The Dolphin it won’t come up again Steamthere is now further certainty in this regard considering that the team responsible forNintendo Gamecube and Wii emulator has abandoned attempts to launch its own software within the Valve store.
This comes following the removal of Dolphin from Steam, which took place directly at the hands of Valve in collaboration with Nintendo. As had been explained by the company itself, it was Valve to actively move to remove the emulator from the store, fearing a reaction from the Kyoto house, always very attentive to the protection of the intellectual property of its catalogue.
Apparently, Valve’s request to put the emulator on Steam was theapproval by Nintendo, something judged simply “impossible” by the same team of developers, who after a few attempts have decided to abandon the idea of distributing the emulator through the store in question.
Dolphin – the claims of the developers
“Valve runs its own store and can establish any condition wants for the software at its core, but given Nintendo’s clear-cut stance on emulation, we find Valve’s request to obtain Nintendo’s approval for a Steam release essentially impossible,” the team reported.
Indeed, the hint was quite clear, considering that, in a letter directed to Valve, Nintendo had previously reported to request “specifically that the incoming writing on the Dolphin page be removed and to ensure that the emulator does not come out on Steam in the future”, with a rather ominous request.
However, the Dolphin team wanted to make it clear what their intention was move within the rulesclaiming that the emulator is not designed “primarily to violate the rules of the market”, however the developers realized that a lawsuit would have been untenable anyway.
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