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I recall a few times, googling found me one result quickly https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-

• wjnc 5y ago
  Do you find this troublesome? I’d personally think this hits a sweet spot but am curious.
  • dwrodri 5y ago
    From a Nintendo fan’s PoV, this probably one of the highest possible honors. The bigger concern would be never being made aware that it ever happened.
• Wowfunhappy 5y ago
  The article you linked is about something quite different—Nintendo used a straight dump of their game from the internet. I'm guessing some engineer who didn't know about iNES headers thought they'd save time using the internet versus going through Nintendo's archive. Newer VC releases haven’t had these headers, by the way. I guess if you were being conspiratorial you could presume Nintendo deleted the headers specifically, but we know it’s not like Nintendo doesn’t save these files. (See things like Star Fox 2; the complete version on the SNES classic was newer than any of the leaked versions.) I’m really not aware of a time Nintendo has ever used code from a rom hack or emulator.
  • ChickeNES 5y ago
    This has come up before and I recommend reading this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756156
    • Wowfunhappy 5y ago
      Oh! Yes, thank you, that does make more sense!