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I seem to remember hearing that wrt roms on at least one of the NES|SNES|PS1 Classic systems.

• barbs 3y ago
  Yeah same, although I think it was the ROMs distributed in the Wii Shopping Channel?
  • danhor 3y ago
    Nintendo used the same file format as used for pirated ROMs, so people assumed Nintendo simply used downloaded ROMs. As it turns out one of the people working at Nintendo for emulation previously worked on emulators outside Nintendo, so it's likely that just the file format was reused. The Nintendo leaks showed that Nintendo has extensive internal archives and the likelihood of them needing to download ROMs of the Internet is low.
    • monocasa 3y ago
      There was more than that. > Apart from where mentioned above, filenames seem to match GoodSMS names (commonly found on the internet) with almost all non-alphabetical character removed. This suggests that all of the ROM images were obtained from the internet rather than from Sega's internal archives. https://www.smspower.org/Development/NintendoWiiVirtualConsoleTitles https://www.smspower.org/Development/NintendoWiiVirtualConso... GoodSMS is a community/pirate naming scheme for identifying the different ROM dumps.