Honestly people need to stop offering emulators as paid official things. They are not, they are workarounds so we can play legacy games but we all know the big corps don’t like them and view them negatively.
This is just playing with fire, same with dolphin on steam.
I’d guess the reason people are being suspended is because Microsoft intentionally removed emulators from retail mode and people have been getting them back by using hidden apps with different names to willfully circumvent the emulator ban.
They are not, they are workarounds so we can play legacy games
The main purpose of emulators is preservation. Being able to play the games is just a side-effect of that. This is why a lot of emulators focus on accuracy instead of performance.
The only reason Dolphin on Steam was an issue was because they hard-coded Nintendo encryption keys in their source code. The actual emulator code is a clean room implementation which means it’s legal (it was written by reverse engineering Nintendo hardware and software, without actually using any of Nintendo’s code), however, having copyrighted Nintendo content in the emulator is not legal.
Honestly people need to stop offering emulators as paid official things. They are not, they are workarounds so we can play legacy games but we all know the big corps don’t like them and view them negatively.
This is just playing with fire, same with dolphin on steam.
I’d guess the reason people are being suspended is because Microsoft intentionally removed emulators from retail mode and people have been getting them back by using hidden apps with different names to willfully circumvent the emulator ban.
The main purpose of emulators is preservation. Being able to play the games is just a side-effect of that. This is why a lot of emulators focus on accuracy instead of performance.
The only reason Dolphin on Steam was an issue was because they hard-coded Nintendo encryption keys in their source code. The actual emulator code is a clean room implementation which means it’s legal (it was written by reverse engineering Nintendo hardware and software, without actually using any of Nintendo’s code), however, having copyrighted Nintendo content in the emulator is not legal.