And it's fraught with problems if the Dolphin team were to use any of the information from those Nintendo links that they can't prove they determined/discovered

And it's fraught with problems if the Dolphin team were to use any of the information from those Nintendo links that they can't prove they determined/discovered/developed independently. Most emulator developers are avoiding those even if there might be useful documentation in there. These blogposts are informative as hell but they also do the job of covering their asses by showing their original work.