• FiveMacs
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    9 months ago

    There is nothing inherently wrong with emulators though. It just does what it’s told. The game images are a different story.

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      9 months ago

      And yuzu provided instructions on how to dump encryption keys to get those game images. If they just let other sites provide that info and only provided the reverse engineered emulator then they would have been in the clear like every other emulator for the past several decades.

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      9 months ago

      I think the issue was the devs assisted in getting leaked copies of games to run. That’s proof they were using pirated games and not legal copies like they claimed. There’s nothing wrong with using an emulator to run a legal copy of your game (although im sure IP holders would still give you a hard time), but the devs saying they patched their emulator to run Breath of the Wild before it’s even officially on sale necessarily means they broke the law.

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      9 months ago

      Nintendo disagrees

      Yes. Game copiers that are used to copy video game software without authorization onto any type of memory device or the hard drive of a personal computer are illegal. They infringe copyright in computer programs in Nintendo products and infringe Nintendo trade marks. They are also circumvention devices. The manufacturing, importing or distributing of circumvention devices is prohibited under the Copyright Act

      Until someone with Nintendo’s kind of money takes a court challenge all the way they will keep coming for emulators.

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        9 months ago

        Lol they didn’t even go after them for the emulator though. It was about facilitating piracy.

        Game copiers that are used to copy video game software without authorization onto any type of memory device or the hard drive of a personal computer are illegal.

        If they didn’t give guides on how to dump switch games and actually perform piracy nothing would have happened to them or the emulator.

        See every emulator that’s out there, fully available online. If I’m not mistaken, these are one of the first that were ever shut down.