So the big N might be a little introspective, because although there’s no problem with the museum as a whole, a closer look at one of the platforms doesn’t show Nintendo in the way you’d expect…

Nintendo also condemns emulation, to put it mildly. This year, both major Switch emulators were taken down, and it doesn’t like its games being emulated in ROM form. Despite this, a video has surfaced on Twitter of someone visiting the Nintendo Museum (the museum was already in the news) and making a very interesting discovery.

They had the Super Famicom (the original Japanese version of the SNES) on display, but it becomes suspicious that the controller has a USB port on top. Then, at 9 seconds into the video, we hear the familiar hardware being removed from Windows 10, and we hear a hangeffect. So what Nintendo is releasing is running through emulation. It’s a bit hypocritical of the Japanese company, because they would have to stick to the fact that they don’t have to use emulation either. Or is that how finicky the SFC (SNES) hardware is these days?

And let’s not forget that the retro games available via Nintendo Switch Online don’t run natively on the Big N’s highly successful platform either, emulating SEGA Mega Drive games for example. It follows that chasing emulation may not always make sense, as it must be admitted that hardware degrades over time. Consoles and cartridges (discs) wear out over time. A rotten disc, a broken cartridge, and so on.

This is why emulation is considered useful: if you have the original game, you should probably allow it (and yes, this also applies to Nintendo Switch games), because if you have the game on your shelf, emulating it and running it on a PC is not always forbidden. You could even say that you are running a backup copy…

Source: PCGamer

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— Chris (@ChrisMack32) October 14, 2024