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zerojay 2009-11-27 18:17

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
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Originally Posted by MrGrim (Post 396456)
Meh, that's just something to make headlines. I guess "Nintendo sues Marat Fayzullin [the guy who made the vgba emu]" doesn't sound interesting enough to publish. Even if they do have a case, nokia has no part in this, they're suing the driver because his car somehow infringes IP

Ah... I guess ignorance is bliss, hmm?

qole 2009-11-27 18:23

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
Well, I hope you are happy now Nintendo... Everything Nintendo-related is gone from the maemo.org repositories now, probably because of this... :( :mad:

ewan 2009-11-27 18:34

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
Damn. Any idea of another potential home for this stuff?

JPHeikkinen 2009-11-27 18:59

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
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Originally Posted by maemojedi (Post 396442)
Emulators are also on the droid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W65pOlUGLxM

so I see nintendo going after google before they set their sites on nokia

The difference is that the video of N900 was posted by Nokia employee on the official Nokia blog. I don't think it was deliberately done by Nokia, but more of a mistake on the part of the employee - he obviously didn't think it through before posting.

pycage 2009-11-27 19:00

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
Nintendo has been trying to stop emulators for 10 years now. They were not succesful, and now they're repeating the same game again.
Don't they ever get it, or do they still sell SNES units?

b-man 2009-11-27 19:08

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
luckily i made a mirror of most of the emulators from the repositorys here: http://b-man.xceleo.org/files/emu/ enjoy! :p

ewan 2009-11-27 19:14

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
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Originally Posted by pycage (Post 396548)
Don't they ever get it, or do they still sell SNES units?

No, but they do still sell SNES games.

pycage 2009-11-27 19:25

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
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Originally Posted by ewan (Post 396571)
No, but they do still sell SNES games.

Emulators don't violate IP on games. It may violate IP on the hardware, but I doubt that as it was all created from clean scratch.
If Nintendo would go after sites offering pirated ROMs I can fully understand that. But going after emulators, or companies that happen to sell a product for which emulators are available, is just not leading anywhere. Nintendo is IMHO happy to finally having found a company behind emulators for the first time. That's why they love to sue Nokia.

c0rt3x 2009-11-27 19:28

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
Nintendo sucks when it comes to greed. Honestly, you can't say otherwise. There is something called "gaming libraries" where all video games currently availible on the market can be borrowed for free - just like books. Of course by saying all I mean all but those published by Nintendo. :(

pycage 2009-11-27 19:35

Re: Nintendo maybe going to court for N900 Nintendo emulators.
 
I would predict that Nintendo will fail suing again.
They even failed when directly suing the creators of snes9x (iirc it was almost 10 years ago) and after a few weeks, the snes9x site was back again. Emulators are not illegal, no matter what Nintendo likes to think.


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