![]() ![]() Dolphin clarified what happened in May, rejected allegations that it infringed on Nintendo's rights, and rededicates itself to the continued development of Dolphin including features meant for the Steam release. ![]() In response to Valve's decision to have Dolphin removed from Steam, the Dolphin team initially announced that the development of the Steam version of the emulator had been "indefinitely postponed." It has since taken the time to write out a longer, thorough response. Valve acquiesced, though it should be made clear Nintendo did not and has yet to issue a DMCA or legal effort against either Steam or Dolphin on the matter. Valve quickly reached out to Nintendo on the subject, and Nintendo responded with a request to remove the emulator. A Steam launch would enable users to directly launch the emulator via Big Picture Mode and on the Steam Deck, which is what prompted Dolphin's developers to pursue the matter in the first place. RELATED: Dolphin Emulator Now Supports Entire GameCube LibraryĪ confrontation between Dolphin, Steam, and Nintendo was forced when the developers of Dolphin announced plans to release the emulator on Steam. Nintendo, on the other hand, would rather emulators not exist, but doesn't want to press the issue legally because it's potentially a losing argument – not to mention the negative response it would trigger in gaming communities. However, Dolphin and other emulators do not have the funding to withstand legal pressure from major companies like Nintendo. On paper, emulation software seems to be entirely legal even if it's often used for illegal game piracy. The heart of the issue is that emulation software like Dolphin exists in legally-untested waters. In a new statement, Dolphin's developers reject Steam's justification for the emulator's removal but ultimately acknowledge Valve's decision is final regardless of legality. Dolphin's "Coming Soon" Steam profile was removed in May and the developers of the emulator have taken the time since to confer with lawyers regarding the situation. No one can stop you from making backups of your computer software, but it can be questionable to use someone else's registration key besides your own, unless the license key was transferred specifically to you.Dolphin no longer plans to launch on Steam following the platform's decision to remove the GameCube and Wii emulator at Nintendo's request. Flash carts for cartridge media negate this by having the games themselves stored on an SD cart separate from the cart.) Even though it's also readily available on the Internet doesn't make it right to download it, because that's someone else's copy of the software. As in not CD to CD, more like CD to an SD card or hard drive. (Although the weird thing for video games is that the backup must not be copied to the original media. It is perfectly fine to rip them yourself in the US, because they are your rips of your own copy of the game, and CD or DVD backups are protected by the same logic. Technically ripping and playing them on an emulator may be illegal too. There is no exception - at least for US and UK law - that says downloading ROM's is legal if you already have a copy of the game. (I think some guys in the modding scene found only one brand of discs that the GC could read reliably without reading errors.) It's such a huge hassle that it's not even worth it, so you're better off playing backups on the PC through Dolphin, if you can find the right DVD drive to rip them for you. Yeah, the Gamecube uses a non-standard format that most drives can't read, and if you're interested in chipping an original Gamecube, also makes running backup copies extremely difficult, because not too many mini-DVDs use that partition format. ![]()
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