It’s not illegal or anything to develop games without the permission of the console manufacturer. The NES had a 40kb game release in 2019 called Micro Mages. The developers are entirely in the right.

Without reading the article:

• High resolution textures
• large maps
• audio
• Internet cache
• shaders
• code left for debugging and data collection

No shit. It was originally and explicitly stated in the initial reporting that the plane was shot down.

The only problem I see is using 8x slots instead of 16x slots for double the storage

I like to tell myself “the scope of the feature is simple enough that it’s unnecessary”

Piracy is more fun when it’s principled anyways