Valve specifically drew Nintendo's attention to the presence of Dolphin Emulator on Steam
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I'm sure you've already heard that Nintendo has blocked Dolphin Emulator on Steam, allegedly because of the DMCA, but as it turns out, this is not the whole story. According to The Verge, which was provided by the Dolphin development team, Valve helped Nintendo draw attention to the Wii and GameCube emulator on Steam and unilaterally blocked it without even giving Dolphin developers a chance to defend themselves.

The plot continues to thicken over this. I don’t believe emulation should be considered illegal. The only illegal part is how you get the ROMs. Another friend mentioned to me the part that burns him is that Nintendo has been sitting on GameCube and hasn’t done anything with it since the Wii Virtual Console!

  • Crashdoom (he/him)@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I can unfortunately understand why Valve would tip off Nintendo, to avoid being directly liable because it’s not the standard DMCA provision.

    But, at this point, emulation, where you legally have the game and console, shouldn’t be illegal and they shouldn’t be preventing it.

    As for the decryption keys, rock and hard place. Either that needs to not be illegal, or it’s impossible to emulate a game legally. Since emulation isn’t illegal, the former shouldn’t be either.

    • noplexa@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      DRM was a mistake, without it there would be no reason for a decryption key. The obvious solution is to make the user supply keys or BIOS from their own console, I think that’s what yuzu does, for example.

      Then of course, you run into the issue of having to install homebrew on the console to get those files…