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Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub
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this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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Which is why so many emulators require you to somehow acquire the console's actual BIOS binary yourself (by manually dumping it from your own hardware, of course, and by no other means at all) and drop it into a file folder for the emulator to use.
It'd be really nice if it was like Wii, where you can have the emulated console do an online system update and bang, there's your whole OS... or failing that, the entire system is on every game disc, just in case... but nooo can't have that.
Even with this they fall back on the god forsaken Digital Millenium Copyright Act (at least in the states). Since they encrypt the system, if you have a key from your own system then it's assumed that you acquired it by violating the DMCA.