[knaik94]

While this is legal, Nintendo is very vocally anti-emulation. Nintendo and Denuvo announced anti-emulation measures for switch games in August 2022. There's a big difference between support and marketing support. Nintendo doesn't care what other companies do internally, but cares a lot about what is shown publicly. I remember when Nintendo took down a bunch of youtube videos showing how to jailbreak the original switch. Nintendo isn't coming to PC anytime soon though, so I can't imagine this having any major impact, but it is bad manners. Video and thumbnail edited out Yuzu.

[matheusmoreira]

> Nintendo and Denuvo announced anti-emulation measures for switch games in August 2022.

Are there details on those measures?

[knaik94]

I haven't ready any public writeups from emulator developers, no games have been released with it but Zelda BOtW2 is expected to have it. Some guesses are that it will be based on measuring specific call execution times.

The switch is already weak in terms of hardware so I am not sure how many games will end up integrating it. Regardless of what Denuvo says in marketing, it will slow down games. Nintendo has since tried to distance itself from it, but Denuvo has said they have entered NDA agreements with large publishers already. Denuvo would also need low level access and approval from Nintendo, so I am not sure why Nintendo is pretending to separate itself from this effort.

[tobyhinloopen]

Great; so regular switch games will perform even worse and the emulator community just creates a patch to remove denuvo

[torginus]

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-botw-emulator-pc-piracy-d...

According to this article, this is an initiative championed by Denuvo alone, without Nintendo's involvement.

[knaik94]

If Denuvo wants it to be effective, they need low level access from Nintendo. It's not possible for this to get approved to run on the switch without going through Nintendo. Depending on how effective this is, Nintendo would most likely be the first publisher to use it. Nintendo develops many of its most popular games in house. There was a lot of negative reactions to this so I imagine Nintendo wanted to distance itself from it publicly. It is the same company that took Game Genie, a game cheat cartridge for the NES, to court on the basis of "copyright infringement". Nintendo lost that case, but they have won recent cases taking down rom hosting sites.

[some-human]

Nintendo are anti piracy, not anti-emulation.

They used to sell emulators on their marketplace for their back catalogue under the 'virtual console' brand and more recently on Switch include emulation for NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 titles as a benefit on their online subscription model.

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/online-service/

[dotnet00]

They're anti-emulation when they aren't the ones doing it.