Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?
- Thread starter daze23
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Action Mike
All praise..
of course they did
GreenGrass
All Star
nintendo should make their own n64 emulator or do something useful for those who want n64 games back. maybe, re hire some old devs. i think it would be cool to see a AKI wrestling game on the new system.
spliz
SplizThaDon
Nintendo is such a fukked up company in so many ways. All these companies be on they bullshyt but Nintendo just comes off extremely fukkin selfish.
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TROLL IS LIFE
Cop one for 60. Sold for 215.
Then bought one for me and my sister in law.
Profit
Then bought one for me and my sister in law.
Profit
spliz
SplizThaDon
fukk is u talkin bout nikka?you just posted absolutely nothing right here
I think the reason for that is that, not only are they using someone else's version of the ROM cartridge dump, they're also using someone else's source code for the emulator as well. This is actually a running theme with big development houses that have a lot of inertia (see: Ubisoft substituting a user-punishing, unplayable Rainbow Six Vegas 2 PC version with a cracked version in a patch!)
Nintendo downloaded a pirated version of Super Mario Bros ROM file and sold it back to its customers through the Virtual Console. They did not even bother to edit the file in a hex editor to remove the original pirates header.
It's even worse than that. If they took the INES Header out, it would not work in their virtual console because their emulation is based on that original INES-key version made two decades ago (in fact, all of the NES emulators are).
So they're using the pirates' version of the ROM dumps, and also the important parts of the pirates' virtual machine implementation. Can't comment too much on the ethics of that since they are open-source IIRC, but still.