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Nintendo is going after emulators now because new switch coming soon - but emulation already provided a better experience (self.showerthoughts)
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Nintendo had 6 years, why now? Can't have free software upstaging new hardware.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

"Always" is a bit of a stretch, IMO. It's only been within about the last decade or so that we've had a 100% accurate SNES emulator. To the best of my knowledge, we still don't have 100% accurate emulation for any 5th-gen consoles or later.