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Ryujinx Pulls Their Source Code From GitHub And Shuts Down (overkill.wtf)

submitted 2 months ago by Pirky@lemmy.world to c/emulation@lemmy.ml

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo's legal argument is that the encryption that is reverse-engineered to circumvent copy-protection is protected intellectual property.

Anyone can copy the contents of a switch ROM (more of a glorified SD card anyway) but the million-dollar question is whether their proprietary encryption can be broken legally.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the encryption algorithm open? That's what matters. It's AES, no?

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... and if so, a key/password is not legally protected. Have Lexmark's bullshit to thank for that precedent.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

You don't necesairally need to to dump a switch to emulate something with Yuzu. Look at all of the GBA games made today. Wii homebrew, etc.