In March of this year, the Dolphin simulator development team announced that they plan to land on the Steam platform in the second quarter of this year. However, the team announced in May of this year that the original plan to land on the Steam platform would be “on hold indefinitely”; recently, officials confirmed that they have completely abandoned this plan.
The Dolphin emulator development team stated in a recent blog post that Nintendo officials have not sent a DMCA notice to the team or Valve to prevent the software from being available on the Steam platform. The blog post mentioned that Valve’s legal team took the initiative to contact Nintendo to ask if the emulator was eligible for the Steam platform. Next, Nintendo made a request to Valve, hoping that they would not release the emulator on the Steam platform.
The Dolphin emulator development team was notified by Valve that they were required to obtain permission from Nintendo before releasing the game.
Dolphin is a popular emulator that supports running Nintendo Wii and GameCube games on platforms such as PC, Mac, and Android.
The picture above is the official description of the Dolphin emulator on the Steam platform “Dolphin is an emulator for the sixth and seventh generation game consoles of big N, providing enhanced features such as higher resolution, save progress, and online games.”
