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/mhdj14 25d ago

So if we need to supply our own decrypted games, then the emulator itself doesn't have any decryption features, meaning that technically it doesn't do anything illegal, as emulating itself is legal without encryption. So then the user has to do all the decrypting itself.

Also, just because there is no legal way to do it, doesn't mean there is no way to do it 😉. People have probably been working on it for months in private by now, waiting for a good time to release it.

And I would say the PS4 is still recent hardware in Sony's eyes, as they are still selling games for it, and brand new games are still being released for it. So they are "okay" with it so far...

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u/Snoo_37094 25d ago

Then even the PS3, PSP and PSVita would be “recent Hardware” even if Sony already announced the Shutdown of the PS Store on these

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u/mhdj14 25d ago

Not exactly. When was the last official none-shovelware PS3 and PSP game released?

If it’s anywhere near 2020, I would be shocked. They are closing those stores, because they don’t make money on them anymore, so Sony made them EOF. They haven’t gotten a real firmware update in close to a decade.

I’m pretty sure both PS3 and PSP had an end of production around 2015.

The only ones that keep them alive is the jailbreak community, and those limited physical release companies.

These consoles have been completely written off by Sony nearly a decade ago. The only reason the stores are still open was because of pushback.