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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Their emulators have always been proprietary. The waters were a little muddied by the NES/SNES Classic consoles using a Linux OS but the emulators were their own code.

Their FOSS code is made available when required and is published here:

https://support.nintendo.com/jp/oss/index.html

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

I see. I am surprised they didn't simply take existing open source code and go with that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

They likely want to avoid legitimising those existing emulators.