In a surprising turn of events, Nintendo has acknowledged that emulators themselves are technically legal. During a recent panel discussion on intellectual property rights in the gaming industry, Koji Nishiura, a top lawyer at Nintendo, admitted this fact. However, Nishiura emphasised that emulators can still run afoul of the law
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Gaming giant Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the company behind the popular open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, accusing it of facilitating game piracy. Yuzu emulator sued by Nintendo The lawsuit was filed in Rhode Island. It claims that Yuzu’s technology enables users to play pirated Nintendo Switch games