Dolphin abandons efforts to bring emulator to Steam
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Developer Dolphin has announced that it’s given up on trying to bring its titular emulator to Steam. On its blog, the company gave an update to months long controversy that saw its emulation software delisted from Valve’s storefront after a DMCA takedown.
Dolphin was quick to clarify that Nintendo didn’t file the original takedown, as initially believed. It revealed that Valve’s legal team contacted Nintendo, after which a lawyer from Nintendo of America asked Valve to delist the product.
The only way to avoid delisting, according to the blog, was to come to an agreement with the Japanese developer. But Dolphin acknowledged Nintendo’s often litigious view on emulation and considered “Valve’s requirement for us to get approval from Nintendo for a Steam release to be impossible.”
“Considering the strong legal wording at the start of the document and the citation of DMCA law, we took the letter very seriously,” wrote Dolphin. It added that its original statement post-takedown was “fairly frantic” and “as we understood it at the time, which turned out to only fuel the fires of speculation.”
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