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The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 69 points 7 months ago

I would not be at all surprised if the Switch NES and SNES emulators are running an open source emulator that they've tried to shut down.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Throwback to the NES Classic ROM having a ripper/uploader’s signature in the game code. Because Nintendo didn’t ever bother archiving their own games, and just downloaded ROMs from the same sites they were trying to shut down.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 9 points 7 months ago

I would. They would have been found out already if it were the case, and they already proved they can develop their own emulators.

[-] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 23 points 7 months ago

They've been caught using ROMs downloaded from some ROMs download website, so it wouldn't be that surprising.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 7 months ago

No they have not. If they dumped their own cartridge or had the ROM somewhere in their archives, it would be identical to one downloaded from the Internet. The whole controversy happened because someone saw the iNES headers in whatever release of Super Mario Bros was new at the time. Those headers are added by all NES cartridge dumpers, and the creator of this format developed the NES emulator used by Nintendo in Animal Crossing for the GameCube.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Rom pirates usually trim and sign their releases, specially if they have to break or decode any encryption. These pirate's signatures have been found in official Nintendo releases. Some of their own emulators have also been found to run piracy emulation software. They are pretty much hypocrites.

[-] doctortran@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Moreover, they're going to want an emulator that can be managed alongside the rest of the museum software.

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