Nintendo Postpones Dolphin Emulator Indefinitely

Dolphin Emulator was developed by the Dolphin team as an open source tool that allows PC gamers to play Wii and GameCube games in high resolution and with enhanced graphics. However, the process Nintendo’s DMCA with a move undermined.

The Dolphin Emulator team released the emulator earlier this year. Publish on Steam announced their plans. For this purpose, they created a page on Steam and said that they would start offering this emulator to users after months of work on their blog.

Nintendo’s DMCA move

Nintendo to block Dolphin from being released on Steam A DMCA strike to Valve sent. In the DMCA notice, Dolphin’s “infringes Nintendo’s intellectual property rights” And “an illegal emulator” alleged to be.

(The DMCA, translated as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, is a US copyright law of 1998. It was created to block technology, devices, or services that ignore measures to control access to copyrighted works.)

Valve also removed Dolphin from Steam upon this notification. The Dolphin Emulator team, on the other hand, stated on their website that the Steam version of the emulator is available. has been postponed indefinitelyThe team said they would provide a more detailed response on the matter and are exploring their options:

“It is with great disappointment that we have to announce that the Steam release of Dolphin has been delayed indefinitely. We have been informed by Valve that Nintendo has issued a DMCA strike against Dolphin’s Steam page and is removing Dolphin from Steam until the matter is resolved. We are currently exploring our options and will provide a more detailed response in the near future.

Thank you for your patience during this time.”

So why did Nintendo take a DMCA strike from Valve and what will happen after this process?

The notice letter to Valve refers to the DMCA’s anti-infringement clauses. Specifically, the Dolphin emulator without Nintendo’s permission including cryptographic keys and ROMs at or just before runtime allegedly working by deciphering. So it’s kind of games. it was taken from Nintendo without permissionThat’s the reason for the warning.

When a notice is issued with DMCA justification, the party receiving the notice ((Steam), have to wait 10-14 days. Copyright owner (Nintendo) sues the alleged infringer within this period, the material (in this case the material is Dolphin Emulator) remains closed. However, if the lawsuit is not filed, Nintendo does not engage in the allegedly infringing activity (emulator) must re-enable or allow access.

So Dolphin will not be on Steam for now, but the project GitHub page and official website not affected. Also, there are no direct warnings to the developers. We just have to wait and see, as there are no lawsuits filed at the moment.