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So...any updates on the situation?

We are looking at the legal status of game emulators in several countries. Actually not a simple task. Once we get conclusions we will share them with the Maemo community council and the affected developers. Then they will decide what to do with this advice.

Hopefully there will be a way to proceed making all parties happy.

Here's my solution, invite the Nintendo corporate heads to a meeting in Amsterdam, smoke a few nice, fat joints, get em laid in the red-light district...then blackmail them. LOL

I find this whole thing pretty stupid...for a device to have open software, it's not ok to censor legit applications.

Even the Android Market has emulators in its shop AND they are charging people to purchase them.

http://www.android.com/market/paid.html (third page, "Kidd GBC" and "Nesoid")

If you'll read quim's post just before yours, you'll see that they are investigating whether your claim that emulators are legitimate is actually true in all the countries they cover. Android's potential for being sued means nothing to Nokia--nor maemo. As has been expressed on this issue before, it's better to be too cautious than not cautious enough, better to have the rare experiment that is maemo continue than risk it being killed off because some people wanted to play a few bootlegged games. Maemo is infinitely bigger than an emulator platform, and the priorities ought to reflect that.

What a lot of people (including you) are missing is this perspective: the very nature of Maemo means that emulators don't have to be hosted here because it is open. Nothing has really changed for people who want an emulator and are willing to put in a little mental exertion to DIY--the packages are all available still, just not in the official repositories. That's inherently enabled by the nature of Maemo, and is why it's not as big a deal as many people are making it out to be. An open platform means that you can go to wherever you want for your apps. However, with this freedom comes responsibility to do and think for yourself, and i think this aspect is confusing to people coming from more closed and controlled platforms (ie any other phone OS). Open software gives you as much rope as you want. Don't hang yourself.

Has anyone figured out how to fix the missing dependancies to install drnoksnes and ines from the deb?

I have every faith that there's going to be a good solution to this situation, we just don't know what it is yet. Clearly geting them back into the maemo.org repos would be most people here's favoured option, but if that doesn't happen there will be a decent plan B.

Just add extras-devel, install drnoknes and ines, then disable it

Somebody has news about the whole Nokia-Nintendo problem and how it will affect Maemo.org ?

From qgil's post above, it seems like they are still checking on the legality of emulators.

Crap. Looks like its not in devel reposit anymore oh well... good thing i still have my n95 ^^