| shikamaru317 said: It would be cool, but I feel like Nintendo would likely make copyright claims in such a case. Maybe not though, emulators are technically legal as long as you own physical copies of any ROM's you download, right? Nintendo hasn't done anything to put a stop to emulators on PC have they? |
Emulators are legal like bootleg consoles are legal. They're engineered to play games on whatever system, but they're not being sold as Nintendo consoles, just as devices that can play Nintendo games.
Roms on the other hand are illegal. The whole as long as you delete them within 24 hours is bs. They're illegal, but since the games are decades old and most don't make anything or much from them at all, it's not worth the legal fees to go after people who download them.
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Nintendo is the one company who still tracks and enforces it though, as a friend of mine had to reinstate the internet of a person who got a DMCA violation for torrenting Super Mario Bros or a zip with all the Mario games or something like that.
