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[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

Someone call Alanis Morisette 🤣

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

It would be interesting to plug an usb rubber duckie to own that station and dump all the disk somewhere

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This means you can find the pc and get THEIR OWN EMULATOR, make it open source and fuck them royally.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You think they wrote their own emulator instead of just taking one of the free ones on the internet (who they will likely sue later). That's cute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Is it a known thing that they discontinued canoe or something?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago

Well yes, yes they did. It is called Canoe and is for example running inside the SNES Classic Mini. And that is not the only emulator they wrote. Writing an emulator is not some obscure magic, and it is way easier if you own all the schematics and other Information used to build the original hardware.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not how any of that works

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? You can just say its the official Nintendo emulator.

Nobody gives a shit if its legal or not, this is a Nintendo bashing club. We hate them and wish them to go bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Sure but why would the source code be available? It'd be funny if it was but it's probably a compiled program, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Implying they have their own emulator and it's not just running retroarch or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Nintendo has their own emulators for running these games on newer consoles.

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

If they would do that it would be very useful in court.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not illegal for Nintendo to run retroarch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its not illegal for anyone else either, but them running such software for profit might be a licensing issue depending on the exact version they use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

RetroArch and most of its cores are under the GPL or MIT, which allow commercial use.

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