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Connectix Virtual Game Station
Connectix Virtual Game Station (VGS) was a 1999 commercial Sony PlayStation emulator for Power Mac G3 and Windows PCs by Connectix; the Ninth Circuit's Sony v. Connectix fair use ruling on BIOS reverse engineering became the key precedent for emulator legality.
Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corp.
Sony v. Connectix (9th Cir. 2000, 203 F.3d 596): Ninth Circuit held intermediate copying of the Sony PlayStation BIOS during reverse engineering to build the Virtual Game Station emulator was fair use; injunction dissolved.