Nintendo says Yuzu played a large role in encouraging piracy of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    The courts aren’t. Nintendo is.

    Emulation has already been litigated to hell and back. It’s very clearly legal, including relying on users pulling a blob or two from their hardware for the whole thing to function.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah that would make sense except you missed a key point:

          Connectix’s development strategy was based upon reverse engineering the PlayStation’s BIOS firmware, first by using the unchanged BIOS to develop emulation for the hardware, and then by developing a BIOS of their own using the original firmware as an aid for debugging.

          The whole point here is that Connectix used Sony’s BIOS to develop their own BIOS. Yuzu is not doing that. They don’t have their own BIOS they are providing to their users. They are telling people to use Nintendo’s bios, but that they aren’t providing it.

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            8 months ago

            To put this another way, Yuzu relies on Nintendo’s BIOS to function. Connectix’s Game Station did not.