

Using illegal emulators or illegal copies of games harms development and ultimately stifles innovation. “This emulator illegally circumvents Nintendo’s protection measures and runs illegal copies of games. “Nintendo is committed to protecting the hard work and creativity of video game engineers and developers,” a spokesperson for Nintendo told Kotaku in an email. Kotaku also got a statement from Nintendo on this: So there's technically nothing for Dolphin to counter here. So this is not a DMCA takedown request but Nintendo said it would violate the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions, so Valve took it down. Update 29/05: According to Pierre Bourdon on Mastodon, who was Dolphin's treasurer for the foundation backing the project (Bourdon is stepping down), Valve actually initiated the conversation to check in with Nintendo on this.
