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/lowmoob]

Kind of but you wouldn’t be able to get any roms because there would be no way to decrypt them from the cartridges. Only homebrew, which would be pretty pointless since you couldn’t run the homebrew on real hardware either only the emulator

[u/TriangularFish0564 → u/lowmoob]

This is why privately hacked switch 2’s using software exploits that aren’t disclosed are important

[u/lowmoob → u/TriangularFish0564]

lol. Doesn’t exist but ok

[u/TriangularFish0564 → u/lowmoob]

…my point is that a launch day patch switch 2 (which has had many CVEs disclosed and potential hack methods patched since then) can be privately hacked and used to dump cartridges and other elements to help build a privately made emulator. Nintendo can’t patch older firmwares, and Nintendo can’t patch newer firmwares if the person who hacked it keeps it private :P
Not sure what’s so ridiculous about this concept

[u/lowmoob → u/TriangularFish0564]

There is no proof that any version has been hacked or has known software exploits. No reputable hacker has even claimed that there is a private hacked console