Nintendo Patents Handheld Emulation, Cracks Down

Posted by simoniker on Thursday March 11, 2004 @06:43PM from the kirby-lawyer-morph dept.

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."

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Eh, I don't care. by Anhaedra · 2004-03-11 20:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I really don't care, Nintendo can suck my nuts.

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Re:Fuck them by sbrown123 · 2004-03-12 01:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Good post. I wont add comment since you covered this quite well.