Dolphin Nintendo emulator no longer releasing on Steam, as team abandons effort
GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is no longer coming to Steam, as the team behind it is «abandoning» its efforts.
The emulator was first announced to be coming to Steam earlier this year, with the team behind it calling this a «product of many months of work».
However, a few months down the line, the team has dropped plans to launch Dolphin on Valve's platform. In a blog update detailing this decision, the Dolphin team addressed the recently-reported DMCA takedown, stating Nintendo «did not send Valve or Dolphin a Digital Millennium Copyright Act», nor has it «taken any legal action against Dolphin Emulator or Valve».
Rather, a lawyer representing Nintendo contacted Valve and requested it «prevent Dolphin from releasing on the Steam store, citing the DMCA as justification».
The team behind the Dolphin emulator was subsequently told by the platform holder it had to come to an agreement with Nintendo before it could release the emulator on Steam.
«Considering the strong legal wording at the start of the document and the citation of DMCA law, we took the letter very seriously,» the Dolphin team wrote, before announcing it would no longer release its emulator on Steam.
«Valve ultimately runs the store and can set any condition they wish for software to appear on it. But given Nintendo's long-held stance on emulation, we find Valve's requirement for us to get approval from Nintendo for a Steam release to be impossible,» it wrote.
«Unfortunately, that's that.»
The team went on to state it does «not believe that Dolphin is in any legal danger» following this decision, and that «Valve did not make any claims [Dolphin was] violating a US copyright by including the Wii Common Key» in its emulation.
«In the end, Valve is the one
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