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The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [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.