Nintendo has served Valve ♔with a DMCA notice in order to block a Wii emulator releasing on St💖eam.

The team behind the emulator Dolphin released a statement yesterday, confirming that Nintendo had issued a cease and desist demand, promp🐎ting Valve to unlist the software from its store. 

, the legal notice – which directly addressed Valve's legal department – stated that "because the Dolphin emulator violates Nintendo's intellectual property rights", Valve had an "obligation to remove the offering of the Dolphin emulator from the Steam store".

"The Dolphin emulator operates by incorporating these cryptographic keys without Nintendo’s authorization and decrypting the ROMs at or immediately before runtime,🔥" the demand continues. "Thus, use 💎of the Dolphin emulator unlawfully 'circumvent[s] a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under' the Copyright Act."

Valve has seemingly obliged, and if you now click the link for Dolphin's Steam page, you'll be ✅unceremoniously redirected to the store's landing page.

Interestingly, it appears that the emulator⛎ develꦕopers themselves have not been contacted by Nintendo. Instead, they were notified "by Valve" of the takedown notice".

"I﷽t is with much disappointment that we have to announce that the Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed," the emulator team said via a . 

"We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has iss✨ued a cease and desi🐬st citing the DMCA against Dolphin's Steam page, and have removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. We are currently investigating our options and will have a more in-depth response in the near future.

"We apprec🐻iate your patience in the meantime." 

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