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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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