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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)

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[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

Yes, i would generally consider ripping roms as something requiring effort similar to cracking a game

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

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"Ripping" ROMs, or dumping them, takes almost no effort. If you have the cartridge reader its about as much work as taking photos off an SD card. Certainly nothing at all like cracking a game, which is pretty much software development.

Please consider informing yourself before forming strong opinions.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Then why doesn't Nintendo do it themselves?

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They were observed finding one ROM on the Internet, ever. They do have their own emulator(s).

Nintendo is a bunch of humans. If my boss asks me to see if I can find the installer for an old version of our software, you can bet I'll check anywhere before volunteering to go scrape old hard drives.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

This is the part where I focus for half a second and realize this is about SNES and everything makes a lot more sense. I would hope newer stuff would have some form of protection 😅