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.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not how any of that works

[–] BonerMan@ani.social -5 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Lumu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks 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?

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not illegal for Nintendo to run retroarch.

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 7 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

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