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bender
What time is it?
Windows sound for USB Device being plugged/unplugged.
delfrickintree
Banned
Headline: Nintendo Sues Nintendo for Copyright Infringement
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
They use emulators on Switch. I don't know what people are expecting here.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
romhustler.org
HogIsland
Member
they'll be hearing from their lawyers.
nani17
are in a big trouble
Ulysses 31
Member
Nintendo uses emulators and roms on Wii, 3DS, Wii U and Switch too! 
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JimboJones
Member
They gotta sue themselves
Solarstrike
Member
Musashipan
Member
Oh really? I thought they were running on og consoles! 
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Well, I would expect exactly that than a Windows-based emulation in a freaking museum lol.Oh really? I thought they were running on og consoles!
LordOcidax
Member
Ok.... And? What is the news?
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
So they can use them but we can't
Well it is their property
Nintendo literally has internal teams whose sole job it is to create and upkeep emulation for their games for internal and external commercial use. So your whole thesis is just nonsense.
Pure gaslighting.
Nintendo European Research & Development - Wikipedia
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
You would? You think Nintendo would use original NES consoles manufactured 35 years ago, in the year 2024 in a museum to run games? You must be joking.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
This.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
I assume this is a joke post, but seriously?
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bigdad2007
Member
The issue isn’t the emulation it’s the fact that Nintendo has been caught multiple times using fan backups on official emulation.You can use an emulator all you want on games YOU made.
Don’t sue fans but at the same time rely on them for keeping your back catalog backed up.
Deft Beck
Member
Most people outside of hardcore nerds/influencers either won't know the difference or they don't really care. It's not worth the expense or the time investment when that isn't the point of the museum. Verisimilitude, not reality, is the aim of the museum. It's a rosy depiction of Nintendo's history presented by Nintendo themselves.
If you want unfiltered history, there are a dozen game history museums with real hardware that would love your attendance.
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ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Sorry from asking too much from a multi-billion company that sued every possible thing in the universe
Somehow it’s not a problem for other quite popular venues.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Well for starters it’s just completely impractical. It’s not a vintage game shop that’s showing off old/ repaired hardware. It’s a museum. It’s meant to preserve. You would never open a sealed NES from 1985 from your corporate archives, so that the public can touch it. That would be in fact be the opposite of standard practice, in a situation like this.Sorry from asking too much from a multi-billion company that sued every possible thing in the universe
Not to mention how cumbersome it would be to get the audio/video working on modern screens. Be real, man.
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Miggytronz
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built by Palworld Creatures.
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
They're notoriously good at keeping history. They have the source codes.. is it really that surprising they might have the ROMs aswell?
Haven't they been caught using other peroples dumps?
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AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
They use a dumped rom for the Nintendo online version of smb.
IFireflyl
Gold Member
Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?
Nintendo's stance on emulation has always been a rigid one. As far as the company is concerned, if you're downloading a…
www.eurogamer.net
As you can see, we were mostly looking at .app files here and so needed to use a hex editor to have a nosy around in the binary data. We already knew from Frank Cifaldi's GDC talk that a .NES header should be located in '00000001.app' and so that's where we started. A quick search of the file (CTRL+F 'NES') and we found it.
The .NES header, originally created by Marat Fayzullin for his iNES emulator, is used to provide emulators with the necessary context needed to recreate a hardware setup that changed with each and every cartridge. Finding it in this Nintendo-published version of Super Mario Bros. felt like a sign we were heading in the right direction.
At this point I contacted Fayzullin himself, providing him with the files we'd obtained. He then compared this with various pirated Super Mario Bro. ROMs found online and discovered the ROM content was identical.
"There are minute differences between ROM dumps," explained Fayzullin. "Depending on the cartridge version and how it has been dumped. If you see that your .NES file DOES NOT match any of the ones found online, it is likely to be their own ROM dump. I have cut the ROM content out of the Wii file you sent me and it indeed matches the .NES file found online."
As you hopefully saw in the video, we asked Nintendo for comment on this story, and although it denied using ROMs downloaded from the internet, it decided against explaining these peculiarities.
Nintendo doesn't want anyone else using their intellectual property. However, if someone does use Nintendo's intellectual property, it seems that Nintendo is not above using (or reusing) that content to make more money.
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AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
It is their property they can use it how they want. And if you don’t want others using it that is your right too. It is one of the ways they maintain value for a product. I have no issue with emulation of games. But I agree with IP protection.Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?
Nintendo's stance on emulation has always been a rigid one. As far as the company is concerned, if you're downloading a…
Nintendo doesn't want anyone else using their intellectual property. However, if someone does use Nintendo's intellectual property, it seems that Nintendo is not above using (or reusing) that content to make more money.
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God Yoshi’s Island is a great game with the most grating fucking sound effects ever
BlackTron
Member
Maybe they bought the games and used a ROM dumper.
BlackTron
Member
Best OST tho
SweetTooth
Gold Member
Of course they won't show their games on their outdated hardware.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
What does it matter? They’re the original authors of the software. It’s fun to make jokes, but why is that an important factor either as a legal or practical matter?
SidViscous
Member
Pretty lame, you would expect a museum of all places to give you real hardware to play on. We can emulate at home!
LordOcidax
Member
I think they use OG hardware connected to servers, like a bunch of Nes, Snes, GBAs, GB etc etc connected to servers… Also, the MINI consoles are OG consoles reduced with magic.
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You had me thinking you were serious until that last sentence
BlackTron
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It is extremely important to Robin Hood fantasies.
LordOcidax
Member
Wait until you see Disney Land and WWE tickets prices…
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Yep. Ever heard of NERD?
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