I've seen so many people ask this question while looking at discussions about the Nintendo lawsuit. People are so used to everything being online, calling home constantly or streamed entirely that they don't even understand how files and programs on their own hard drives work 
No it won't work because the police will RIGHTFULLY be at your doorstep to arrest you
i've hung around emulator forums since i was a pre-teen; these kinds of questions were always very common! Emulators in general are very complex programs, with lots of configurable bits. Tech neophytes are always gonna have questions about them.
The real purpose of the TPM is to gradually make this nightmare a reality
emulators are some of the least likely programs to fuck with always-online, specifically because the devs know they're playing with legal fire lol
people don't know how files and folders work
sometimes i feel like GUI were a mistake.
