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The N-company be like: (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

They claim emulation is illegal.. yet they run snes9x on their display case in New York.

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    • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Implying they don't keep copies of ROMs for their own games?

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  • [–] 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There’s been documented cases of them using known pirated versions based on headers and stuff. As crazy as it sounds…

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    even if they keep extensive archives (how could the gigaleak have happened if not?), i guess it’s still less effort for whoever puts the roms on the service to just yoink a pirated rom from the internet than to go get it themselves lol

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I would assume it's obvious they keep their own ROMs... But then Nintendo has been caught multiple times using ROMs from romsites, and the emulators they use are either based on open source emus you can find on the Web, or are literally the exact emus.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm not defending them but it makes sense for companies to use open source stuff.

    Amazon's servers are ran almost entirely on Linux.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I have no issue with Nintendo using open source emulators. It's open source after all. Would be nice if they did like Valve and then also throw the developers a bone.

    But we're talking about Nintendo. They're using the very resources they demonise and sue people into the ground for. Makes them hypocritics.

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    [–] 32 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Outa loop here: Nintendo used third party rom dumps for their own first party services ?

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  • [–] 65 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    They've even been caught yoinking emulator code.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The 2020 gigaleak proved that they still keep old source code and assets, and they still need to pirate their own roms?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Emulators and firmware blobs are about as far apart from each other as trees and hippopotamus. You need the firmware blob for the emulator to work, but I highly doubt Nintendo just had a source code repo of emulating an n64 hardware system on x86-64.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 month ago

    Their original Virtual Console NES games on the Wii had the roms extracted from them, and they were found to have ROM header data matching how the emulation community formatted it, with files set up the same way as online communities did things. Theoretically they could have put that there themselves so their in-house made emulator followed the conventions of open source ones, but people think it's more likely they just downloaded the ROMs from the internet and they came that way.

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