TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1382arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1373arrow-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 month agomessage-square87fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarebrax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·1 month agoImplying they have their own emulator and it’s not just running retroarch or something
minus-squareBonerMan@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoIf they would do that it would be very useful in court.
minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoIt’s not illegal for Nintendo to run retroarch.
minus-squareBonerMan@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month 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·edit-21 month agoRetroArch and most of its cores are under the GPL or MIT, which allow commercial use.
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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.