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===Sony===
====Direct legal action====
;1999 - Bleem! (PS1) vs. Sony
:'''Action:''' Lawsuit (lost, but crippling Bleem financially). Threats to retailers selling Bleem. Second lawsuit.
While ambivalent towards emulators ever since they went third-party (except for the RPCS3 case, technically, as Atlus was under Sega at the time) that wasn't always the case.
====Direct legal action====
;1993 - Sega vs. Accolade
:'''Action:''' Lawsuit against a third-party cartridge developer and game developer.
:'''Outcome:''' Sega lost. Decompilation of Sega's software, and the required trademark infringement to ensure interoperability, was considered "fair use", establishing a precedent for reverse-engineering in general, and emulation as a whole by proxy. Sega ultimately settled with Accolade and granted them publishing privileges.
====Collaboration====
While Nintendo and Sony sued the most successful PS1 emulators in the 5th Gen, Sega had a more novel idea to shut down Saturn emulation. GiriGiri is a proprietary Sega Saturn emulator and one of the first to run commercial games at a decent speed. The developer, MegaDeath, was hired by Sega and GiriGiri was made an official emulator under the CyberDisc service. The service only lasted a little over a year before it was shut down in early 2004.
