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by ThatPlayer 844 days ago
> But it also raises questions as to why they used the INES format as opposed to some internal format of their own

The answer to that that I've seen is simply they hired a man who previously worked on INES: https://web.archive.org/web/20061228071701/http://www.n-side... . This man is then top credited in Animal Crossing for "NES Emulator Program".