We’re Getting Closer To A Working Switch Emulator

7 responses to “We’re Getting Closer To A Working Switch Emulator”

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   mrbs

   January 15, 2018 at 4:21 pm

   How long? Then ninjas have already been dispatched! Look out!

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   whitepointer

   January 15, 2018 at 5:02 pm

   This begs the question: how long until Nintendo decide they’ve had enough and ask them to stop?

   Never.

   Emulators themselves aren’t illegal. Nintendo couldn’t shut down Wii or Wii U emulators like Dolphin and they can’t shut down this.

   Only the roms themselves are illegal. It’s true that, of course the primary use of an emulator is to play roms but unless the creators are making roms available (they won’t) they have nothing to worry about.

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      nicktofficial

      January 15, 2018 at 6:48 pm

      I could see them worming a “this enables the use of illegal property” and knowing how money talks, I could see it working.

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         whitepointer

         January 15, 2018 at 9:11 pm

         Nah, it’s not illegal to emulate a piece of hardware.

         Now, if you’re talking about a device that plugs into a PC that allows you to use a Switch cartridge on it, or even worse allow you to dump the rom and save it to your computer, THAT would be grounds for “this enables the use of illegal property”.

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            djbear

            January 15, 2018 at 10:32 pm

            There is also a likely fact that nintendo probably does not want to bring attention to this. Because if they did attempt legal action. Not only would they likely loose due to US Copyright laws. They would also enable the streisand effect.

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            1. 

               darren

               January 16, 2018 at 8:13 am

               US copyright laws are pretty shit and they could probably use that to their advantage. There is bound to be some sort of DMCA shit they could pull relating to code that makes it run.

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               whitepointer

               January 16, 2018 at 8:34 am

               Companies have tried and failed to take legal action against emulators, extending way back to Sony and the Bleem! Playstation emulator (which was marketed and made available during the PS1’s lifetime). Sony was unsuccessful in court then and Nintendo would be unsuccessful in court now if they tried to shut down a Switch emulator.