Nintendo’s legal team has clarified that the legality of emulators depends heavily on how they are used, as revealed in a recent statement addressing the ongoing debate around video game emulation.
This article opens in a way that makes it sound like Nintendo’s lawyers are the arbitors of what is and is not illegal and is therefore in desperate need of an edit.
Either way, I’m sure it’s helpful to emulator makers to know what Nintendo is looking for when it decides to take action or not.
In that context, this is indeed an extremely useful article.
Nintendos lawyer cannot legally clarify anything. A judge has to do that.
All this means is that people that are looking for emulators have to go to berg for the forks rather than git hub. Yuzu and their variants are still alive and well. Just people are not stupid enough to put their real names now. And the forks are tucked away. git is a wonderful protocol :)
If Nintendo hasn’t made more money selling emulated video games than anyone else I would be surprised.
(virtual console, NSO, (s)nes mini, pokemon stadium, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, etc)
If they claimed emulation was illegal they would be a laughing stock. Of course it all comes down to the IP rights and copy protection measures.