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. Thus, Valve has a serious financial interest in making Proton the best it can be.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. The Steam Deck ships with SteamOS, Valve’s own Linux distribution. Unlike the game studio that produced your favorite game, Valve is highly motivated to make sure more games can be played on Linux. That extra layer might seem unnecessary when you already have a native port, but you’re likely to have a better experience with Proton. It’s Valve’s own compatibility layer meant to enable you to play Windows games without needing to use Windows. When you try to launch a Windows-only game in Steam on a Linux PC, Proton is what Steam runs in the background to make sure it works. The simple fact is that the Linux crowd is much smaller than that of Windows and Mac, so the incentive to please Linux users with a complete and polished port is far less.
There’s a good chance the game studio dedicated far less time and money on the Linux version as compared to the Windows or Mac edition. When you choose the native port, whether with or without Steam Linux Runtime, you have to be aware of studio limitations.
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