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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago (4 children)

There's nothing new in this article. And I don't think Nintendo ever said that emulation is illegal, just emulating their games is, which technically is true to some part at least in the United States, where sometimes you need to circumvent some security measures to get games emulated which is a forbidden (this is mentioned in the article).

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

emulation is only legal if you pay Nintendo to steal open-source code for their emulator as a service subscription

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Nah, they use Higan now.

[–] QubaXR@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yea, if I recall correctly, the Yuzu team was sharing roms of latest Nintendo releases internally and Nintendo was able to prove it. At least Jeff Gerstman podcast suggested something to that accord when reporting on it.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Yeah and the Yuzu people had made something like 4 million bucks on the project too. When you start making serious cash off of tools for piracy (and when we're talking about a current-gen console that's essentially what it is, not a tool for preservation like older emulators) then you should expect some heat to come your way.

Nintendo has always been a bit on the bastardly side of things when it comes to fan projects but I can't say that I blame them for going after Yuzu when they felt like they had a winnable case.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Get a load of the nerd reading the articles and making informed opinions. Just join the rest of us in mindless circle jerking.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

A very strong case could be made that dumping your keys and your games is not bypassing encryption.