Are Video Game Emulators Illegal? Here’s What The Courts Have Ruled

If you’ve been keeping up with video game news, then you may have heard about how Nintendo sued the makers of Yuzu, a multiplatform Nintendo Switch emulator, before agreeing to settle for $2.4 million a week later. If you have any familiarity with the video game console emulation scene, or maybe even if you don’t but only read surface-level takes, you may be confused as to how and why this was possible. The conventional wisdom is that emulators themselves are legal

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