The conventional wisdom is that emulators themselves are legal and it's distributing the console software (games, BIOS, copy protection keys, etc.) that crosses a line. How did we get there?

Koji Nishiura, a patent attorney and deputy general manager of Nintendo's IP department, acknowledged that emulators are, in principle, legal under Japanese law. (via: AndroidAuthority ...

The top IP lawyer at Nintendo agreed that emulators are technically legal at a panel for intellectual property rights. They run afoul of the law when they bypass encryption, recreate copyrighted ...

While Nintendo's top IP lawyer agrees emulation is technically legal, there are ways for emulators to cross over into illegal territories, such as the circumvention of the Switch's "technical ...

If an emulator directly gives away Nintendo's own software, it could cross legal grounds. Additionally, having an emulator provide resources for detached forms of piracy can be deemed illegal.

Despite decades of lawsuits by Nintendo and others, emulators themselves are legal under even the US’ egregious DMCA, and dumping firmware and game ROMs from systems and media which you ...

The legal grey area finally gets some light shone onto it. A Nintendo attorney has shared a detailed explanation of why and how the company takes legal action against emulators. Before we get into ...

The Apple App Store has many safe apps that have undergone ... We’re no legal advisors, so do your legal research before using emulators and ROMs. Emulators are in a bit of a gray area in ...

In the past year alone, Nintendo has reportedly cracked down on YouTube emulator channels that featured the company's games and played detective to locate and identify an alleged Switch pirate.