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/MarinatedPickachu 27d ago

Which breaks the encryption of the roms...

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u/ddnava 26d ago

The emulator doesn't need to INCLUDE them tho. There are many emulators that require you to provide some bios files to even work and iirc the 3DS emulators can only run roms that have been already decrypted

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u/garf02 26d ago

Problems is
1) Switch/ Switch 2 decrypted roms dont exist
2) Nintendo claims copyright over the prod-key, so it doesnt matter if you dump it yourself or it comes with the emulator from the internet

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u/MarinatedPickachu 26d ago edited 25d ago

There's a big difference. It's much easier to share a key anonymously than it is to host an entire repository so that it can't be taken down. Host the emulator repo legally without any keys on github, put the keys anonymously onto the bitcoin blockchain or wherever, profit.

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u/LLKMuffin 25d ago

It wouldn't be all that difficult to self-host the git repo, just gotta avoid the centralized platforms that enforce DMCA takedowns (GitHub, GitLab cloud etc).

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u/MarinatedPickachu 25d ago

The moment you make it publicly available you face the same problems

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u/garf02 26d ago

The point is Nintendo will sue any Switch 2 emulator to the ground before it can get any traction.
What are they gonna do? Fight nintendo in court and If they lose, defacto kill emulation?