Re:What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?
by detuned on Thursday July 20, 2023 @02:13PM
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An especially egregious fact is that Nintendo uses open source emulators themselves and have re released & sold some older games that are just the emulator bundled with the game, in some cases inheriting emulator-only bugs.
The most recent example I can think of is that the most recent Pikmin release includes dolphin and can therefore be played on a PC with no modification.
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> An especially egregious fact is that Nintendo uses open source emulators themselves [...] the most recent Pikmin
That's not true. Pikmin uses Hagi, which is Nintendo's own emulator. Nintendo never used an open-source emulator in a release product.
See this fellow confused guy's thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/pikmin-1-2-use-dolphin-emulator....
Re:What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?
by mrguyorama on Thursday July 20, 2023 @03:06PM
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Nintendo has absolutely modified open source emulators for certain things
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/nintendo_accused_o...
There has been accusations that some "in house" emulators are also open source ones with superficial changes
They have also been found to use ROMs dumped by end users and posted on the normal ROM sites for their "play an old game" products.
Re:What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?
by ThatPlayer on Thursday July 20, 2023 @03:59PM
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That article isnt about Nintendo, only a publisher on Nintendo's store.
The rom thing was only the same rom format. How are you going to tell if it's the same dumps or not? Roms are supposed to match 1:1, otherwise verification hashes projects like redump and no-intro wouldn't work.