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The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Agent_Karyo to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's definitely not the case for Switch emulators.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yuzu was charging for early access to their emulator, which is what prompted Nintendo action.

Ryujinx doesn't seem like any legal action was taken, sounds like the creator was given a chunk of cash by Nintendo to take it down.

I hate Nintendo, but you gotta keep the facts straight

[–] Zangoose 18 points 2 months ago

I don't think they paid him off, I think it was more along the lines of "We won't do anything to you if you stop now"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They also shut down Yuzu forks using the DMCA. If they paid Ryujinx's dev it was the equivalent of the Mafia bribing a judge while waving a picture of his family.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Totally the same /s