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Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@lemmy.zip

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The reveal comes from X user @ChrisMack32, who posted a video showing them unplugging a Super Nintendo controller – connected via USB – at one of the Nintendo Museum's booths. Removing the cable from the controller results in what sounds like the familiar noise that plays when a Windows device is disconnected. If you listen carefully, you can also hear the Windows 'device connect' sound when the controller is plugged back in.

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A bit of a dumb title, Nintendo does develop their own emulators to help port content onto newer systems and that's been known for some time.

Virtual Console is an emulator, or rather a series of self-contained emulators that individual games are packaged in. The NES and SNES Mini consoles use emulators to run their games. Hell, even the original Animal Crossing came with its own NES emulator to run playable versions of Nintendo titles you could get as furniture.

It's not "emulators" they have a problem with, it's third-party emulators that supposedly infringe on Nintendo code/IP and the distribution of ROMs, but whether those grievances are legitimate or not is a separate topic entirely.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They've been caught using roms that are available for download, and have used emulators off the Internet as well.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Hey now it looks like you know your stuff, we don't do that here