Don't spam MVG's garbage here. Not only is it irrelevant to the thread, Modern Vintage Gamer is a complete hack and gets things wrong about as often as he gets things right. He's a Johnny-Come-Lately to the emulation scene after some time in the game industry.
I've had the opposite trajectory: Working on MAME since around 2001/2002, then joining the game industry in 2005, and I'm regularly aghast at how factually incorrect MVG is about emulation-related topics.
He couldn't even get the release year of UltraHLE correct - to this day, the thumbnail for his UltraHLE retrospective says "FULL-SPEED N64 IN 1998?!" when the only way you were getting that was if you owned an actual N64, or if you were sufficient besties with Doc Brown that he'd let you borrow his DeLorean DMC-12 with a flux capacitor aftermarket kit. It's not even a particularly nebulous date range we're talking about here, UltraHLE was released and subsequently killed (by the original authors at least) in a 24-hour time span on January 28th, 1999.
His video on the history of NESticle and Bloodlust Software could've actually done some good in the emulation community if he'd told the story how it had actually happened. It could have been a phenomenal piece about how unhinged emulator users could be, and how perhaps users doxxing and relentlessly harassing emulator developers is something that has long since needed to stop. He could have actually talked to the people who know the real story in order to inform himself. If he'd done that, the ending of the video could've actually been impactful: Talking about how people were literally posting Icer's (Sardu's) family's tax documents online, how people were randomly calling him and his family's land-line, and how a kind-hearted game developer offered him an 'out' by way of a job in the game industry, so that he could have a clean slate, a fresh start, and not have to deal with the public abuse. Instead, MVG's pitiful video meanders just about to the real ending, then just sort of hand-waves the culmination of it all.
This video is no different. Go do some actual homework on how often Nintendo actually issue takedown requests to ROM websites, and then for bonus points, look up how many ROM website owners Nintendo have actually sued. That's a pitifully small number compared to the number of ROM sites that exist, and every single one of those notable examples has the website owner doing some shady shit that ranks about a 9.0 on my "What the Did You Think Would Happen"-O-Meter. The commonly-cited court case that the emulation community went into histrionics over a few years back involved a dude who was literally charging money for what amounted to backroom access to 0-day Switch ROMs. Seriously, what did the website owner think would happen?
Get real, and find better people to get your content from. There's a reason why I'm working on a script for a video on the actual, unvarnished, accurate story of UltraHLE, and the various other stories that MVG has gotten catastrophically wrong. But most importantly, try actually looking into these things for yourself instead of taking the word of some pommy hack.
