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Someone has to keep the retro spark alive (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 3 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

"Emulators are only OK when we specifically release them for our own hardware to run an extremely limited catalog that we hand pick and then charge the price of a brand new release for. Everyone else get fucked"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Don't forget releasing pirated copies on our stolen emulators that we are now charging money for!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wtf? That happened to Nintendo? O.o

(I thought that was the PS mini)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They've been suspected of selling downloaded ROMs several times, but the incident with the most evidence was when they released a port of a GBA collection of Medabots games on the switch eShop using a pirated version of the mGBA emulator. Like: there were strings of code matching from the original emulator.

The EULA of mGBA actually allows commercial use, but Nintendo didn't credit the emulator or the author, making it piracy.

[–] otp 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Given that Nintendo probably doesn't develop Medabots games, wouldn't that not be Nintendo that committed piracy in that case?

Just looked it up -- not even published by Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It isn't eBay where anybody can sell anything. Nintendo curates and specifically authorizes all games sold on the platform, and they also license the right to emulate their legacy hardware in commercial releases on their platform.

They charged money to allow the sale of pirated software.

[–] otp 1 points 3 months ago

I think that's a bit of a stretch. To what extent do you think Nintendo was aware of the particular details in this situation?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Wow, TIL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I thought this was a 3rd party company, not a Nintendo 1st party product. I can't remember the name, but it was a company that rereleases out of print games on physical cartridges.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

What's the story here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Don't mind if I do!"

uses their official emulators to play roms on SNES Classic and Switch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"no wait, not like that!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile there's a bunch of evidence suggesting Nintendo used pirated ROMs for their own emulators.