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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal
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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Heck, piracy is almost always morally correct because developers are only doing the least while charging the most.
If they want to treat business as "us vs. them", then that's what they're going to get.
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So the lawyer says that Nintendo, despite knowing that the emulators themselves are legal, has unlawfully caused take downs and reputational damage. Sounds kind of illegal
Not really. It sounds like they haven't gone after them for emulation, but instead for emulation-adjacent things: copying ROMs, circumventing digital locks, etc.
They explicitly mention (one of?) the developers of Yuzu sharing ROMs in the article.
In other words, the emulator itself isn't illegal, but in order to use the emulator the way most people want, you have to do illegal things, and that's what they go after you for.
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"please buy our new switch"
nah, i m good.
we know emulation is legal, but we're still going to legally have a legal reason to take y'all emulators to court angry face
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as SLAPP suits or intimidation lawsuits), or strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition
There are many, many variants. The idea is the smaller player can't really afford to fight in court, so even if the larger actor has shaky legal claims they will still win.
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I prefer my nintendont 2 (aka steam deck). Fuck Nintendo bastards and taking down all cool emulator free software projects.
Glad I still have my solid copy of Yuzu.
Never buying another console again, and it's been years since I bought a video game.
The companies only have themselves to blame.
Yeah I have a repo clone just before takedown.
Nintendo needs to burn. The fact they can just shut down whatever they want is disgusting and needs to be stopped.
Copyright and patent laws need to die.
If they spent half their lawyer money on making good games they wouldn't be losing money to competition
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Glad I never bought a switch.
In fact, ever since the PS4 I've been strictly a PC gamer.
Seeing how Microsoft was able to lower everyone's standards by charging for online really puts things into perspective for me.
It's great because now I don't have to buy hardware or software. Looking forward to emulating switch 2 games before they're even released like ToTK, lol.
What bugs me is i thought it was cause of the switch 2 pending, but turns out the switch 2 won't be fully backwards compatible 
The Switch 2 has a new hardware size and some software (like Labo and Ring Fit) has a physical component that is sized to the original Switch/Joy-Con. It could be referring to that.
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More like nintendon't!
Yeah, that's why I've been exclusively pirating and emulating your switch games, and will continue to do so
Nintendo never gets my money again, and it's been a better experience so far doing so
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