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Emulation community expresses defiance in wake of Nintendo’s Yuzu lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by flork@lemy.lol to c/emulation@lemmy.ml

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[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, they hired a guy who had already made an emulator to make theirs. He stuck with the rom file format he already knew. Because the rom files are based on the same source (the released binary on the game cartridge), they are byte-for-byte identical, as you you'd expect.

[–] Poiar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Are you telling me that I'm reading this wrong?

https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us