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Nintendo RESPONDS To DMCA Takedown On Dolphin Emulator For Steam!

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Nintendo recently issued a DMCA takedown on the popular Gamecube and Wii emulator Dolphin when it appeared on the Steam storefront, and now we have a lot more info on the subject!

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  2. 10:45 Nintendo is just butthurt at the fact they found product keys and added them to dolphin for steam there pety asf it's also similar to prod.keys and title.keys for the skyline which has been dmcaed aswell but the yuzu emulator on android is still up atm so let's hope "yuzu" doesn't get taken down next bc it uses the same keys

  4. Thanks to emulation I have fulfilled one of my BIGGEST dreams: to play Xenoblade Chronicles X on 4k and 120fps. This game is INSANELY beautiful. I remember I bought the WII U full price and the game, when basically everyone knew it was a dead console. Monolith deserves a better console honestly

  9. They probably reacted because the know they cant kill emulation but they will make extremely difficult to get easy acces to it. By easy i mean the common non tech-savvy person just finding it on steam.

  11. Mentions the simps for the corporations, but not the people that blatantly (read most) use emulation to avoid paying for their games.

    I don't mean modern games. I mean they do it to avoid paying anyone and everyone to play a game, any game, they don't legally own themselves. Don't want to pay $100 for a gamecube game? That's fine. You're now not entitled to be able to play it.

    Preservation is good. Theft is bad, no matter how old the product is, or how hard it is to get. You're never entitled to something you didn't yourself create. There's 0 moral high ground anyone against that stance can take. Just admit you feel entitled to something you aren't actually entitled to and move on.

  13. Is Nintendo own fault for making a crappy boring flatscreen console with same old controller that is way too easy to emulate. Go the vr route with controllers that are not possible to emulate. Win for Nintendo without having to attack emulator with no result. Ain't 100billion of $ enough for you Nintendo?

  16. Once a complany shuts down their online game store for a specific console generation, they should have to forfeit their right to complain about emulation. If they no longer want to support it, then it should be open source.

  17. I dont see that nintendo can claim that emulation stiffles innovation or sales even. If that were the case then none of the game remakes would sell since we can just emulate and enhance them ourselves. Instead they release a game like metroid prime remastered and make boatloads of money, all while there is an already super duper enhanced version of it available for emulation.

  19. It was very bold of the Dolphin goons to put this on Steam tbh 😂 you can get Dolphin on PC easily it was fine. They decided to crack and give into the steam deck crowd but it wasn’t necessary. You can still get it on steam deck yes it wasn’t without some hassle but anyone who uses emulation knows this and they still do it. This is a lot of shenanigans on both sides…those behind Dolphin putting it on Steam officially. Know it’s way more attention of course and they want that bigger casual market why wouldn’t they? The only problem with that now face the consequences of legal issues. Even though I’m for emulation this was a dumb move on the devs behind Dolphin since everyone knows emulators aren’t exactly on any store officially. Except for google play but that’s really little of concern since mobile isn’t exactly the best emulating experience like PC.

  21. CD games have a shelf life they're not going to last for the next 20 to 30 years eventually the CDs and the systems that use them are not going to work anymore and that's where preservation comes into play

  23. I have to say, Nintendo is starting to do the equalvent of Mona Lisa’s family taking down the Mona Lisa duplicate paintings for copyright reasons even though it’s a 300 year old painting… Nintendo’s problems are anti preservation and the fact they are sitting on the old games and keeping them down even though these games are not on sale. It’s especially a problem for 3DS and Wii U games since their eshop has shut down.

  24. It stifles the development and innovation of greedy companies who want to try and find innovative ways to repackage old games and sell them to you with very little development.

  26. 9:38 To be fair, Nintendo just recently released a remaster of Metroid Prime on Switch which was originally on the Gamecube. Which could open the door for other Gamecube releases, most notably Metroid Prime 2. They also have released both Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy in HD, Gamecube and Wii original games respectively.

  34. Seriously, if these kinds of copyright maximalists had their way we wouldn't even have libraries as they see them as piracy dens. The only reason we can even loan books and the like these days is cause libraries came first. It is transparent that the real reason for this is to shut down innovation and competition to try and make themselves a monopoly.

  38. I got a R4 card for my 3ds for NES, SNES, GB, GBC. With how Nintendo is acting( along with the other publishers and crap) makes me want to go full emulation that much more. Need to knock that over greedy bs off.

  41. I'm sorry but you are such a hypocrite. You're saying that the emulation of those old games is ok as Nintendo either way won't profit from them (I agree with this point) but at the same time you are promoting Switch emulation…