RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] to games • 2 months agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingexternal-linkmessage-square5 fedilinkarrow-up142cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comgames
arrow-up142external-linkThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingRedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] to games • 2 months agomessage-square5 Commentsfedilinkcross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comgames
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]hexbear11·2 months agoDidn’t Nintendo get in trouble before for using a publicly available emulator (and stolen code for said emulator) for one of their console eshops? link
minus-squareAernaLingus [any]hexbear10·edit-22 months agoThink you might be mixing together a few things: the ROMs on the Virtual Console with iNES headers (already mentioned) and an unrelated third-party developer using mGBA in a commercial game without providing credit or complying with the license. In the latter case, they did end up complying in the end. link
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]hexbear6·2 months agoI had actually not heard of the second case, it was Nintendo’s roms I was thinking of link
minus-squareComrádaí Guts@lemmygrad.mlhexbear8·2 months agoIIRC it wasn't the emulator that was the issue but the roms they were selling. Some of the NES roms they were selling on the wii u eshop had come from romsites and were not ripped by nintendo themselves. linkfedilink
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]hexbear8·2 months agoOh yes that’s what I was thinking of! link
Didn’t Nintendo get in trouble before for using a publicly available emulator (and stolen code for said emulator) for one of their console eshops?
Think you might be mixing together a few things: the ROMs on the Virtual Console with iNES headers (already mentioned) and an unrelated third-party developer using mGBA in a commercial game without providing credit or complying with the license. In the latter case, they did end up complying in the end.
I had actually not heard of the second case, it was Nintendo’s roms I was thinking of
IIRC it wasn't the emulator that was the issue but the roms they were selling. Some of the NES roms they were selling on the wii u eshop had come from romsites and were not ripped by nintendo themselves.
Oh yes that’s what I was thinking of!