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Nintendo doing the smarting (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

While it's weird that they waited so long,

I think they are afraid emulation on steam deck gains traction.

Since it runs Linux, you could install and run Nintendo games on a competitor portable console that has a lot more games and a more powerful hardware

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's not the reason, you have been able to do so for a while. Even longer if you count Breath of the Wild (which ran with the Wii U emulator). The only reason they got their shit kicked in by Nintendo is greed. Patreon + extra money for early access + wanting to create their own paid copy of Nintendo's online service + timing their press releases with Nintendo releases..

    Emulators are legal. Fully intending to profit from creating a competing product isn't. That's why they also gave in so quickly when the lawyers showed up, despite having plenty of money to afford defense.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Emulators are legal

    In general yes, but Yuzu itself probably never was legal in the first place.

    At least in the EU and US there are anti-circumvention laws that make circumventing anti-piracy/copy-protection measures illegal in itself even if its done on games you own. Since Yuzu used the prod.keys to decrypt the games, it most likely already broke these laws.

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