Nintendo Switch Emulator

Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator by merkul204 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:38PM (#25525096)

this is really cool - great work, but what's the probability of nintendo nuking this?

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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator by Alekhine on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:06AM (#25526081)

Emulators are legal, I believe.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator by Jowsey on Thursday December 24, 2020 @01:46PM (#25530169)

Emulation is 100% legal as long as the BIOS for the emulated system and any game ROMs are sourced from legal systems/copies iirc

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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator by LeoNatan25 on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:19PM (#25540804)

Depending on the Google/Oracle trial fallout, it could become illegal to implement system APIs because of API copyright. So while CPU instruction set emulation is fine, depending on how system emulators work, they could be deemed “illegal”.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator by thatguy0900 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:39AM (#25526982)

There's longstanding emulators for every other Nintendo console

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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator by jdc on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:28AM (#25526409)

On what grounds?

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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator by Throwaway1771 on Friday December 25, 2020 @01:38AM (#25534738)

This is a meme, right now, on Twitch etc.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator by jonny_eh on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:33PM (#25540865)

What a dumb meme

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