Over the weekend, the Google news feed on my phone even highlighted one of these emulators for me, algorithmically oblivious to the sketchiness of what it was promoting. With so many people eager to play Tears of the Kingdom, the seedier corners of the emulation community-the kinds that shamelessly link to pirated games and use code stolen from other emulators-are getting a lot more attention. also exist,' says JMC479, 'making the whole thing a mess all while the devs can't really do anything to stop it.'

'And then fake forks with malware, or paywalls, etc.

(Anyone with a Github account can 'fork' another project to duplicate its files and then make their own modifications in a public or private repository.) 'Yuzu and Ryujinx have a lot to lose, so TotK before it releases based on reports from obviously pirated copies of the game would be a huge target on them, so forks of the emulators from people with little/no connection to the scene trying to hack around the issues have popped up,' says Dolphin emulator contributor JMC479. With no documentation or code history to go off of, what these 'fixes' are actually doing is about as clear as mud unless you've pirated Tears of the Kingdom in order to test them. But without the emulator dev teams working on Tears of the Kingdom yet, third parties who have pirated the game have started modifying code to fix various issues and uploading their own precompiled builds of the emulators. Here's a Ryujinx code change from four days ago, for example, that ensures the emulator doesn't get thrown off by capital letters. To those of us who aren't programmers, these changes are mostly going to look mundane or impenetrable.

But the defining element of the current Tears of the Kingdom emulation scene is the lack of good answers about, well, basically everything.īecause emulator development is usually open source, it's typically easy to go onto Github and see who's changing code. The Belarus files, it turned out, were clean. Some users freaked out when a purported fix from a now-deleted Reddit account seemed to be pinging a remote server in Eastern Europe, prompting a 24 hour cycle of panic threads like 'DELETE THE MODDED EXE!!!' and joke threads like 'a large belarusian man just walked into my house and fucked my wife.' Memes and conspiracy theories are already rampant.

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