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The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ITT: people think emulators are only the ones you can download

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In this comment: Someone who is not familiar with the history of Nintendo selling pirated versions of their own games and ripping off pirate emulators then passing them as their own.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

or the history of nintendo falsely claiming that emulation itself was an illegal practice when trying to bully and scare people into submission...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

Did the terms of the emulators they ripped off allow them to? Not saying it's morally okay.