Early this weekend, Valve had to unexpectedly remove the Steam main page of Dolphin, the emulator for the Wii and Wii U and unsurprisingly, developers confirmed that Valve received a DMCA complaint by none other than Nintendo.

While the emulation and gaming preservation community got the idea behind Nintendo known behavior and attitude, the japanese veteran responded a inquiry to VCG stating:

“This emulator illegally circumvents Nintendo’s protection measures and runs illegal copies of games.

Using illegal emulators or illegal copies of games harms development and ultimately stifles innovation. Nintendo respects the intellectual property rights of other companies, and in turn expects others to do the same.”

While is true that Dolphin manages to crack the security layer of Wii and Wii U, a measure that Niontento thought it was unhackable only to Dolphin proving them wrong and pretty much a legal standing in favor of Nintendo, questions has been raise as Nintendo did two things that actually justify the existence of Dolphin.

First and most important, the Nintendo eShop portion for Wii and Wii U almost only serving for people who bought game with NO chance4 on buying new game and second, Ninterndo proving once again that they believe in gaming preservation, only if its behind their paywall and this doesn’t even make sense as Nuintendo switch does not have ALL Wii and Wii U ports of games and there are special cases like Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, a game that to this day is one of the few Wii only games.

This is the latest on Nintendo's big venture against the emulation community and has managed to have some direct victories in court and indirect victories with repository owners voluntarily not waiting for a letter from Nintendo’s lawyers and making their repositories read-only in the best scenario.