Would an emulator be legal?

For example, a Nintendo ds emulator (or Xbox / playstation) would be legal if you get the operating system from your own ds and also create the roms from your own games. Or the big studios have commented on it (Sony, Nintendo, Xbox)

You mean something like that

https://desmume.de.softonic.com/

Is offered for download at Heise, and they don't offer anything illegal.

Jain - in principle, as long as you don't bypass copy protection.

But let's be honest: If you do dad in private without telling it, nobody will notice anyway and you will not get any consequences.

You usually only need the operating system for very old consoles, for example the PS1. And the developers of the emulators have usually already developed their own that works pretty well!

Yes.

Emulators are officially experimental programs to test the feasibility of an emulation on another system.

For this, the experimenter has to create bios and game images with his own suitable hardware.

A somewhat semi-silly trick, under which the console manufacturers have to let the Emu scene grind their teeth. The whole thing is a gray area. No emulator programmer will ever refer to his program as a program that can replace a console.

The reference to this fact can be found in every disclaimer for the emulator.

The only emulator in which there was a legal dispute was

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...wiki/Bleem! The judgment is used as a legal precedent.

The thing with the biosfiles is now partly obsolete if it is not about hardware emulation. The experiments also include https://alexaltea.github.io/blog/posts/2018-04-18-lle-vs-hle/ (High Level Emulation)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...E#Nintendo 's_response_and_UltraHLE's_discontinuation

Basically a dance on the volcano…

In the emu scene, we program emulators. However, we do not tell you where you can get the games for it.

Has worked for 20 years…

If a user purchases the necessary stuff illegally, that's his problem.

What can the programmer of the emus do for that… 😏🤭🤫

You can also legally buy a hemp pipe or papers etc, but not the weed… 😇