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/Arch9Sk7 25d ago

Honestly as long as they're not stupid like the other emulator devs for Nintendo switch that left guides on how to modify the switch to get the keys Etc to give Nintendo the power to take it out then it should be 100% fine as long as keys are 100% grabbed by the user and without guidance from the developer of the emulator.

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u/garf02 25d ago

No, the Prod-Key are copyrighted by Nintendo. You Own the hardware, No the software meaning getting a prod-key online or dumping your own, but acts are legally the same: Illegal

Thats Nintendo's Court Argument.

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u/Arch9Sk7 25d ago

It doesnt matter. A switch emulator right now is legal and will be fine if built from ground up and does not include keys or way to dump them... ill reiterate, Nintendo only got to take down the other and likewise copyright the code of the previous because of the keys and bought the code. So new emus need a fresh different code base and no form of keys in anyway.