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Jowsey
on Dec 24, 2020
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Nintendo Switch Emulator
Emulation is 100% legal as long as the BIOS for the emulated system and any game ROMs are sourced from legal systems/copies iirc
LeoNatan25
on Dec 26, 2020
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Depending on the Google/Oracle trial fallout, it could become illegal to implement system APIs because of API copyright. So while CPU instruction set emulation is fine, depending on how system emulators work, they could be deemed “illegal”.
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