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You may be thinking of Nintendo. They packaged up a Super Mario ROM from the internet and sold it on their classic games store. https://youtu.be/zR1uEwjx7VI ht
by cdolan 6y ago
You may be thinking of Nintendo. They packaged up a Super Mario ROM from the internet and sold it on their classic games store.
https://youtu.be/zR1uEwjx7VI https://youtu.be/zR1uEwjx7VI
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoI believe they wrote their own emulator though.
- nolok 6y agoSony "PS Classic" is also an arm board running ePSXe.
- jsmith45 6y agoThat proof is utter nonsense. Sure Nintendo might have just downloaded the rom, but they may have: 1) just concatenated the prg and chr roms and added an iNES header so they could validate in third party emulators. (Likely extra helpful for games where they were developing anti-epilepsy patches, since third party emulators have some really nice debugging tools.) or 2) Used a third party cart dumper that adds the iNES header, because it was faster and easier than setting up a 3.5 inch floppy drive to try read the original rom from the archive. (And much faster than retyping in hex dump printout from the archive).
- thristian 6y agoor 3) hired one of the iNES developers to develop their emulator, who kept using the file-format they were familiar with. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756156
- woodrowbarlow 6y agogreat detective work there!