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You can tell that this was about protecting their hardware sales more than any claims about fair use or copyright or other IP because there are literally hundreds of companies which actively sell handheld systems with thousands of Nintendo brand or licensed ROMs on Amazon and elsewhere and I haven't seen a single one shut down.

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Indeed I suspect a large part of the motivation for this lawsuit is the upcoming Switch 2, which will be using essentially the same architecture. A huge part of the necessary work for emulating it has already been done by Yuzu and Ryujinx.

Lines up with the Denuvo deal too - https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/denuvo-security-is-...

I mean, yes? I'm not sure why you think you've exposed some kind of secret motivation. Yuzu is not the same thing as Dolphin: it's emulating a current console and is very obviously primarily for facilitating piracy, not historical preservation; people arguing otherwise are fucking kidding themselves. Of course it's about Nintendo protecting hardware sales.

Dolphin also existed when Wii was current. Switch is also pretty old by now, you have to start at some point.

Or it's for playing modern games on hardware from this decade. The Switch is now 7 years old, and was dated hardware from the outset.

Plenty of people use Yuzu to play Switch games on hardware that can actually support modern resolutions, or so you can actually achieve decent framerates at modern resolutions.

Dolphin was in development since the GameCube was the "current gen", on through the Wii's lifecycle. Hell, by this point in the Wii lifecycle, it was already on the way out and Wii-U was releasing.

Wine does the same with Windows binaries, and some forks I think they bypass Starforce and lots of DRM crap.

I would bet people mostly buy their games they use with Wine. Especially now that it's so well integrated with Steam.

You have Lutris as a flatpak, which is almost plug and play.

The games themselves are propietary, ok, but in the FSF ladder step it's a step up in the right direction.

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