The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing - eviltoast
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    1 month ago

    And? I too really hate people using my toothbrush but have no problem using it myself. Is that embarrassing?

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        1 month ago

        Is the implication that they won’t be able to write an in-house emulator? So did they wait for someone to port an SNES emulator to Switch before they can put those old games on their online service?

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          1 month ago

          the “implication?” they’ve literally already sold consoles that have downloaded roms on them.

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          1 month ago

          files they’ve downloaded off the internet. its much easier for them and they only need to do a quick frontend to make it look official.

          ezpz.

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              1 month ago

              in the past they have. i should have specified. i have no idea what they’re doing in their museums. but considering their history, I wouldn’t discount it.

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                1 month ago

                You are right. Sorry for being so snarky. The modding community for the SNES Classic mostly preferred Nintendo’s own emulator, Canoe. I just assumed Nintendo would continue to use it

                All we can do is speculate for now. They will never see another dime from me personally. I just don’t see why we are persecuting them for emulation of all things. Be mad they are fucking over other emulator developers, but a company emulating their own games isn’t anything new