Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoFirst-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down13
arrow-up1233arrow-down1external-linkFirst-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80arstechnica.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squareKelly@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 days agoTheir emulators have always been proprietary. The waters were a little muddied by the NES/SNES Classic consoles using a Linux OS but the emulators were their own code. Their FOSS code is made available when required and is published here: https://support.nintendo.com/jp/oss/index.html
minus-squareAgent Karyo@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoI see. I am surprised they didn’t simply take existing open source code and go with that.
minus-squarePrinz Kasper@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoThey likely want to avoid legitimising those existing emulators.
Their emulators have always been proprietary. The waters were a little muddied by the NES/SNES Classic consoles using a Linux OS but the emulators were their own code.
Their FOSS code is made available when required and is published here:
https://support.nintendo.com/jp/oss/index.html
I see. I am surprised they didn’t simply take existing open source code and go with that.
They likely want to avoid legitimising those existing emulators.