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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a "Museum" run by Nintendo in Japan. Meaning they could have used or even created more original hardware to run the titles, but instead cut costs by using the same Emulators that they're hoping to take down.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Them being the original creator of the products doesn't necessarily imply that they still have running production processes for every product that they ever made.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If I obtain all the original schematics and software and make 1 Nintendo internals for commercial purposes wothout their permission it would be illegal.

If they do it, it costs them the price of a couple of family dinners at most.

This museum IS NINTENDO. They are the only people allowed to do this job correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is all just speculation. I have no idea how much it would cost for them to build new systems for every playable game in the museum.

Entirely aside from the could argument, I don't really understand why they would do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its probably against the Emulator's License unless they built their own from scratch, and a Windows PC is actually pretty overkill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I suspect they have their own emulators.

I mean they have old games available for new platforms and have had that for multiple generations. One of the things you get with a Nintendo online subscription is a switch catalog full of a bunch of SNES and NES games for play on the switch.