many publishers use emulators to re-release old games on modern systems, and Nintendo is no different. They’ve been doing it as early as the GameCube days, even.
The difference is they own the rights to the ROMs they’re using, or at least have permission from the copyright holders if it’s a third party game.
SenseTotal
Oh no!
Anyway…
Rosstin316
Emulation software has never been the problem, people pirating Nintendo’s games illegally and distributing them is the problem.
EDIT: Uh is OP arguing with himself?
Effective-Annual9
this isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is lol
PM_ME_UR_SO
Haven’t they been doing this since the Wii Virtual Console?
Dramatic_Mastodon_93
They literally do that on the Switch Online apps
FerniWrites
Yes, they can do that because Nintendo own their own IP.
This wasn’t the gotcha moment you were hoping for. Emulation isn’t illegal either, as long as you own what you’re emulating. The issue is when you pirate. Nintendo can’t pirate what they own.
skeletoneating
But that’s ILLeGaL :O
Oaktree7200
Yeah, I’m also eating food from my fridge, which is perfectly legal
The problem is when I break into someone else’s house and eat their food.
smokin_mitch
Would be more funny if they were found to be using any code from the emulators they have taken down
drymangamer101
Well, yeah……. What the fuck did you think NSO and virtual console is?
MonochromeTyrant
This just makes it clear how woefully ignorant people are.
LJMLogan
Lol we know
JoyconDrift_69
What’s Nintendo Switch Online? How about Virtual Console?
Frankly this started on the GameCube – NES emulators on Animal Crossing GC and Classic NES series on GBA PLUS Super Punch-Out!!, OoT, and MM.
It’s either that or rely on old, failing hardware from the 80s, 90s, and 00s, with some disadvantages (re: Virtual Boy)
Tolkien-Minority
Lol yeah we know
viniciusalucas
It didn’t surprise me when I saw it, and it was somewhat expected that the games were being emulated with such a large deployment, but it made me think: why wouldn’t they just turn off the system sounds so that it would be less obvious to the public? Especially considering that these are Windows machines, so pretty much everyone is familiar with these sounds and it offers the option to disable or even customize these effects natively.
abstractism
Of course Nintendo would do this. Lazy asses.
YOURESTUCKHERE
*gasp*
I was once found reading a letter that I wrote aloud.
The sheer mortification Nintendo must be feeling right now…
s/
Zestran
This isn’t news or a secret
alt-0191
How is this news? Nintendo isn’t against emulation, it’s against third party emulation of its current system and sharing of any ROMs and ISOs of their game catalogue .They still act like dbags tho
Achanjati
And the news is?
maxler5795
Honestly, not very surprising. But youd think theyd at least mot be running windows to mask the sound.
KittyAgi11
Literacy and reading comprehension are hard y’all.
marsgreekgod
Yes? The one the roms they can
Just like how if someone makes a new game for old systems they can sell the rom and I can legally emulate it
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many publishers use emulators to re-release old games on modern systems, and Nintendo is no different. They’ve been doing it as early as the GameCube days, even.
The difference is they own the rights to the ROMs they’re using, or at least have permission from the copyright holders if it’s a third party game.
Oh no!
Anyway…
Emulation software has never been the problem, people pirating Nintendo’s games illegally and distributing them is the problem.
EDIT: Uh is OP arguing with himself?
this isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is lol
Haven’t they been doing this since the Wii Virtual Console?
They literally do that on the Switch Online apps
Yes, they can do that because Nintendo own their own IP.
This wasn’t the gotcha moment you were hoping for. Emulation isn’t illegal either, as long as you own what you’re emulating. The issue is when you pirate. Nintendo can’t pirate what they own.
But that’s ILLeGaL :O
Yeah, I’m also eating food from my fridge, which is perfectly legal
The problem is when I break into someone else’s house and eat their food.
Would be more funny if they were found to be using any code from the emulators they have taken down
Well, yeah……. What the fuck did you think NSO and virtual console is?
This just makes it clear how woefully ignorant people are.
Lol we know
What’s Nintendo Switch Online? How about Virtual Console?
Frankly this started on the GameCube – NES emulators on Animal Crossing GC and Classic NES series on GBA PLUS Super Punch-Out!!, OoT, and MM.
It’s either that or rely on old, failing hardware from the 80s, 90s, and 00s, with some disadvantages (re: Virtual Boy)
Lol yeah we know
It didn’t surprise me when I saw it, and it was somewhat expected that the games were being emulated with such a large deployment, but it made me think: why wouldn’t they just turn off the system sounds so that it would be less obvious to the public? Especially considering that these are Windows machines, so pretty much everyone is familiar with these sounds and it offers the option to disable or even customize these effects natively.
Of course Nintendo would do this. Lazy asses.
*gasp*
I was once found reading a letter that I wrote aloud.
The sheer mortification Nintendo must be feeling right now…
s/
This isn’t news or a secret
How is this news? Nintendo isn’t against emulation, it’s against third party emulation of its current system and sharing of any ROMs and ISOs of their game catalogue .They still act like dbags tho
And the news is?
Honestly, not very surprising. But youd think theyd at least mot be running windows to mask the sound.
Literacy and reading comprehension are hard y’all.
Yes? The one the roms they can
Just like how if someone makes a new game for old systems they can sell the rom and I can legally emulate it
Fork found in kitchen
It’s in the sentence, “It’s own games”.
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