After shutting down several popular emulators over the years, Nintendo's top IP lawyer just admitted that emulators are legal.
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You don’t say, Nintendo. Pretty sure they’re also using open source emulators, from the developers they really hate, to run their older titles.

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Idk their emulation is garbage except for the suspension and rewind. A lot of the open source emulation I have seen, especially of Nintendo products, is immaculate.

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Not to mention the selection of games available is pretty paltry.

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Zelda 64 on the Switch was a mess at release, but the emulator has improved greatly since then.

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That’s just not true. They have their own emulators, but most of the time they are inferior to community ones. I think Virtual Console releases used some kind of optimized emulators for their hardware, but didn’t care about accuracy, etc.

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