Dolphin emulator is officially coming to Steam

AkikoKumagara · Mar 29, 2023

lokomelo said:
I 100% doubt that they will put your ISOs on the cloud.

They can't and wouldn't. Not only for legal reasons, but also because Steam Cloud has a storage allocation that wouldn't allow for this. That's why I didn't say so.
RetroArch is a frontend using cores and its release model on Steam is handled in an entirely different way than a standalone emulator would be. That's not really an applicable precedence since Dolphin won't have "cores" as DLC.

Deleted member 546149 · Mar 29, 2023

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Nerdtendo · Mar 29, 2023

The Cease and Desist jokes are so tired. RetroArch has been on steam for years with no issues. As for the benefits to this over Dolphin standalone, cloud saves immediately jump to mind, but I'm sure it will make network play much easier than the current implementation as well as just getting it in front of more people.

Oh yeah, and steam deck too. Not that you couldn't use it before, but now you don't have to go through any rigmarole.

ZeroFX · Mar 29, 2023

based

Deleted member 546149 · Mar 29, 2023

Nerdtendo said:
The Cease and Desist jokes are so tired. RetroArch has been on steam for years with no issues. As for the benefits to this over Dolphin standalone, cloud saves immediately jump to mind, but I'm sure it will make network play much easier than the current implementation as well as just getting it in front of more people.

Oh yeah, and steam deck too. Not that you couldn't use it before, but now you don't have to go through any rigmarole.

Installing Dolphin on a mac should be easier now, tried it once, total fail

Rahkeesh · Mar 29, 2023

There's plenty of emulators on every major official console and PC store right now, many of them not even made by the company that owns the emulated system. Like Konami's Castlevania collection. The trick is most of these stores only sell emulators bundled with roms that the publisher has rights too, but that is purely a choice by the platform holder, not a legal necessity. Most don't want you to be able to easily plug in infinite free games on their device if they can help it. Google and Valve are somewhat unique in not particularly caring.

urbanman2004 · Mar 29, 2023

Kudos on the Dolphin team's part for releasing their emulator on Steam which is similar to the rollout of retroArch on Steam... Nintendo can issue all the "cease and desist" letters they want, but last time I checked, emulation is considered legal in the US court of law as long as no confidential/proprietary/copywritten source material from the original console was being used for the emulator to function.

HarveyHouston · Mar 29, 2023

Noctosphere said:
Cease & Desist when?
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More than likely not, as RetroArch, already available on Steam, also supports Dolphin cores. Plus, you can use the emulator almost completely legitimate, save that any warranties will be voided when dumping game discs (but since the GameCube and Wii are already quite old, who cares?).

Zajumino · Mar 29, 2023

lokomelo said:
About Nintendo suing, they can't. period.

To be precise, it's not that they can't, it's just that they wouldn't win.

Axido · Mar 29, 2023

What a time to be alive. Just after I set up Dolphin on my Steam Deck, they make the process even easier. I'm quite hopeful that they'll add a standard controller configuration as well.

Noctosphere · Mar 29, 2023

Noctosphere said:
Cease & Desist when?
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Lol guys, everytime someone likes my post, i read it with Lawyer Kong's voice :rofl2:

MetoMeto · Apr 1, 2023

The3DSWannabeBoozer said:
Dumb move, Nintendo gets super aggressive when things associated with their stuff hits steam.

there is nothing associating dolphin to nintendo...

Noctosphere · Apr 1, 2023

MetoMeto said:
there is nothing associating dolphin to nintendo...

errr....

AkikoKumagara · Apr 1, 2023

x54832 said:
errr....

Might be poorly worded, but it's not an incorrect conclusion.
Nintendo's IP, trademark, and copyrights aren't being infringed in any way here.

There is really nothing they can do about Dolphin existing on another platform.

Noctosphere · Apr 1, 2023

AkikoKumagara said:
Might be poorly worded, but it's not an incorrect conclusion.
Nintendo's IP, trademark, and copyrights aren't being infringed in any way here.

There is really nothing they can do about Dolphin existing on another platform.

that is true, but it do is linked to nintendo as you can do copyright infrigement with it toward big N

DKAngel · Apr 2, 2023

Noctosphere said:
that is true, but it do is linked to nintendo as you can do copyright infrigement with it toward big N

except u would then need to take down all the snes nes gb gba emulators and all the retroarch cores lol, emulators dont get DMCA'd

AkikoKumagara · May 28, 2023

AkikoKumagara said:
Might be poorly worded, but it's not an incorrect conclusion.
Nintendo's IP, trademark, and copyrights aren't being infringed in any way here.

There is really nothing they can do about Dolphin existing on another platform.

I was wrong about this. I had no idea the way the Wii bit of Dolphin function relied on its inclusion of the Wii's common key in its code. I don't think this is good or smart and is probably why this is now not happening (at least not anytime soon).
More on my opinion: https://gbatemp.net/threads/update-...se-desist-order-to-valve.633585/post-10170832

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