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NES Emulator for iPhone and iPad Now Available on App Store [Removed]
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So the developer launched the app for 15 minutes of fame and then removed it because they were scared for Nintendo?
Yes they are! I hope that Nintendo will go after Apple for this pro-emulation policy they have now. Nintendo's lawyers are scary. So are Apple's. Both have very deep pockets. I would love to see the outcome of such a lawsuit.
Waiting for .ipa package launch when 17.5 sideloading becomes a working thing. Github?
Nintendo's lawyers are smart. They can't prevent the concept of emulation because it's entirely legal.
You must work for Nintendo. You need to get your head out of you ***.
* This isn’t illegal
* This doesn’t compromise iOS in any way
* Choice is good for business
* Freedom to do whatever you want with your iPhone is good for business
* No one is forcing you to download or install an emulator or a ROM that works with said emulator
* You don’t get to decide how everyone else uses the device they purchased
Great answer to the "total trash" criticism ! Thanks for trying to make something for the public !
What percentage of emulator users own the game? I'd wager that it's a tiny fraction.
And how many people even have the hardware to dump the ROM? The law on its face, allows that you or someone you explicitly authorize makes a copy of YOUR cartridge. It becomes a stretch if you decide to use someone else's ROM and you still own the cartridge.
Where each person stands on this argument is based on how strongly you believe in copyright and how strongly you believe in compensation of creators.
It's not about which company is still around it's that Emulators where deemed legal when this was taken to court.
So there should be no problem with Emulators being up in the App Store if they where illegal most that are available in the Playstore would have been unlisted years ago in said store.
Why wont users like yourself on the side of use of Emulators admit that the majority of the ROMS out there are pirated.
If I could prove that 99% of the ROMs out there are pirated, why is that in itself not a good argument that Emulators should not be legal.
There are Cartridge dumpers on amazon and eBay to dump my own roms.
Because users like you are shifting the argument from "Are emulators legal?" to "Are ROMs legal?", then using the fact that many illegal ROM sites exist to go back and say "See? Since most ROMs are illegal then emulators are, too, and they don't deserve a place in our society."
It's a plain logical fallacy, and you're arguing with your lives for something that doesn't even benefit you.
ETA: In addition to that, you "emulator legality deniers" (for lack of a better term) misuse the fact that emulators exist for current- or last-gen systems to say that "emulator users just want to pirate games", when 1) it's not true in the face of emulators existing for obscure systems and 2) anecdotally, most emulator players I know use eg. a switch emulator to play the games that they own on cartridge from their PCs or Steam Decks in an upscaled resolution.
Weird to see people recommending an Android emulator to use other emulators. You can almost always tell when someone has never used a Mac when they make comments like that.
Agreed. I've been messing with emulators since 1997. That's 27 years that these kinds of emulators have been around. If they were as illegal as some here would insist, we'd have more lawsuits from Nintendo than we had from the RIAA suing kids with MP3s. Damn, I'm old. 😁
Your remarks make no sense. My post is to merely point out that emulators are legal and Apple has in the past made exceptions to for Big Corporations. Remember Apples prior stated rationale for blocking emulation was about preventing external code execution.
The problem your post here is you’re conflating emulation with copyright infringement while established case law showing otherwise. Your Sega emulator example isn’t as ridiculous as you think. In the 1990s EA reversed engineered Sega Genesis so they could develop games for the platform without paying Sega licensing fees. EA won in court and that precedent is one of many supporting the legality of emulation.
Never said they weren't. hell even Nintendo themselves have used roms from someone else themselves
but we aren't talking about roms we're talking about Emulators which they have been deemed legal for 20 years now.
They should also lockdown Safari so people can’t play videos and download stuff to stop piracy of music and films.
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It's what this specific article is about. Not to mention it's an emulator that runs games that were released decades ago. And I suspect vanishingly few people are trying to run the stuff you earn royalties on with an emulator.
Emulators are generally legal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This will never happen. iOS is moving in the direction of macOS, not the other way around.
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They should get rid of telegram and Whatsapp both are used to share pirated content /s
I think if they stop making devices with displays altogether then no one can view pirated content and every one will have to go outside and pay for the services.
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