That was just the Yuzu/Citra team. Main reason they got in trouble (from what I understand) is that they were making money off of it, specifically people had to subscribe to their patreon to get Tears of the Kingdom optimized builds, when the only copy of TotK available was an illegal pre-release one.
There were some more things like messages they sent that were incriminating, but that was the biggest thing afaik.
I think that was more collateral damage than anything, as Nintendo hasn’t went after clones of Citra the 3DS emulator like they have with clones of the switch emulator.
For anybody confused – or I guess for anybody who wants Dolphin as a Flatpak immediately – Dolphin is already available on Flathub, it just currently isn’t verified. It’s packaged by a third party.
Honestly it’s great to see more first party support for Flatpaks/Flathub.
It’s weird that Valve hasn’t with Steam tbh - they already use Flatpaks/Flathub on the deck, and they’ve asked people not to use Ubuntu’s Snaps (competing app packaging standard to Flatpak) version of Steam, or system packages for other distros - saying that you should only use SteamOS, the latest Ubuntu with a .deb package, or the Flatpak (which is unofficial!!). Just make it official, Valve! Telling people to use it when it’s unofficial seems weird.
Anyway, compliments to the Dolphin team, it’s probably the most impressive emulator I’ve ever used.
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I thought Nintendo shut that down? Or was that just Switch emulation?
That was just the Yuzu/Citra team. Main reason they got in trouble (from what I understand) is that they were making money off of it, specifically people had to subscribe to their patreon to get Tears of the Kingdom optimized builds, when the only copy of TotK available was an illegal pre-release one.
There were some more things like messages they sent that were incriminating, but that was the biggest thing afaik.
They sued one specific switch emulator.
And the 3DS emulator that the same team also created!
I think that was more collateral damage than anything, as Nintendo hasn’t went after clones of Citra the 3DS emulator like they have with clones of the switch emulator.
For anybody confused – or I guess for anybody who wants Dolphin as a Flatpak immediately – Dolphin is already available on Flathub, it just currently isn’t verified. It’s packaged by a third party.
Honestly it’s great to see more first party support for Flatpaks/Flathub.
It’s weird that Valve hasn’t with Steam tbh - they already use Flatpaks/Flathub on the deck, and they’ve asked people not to use Ubuntu’s Snaps (competing app packaging standard to Flatpak) version of Steam, or system packages for other distros - saying that you should only use SteamOS, the latest Ubuntu with a .deb package, or the Flatpak (which is unofficial!!). Just make it official, Valve! Telling people to use it when it’s unofficial seems weird.
Anyway, compliments to the Dolphin team, it’s probably the most impressive emulator I’ve ever used.
Huh, that’s super weird. I never realized the Steam flatpak wasn’t official.
I just bought a deck yesterday. Now you’re telling me I can play my Gamecube games on it? Brain melts
You could before as well. Check out EmuDeck.
And Switch. And anything Retroarch supports.
The Steam Deck is amazing.