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[–] frezik@midwest.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nintendo: "Emulators are piracy"

Nintendo, 15 years later: "Anybody want to buy our emulated games on new consoles?"

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... so in your mind their attitude has nothing to do with IP, just the technology used to deploy it? Your statement makes no sense whatsoever

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

To add to what Skull giver said, the current retro market only exists because of the emulators that Nintendo has been fighting for over 25 years. There would be no SNES Mini console without snes9x or zsnes. Neither would there be a Nintendo e-shop for their old games on new consoles. The knowledge base to even make that work would not exist. Archiving old copies of games may not even exist.

Nintendo's position is highly hypocritical. They have benefited from emulation far more than they've been harmed.