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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal
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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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You don't say, Nintendo. Pretty sure they're also using open source emulators, from the developers they really hate, to run their older titles.
Idk their emulation is garbage except for the suspension and rewind. A lot of the open source emulation I have seen, especially of Nintendo products, is immaculate.
Zelda 64 on the Switch was a mess at release, but the emulator has improved greatly since then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-fYXwxuFxQ
Not to mention the selection of games available is pretty paltry.
That's just not true. They have their own emulators, but most of the time they are inferior to community ones. I think Virtual Console releases used some kind of optimized emulators for their hardware, but didn't care about accuracy, etc.