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[–] Matriks404 55 points 22 hours 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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] GeneralEmergency 10 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] RizzRustbolt 2 points 14 hours ago

Nah, they use Higan now.

[–] QubaXR 15 points 21 hours 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 12 points 16 hours 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.