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Nintendo wipes out 400 more Switch emulator repositories on GitHub as it continues its fight on piracy
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
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Your understanding is correct and it's literally why Dolphin emulator is still going strong 20 years later, it doesn't do this.
"Developers" haven't do this because this is people clicking the fork button or copy-paste-upload. The actual developers have long since moved on.
Aren’t Wii Games encrypted? I’ve never decrypted a Wii game and they all boot on Dolphin. Unless the ripper is decrypting them?
Also wasn’t there a post a while back of the Wii encryption key being found in the Dolphin code?