{"id":133966,"date":"2023-05-27T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-150176"},"modified":"2023-05-27T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T03:05:00","slug":"dolphin-emulator-steam-release-indefinitely-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/27\/dolphin-emulator-steam-release-indefinitely-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin Emulator Steam Release &#8220;Indefinitely Postponed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/abdd84fa497d9\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/abdd84fa497d9\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Steam Deck\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/abdd84fa497d9\/steam-deck.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/abdd84fa497d9\/steam-deck.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Steam Deck\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: via Twitter<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in March, the team behind the GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin announced a release on Valve&#8217;s Steam service.<\/p>\n<p>In an update on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/dolphin-emu.org\/\">Dolphin website today<\/a>, it has been revealed Nintendo has issued a DMCA against Dolphin&#8217;s Steam page. The release, which was scheduled for &#8220;Q2 2023&#8221;, has now been &#8220;indefinitely postponed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full statement from the development team, mentioning how it is &#8220;currently investigating&#8221; its options:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It is with much disappointment that we have to announce that the Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed. We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a DMCA against Dolphin&#8217;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 appreciate your patience in the meantime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Dolphin&#8217;s Steam description, it was noted how the &#8220;app does not come with games&#8221; and would require players to &#8220;own an original copy of any game&#8221;. The emulator&#8217;s release on Steam also promised support for 4K displays, modern controllers, netplay, was fully open-source, and was a &#8220;free&#8221; download.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/gamecube\/related-articles:147164 @ 2023-05-27T08:12:20+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Other emulators already exist on Steam, like RetroArch &#8211; so there might still be a chance for Dolphin to be released on Valve&#8217;s service in some way or form in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><em>If there are any developments, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: via Twitter Back in March, the team behind the GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin announced a release on Valve&#8217;s Steam service. In an update on the Dolphin website today, it has been revealed Nintendo has issued a DMCA against Dolphin&#8217;s Steam page. The release, which was scheduled for &#8220;Q2 2023&#8221;, has now been &#8220;indefinitely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}