Valve's legal department contacted Nintendo to inquire about the announced release of Dolphin Emulator on Steam. In reply to this, a lawyer representing Nintendo of America requested Valve prevent Dolphin from releasing on the Steam store, citing the DMCA as justification. Valve then forwarded us the statement from Nintendo's lawyers, and told us that we had to come to an agreement with Nintendo in order to release on Steam. Considering the strong legal wording at the start of the document and the citation of DMCA law, we took the letter very seriously.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ooh I wondered what the actual story behind that was, it was all speculation at the time. Is that a statement from Dolphin themselves?

[–] RudestBuddhist@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep it’s on their blog

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Oh wow, I can't believe I missed this! (Link for anyone else who also missed Dolphin's response

I'm now annoyed that I heard huge amounts of baseless speculation at the time but then nothing about this well-presented conclusion of the whole issue. I'd say that technically Nintendo still aren't 'going after emulation' as they know they don't have any legal leg to stand on, so that stern letter is all they can really do!

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That’s neat and all, but I’ve been playing these games on an emulator for too long to bother with Nintendo’s subscription emulator. It would have been nice to have this in 2015.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

These services are for people who don't even know what emulators are (or just can't be bothered)

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Also I couldnt figure out how to change the controls on any of them. So your stuck with whatever some chode decided the control system should be.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

HM64... damn, good memories, until my mate deleted by year 6 file.