• merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Nintendo’s legal argument is that the encryption that is reverse-engineered to circumvent copy-protection is protected intellectual property.

    Anyone can copy the contents of a switch ROM (more of a glorified SD card anyway) but the million-dollar question is whether their proprietary encryption can be broken legally.

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      1 month ago

      Isn’t the encryption algorithm open? That’s what matters. It’s AES, no?

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          1 month ago

          You don’t necesairally need to to dump a switch to emulate something with Yuzu. Look at all of the GBA games made today. Wii homebrew, etc.