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by nemomarx 493 days ago
I believe NES patents might be finally all expired and off this year, but the SNES is probably covered for a little longer. Reverse engineering emulators and fpgas has been safer legally speaking for most of the last few decades.
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Patents last 20 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent

The SNES came out in 1990:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_S...

Every patent on the original SNES should have expired by 2010.