A Nintendo Lawyer has clearly described what the company may or may not deem illegal regarding the emulation of their ...

Top Nintendo IP lawyers appeared at the Tokyo eSports Festa and said emulators are technically legal, despite Nintendo ...

"To begin with, are emulators illegal or not," Nishiura asks. "This is a point often debated. While you can't immediately ...

Nishiura also emphasised the use of emulators is a problem for all developers making software for Nintendo devices, which is ...

Koji Nishiura, Nintendo's patent attorney, weighs in on the legality of video game emulators.

Nintendo is famously litigious when it comes to emulators. In March 2024, developers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu were ...

Nishiura added that if the emulator also disables security measures like encryption, that could also be considered illegal.

This comes in the wake of Nintendo suing Tropic Haze LLC over the Yuzu emulator, claiming that there’s ‘no lawful way to use Yuzu’, as it requires files extracted from a real Switch device ...

A lawyer for Nintendo talked about how emulators are "technically" legal but gave examples of how they can violate the law.