Emulation - Retro Gaming In Style

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Bleem, the company that helped make emulation legal, is being resurrected and teases "the largest retro gaming project" (gbatemp.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/emulation

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28426774

Over two decades ago, a small company by the name of Bleem! appeared and offered a unique product in the gaming market, the ability to play PlayStation games outside of the original hardware, in what would be popularly known as "emulation" worldwide, be it in Windows PCs at the time (Windows 95...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This commercial emulator was a key target for Sony, who took the Bleem company to court over alleged copyright violations to their PlayStation hardware, and while the courts initially failed in favour of Sony, Bleem appealed several times, and after a heated legal battle going back and forth, the courts sided in favour of Bleem!, with the decision being that the work of Bleem! constituted fair use.

They didn’t invent it, they just fought in court to make it legal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah i read the article and went to the nonexistent Kickstarter.

We were emulating long before Bleem went to court.