ah. ok. that's understandable.
and no, i wasn't talking about piracy at all. i was only talking about preservation of the memory card itself and not the Pokemon inside of it. plus i didn't know about Dolphin not having NR reader features. plus, it's all good! this answers the questions that i was wanting to know.
some people like to use real hardware or use emulation to recreate experiences. having the memory cards would make the distribution ISOs function (since it requires the Slot B memory cards).. plus preservation of the memory cards would be great for everyone (knowing that a group of hoarders won't release theirs. 5 years of nothing is telling).
stable was released a few days ago and Wine/Proton 9 does not support .NET 9. Wine 10 supports it but Proton 10 isn't a thing yet. any way to install Wine 10 on SteamOS (on a SteamDeck
edit: nvm. it works. just installed it to the wrong prefix