Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com TheImpressiveX @lemmy.ml 1 day ago

The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing

www.pcgamer.com The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing

Emulators are bad, remember. Until they're useful, of course.

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Someone call Alanis Morisette 🤣
It sued itself in its confusion!
- This isn't very effective.
LMAO. Fuck Nintendo and the "do as I say not as I do" BS.
- Emulation is perfectly legal if you own the game.
  
  And yet Nintendo files bogus copyright claims against emulators.
- ~~do as I say not as I do~~
  
  Nintendo: Money! Fuck everything else.
  
  All other attributes derive from that.
This really isn't that surprising. They used ROMs for the classic games in Animal Crossing. They even had evidence it was from a release group, and not Nintendo's own copies

I really don't understand why this is embarrassing. I don't know the exact setup they have going on. Is it like a kiosk where people can play classic games, or is it a monitor just displaying them? They have their own emulator, Canoe, that they used for the SNES Classic. I don't remember the name of the NES one

Weren't at least some of the games in the Super Mario Collection ROMs? I guess I can see why people would expect a direct port from the company that created it, or original hardware running the original games, but it isn't like Nintendo doesn't already have a track record for this sort of thing
- It's embarrassing because of how extremely litigious Nintendo is, and that they are themselves profiting using other people's work (emulators and/or ROMs acquired from the internet), the exact thing they ruin lives over.
  
  I would have thought its embarrasing that they couldnt provide real hardware for an official museum
  
  Aren't the emulators licensed for this kind of use?
  
  Just so we're clear, are you under the impression that "ROMs acquired from the Internet" represent something other than Nintendo's work?
  
  I'm not saying they haven't used others work in the past, but they do have their own emulators and ROMs. They have for a long time. They are still terrible, but this just doesn't seem like a big deal to me
  
  Edit: Also, whose lives have they ruined aside from those profiting off of distributing copyrighted material? Taking down a fan game doesn't sound life ruining
This means you can find the pc and get THEIR OWN EMULATOR, make it open source and fuck them royally.
- 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.
  
  Is it a known thing that they discontinued canoe or something?
  
  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.
- That's not how any of that works
  
  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.
- Implying they have their own emulator and it's not just running retroarch or something
  
  Nintendo has their own emulators for running these games on newer consoles.
  
  If they would do that it would be very useful in court.
It would be interesting to plug an usb rubber duckie to own that station and dump all the disk somewhere
No way
- Their NES and SNES mini consoles were also just off the shelf ARM SBCs running emulators. If I recall correctly people even found signatures of release groups in some of the ROMs.
  
  technicians just know what's good. unfortunately every company becomes too big for its own good and inspirationless ghouls take over 😔 the palworld thing also just shows they could be so successful if they take off the shackles and make a good game, but now they want to shackle everyone else so no one can have good games
  
  They are at least Nintendo's own in-house emulators. I don't recall the situation with the Classic systems ROMs, but Animal Crossing had the release group signatures if I'm not mistaken. They've been pulling this garbage for a long time
  
  Also the Virtual Console releases, and things like the demo games in Smash Bros. brawl,
What's so embarrassing? Emulation for backward compatibility is done all the times
- I guess people are assuming it runs whatever third party emulator. It was at least how I first imagined it.
  
  If that's the case, it's in my opinion very embarrassing: attempting to profit from stuff made by the community they act extremely hostile towards.
  
  If not, I guess it's just mildly embarrassing that they have a poorly concealed windows machine taking away from the immersion.
  
  I read through the article, only speculation but since the sound is without a doubt the USB being disconnected then it's pretty obvious an Windows machine running a rom.
  
  It's a weird assumption. Like I said, emulation for backward compatibility is common. Do they always just wait for some random strangers to implement an emulator for them?
- Because Nintendo really really hates people who emulate their games
  
  And? I too really hate people using my toothbrush but have no problem using it myself. Is that embarrassing?

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