Nintendo also only went after the Steam page, not the project as a whole as it can still be found on GitHub and official site. Why now though? Dolphin has been around since 2003 for GameCube, adding basic Wii support in 2007, so Dolphin was there during the time the Wii was still being fully supported. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

We are currently investigating our options and will have a more in-depth response in the near future. We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a cease and desist citing the DMCA against Dolphin's Steam page, and have removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. It is with much disappointment that we have to announce that the Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed. The Dolphin team has now announced that their Steam page was taken down, as Nintendo sent a cease and desist notice to Valve about it. The article title was updated to better reflect the situation.īack in March the plan was announced for the Wii and GameCube emulator Dolphin to release on Steam, along with some useful Steam features but now that seems unlikely to happen. Nintendo respects the intellectual property rights of other companies, and in turn expects others to do the same.” 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.

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