TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square86linkfedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down19cross-posted to: nintendo@lemmy.worldgames@lemmy.world
arrow-up1374arrow-down1external-linkThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comTheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square86linkfedilinkcross-posted to: nintendo@lemmy.worldgames@lemmy.world
minus-squarebrax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·1 year agoImplying they have their own emulator and it’s not just running retroarch or something
minus-squareBonerMan@ani.socialBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoIf they would do that it would be very useful in court.
minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s not illegal for Nintendo to run retroarch.
minus-squareBonerMan@ani.socialBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoIts 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.
minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoRetroArch and most of its cores are under the GPL or MIT, which allow commercial use.
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoNintendo has their own emulators for running these games on newer consoles.
Implying they have their own emulator and it’s not just running retroarch or something
If they would do that it would be very useful in court.
It’s not illegal for Nintendo to run retroarch.
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.
RetroArch and most of its cores are under the GPL or MIT, which allow commercial use.
Nintendo has their own emulators for running these games on newer consoles.