> If it can play disc images with copy protection > Dolphin contains Nintendo decryption keys I don't believe it does. Wii U emulator CEMU requires them to bo

> If it can play disc images with copy protection > Dolphin contains Nintendo decryption keys I don't believe it does. Wii U emulator CEMU requires them to boot, and Citra the 3DS emulator also requires them. The Wii seems to have no copy protection to speak of, besides it's rudimentary disk check/hashing routine. I'd love to be proven wrong on this, though. > the fair use won because Corellium successfully argued there was no way that their product could impact Apple in any substantial way regarding security research > Nintendo easily has a case that emulation causes substantial financial and business harm So did Sony. Bleem even used screenshots of their official, licensed games to advertise their commercial alternative to owning a Playstation, and a judge deemed it lawful: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_case?case=11837224078052556056&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_case?case=1183722407805... From the appeal: > To the extent Bleem merely approximates what the PlayStation games look like, by generating screen shots through a process of degrading a computer image, it is simply creating a simulation. If Bleem insists on generating simulated approximations of Sony's games, there is no need for Bleem to use Sony's copyrighted material whatsoever. Again - there is still ambiguity in these rulings, especially for modern console emulators. It's easy to scare Steam into taking this down since Valve doesn't want to take the fall for emulators. That being said, a true cease-and-desist scenario for Dolphin is likely unlawful, given the precedent and context. Edit in response to your edit: Citra's developer is right - this is brazen. But it's also a legal can of worms Nintendo cannot guarantee a win on. Their claim is that it violates the Copyright Act, which they would then have to defend against the DMCA amendments that give explicit protections to many classes of usage. If "the key" is their objection, Nintendo's copyright complaint will be about as effective as the DeCSS moratorium.