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by merkul204 2008 days ago
this is really cool - great work, but what's the probability of nintendo nuking this?
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Alekhine 2008 days ago
Emulators are legal, I believe.
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Jowsey 2007 days ago
Emulation is 100% legal as long as the BIOS for the emulated system and any game ROMs are sourced from legal systems/copies iirc
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LeoNatan25 2006 days ago
Depending on the Google/Oracle trial fallout, it could become illegal to implement system APIs because of API copyright. So while CPU instruction set emulation is fine, depending on how system emulators work, they could be deemed “illegal”.
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thatguy0900 2008 days ago
There's longstanding emulators for every other Nintendo console
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jdc 2008 days ago
On what grounds?
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Throwaway1771 2007 days ago
This is a meme, right now, on Twitch etc.
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jonny_eh 2006 days ago
What a dumb meme
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