Abusing their hard work to buy cheap devices and get their longer OS support for free is not cool.
This is literally a core principle of Open Source. You can charge money if you want, but anyone is fully entitled to distribute your work for free.
It is not and cannot be abuse.
The "key" is the mapping of cipher alphabet to message alphabet.
There has to be a secret to be cryptography. The meaning has to be hidden without the secret information (though primitive/weak attempts can have a small enough search space to be brute forced). But the content being hidden without that information is the entirety of what the word means.
That's a terrible definition, but "codes" is doing the heavy lifting.
It is not a code, in that definition, if it does not require knowledge of a key to decode.
It is literally impossible for anything that doesn't have a secret key to qualify as cryptography. That is the entire defining trait.
Because it's a giant one.
There is no valid interpretation of cryptography that resembles the way you defined it in any way.
You provided a definition that doesn't even loosely resemble the correct one.
There's no need to use words you don't understand, especially when they're wildly unrelated to whatever you're saying. They just add confusion.
If the word “cryptography” here is what throws anyone off, it’s not some advanced field of study, it just refers to the physical manifestation of messaging, which a child can get behind.
No it doesn't. Cryptography is specifically encoding messages in a way that is hard for someone without the specific secret key to decode, even if they know the methodology.
For first party stuff, Nintendo launches finished games (though Sony does too).
For third party, cartridges are expensive enough that it's not uncommon at all for companies to straight up make a bunch of content download only. A lot of "multiple game" collections only put some of the games on the cartridge (not counting the ones that tie some to keys).
I don‘t see a reason why these cardridges wouldn‘t work in 20 years anymore.
Because, just like discs, they're a crappy pre-launch build that relies on day one patches or additional content to actually work correctly.
I would be shocked if the newer versions don't have a software hack way before that.
The fact that the first version was easy to hack made later versions lower priority, but at some point for the sake of preservation or to have the OLED, the new ones will catch up.
Absolutely.
They're exactly the same as the audio being out of sync. It literally makes me want to puke.