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Yeah, until you start hosting roms I don't think Nintendo cares (although possibly begrudgingly). Once you do though... bad times. Nintendo has even used exist
by p1necone 8y ago
Yeah, until you start hosting roms I don't think Nintendo cares (although possibly begrudgingly). Once you do though... bad times.
Nintendo has even used existing open source emulators themselves in commercial products.
- BeefySwain 8y ago> Nintendo has even used existing open source emulators themselves in commercial products. Source? I'd love to read more about that.
- cameronbrown 8y agoI could be wrong, but I believe they're using one in the NES Classic.
- cududa 8y agoI believe the NES classic and Switch use open source emulators?
- hcs 8y agoBest example I know of is PocketNES, but that was used by Jaleco in a GBA port: https://waxy.org/2004/07/jaleco_borrows/ https://waxy.org/2004/07/jaleco_borrows/ Nintendo has written or contracted a lot of emulators themselves. The grandparent may be thinking of the pervasive use of the iNES header format, which originated with an unofficial (though not open source) emulator: https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/INES https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/INES
- baroffoos 8y agoThey care, they just have no legal reason to force it to be taken down.
- EnderMB 8y agoAt uni, a large chunk of my final-year grade hinged on a large project, where we'd meet up with a supervisor, build a non-trivial application, and write a dissertation on it. One of the best projects from recent years that was handed out as inspiration was someone that built a game boy emulator, with the ultimate aim of being able to run Pokemon Red. This dissertation was public on the CS site for about 5 years, with source code to run it, and although this was pre-GitHub Nintendo were still very litigious back then. No ROM's were provided, so I assume Nintendo either missed it, or didn't care.