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[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

They're not bogus. The emulator that shut down were selling a product using a proprietary encryption key owned by Nintendo.

That's why Dolphin still exists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I disagree. Sure, companies have a moral right to recoup their R&D costs on a console, but I fully reject the Divine Right of Shareholders. As long as the emulators aren't sold for profit and no one is hurt, a multibillion dollar company like Nintendo has zero moral ground to tell us that we cannot emulate consoles that we have bought to play games that we also bought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

The emulator they shut down was being sold for a profit. They haven't gone after Dolphin, which is free.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Well the dev closed it without any public c&d...

Maybe the thousands of copyrighted images of amiibos hosted on https://amiibo.ryujinx.org/ ?