[frozenport]

>>I’m not sure why they put all of this effort into causing trouble for emulator developers in this one specific case,

I know why!

If went to bazaar in 90s Russia you would see these '40-in-one' video-game cartridges which were a bunch of normal bootleg games linked together by a bootscreen. You could imagine the NES emulator falling under the same category. Sometimes emulators were sold on CDs.

http://i.imgur.com/dJ142.jpg?1

[lmm]

Sure, but these are NES games; the ROMs for all of them are already on the internet. This is putting security locks on the barn door decades after the horse has bolted.

[nogridbag]

Ah memories. I had one of those gold NES honey bee adapters with a 250 in 1 cartridge we got from a Chinese friend. At least a quarter of the games were dups with minor differences and we paid $250 for it, haha. At the time it seemed like a good deal!

[vlunkr]

Yes I played one of these as well that a friend got at the mall. Except I would say about 3/4 of the games were clones, usually with some terrible color palette swap. He bought it in the US though, I can't believe a product like that made it to the market. Especially since every game on there was pirated.

[freshyill]

There were actually mall kiosks in the US that sold similar things that actually had pirated copies of Nintendo's first-party games. This was either late '90s or early 2000s.