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.
Their argument is bullshit. The emulator itself isn’t the problem, and illegally acquiring the files to run on them is already illegal.
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.
Fuck nintendo and their lawyers.
This article opens in a way that makes it sound like Nintendo’s lawyers are the arbitors of what is and is not illegal and is therefore in desperate need of an edit.
Either way, I’m sure it’s helpful to emulator makers to know what Nintendo is looking for when it decides to take action or not.
In that context, this is indeed an extremely useful article.
Nintendos lawyer cannot legally clarify anything. A judge has to do that.
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 :)
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.
