Didn’t they use an emulator in the nes classic or some product?
Yeah the nes and snes classic, also nintendo switch online gives you access to some nes, snes, n64, and gameboy/gba games with emulation.
They’ve stolen open source (or at least free) emulators for their own commercial releases in the past too, haven’t they?
They’ve taken ROMs and sold them to people, it was confirmed some time back. Idk about the emulators, but it would stand to reason that, given they support the ROMs, they’ve at least looked at other emulators’ source code for ideas
No, they hired a guy who had already made an emulator to make theirs. He stuck with the rom file format he already knew. Because the rom files are based on the same source (the released binary on the game cartridge), they are byte-for-byte identical, as you you’d expect.
Are you telling me that I’m reading this wrong?
https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us
Cant help but think Nintendo’s actions are too little too late now. That cat is out of the bag. About all they can do now is break compatibility on new releases.
They can’t really break compatibility though. Because the keys are baked into the hardware and the rest of the hardware is, well, hard. Unless you’re talking about Switch 2, which would of course work for Switch 2 games.
I see one of two things happening.
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Yuzu team calls it quits and throws in the towel due to insufficient funds.
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It goes to court and Nintendo wins due to the judge being technically illiterate and takes Nintendo’s side because they appear more professional and legitimate.
I would love for them to challenge and beat this but I think it would require a very knowledgeable legal team such as those who work with the EFF or some similar organization.
It probably won’t make it to court because the devs cant afford it. Nintendo likely wouldn’t win, it is just bullying them into shutting down.
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