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The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing(www.pcgamer.com)

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Bananobanza@lemmy.world
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Well, you know, the games are theirs to begin with.

I see what you mean, and you are correct, but I think it’s more about the games that are being emulated than emulation in itself right?

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SpicyLizards@reddthat.com
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It would be, if they didn’t target the emulators and only targeted the roms/game data.

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turtletracks@lemmy.zip
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The only time the emulators are targeted is when the creators try to profit off them, or am I mistaken?

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Chozo@fedia.io
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That, and when Nintendo’s code is used in some way to develop the project. Japan has very strict laws on reverse engineering any software, which Nintendo is always set to capitalize on.

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Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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Which is still a legal thing to do.

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jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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That’s definitely not the case for Switch emulators.

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LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
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What about the fan games that were made of pure passion for the IP that they’ve taken down?

To name a few:
Pokemon Uranium
Pokemon Prism
Mario Maker 64
Another Metroid 2 Remake
Zelda Maker
Ocarina of Time 2D
Zelda 30

There are countless others I’m sure.

FUCK Nintendo.

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ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
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I don’t disagree they are their games, but is it their emulator, or did they just download one of the many online? Really doesn’t matter, just love to see companies bitch about something, then turn around and do it themselves.

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