The reveal comes from X user @ChrisMack32, who posted a video showing them unplugging a Super Nintendo controller – connected via USB – at one of the...
  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Nintendo is well-known for using emulation in its own products, such as “Virtual Console” releases and the “NES/SNES Classic”. They just don’t like people playing their games in ways they didn’t decide on.

  • zfirerose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I mean, the problem isn’t emulation, it’s unauthorized emulation. They build emulators for older games on their own consoles.

    • Franklin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      My issue with Nintendo is that it’s not even clear it is illegal to emulate things, authorized or not.

      We have some precedent which ruled it’s not, but no real call from an authority.

      They use their legal team to bully the world even for emulation which is clearly not even harmful to them.

      • zfirerose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s fine and all. I agree that their actions are absurd. But the aim of this article seems to be to provoke more rage towards Nintendo for something that seems like pretty standard practice and completely misses the point of what people are mad about.

  • Breve@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Emulator projects should all add a clause in their EULA that specifically forbids Nintendo from using their software, then they can sue Nintendo for breaching their license. Give them a taste of their own medicine.

      • Breve@pawb.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I personally don’t think it’s so likely that Nintendo would write and maintain a Windows emulator just for their museum if an open-source project exists that they could legally use for free under that project’s license terms. Only someone with insider knowledge would be able to say for sure though.

          • Breve@pawb.socialEnglish
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            2 months ago

            That team writes emulators that run directly on Nintendo consoles, so they would likely test it on development versions of those consoles the same way actual console games are developed and tested. Otherwise they would be testing a Switch version of an SNES emulator running inside a Switch emulator on a Windows PC that would introduce it’s own errors.

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Famed for hating illegal or unlicensed emulation. Well known for using legal, licensed emulation all the time in everything.