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Emulators are legal.

Nintendo would have the authors assassinated if they weren't. They're about as harsh as you can get on homebrew devs.

This is very true, the Sony vs Bleem and Virtual Game Station lawsuit set precedent and made Emulators legal. Roms in the other hand are not legal, but for what I have heard Game companies are too afraid that the case of Bleem and Virtual Game Station to be repeated that they prefer to not file lawsuit and make copyright claims to websites that upload roms.

Homebrew devs? The thing they are worried about is software piracy. Emulators are usually not used for homebrew.

No, Nintendo is generally harsh with homebrew dev. They don't like people running software on their hardware withouth going through them. It's unrelated to piracy.

Emulators are emulators. What they are mainly used for as absolutely no impact on their legality.

No, Nintendo is obviously mainly worried about piracy, not homebrew.

https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-conducted-invasive-surveil...

That’s not and never was the point. Nintendo is harsh with both piracy and homebrew as was rightfully pointed by all the people you are ignoring.

That absolutely was the point. Homebrew is only a minor concern for them compared to piracy, since the latter has much higher economic impact. And Switch emulators are mainly used for piracy, not homebrew, as we currently see with one particular game.

The Wii proved that they care equally about piracy and homebrew, at most. I remember when Bushing tried to report a bug to Nintendo that was mostly only useful for piracy, as he put it. Their response? Not to patch the bug, but to continue updating IOS to find and delete the HBC title ID.

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