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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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[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was joking when in a previous post about the museum I said it better not run on any emulators..

So.. Why aren't they selling said emulators and roms? I ain't gonna travel half the world to play one in an overpriced museum.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

Um... they are, and have been for almost 20 years, since the Wii. Or the N64 depending on how you look at it.

What did you think Virtual Console was? How about the NES and SNES mini? What about the "Nintendo Game Pass" or whatever they're calling it?

Animal Crossing's original Japan release had NES games in it, and so did the GC rerelease/psuedosequel we got internationally too.

Even better: During the Wii era, the Wiis at the Nintendo Store in New York City ran official Nintendo made software to load games off a connected hard drive, so you could play multiple of their new releases without workers having to switch discs.

It has always been about attempts to prevent piracy and keep control over how people access their games for Nintendo, and they are roughly 10 years behind the curve on modern tech trends.

Either stop supporting them or get used to it.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

There is no way to legally buy their ROMs anymore. You can only rent them in perpetuity. When they did sell them, they didn't forward port your purchases to their next device, which is hilariously stupid, and you know they'd take you to court for dumping those same ROMs to your PC to organize, customize, and play the way you like them. If they just sold these things DRM-free on a web site for me to put in Emulation Station, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I'd bet the emulators in use are actually publicly available ones. Not anything Nintendo made. Adding to the hypocrisy.

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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

Maybe the emulator maker should sue

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[-] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 20 hours ago

Anyway, what's the point of a museum of a console maker without showing original hardware?