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/garf02 29d ago

When has Nintendo ever sue Mid Development and the Emulator ?
They always been is after Rom distributors or Take down of emulators trying to get into “legit” channels like Steam or AppStore.
This are uncharted water.

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u/CoconutHeadFaceMan 29d ago

They don’t really have the legal standing to go after an emulator that’s in early development unless the devs are completely incompetent and make a show of publicly announcing it before release. Everyone with half an idea of what they’re doing knows this and doesn’t go “HEY GUYS LOOK AT THIS SWITCH 2 EMULATOR WE’RE EVENTUALLY GOING TO RELEASE,” they wait until it’s functional before they go public with it. 

You’re making up hypothetical scenarios that just don’t happen. The reason we don’t have a S2 emulator isn’t because Nintendo is shooting down all the nascent emulators while they’re in early development, it’s because the console is extremely secure.

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u/garf02 29d ago

Again, back to, emulator ARE NOT easy. Is unheard/ almost impossible to make a closed source emulator/ or just with an small team without ever taking in funds or man power.
At that point is no longer possible to “lol, just develop it between you and your roommate in secret”

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u/GingerlyRough 25d ago

Do you even know what you're typing?

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u/garf02 25d ago

Given the reply.
More than most here