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They have certainly noticed, but likely won't do anything about it. IANAL but I am not even sure if emulation of this kind can be considered illegal. And if I w
by Guvante 13y ago
They have certainly noticed, but likely won't do anything about it. IANAL but I am not even sure if emulation of this kind can be considered illegal. And if I were in their shoes I would much prefer a group of random people create a playable open source emulator of my old hardware. If they ever decide to leave the hardware business it makes going down that path themselves much easier.
- keeperofdakeys 13y agoAs long as you are doing black-box reverse engineering. If you tried to disassemble the gamecube or wii software, then you likely are breaking the law. A similar situation comes up with Gnash, the GNU adaptation of flash. They require developers to have never installed flash, which requires signing the EULA, which includes a clause about reverse-engineering the program.
- cookiecaper 13y agoDisassembly is actually explicitly legalized for the purposes of reverse-engineering. It's just distributing any software that circumvents copy protections that's illegal, whether it's the result of a disassembly or not. People avoid disassembly in clean-room implementations out of an abundance of caution. If it's evident that the logic was ripped from disassembled executables, you'll have a harder time defending against patent claims or frivolous copyright claims. IANAL, but this is my understanding.