Flojomojo Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Does a publisher like Capcom need Nintendo's permission to rerelease their NES games for emulation? Then there are games which have third party licensing that may never get rereleased. Just borrow them until they make them available. Looking at the recent re-release of Super Star Wars on Sony platforms, I'm thinking no, Capcom wouldn't need Nintendo's permission. They were licensed to play on the NES, but the code is their own. There's no mention of anything SNES related on the Super Star Wars re-release, just Disney branding alongside the LucasArts logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fujidude Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Why were emulators made in the 1st place? To be able to use a system, for whatever purpose, where using the original (or original style) hardware is either impossible, or not practical for whatever reason(s). The end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomH Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 If we're looking for a common root, surely it's the idea of a Turing machine? If you know that two different machines are Turing complete then you know that, storage limitations aside, either can run the software of the other. Otherwise I don't think there's a single reason why; each case is distinct. A couple of obvious and prominent examples that predate the '90s video game emulation explosion closely enough so as possibly to have more-widely seeded the idea: the 68000 emulator that shipped with PowerPC Macs and the BBC emulator that shipped with the Archimedes; both examples of running code for a different processor at sufficient speed closely to recreate the experience of last year's machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlegamer Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Emulators allow use of depreciated software on newer hardware. And to do rad things like: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Does a publisher like Capcom need Nintendo's permission to rerelease their NES games for emulation? No, the publisher owns the IP to the game. All they have to do is remove the "Licensed By Nintendo" from the ROM which is dead easy with any hex editor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landgraf Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Why were emulators made in the first place? IIRC the CCS64 C64 emulator was written for/the result of the author's graduate thesis. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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