Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu

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G2ThaUNiT said:

Emulation is 100% legal until you start to profit off of it. The fact that Yuzu was stupid enough to brag about their Patreon donations doubling AND provided instructions on how to acquire stolen keys was a shotgun blast to the foot and for that, they deserve what's coming to them. 

You've got emulators like Project64 that have been around since 2001, 23 years, that never came within Nintendo's sights. And that's because they only provide the emulator and nothing else. They even make the source code downloadable on their site to show that they're not stealing anything from Nintendo.

The site I get my ROM's from has been around since 1997, and the entire time, free of charge.

Profiting from emulation is Legal.

Again, Nintendo uses Emulators for the NES/SNES Classic, Virtual Console and some Switch Ports, they made a profit from that.

The issue Yuzu had was that it's other activities were illegal.