Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintendo, experts suggest

Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by mattl on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:30PM (#31090217)

I bought a couple of Virtual Console games on the Wii. Those same games were transferred to my Wii U system with an SD card. The same games are now included on the Nintendo Switch Online service and many others too.

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by mehlmao on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:11PM (#31090589)

A fraction of those games are available on the Nintendo Switch Online, and you have to pay monthly for access to something you previously bought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_Online...

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by mattl on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:06PM (#31099942)

I’m having a hard time finding any NES or SNES games on that list made by Nintendo that aren’t on the NSO service.

Plus the article mentions that NSO service has some games that weren’t available elsewhere.

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by maybeOneDay on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:41PM (#31090329)

Which is to say: you had to wait for years for them to come out on Switch, and then pay again. Forever.

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by mattl on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:48PM (#31090393)

No, I’m pretty sure they were available very early after I bought the Switch console. Maybe within a year?

Late 2006 I bought the Wii and then the Wii U in 2014 and now I pay the family plan at maybe $70 a year?

Doesn’t seem different to buying songs on iTunes in 2006 and now paying for Apple Music every month now.

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by maybeOneDay on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:22AM (#31094470)

It was 18 months between launch of the Switch and of NSO, so we can split the difference :)

I disagree. You should as far as I'm aware be able to still use those songs

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by mattl on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:10PM (#31099980)

Depending on where you live it’s very possible iTunes songs had DRM in 2006 so you’re limited to playing those everywhere.

Does anyone do this as you’d like to see it with software? Maybe Valve?

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by maybeOneDay on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:04AM (#31119573)

I agree that DRM isn't ideal either.

Well, it's not that anyone is necessarily perfect. But the other major console players certainly seem better - if I bought a PS4 game a few years ago then I can reasonably expect to still play it on PS6 and probably onwards. X360 games have been brought back to life by MSoft.

Steam is generally pretty good yeah but it doesn't have the issue of consecutive consoles to deal with.

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by mattl on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:04AM (#31121103)

I’m not sure if every Microsoft released Xbox or Xbox 360 or Xbox One or Xbox One X game is available on Xbox Series S/X?

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