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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 17 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 46 points 1 day ago

It would be, if they didn't target the emulators and only targeted the roms/game data.

[-] turtletracks@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 day ago

That's definitely not the case for Switch emulators.

[-] turtletracks@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Yuzu was charging for early access to their emulator, which is what prompted Nintendo action.

Ryujinx doesn't seem like any legal action was taken, sounds like the creator was given a chunk of cash by Nintendo to take it down.

I hate Nintendo, but you gotta keep the facts straight

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

I don't think they paid him off, I think it was more along the lines of "We won't do anything to you if you stop now"

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 23 hours ago

They also shut down Yuzu forks using the DMCA. If they paid Ryujinx's dev it was the equivalent of the Mafia bribing a judge while waving a picture of his family.

[-] AAA@feddit.org 1 points 22 hours ago

Totally the same /s

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 points 20 hours ago

Which is still a legal thing to do.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

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.