Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square192fedilinkarrow-up1896arrow-down120cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up1876arrow-down1external-linkThe official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassingwww.pcgamer.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square192fedilinkcross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squareaesthelete@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-214 days agoThis 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.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoIts probably against the Emulator’s License unless they built their own from scratch, and a Windows PC is actually pretty overkill.
minus-squareaesthelete@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-214 days agoI 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.
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.
Its probably against the Emulator’s License unless they built their own from scratch, and a Windows PC is actually pretty overkill.
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.