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The company did something similar back in 2009, when it teamed up with 54 developers to shut down a company making a device that played pirated DS games. Nishura also pointed out that emulators ...

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.

This is why the company is strengthening measures against illegal tools such as emulators, Nishiura says. As an example, he cites the 2009 lawsuit Nintendo filed against domestic distributors of the ...

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Nishiura added that if the emulator also disables security measures like encryption, that could also be considered illegal. He said this counts for other methods such as flash carts, citing the use of ...

2024 was a big year for Nintendo's emulator takedowns ... a tool used to download pirated DS games. This, Nishiura states, is another big reason for the repeated takedowns: Nintendo doesn't ...

Nintendo lawyer Koji Nishiura describes what may make an emulator illegal, according to Nintendo. If an emulator directly gives away Nintendo's own software, it could cross legal grounds.

Nintendo upped the game with the 3DS console, stacked against PS Vita. This console brought the 3D display to the mix. SpotPass and StreetPass on the 3DS brought internet and inter-console WiFi data ...