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How is this legal? Very glad it exists
In a world where Meta got caught torrenting entire book archives, anything goes these days.
But strictly speaking, it's not because it's based on decompilation and not a clean room reimplementation of the engine. That's like using a translation service to translate a copyrighted book into another language and then manually iron out the kinks. But in a world of mass piracy for LLM training, nobody gives a shit about such little projects any longer.
Ah fair enough lol. Reading comprehension issue of the day for me.
It's basically how any emulation is legal. The software isn't breaking any laws. It just interprets the data.
Agreed, just like any other emulation. The term "legal" threw me, because most people don't have personal ROMs of PS2 games hanging around.
Tbf, of all consoles, PlayStation games are the easiest to actually dump legally owned copies of, all you need is a bluray reader and you can do all of them.
Nintendo isn't involved