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Re:Basic and the ROMs that changed the world (and then disap... by quercusa on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:45AM (#39931086)
Sorry to say this, but there's no hope of getting two of the world's largest companies to license you some ancient ROM code. The legal status and licensing of it is probably murky at best, and there's nothing in it for them to even look into it.

The good news is that they probably don't care about it anyway.

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Re:Basic and the ROMs that changed the world (and then disap... by rusk on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:28PM (#39935429)
It’s abandonware.

If they think they might have a market for it in the future they will like Nintendo assert their copyright if not IANAL you can proceed. But yeah they can legally assert their copyright if they want to so probably best of doing it on the QT

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