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SNES9X is back online

Posted by Hemos on from the stickin'-it-to-the-man dept.

Ventilator wrote in with news about SNES9X, pointing us to an article stating that SNEX9X is back. The SNES9X page itself has screenshots from the 28th as well, so things look happier in emulation land.

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  1. Re:Unclear on something... by dmiller · · Score: 4

    Reverse engineering is not piracy, what gave you that idea?

    Reverse engineering is essential for competition in an environment dominated by closed standards, hardware, software and/or protocols.

    Many large companies have been lobbying very hard against the right to reverse engineer commercial products and have already met with some success (cf the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the US).

    This right has made possible competing implementations of closed systems such as Windows filesharing (in the form of Samba).