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Both Retroarch and RPCS3 are on Patreon. RPCS3 had to deal with Atlus at one point, but nothing came of it past them not using screenshots of Persona 5 in their description.
Damn, that's crazy. I'm surprised the others weren't pressured to close and more surprised only one company got upset. I figured every company for any reason would go after these guys.
Yeah, my last playthrough of XBC was on Dolphin with the HD patch and I waaaaay preferred the look of that.
They have no legal grounds to fight because the emulator devs are literally reverse engineering. They don't use anything from the original hardware and software, they're developing a virtually new system from scratch. As long as they don't promote piracy and there's a legit way to dump your game to play the emulator, they'll always be in the clear.
After the BLEEM ruling decades ago, Emulators are, for the most part, a losing battle for companies to fight.
Oh yeah, well aware, but figured they would try something anyway since it looks really bad for their team of high-priced lawyers to stand around and do nothing while a group of people on the internet profit from reverse engineering their hardware.
HOLY SHIT I totally forgot about that, especially since I still have my disk.
As long as emulation is not as convenient as getting the actual system companies have very little reason to go after them.
I'm still waiting for Armored Core 4 / For Answer to run that well on a ps3 ( 2006.... ) emulator/rpcs3... By most standard, a game running this well day 1 on the emulator of a three years old console is nothing short of amazing imho.
Many big emulator crews are on Patreon. Cemu led the way with incredible increase of patron support when they started working on getting BOTW up and running. The game is running incredibly well today on PC.
Some games are already running and/or looking better than on Switch.
A hacked switch to be able to dump the rom, otherwise its still piracy if you just download it from internet
I haven't actually tried most of those games, but from what I understand there are mods that disables dynamic resolution scaling (most Switch games have this), which makes them run at a consistent maximum resolution. Also, shaders caching only happens at the start of the game and it won't bother you 99% of the time. There are also ready to use shaders so you don't have to cache anymore.
