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Nintendo Lawyer: Emulators and Their Legal Implications (www.retronews.com)
submitted 7 months ago by Kain1@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Nintendo’s legal team has clarified that the legality of emulators depends heavily on how they are used, as revealed in a recent statement addressing the ongoing debate around video game emulation.

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[–] Nima@leminal.space 28 points 7 months ago

fuck the nintendo police. i've had enough of their bullshit and I hope a lot of others have as well.

i dream of nintendo's demise anymore.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 25 points 7 months ago

Fuck nintendo and their lawyers.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Nintendos lawyer cannot legally clarify anything. A judge has to do that.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 7 months ago

Their argument is bullshit. The emulator itself isn't the problem, and illegally acquiring the files to run on them is already illegal.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

If Nintendo hasn't made more money selling emulated video games than anyone else I would be surprised.

(virtual console, NSO, (s)nes mini, pokemon stadium, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, etc)

If they claimed emulation was illegal they would be a laughing stock. Of course it all comes down to the IP rights and copy protection measures.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

All this means is that people that are looking for emulators have to go to berg for the forks rather than git hub. Yuzu and their variants are still alive and well. Just people are not stupid enough to put their real names now. And the forks are tucked away. git is a wonderful protocol :)

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Without continued development though, new games are likely to have an increasing number of issues running on either emulator.

Even Starlink: Battle for Atlas, the closest thing to a Star Fox game on the Switch (can't just get another version of it, since the Star Fox DLC is Switch-exclusive), crashes in both Yuzu and Ryujinx, something I'd hoped would eventually be fixed before the emulators were taken down.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Apologies, both have forks that are actively maintained...if you know where to look. And this is a public place, so im not going to say where. I know that sucks, but the lawyers can look anywhere...and lemmy is just as "safe" as discord like last time.

No idea if those specific issues got fixed, but devs did fix an issue with the new paper mario somewhat recently.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Lol what gimps