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And they will likely have to enable side-loading in the EU next year, which will allow us to play almost all retro games through emulation.
by _hzw 3y ago
And they will likely have to enable side-loading in the EU next year, which will allow us to play almost all retro games through emulation.
- moritzwarhier 3y agoMaybe Apple will embrace this then. Maybe even making deals to compete with emulators + pirated ROMs. Just fantasizing a bit here... thinking of Apple-approved N64, GameCube, GBA, PSP, even PS4 emulators with licensed games for a somewhat medium to high price tag - why not?
- _hzw 3y agoActually, this is up to Nintendo and Sony, not Apple...
- moritzwarhier 3y agoSure! As I said I was fantasizing, maybe I should have qualified this a bit more :)
- duskwuff 3y agoAnd, speaking from experience, Nintendo definitely wouldn't be on board. As far as I'm aware, they have never authorized any kind of third-party emulation of their games; even their first-party emulators like the NES Mini or Virtual Console have always been limited-time offerings with relatively small selections of games.
- kaba0 3y agoGetting the game ROMs is definitely illegal. But they can’t have any say in the actual emulation and emulation software.
- 0x457 3y agoGood luck having apple to approve a game where to do anything you have to google things, the game cannot tell you how to google and any public popular resources telling how to do it getting struck with DMCA.
- SahAssar 3y agoGetting ROMs is legal in a lot of circumstances, either by backuping the game yourself or if you own the game but download a ROM (like https://law.stackexchange.com/a/41876 https://law.stackexchange.com/a/41876)