I see this as a preemptive strike to thwart pirates. Since little can be done about general piracy, a lot can be done regarding violating international patent laws.

It wouldn't be stupid, just a bunch of cease and desist letters. They would be in their complete legal rights. If they get a patent, you have to pay royalties to use of face legal threat.

But, I don't think they will get the patent. To get a patent, the product must be new and innovative. It can't exist in that form, even if it isn't patented and GB emulators do exist. If the revisor has the correct technical knowledge (and usually they choose one that does), the patent won't happen.

Here comes the money?

torok said: KLXVER said: Gameboy emulation on PC? Yeah, that's gonna sell well Current emulators aren't illegal. ROMs are, emulators aren't. But if Nintendo gets a patent, all GB emulators will be automatically illegal and Nintendo could emit cease and desist orders against its developers and start sueing them. If they become really interested in making their emulator the only one, they could start a fight that would, at least, make way less emulators available.

No! I won't allow them to start a fight against the beautiful VBA emulator ;(

I hope they make all GB emulators on Android illegal and taken off the shop.  They then can enjoy paying 3-6 dollars per game.

Seems like an update to patents they already had? Those diagrams look really dated, and PDAs have been dead for a long time now.

Maybe they don't want people using emulators so they're stopping it by eventually gaining the rights to GameBoy emulators

Let's grab our torches and march towards Nintendo HQ!! They will have to cease their thread against the beautiful emulators!!

Now serious, try Retroarch. It's a multi-system emulator (SMS, Genesis, GB, GBA, PS1, SNES, NES, N64, Virtual Boy and so on) and it's available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and so on!

I though you could use all the Wii features on Wii-U? Not the virtual console then?