The problem is that Nintendo likes to play victim to piracy, surprising considering how their abandoned titles are kept alive by great folks who are only breathing new life into games that would otherwise be lost to time.
An especially egregious fact is that Nintendo uses open source emulators themselves and have re released & sold some older games that are just the emulator bundled with the game, in some cases inheriting emulator-only bugs.
The most recent example I can think of is that the most recent Pikmin release includes dolphin and can therefore be played on a PC with no modification.
That article isnt about Nintendo, only a publisher on Nintendo's store.
The rom thing was only the same rom format. How are you going to tell if it's the same dumps or not? Roms are supposed to match 1:1, otherwise verification hashes projects like redump and no-intro wouldn't work.
Yep. In 2023 you cannot buy a copy of Mario Kart Wii and have the money go to the people who wrote, or even wrote the IP for the game anyways so it’s kind of a victimless crime. Obviously pirating a game you can still legally buy from the rights holder is a different story