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Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The article notes that they are likely using a proprietary in-house emulator.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I personally don't think it's so likely that Nintendo would write and maintain a Windows emulator just for their museum if an open-source project exists that they could legally use for free under that project's license terms. Only someone with insider knowledge would be able to say for sure though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They don't need to, they have their own studio that makes all their emulators called NERD: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_European_Research_%26_Development

Those emulators most likely have always worked on Windows since they need to be tested somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

That team writes emulators that run directly on Nintendo consoles, so they would likely test it on development versions of those consoles the same way actual console games are developed and tested. Otherwise they would be testing a Switch version of an SNES emulator running inside a Switch emulator on a Windows PC that would introduce it's own errors.