What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?
What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?
Well that blew up, huh? If you follow emulation or just gaming on the whole, you've probably heard about the controversy around the Dolphin Steam release and the Wii Common Key. There's been a lot of conclusions made, and while we've wanted to defend ourselves, we thought it would be prudent to cont...
I think they got in trouble with Nintendo™.
It is still possible to add it to your library as non-steam game.
Dolphin also works on the Steam™ Deck, which is great!
4Yeah they had included the wii crypto key in the codebase iirc https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dolphin-on-steam/
I like EmuDeck for emulation on the steam deck
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From what I heard, Valve actually reached out to Nintendo to see if they would be ok with hosting it. Nintendo obviously said no so Valve stopped going ahead with the launch. Here is an article straight from dolphin themselves explaining what happened.
0Did you mean to link the same post as OP did?
7Lol that's what I get for just reading the headline
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