Although I agree with you for the most part, as far as I understand it, there seems to be different layers to this.
Emulators are legal if they’re built from ground up, but if they use any code from the actual system, it’s illegal. For example, I think Dolphin tried to get on Steam, but they were disallowed because they used a “leaked copy of the Wii Common Code”.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. The piracy talk recently have been kind of interesting, because a couple of the emulator communities I’m involved in require proof of dump for any help such as Yuzu’s Discord.
Although I agree with you for the most part, as far as I understand it, there seems to be different layers to this.
Emulators are legal if they’re built from ground up, but if they use any code from the actual system, it’s illegal. For example, I think Dolphin tried to get on Steam, but they were disallowed because they used a “leaked copy of the Wii Common Code”.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. The piracy talk recently have been kind of interesting, because a couple of the emulator communities I’m involved in require proof of dump for any help such as Yuzu’s Discord.