Because they still think they aren’t and want to pretend they aren’t, they believe the law is on their side and they don’t have it in them to lie to a court and/or falsify evidence that they did do it “clean room” and betray the law which they believe is on their side. Even though it actually isn’t and probably never unless people get fed up enough to do what’s necessary.
Well, one of the most respected Nintendo console emulators around, Dolphin, was developed in a clean room environment despite documentation being available due to leaks for this precise reason. To this day they’ve been undisturbed by Nintendo so that seems to be working alright.
It helps that they arent emulating a current generation. It thus makes it harder for nintendo to screech ‘piracy’ when the media is largely out of print.
Why don’t emulator coders use the illegal docs since they are going to be treated like criminals anyway?
Because they still think they aren’t and want to pretend they aren’t, they believe the law is on their side and they don’t have it in them to lie to a court and/or falsify evidence that they did do it “clean room” and betray the law which they believe is on their side. Even though it actually isn’t and probably never unless people get fed up enough to do what’s necessary.
Well, one of the most respected Nintendo console emulators around, Dolphin, was developed in a clean room environment despite documentation being available due to leaks for this precise reason. To this day they’ve been undisturbed by Nintendo so that seems to be working alright.
It helps that they arent emulating a current generation. It thus makes it harder for nintendo to screech ‘piracy’ when the media is largely out of print.