Nintendo Patents Handheld Emulation, Cracks Down

mclove writes "Looks like Nintendo has recently been granted a patent that gives them new leverage in their fight against emulators: Patent 6,672,963 mainly appears to cover emulators like UltraHLE that are custom-tailored for particular games, but they're already using it to suppress a new Game Boy Advance emulator for the Tapwave Zodiac, Firestorm gbaZ, and there's no reason to think they won't start leveraging it against anyone else trying to emulate their systems." The reprinted lawyer's letter from Nintendo also notes: "Whether you have an authentic game or not, it is illegal to copy a Nintendo game from a cartridge or to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet."

Comments

The irony

[Bill_Royle]

Ah, the irony. The emulator of the Playstation and the Xbox (with a twist of Hello Kitty), coming out against emulators.

Remember when they used to define the industry?

ZSNES

[NeoGeo64]

What ramifications does this have for emulators like ZSNES?

Oh, and Nintendo doesn't have to worry, I'm only emulating games from the 16-bit era (games I own), because everything they made from the N64 on up (with a few exceptions) has sucked majorly.

Who is Nintendo?

[Openstandards.net]

I don't care what they say or do now because clearly this puts Nintendo on a boycott list. What Nintendo produces is something I will henceforth care less about since I will never purchase another product from them until they apologize for their behavior.

Companies who side with the DMCA and the current unbalanced use of patent and copyright law in aspects that clearly are opposed by the public, from which the pool of their customers comes from, do not deserve one dime. The people are still greater than the entities created to benefit them.

Re:Fsck them

[kahrhoff]

Purges fair from the other side? You sir are not human and on top of that a fucking retard!!!