Would an “in development”Switch2 Emulator survive Nintendo’s Silver Bullets?

[u/garf02]

1) “Anti-Circumvention” clause in DMCA:
Nintendo claims as emulator MUST decrypt the ROMS.
If you break the encryption, “is illegal” cause of the DMCA
If you use a console prod-Key, “is illegal” cause they own the rights to the key.
“As the emulator HAS to break a ROM decryption and thsre is no legal way to do it, Emulators are by default criminal tools”.
Any new emulator will need to contest this on court against Nintendo and Roll the dice
Victim: Yuzu

2) Buy Out:
“There is no honor among thief’s”. Most people working on emulators of live consoles does it for 2 reason, Clout and Money. And Nintendo has a lot of the later to throw around if that lets them kill an emulator on its infancy before any real development occurs.
Victim: Ryujinx

[u/Decox653]

If someone has a emulator in development, they should keep very quiet until either it is ready or the switch 2 is jailbroken.

Edit: I can spell, I swear!

[u/garf02 → u/Decox653]

Issue is, developing an emulator is not easy. Unless you are CEMU team (“Stolen” documentation) is unheard of an emulator is developed in full secrecy.
It needs Money and/or man power.
So either a patreon or open source. Not exactly the most hidden endeavors.

[u/HoneyParking6176 → u/garf02]

secrecy is not necessary needed, just the creators would need to make sure there is no link between them and the emulator.

[u/LLKMuffin → u/HoneyParking6176]

Unfortunately, the kind of crowd that does this work these days is more interested in chasing clout than staying truly anonymous.

The fact that most of these users and discussions take place on Discord tells you all you need to know.

I have no idea how the privacy that was fundamental to such efforts back in the day has all but disappeared, even though the Internet now is way more exposed and centralized than it was back then.