Question on nintendo games on steam deck

[ChopperOllie]

When putting switch games on the steam deck it is better for the Nintendo game to me physical or digital?

[Fasauceome]

9 minutes ago, ChopperOllie said:

it is better for the Nintendo game to be physical or digital?

I wasn't aware that the steam deck accepted physical media. What are you referring to?

[TetraSky]

1 hour ago, Fasauceome said:

I wasn't aware that the steam deck accepted physical media. What are you referring to?

Probably ripping the games to make a ROM to play with an emulator like what LTT showed in this video. Is physical or digital better as far as ripping them, basically. While game ripping is legal in Canada for personal backups (as far as the wording goes anyway), it might be different for where OP lives.

[Imbadatnames]

40 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Probably ripping the games to make a ROM to play with an emulator like what LTT showed in this video. Is physical or digital better as far as ripping them, basically. While game ripping is legal in Canada for personal backups (as far as the wording goes anyway), it might be different for where OP lives.

It’s illegal anyway. You’re breaking a TPM which is classed as a copyright breach. 

[tikker]

17 minutes ago, Imbadatnames said:

It’s illegal anyway. You’re breaking a TPM which is classed as a copyright breach. 

True, though it depends a little bit on the law as well. Our (as in my country's) copyright law specifies that breaking effective copy protection is unlawful. I don't know what a court would rule on ripping modern-day ROMs and they will have to rule on what counts as effective, but if it's easy and widely available then the devil may be in the details.

[ChopperOllie]

so is it easy to have the games purchased from the eshop or have the physcial when puting games on steam deck for the switch?

 

 

[Imbadatnames]

51 minutes ago, tikker said:

True, though it depends a little bit on the law as well. Our (as in my country's) copyright law specifies that breaking effective copy protection is unlawful. I don't know what a court would rule on ripping modern-day ROMs and they will have to rule on what counts as effective, but if it's easy and widely available then the devil may be in the details.

It’s more that if it requires more than a simple copy and paste or rip then it’s breaching the terms 

[tikker]

19 minutes ago, Imbadatnames said:

It’s more that if it requires more than a simple copy and paste or rip then it’s breaching the terms 

Funnily enough a Finnish court ruled against DVD protection a long time ago: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/05/finland-court-breaking-ineffective-copy-protection-is-permissible/

 

But yeah I'm with you that I feel like ripping Switch games would not be seen as ineffective since you need a hacked Switch from what I can find. That would not classify as ineffective to me.

[Imbadatnames]

1 hour ago, tikker said:

Funnily enough a Finnish court ruled against DVD protection a long time ago: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/05/finland-court-breaking-ineffective-copy-protection-is-permissible/

 

But yeah I'm with you that I feel like ripping Switch games would not be seen as ineffective since you need a hacked Switch from what I can find. That would not classify as ineffective to me.

I don’t really agree with the finish ruling. It’s easy to rip dvds if you have the correct software (which doesn’t always work) but if you have to go out of your way to get specialist software then to me the protection is effective. You could design the best vault in the world but a specialist team would be able to crack it, that doesn’t make the vault ineffective. 

[bluesummer]

Either will work you just have to have a hacked Switch to dump anything, also make sure your Switch has the proper serial no. to be hacked with https://switch.hacks.guide/

 

If not your outta luck, unless you want to get into *ahem* illegal territory