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Microsoft isn’t happy about it, though.

Steam alsoblockedthe much-anticipated Dolphin Emulator listing for Wii and GameCube titles on its platform.

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Emulators for games exist in a legal grey area.

The technology generally isn’t banned and has avoided closer legal scrutiny.

Nintendo and Microsoft are both using emulation technology in their backward-compatible games programs, for example.

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Nintendo has gone after sites that host ROMs, though, which are used by emulators to run games.

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