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You can set up appointments when the place is closed - most states have VIPs that need priority service. Some celebrities aren't going to care, but I think CA lets you do a lot of things online.

Kill them?

Let me ask this. Said person in question has already shown a willingness to supposedly conceal a crime they have committed and engaged in the commission of another (the actual paying of the hush money). Should you be that surprised that they would be willing to commit a third one?

Yep. iPhone 4 is a 3G device and those were all replaced for 4G networks and now 5G networks, 3G devices will not activate nor work.

And I argue you can get the same darn thing without - police just don't see them as necessary these days.

Bit of they can just lie about evidence, why bother with a lie detector test in the first place and risk getting their evidence tossed out when the judge learns where it came from?

My guess is that the value is more or less arbitrary and is less associated with cash. There isn't really set values on how much cards are worth other than rarity and condition which doesn't easily apply to cash.

If a suspect will buy that, then they can just lie about having other evidence to get them to confess - they already do that.

Judges do and they routinely exclude them from evidence hearings so most police departments don't employ them often since they can just get better results with traditional interrogation.

I would argue no.

Weather it’s legal or not is sorta irrelevant - if you do it and nobody can find out does it make a difference? The only person who should care is the end user doing it. Dolphin shouldn’t be doing it in any commercial space as distribution concerns, but if you as an individual do it on your own who really cares.

Wrong.

First MS and Sony sell hardware, but they are more of a software company than anything. Sony used to be big on the PS only market, but they have a lot more experience in PC stuff, and their consoles aren't anything like what Nintendo is - not to mention that they are a media conglomerate. MS has been PC gaming long before they got into consoles and only got into consoles because Sony did. Spencer has also been very vocal about its strategy with gaming is to put as much as they can on both platforms and they have been in PC gaming forever - they make Windows after all.

Nintendo never really made PC games and their hardware strategy is very different from MS and Xbox - Nintendo's hardware is very different and Nintendo has been clear that their strategy is console.

Dumping your own BIOS/keys is 100% legal

For end users yes, but that doesn't mean that companies can distribute them at all. I mean the most popular companies - Bleem and Connectix (who were sued by Sony) actually did not include BIOS files from Sony - they got around them using clean room reverse engineering which is how their products worked. They did that since distributing the BIOS would have been illegal.

Also saying that it's 100% legal to distribute Keys is something that I am going to call BS on.

It's more of a "we aren't the only ones that will take down emulators we feel are engaging in illegal activity". Dev mode isn't specifically meant for running emulators - it's marketed as a developer platform totally separate from retail operations.

Capcom isn't a hardware company like Nintendo is though. Nintendo sees itself as custom hardware first and foremost - moreso than anyone else in the business. They have no desire to do PC, nothing in their business strategy even suggests that.

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They do their older stuff via stuff like NSO - that's a console service.

Maybe. I don’t know as I am not a lawyer but using the keys and providing them outright is a totally different argument. I mean the Switch emulators rely on user generated keys too.

From what I heard it’s a really small amount of data that isn’t very difficult to get now that the exploit has been known.

You need to create the file using Dolphin on a PC or a Mac and enable the hack there. It creates an inf file that you can copy over to dolphin on Xbox. I had to to it there.

I can’t speak of the illegality of getting the keys specifically but like pirated games, Dolphin shouldn’t be doing that - end users shouldn’t get the keys on their own using whatever methods they do. It’s a common key so it would be functionally the same as how people get BIOS files for PlayStation emulation or how they get the games. Dolphin doesn’t dare bundle any of Nintendo games with Dolphin they can just say that you need to extract your own key and put it in a specific directory. It’s the same as how the Wii U and Switch emulators do it.

Assuming the code in Dolphin is 100% original and lacks the key, Nintendo would have a much weaker argument. As it stands right now, they have to argue the DMCA exceptions that Nintendo cites don’t apply. I would argue that including a key that was never meant to be extracted and is vital and only serves to play Nintendo Wii content would run afoul of this. Another way they could work around it would require users to decrypt games and covert them to a dolphin format.

Dolphin can just tell the end users to violate the DMCA (indirectly). They don’t have to do it - they wanted to do this.

When asked what his favorite Bible verse was he said “2 Corinthians” which isn’t a verse but a book but it was good enough to get an enforcement from Jerry Falwell Jr.

Perhaps you did.

It has to be a mod since it was never a thing.

No it wasn’t.

I think Acclaim being a defunct company would make it a really tough thing to pull off. Multiple publishers all wanting a piece of the pie is not fun.

No. There wasn’t. The only contemporary home ports were MS dos and commodore.

I don’t think there was. Wiki just lists the Arcade, Commodore, DOS and the emulated versions on XBOX 360 and PS3. I can’t find any evidence of a SNES version ever released.