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by tredre3 1058 days ago
> An especially egregious fact is that Nintendo uses open source emulators themselves [...] the most recent Pikmin

That's not true. Pikmin uses Hagi, which is Nintendo's own emulator. Nintendo never used an open-source emulator in a release product.

See this fellow confused guy's thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/pikmin-1-2-use-dolphin-emulator....
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mrguyorama 1058 days ago
Nintendo has absolutely modified open source emulators for certain things

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/nintendo_accused_o...

There has been accusations that some "in house" emulators are also open source ones with superficial changes

They have also been found to use ROMs dumped by end users and posted on the normal ROM sites for their "play an old game" products.

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ThatPlayer 1058 days ago
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.

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