• Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Probably not, they don’t provide copyrighted files and Nintendo reeeeeaaaally doesn’t want to create precedent that decomp is fair use (which it probably is) which could make emulators 100% legal.

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        1 year ago

        Decomps are legal because they’re clean room reimplementations of the original code rather than exact copies.

        It’s the same approach IBM PC compatible manufacturers used back in the day to create their own BIOSes.