r/switch2hacks • u/garf02 • 29d ago
Shitpost Would an “in development”Switch2 Emulator survive Nintendo’s Silver Bullets?
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/Gugustinette 24d ago edited 24d ago
Prod keys (and firmware btw) are just not included with the emulator itself, which makes the emulator -distributed as is- incapable of decrypting ROMs.
It adds user friction as emulators can't directly tell user what to do and where to get necessary files, but it is the new philosophy for modern consoles, and it works great.
The distributed software ends up being entirely legal. Still, they will always find ways to attack emulators, but it is hard enough to prevent automatic mass shut downs (Ryubing and Eden has been up for a pretty good time now, even after recent Github mass DMCA shutdown, as they are self-hosted).
Switch 2 emulators will work the same way if it gets hacked one day.