alt Hacker NewsReminder to all that barring access to internal docs, use of internal software/firmware components and information obtained through nefarious means, emulation is 100% legal pretty much everywhere in the world.
Edit: of course there's the gray area of scrapers, game downloaders etc... but those are not emulators.
Right - the trouble is now that we're seeing emulators and recompilers that are obviously derivative works of NDA-restricted SDKs.
These SDKs are lavishly documented, full of worked examples and have top-notch toolchains. More than enough for Claude and a really big stack of tokens to turn into an emulator.
So who's to tell whether a new emulator didn't come from forbidden information? If there are any honest efforts left, this will surely drown them.