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by kaba0 1004 days ago
Getting the game ROMs is definitely illegal. But they can’t have any say in the actual emulation and emulation software.
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SahAssar 1004 days ago
Getting ROMs is legal in a lot of circumstances, either by backuping the game yourself or if you own the game but download a ROM (like https://law.stackexchange.com/a/41876)
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0x457 1004 days ago
Good luck having apple to approve a game where to do anything you have to google things, the game cannot tell you how to google and any public popular resources telling how to do it getting struck with DMCA.
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kaba0 1004 days ago
They can approve the emulators though, which they don’t currently.
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0x457 1003 days ago
Could it be because emulators need JIT and JIT is a window to jailbreak?
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kaba0 1003 days ago
JIT doesn’t necessarily mean a window to jailbreak - you can still have efficient sandboxes.
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0x457 1001 days ago
It doesn't but IIRC most jailbreak methods on current devices (iPhone, PlayStation, Switch etc) were due to JIT. On PlayStation, it required escaping freebsd jail as well?
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