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Out of curiosity, are the keys you need for Skyline unique for a Switch device or unique for a game? (meaning the specific instance of a game that you installed on your particular Switch)

Because if it's the latter, you'd have to buy a game anyway before you could play it on the emulator, is that correct?

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you need two type of keys:

prod.keys which is universally used by the switch consoles(one file for multiple devices)

title.keys which contains specific keys required by games(one file for one game)

Ah, that makes sense. Are the keys in title.keys specific to the instance of the game you bought or is there one key (that you could get from a website/torrent/etc) that works for all copies of a particular game?

I'm asking because if you'd have to buy the game anyway, then I don't see how Nintendo would even have a revenue loss from the emulator. If there is no revenue loss, then the decision seems to be solely about control.

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