.I use retroarch on horizon rarely now days so your word will count more than mine, but I have had issues before on SX, and I have seen a lot of people comment on certain emulators. Barely a few days ago I saw a melonDS issue arise which was apparently due to no SX support & without a workaround. Since switchroot I have been using drastic, so i probly need to touch base and update it . Its handy to know you have no issues running retroarch though.
The question was, is their operating system illegal, the answer is NO, they operate in a very grey area but it is blatently obvious that no concrete laws to prevent them selling their operating system are currently in place.
If their were, nintendo would not need 3 years to shut them down,
There is a law, in the US it's the DMCA, in the EU the EUCD is enacted in member states laws. Australia has a similar law.
You are using the evidence that it's really hard for Nintendo to enforce the law, that the law must not exist.
Like saying that drugs are not illegal, because you can buy drugs.