Dolphin Emulator

[Buginhead55]

You know if Steam will add this in steam market they will get sue by nintendo. Nintendo is strict about illegal emulator.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

buginhead55 a écrit :

Nintendo banned it because you cannot allow download illegal roms from the random website or you be sue.

Clearly don't know what copyright protect means do you? It does not matter WHOM roms it belongs to, it's illegal to be distributing to content that is not yours, and do not have permission to do so, If Nintendo said it's ok to distribute their ROMS then it's legal, to which they LOSE copyright to it. Now Nintendo can only come after those that under their copy right such as their Mario, Zelda, or etc IP ownership, including console code in this case only thing is the problem is the wii in the emulator which is small bit, and that all they have to figure out to bypass the issue, once that solved, Nintendo got nothing.

Why you think Nintendo can't come after NES, SNES, 3/DS, Wii u, and switch emulators, that because they're not distributing nintendo code, nor roms own by nintendo, hence they got nothing.

[Spawn of Totoro]

buginhead55 a écrit :

Doesn't matter making your own rom you still cannot make a copyright game that Nintendo own that I am glad Nintendo remove it from steam.

Care to clarify here? You are all over the place with this statement and it makes no sense.

[Buginhead55]

It's does reason why Nintendo remove Dolphin off Steam that way you cannot download illegal rom.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

buginhead55 a écrit :

Doesn't matter making your own rom you still cannot make a copyright game that Nintendo own that I am glad Nintendo remove it from steam.

Actually yes you can make copy of your own copy you bought, this vary where you live as well on this act, but still remains you're not allowed to sell, or distributing that said copy, as long you have legit copy, you can make many copies for yourself, and only for yourself,no one else.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 a écrit :

buginhead55 a écrit :

Nintendo banned it because you cannot allow download illegal roms from the random website or you be sue.

Clearly don't know what copyright protect means do you? It does not matter WHOM roms it belongs to, it's illegal to be distributing to content that is not yours, and do not have permission to do so, If Nintendo said it's ok to distribute their ROMS then it's legal, to which they LOSE copyright to it. Now Nintendo can only come after those that under their copy right such as their Mario, Zelda, or etc IP ownership, including console code in this case only thing is the problem is the wii in the emulator which is small bit, and that all they have to figure out to bypass the issue, once that solved, Nintendo got nothing.

Why you think Nintendo can't come after NES, SNES, 3/DS, Wii u, and switch emulators, that because they're not distributing nintendo code, nor roms own by nintendo, hence they got nothing.

Yep. So if someone was distributing ROMs of final fantasy games, Nintendo couldn't do anything about that, only Square/Enix can... or who ever owns the IP these days.

buginhead55 a écrit :

It's does reason why Nintendo remove Dolphin off Steam that way you cannot download illegal rom.

Dolphin didn't provide any roms. Users had to make their own roms or use home brewed games. Dolphin only emulated the console. They didn't distribute any games.

[Buginhead55]

Nope you still get sue if you make illegal roms.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

buginhead55 a écrit :

It's does reason why Nintendo remove Dolphin off Steam that way you cannot download illegal rom.

Dolphin doesn't provide ROMS, nor do they distribute them... They EMULATE, NOT DOWNLOAD ROMS.....

[Spawn of Totoro]

buginhead55 a écrit :

Nope you still get sue if you make illegal roms.

It is only illegal to distribute/download them. If you have a physical copy of the game, then you are allowed to make a backup copy of it in the form of a ROM. You are just not allowed to provide that copy to others, only for your own use and for as long as you still own the game.

Dolphin also ran games from the Disk Drive, with no ROM required.

[McFlurry Butts]

Spawn of Totoro a écrit :

buginhead55 a écrit :

Nope you still get sue if you make illegal roms.

It is only illegal to distribute/download them. If you have a physical copy of the game, then you are allowed to make a backup copy of it in the form of a ROM. You are just not allowed to provide that copy to others, only for your own use and for as long as you still own the game.

Dolphin also ran games from the Disk Drive, with no ROM required.

I always wonder how this played out? Do people just bring their copy of their game to court and bam all charges are dropped? I imagine physical copies would only apply as digital copies are technically licenses.

[WhiteKnight]

More info https://mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/110440301402516214

Important part :-


In this case, none of this process was followed. To the best of my understanding, this is what happened:

1. Valve legal contacted Nintendo of America to ask "hey, what do you think about Dolphin?"
2. Nintendo replied to Valve "we think it's bad and also that it violates the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions" (note: nothing about violating copyright itself). Also "please take it down".
3. Valve legal takes it down and forwards NoA's reply to the Dolphin Foundation contact address.


I hope posting links is fine and a not advertising.

[Lithurge]

Spawn of Totoro a écrit :

buginhead55 a écrit :

Nope you still get sue if you make illegal roms.

It is only illegal to distribute/download them. If you have a physical copy of the game, then you are allowed to make a backup copy of it in the form of a ROM. You are just not allowed to provide that copy to others, only for your own use and for as long as you still own the game.

Dolphin also ran games from the Disk Drive, with no ROM required.

Depends on where you live. We can't even legally rip music to MP3's for our own use in the UK.

[Start_Running]

Spawn of Totoro a écrit :

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 a écrit :

Clearly don't know what copyright protect means do you? It does not matter WHOM roms it belongs to, it's illegal to be distributing to content that is not yours, and do not have permission to do so, If Nintendo said it's ok to distribute their ROMS then it's legal, to which they LOSE copyright to it. Now Nintendo can only come after those that under their copy right such as their Mario, Zelda, or etc IP ownership, including console code in this case only thing is the problem is the wii in the emulator which is small bit, and that all they have to figure out to bypass the issue, once that solved, Nintendo got nothing.

Why you think Nintendo can't come after NES, SNES, 3/DS, Wii u, and switch emulators, that because they're not distributing nintendo code, nor roms own by nintendo, hence they got nothing.

Yep. So if someone was distributing ROMs of final fantasy games, Nintendo couldn't do anything about that, only Square/Enix can... or who ever owns the IP these days.

Actually I think they can, due to the licensing agreement Nintendo had. Which is why you'll notice they have never always have some changes to the re-releases to make them distinctly different from the originals, even beyond bug fixes. The closest we;'ve gotten to a re-release of the actual NES FF 1 for example, in the anthology collection on ps1 and even that had some tweaks.

At least that's my head cannon.