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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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So, tl;dr:
No chipping consoles (bypassing the onboard anti-piracy a console has to allow it to play pirate content) - this seems unrelated to emulators tbh.
No linking to pirate content. Obviously.
No including the operating system that runs on the console in the emulator. Software on the emulator has to be completely its own thing.
Assuming emulator devs avoid these things, they might be left alone (but probably not). The fact that some older emulators have survived without their creators ever being served legal notices makes me think that there actually is a specific tightrope you can walk to avoid legal attacks by Nintendo though.
This just sounds like emulator Devs will do what they've already done for the BIOS, which isn't all that different. it's just going to make the initial setup more annoying.
Yeah exactly.