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Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum | Nintendo only hates third-party emulators, it seems


The reveal comes from X user @ChrisMack32, who posted a video showing them unplugging a Super Nintendo controller – connected via USB – at one of the...

Assuming the video hasn't been edited and this is the real deal, it seems Nintendo has decided to emulate some of its own games, including the 1990 classic Super Mario World that's shown in the clip, at the museum. The reality is that emulating the games on PC has advantages over placing an original console in every one of the museum's booths, especially as it avoids having to maintain all that ancient hardware. In March, Tropic Haze, developer of the popular open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, agreed to pay Nintendo$2.4 million and cease all operations.

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