Nintendo Switch Emulator Shuts Down Development "Due To Potential Legal Risks"
The team behind Skyline, one of the most popular ways to emulate Nintendo Switch games on Android devices, has ceased development on the project. The emulator's creators have revealed it has been hit with a DMCA takedown by Nintendo related to its work and won't be moving forward with the project through fear of breaking copyright laws and thus risking the admittedly scary wrath of Nintendo.
“We find ourselves in a position where we are potentially violating their copyright by continuing to develop our project, Skyline, by dumping keys from our own Switches,” the Skyline team revealed on Discord (thanks, Nintendo Life). “All development on Skyline has been ceased due to the potential legal risks involved, this website will remain up for the time being but may be taken down in the future.”
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Since emulators are technically legal, something that must bother Nintendo to no end, the confusion and grey area here comes from the dumping of Switch game keys on Lockpick Github. It's actually Lockpick that has been hit with a DMCA by Nintendo, not Skyline, even though the team behind the emulator believed what they were doing throughout the process was technically legal.
Skyline will remain available even though development on the project has come to an end. That unfortunately means if work on Skyline doesn't resume, it will eventually become defunct as future Android updates render it outdated. As for why now, it's impossible to ignore the big game launching later this week, Tears of the Kingdom, which Nintendo will want people to buy rather than emulate, especially since it will be the studio's first $70 title.
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