Emulators have been a coding exercise that came with a nice side benefit. Devs were deliberate about separately the work from piracy. Then a group like Tropical Haze makes money on writing an emulator and release a 0-day update that runs Tears of the Kingdom.
I think they don’t really care actually. Sure, they could afford to defend the people who voluntarily spent 100+ hours to build a repository using their tools but what’s in it for them?
They don’t wanna be sued. Emulators are technically legal but Nintendo likes to abuse every loophole in the book to argue otherwise.
Nintendo eternally sucks but the Yuzu team handed their asses to the lawyers on a silver platter. Taking donations is one thing but a paywall to play the latest big first-party games is legal bait.
Emulators have been a coding exercise that came with a nice side benefit. Devs were deliberate about separately the work from piracy. Then a group like Tropical Haze makes money on writing an emulator and release a 0-day update that runs Tears of the Kingdom.
Emulation isn’t a place for entrepreneurs.
If anyone can afford the lawyers and has an incentive to challenge Nintendo, surely it’s Microsoft……
They don’t have much money, as they need to pump every cent into their aiOS
I don’t see an incentive for them here.
I think they don’t really care actually. Sure, they could afford to defend the people who voluntarily spent 100+ hours to build a repository using their tools but what’s in it for them?
What’s their incentive?
A little good press for GitHub to offset all the bad press from downtime.
Doesn’t seem worth the time or effort to lawyer up over.