[kyledrake]

The article implies that the emulator project lead may have received some sort of monetary compensation from Nintendo as part of the agreement. It would be interesting to verify that, because it feels like something quite new if they tried that tactic and it worked.

The article also implies that emulator projects are legal, but given that modern systems likely use encryption as part of their privacy prevention process, I'm not so sure about that anymore (see the DeCSS fiasco).

[pasquinelli]

"privacy prevention process"

that's one of those typos that's also correct.

[butterfly42069]

I think the source for this is their discord (via reddit [1])

It doesn't mention money, but certainly an agreement from someone that seemed to personally know the project lead.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Ryujinx/comments/1ftvi13/posted_via...

[ballenf]

If so, that would open the door to various offensive legal tactics, primarily a similar legal claim as used against Google in maintaining a monopoly. It would require establishing that the relevant market is Switch game hardware, but we've seen evidence that the courts will accept such market definitions, e.g. Apple/iPhone.