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IIRC Nintendo is notorious for pressing charges against copyright infringements.
Right. But there is no copyright infringement in an NES emulator, as long as no copyrighted games are distributed.
Emulation itself is not copyright infringement.
~~The recent issue with the Switch emulator was that they were distributing encryption keys along with the emulator. That wasn't a copyright issue (encryption keys are not expression, therefore not copyrightable) but a CFAA issue.~~ See other comments.
None of that applies to the NES.
Using leaked source code or binary firmware blobs are other common reasons emulators can violate copyright. I don't know if this emulator did any of those.
I highly doubt it. The NES has been completely reverse engineered for decades, there really isn't any reason to use proprietary code for an emulator for it.