By now, you’re more than likely aware of the Nintendo Museum. The museum has been officially open to the public in Kyoto, Japan for almost 2 weeks now. One of the things that fans can see at the museum are Nintendo‘s various games, both new and old, that are on display. That said, you may be curious what the games are running on, particularly the older ones.
Well, we might have an answer. A clip has surfaced on social media of a game apparently getting cutting off. Afterwards, the “device disconnected” sound that is known for being heard when a USB device has been unplugged from a Windows PC is audible. Because of this, fans are speculating that this is implying that Nintendo’s older games may be running off of emulators found on PCs.
That would be hilarious and so ironic. But honestly Nintendo going to Nintendo.
I mean, yeah? Of course they’d be on emulators? I mean, I’d be a bit surprised if they ran on the actual hardware (although that wouldn’t be like, mindblowing or anything)
Nintendo literally has emulators running on the Switch for NES, SNES, GB, GBC, and N64 games? Their Virtual Console titles on Wii, Wii U, 3DS, N3DS— those weren’t running natively, y’know? And the NES & SNES Classic? What about the Mario & Zelda Game & Watches?
They even had an NES emulator in Animal Crossing on GameCube 😭 ofc the creators of the console have in-house tools to play the games they developed? This is such a strange piece of ‘news’ tbh,,,
Plus, wasn’t the bigger news that Miyamoto said Virtual Boy was running off of a Nintendo Switch? Technically we’ve already had this confirmed, since that’s certainly not a native port, either
Duh, nothing burger rage bait story. we going to get mad about the virtual console and nes mini again too? It snot ironic in the slightest, because they dislike the piracy aspect and lack of control of the hardware aspects of emulation.
Their own emulation (which they have for every single system and always had) cannot facilitate piracy because its not distributed and is under their control, and no they are not using something like dolphin, they have a suite of their own emulators developed by their own dev teams.
But its an emulator that they either created or outsourced to play their games. Not sure why this news would rile anyone up. The thing that really irritates people are facts like paying for digital isn’t owning and the fact Nintendo is taking down fan emulators. The irony isn’t lost on me, but Nintendo they aren’t the same thing, Nintendo runs old games on Virtual Console and NSO using emulators, so them using one in their museum isn’t really anything special or something to rile people up about…
“ But its an emulator that they either created or outsourced to play their games” we have absolutely no info that the emulators they used are official and we know for a fact that unofficial emulators are way better than anything made by Nintendo. I’m not saying for a fact they are using unofficial emulators but I hope to god they are cause that would be so fucking funny
While that would be hilarious and admittedly they technically own any emulator they take down. Something tells me Nintendo would never use a fan emulator even if they run better than anything they either create or outsource simply based on their stubborn principles.
Nintendo has plenty of in house emulators for their previous systems. Super Mario 3D All-Stars shows that they have emulators up to the Wii at the very least.