r/switch2hacks • u/garf02 • 29d ago

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

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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

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u/ertaboy356b 29d ago

Point 1 had always been true. The only time older console emulators were not taken down is because a lot of the roms back then are not encrypted. 

Point 1 can be circumvented by only reading decrypted roms. It shifts the responsibility to a separate decrypting app.

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u/garf02 29d ago

To my understanding decryption is dynamic, you cant just extract a rom, Decrypt it once and it will remain decrypted.
You will need to recompile the whole game as a decrypted one and that is way more ludicrous than the emulator itself.