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Eww extremely embarrassing that they used Windows.

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ITT: people think emulators are only the ones you can download

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In this comment: Someone who is not familiar with the history of Nintendo selling pirated versions of their own games and ripping off pirate emulators then passing them as their own.

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Did the terms of the emulators they ripped off allow them to? Not saying it’s morally okay.

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or the history of nintendo falsely claiming that emulation itself was an illegal practice when trying to bully and scare people into submission…

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pull a WordPress and force a TOS in the license to say you cannot be affiliated with Nintendo in any way in order to use this software.

they want to emulate their hardware? then they can build their own emulator.

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I believe they do have their own emulator. It logically would be what powers the Nintendo arcade

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folks thought the same for the Genesis and Atari flashbacks but some tinkering found they were using FOSS emulation. IMO FOSS projects should start charging companies that use their products dependent on scale.

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Agreed I would totally support emus using a business software license just because of how they’re treated by business.

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if its under GPL couldn’t they be forced to disclose the source code?

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Only if they made modifications

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What, where do you get that? Any publicly conveyed copies of gpl-licensed software must make their source code available, and be published under the same license. This is true regardless of modifications.

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I could be wrong and I’m more then welcome to being proven that. But wouldn’t this be like asking me to redistribute the whole process of running ZSNES on linux? Seems pretty infeasible.

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But they own it. I thought even I could download a ROM if I have the actual game no?

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No, at least in the US, you can only back up your own ROM if you own the game, not download someone else’s backup. The real problem here is that Nintendo’s (idiotic) stance is ALL emulation/backups are piracy and here they are being hypocrites about it.

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