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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This means you can find the pc and get THEIR OWN EMULATOR, make it open source and fuck them royally.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

You think they wrote their own emulator instead of just taking one of the free ones on the internet (who they will likely sue later). That's cute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Is it a known thing that they discontinued canoe or something?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago

Well yes, yes they did. It is called Canoe and is for example running inside the SNES Classic Mini. And that is not the only emulator they wrote. Writing an emulator is not some obscure magic, and it is way easier if you own all the schematics and other Information used to build the original hardware.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's not how any of that works

[–] [email protected] -4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why? You can just say its the official Nintendo emulator.

Nobody gives a shit if its legal or not, this is a Nintendo bashing club. We hate them and wish them to go bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Sure but why would the source code be available? It'd be funny if it was but it's probably a compiled program, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Implying they have their own emulator and it's not just running retroarch or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Nintendo has their own emulators for running these games on newer consoles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If they would do that it would be very useful in court.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's not illegal for Nintendo to run retroarch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Its not illegal for anyone else either, but them running such software for profit might be a licensing issue depending on the exact version they use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

RetroArch and most of its cores are under the GPL or MIT, which allow commercial use.