Ultrashroomz said:
Some sort of legal issues with the manufacter of the Super FX chip or whatever, which both of those games used. Neither Star Fox nor the original Yoshi's Island ever showed up on Wii/Wii U's Virtual Console, and Nintendo ended up rereleasing the GBA version of Yoshi's Island instead, so yeah... |
Well, if we are talking about patents, they expire in 25 years anyway. Of course Nintendo does not need to sell the chip when releasing a downloadable version of the game, so my guess would be that the problem is the assembly language used in SFX games, that Nintendo would need to distribute along with the game, and now that Argonaut is defunct, it's next to impossible to license the assembly language, and I don't know if it takes 25 or 75 years for that to become public domain. They always could port the games instead of emulating.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
