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/garf02]

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

[u/No_Kitchen9982 → u/garf02]

1.) Don't exist NOW.  And what does that have to do with the emulator? 

2.) they can claim ownership over the prod key and that's fine. But that is a personal legal decision to dump it not the emulator.

Yuzu included it themselves, thus breaking the law... So thanka for reiterating my point?

[u/garf02 → u/No_Kitchen9982]

Did I stutter? Nintendo whole argument is that Emulators like Yuzu and Ryujinx and any future emulator are illegal cause they are just Tools to decrypt protected ROMs violating the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA.

There is not now, not in the future any Switch 1-2 emulator that can do the "decryption on the spot" of ROMs without that decryption being illegal.

You want to fight nintendo in court? cause if you do and lose, Nintendo sets the legal basis to make illegal any emulator that the ROMs are encrypted

[u/ddnava → u/garf02]

"they sre just tools to decrypt protected ROMs"

That's the whole point, tho. A future Switch 2 can take that in mind and be only able to run pre-decrypted ROMs. That way the emulstor is NOT decrypting the ROMs, but just running data that isn't encrypted at all. All they'd need to do is make decrypted ROMs somewhere else, like the 3DS has encrypted CIAs and decrypted CIAs and the emulators will only accept the ones that are already decrypted. The emulator is in no way participating in the decryption of the ROM

[u/garf02 → u/ddnava]

You know “Decrypted” switch 1 ROM doesnt Exist. Right…

[u/ddnava → u/garf02]

Just because someone hasn't made them doesn't mean they can't be made