That's not how it works at all. If lawyers are applying pressure, the legally is still tied up in the courts, and unfortunately that particular emulation project isn't legal (in reality) until the matter is fully settled.
Threatening a multi billion dollar company by making an emulator that contains zero infringing code? Give me a break. Nintendo needs to be squashed in court and brought back down to earth.
It looks like you still need to subscribe for a premium account if you self host to unlock even checklists unless I'm wrong? $40 a year to self host seems a bit steep.
Since nobody is proposing alternative solutions that actually work, people are looking to Cloudflare and Google for help with the real problem that impacts them right now.
People are looking for solutions to:
- How do we only allow real humans to access it so we stop wasting money on handling spam requests?
- How do we permanently ban a known malicious individual from accessing it?
Sorry to disapoint you but web integrity doesn't work either. On Android where you have the play integrity api, bot farms are still very well alive and kicking.
Third party rom users are affected on the other hand though and third party browser vendors will similarly be if this is pushed forward, reducing competition in the space.
The whole thing is a complete failure on Android so I don't see any argument why we should also suffer on the web.
