GBA Emulator Creators Vow To Take On Nintendo

Posted by simoniker on Saturday March 13, 2004 @11:50AM from the a-pleasure-knowing-you dept.

Justin Nolan writes "According to a PDALive article, Kyle Poole of Crimson Fire Entertainment has decided to take on Nintendo after their legal threats regarding his Zodiac Tapwave-based Game Boy Advance emulator, Firestorm gbaZ. The following post can be found in his forum: 'We believe that the US Patent No 6,672,963 does not apply to Firestorm gbaZ, as the patent clearly covers optimizing an emulator based on detecting a predetermined video game title... Because of this, we have decided that we will release the emulator early next week as a free open source project, covered by the GPL license. We will of course provide a compiled version for you to use, but the full source code will also be available. This will provide us further legal protection, as we will not be profiting from it.'"

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Re:Hmm... by NintenDoctor · 2004-03-13 12:07 · Score: 5, Informative

Read the first article:

To all those that have already shown their support for this project and have pre-ordered it, you can a) request a full refund b ) exchange it for any other game c) donate it to Crimson Fire to help our impending legal costs as well as the development costs

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I've moved on.