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Re:Nintendo files Patent Application for Hand-Held Video Gam... by MBCook on Friday November 28, 2014 @10:40PM (#8673012)
Can someone de-patentese this?

It sounds like it's talking about the idea of having an emulator recognize that it's on a 3DS playing a copy of Pokemon Blue for the GB and then running special code that may be built into the emulator to enhance the presentation of Pokemon Blue, perhaps by overlaying 3D models of the attacks during battle.

Sort of like the auto-coloring that the SuperGB and GBC added to games but taken to a much further level.

Not a bad idea to have built in enhancement for popular/'important' games.

(I'm ignoring any 'should this be patentable' issues for the purposes of my post).

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Re:Nintendo files Patent Application for Hand-Held Video Gam... by Natsu on Friday November 28, 2014 @11:22PM (#8673069)
There's really no such thing as de-lawyering the wording because none of those words are guaranteed to follow their normal meaning and so the following guess may be wrong.

Anyhow, it sounds like they're saying picking which type of gameboy emulation to use based on which type of ROM you feed it. I'm pretty sure most gameboy emulators have done something like that for years, but maybe they're using the filename instead of examining the ROM itself, so I don't know offhand, but anyone who wants to look at the VBA source could figure it out if they care to.

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Re:Nintendo files Patent Application for Hand-Held Video Gam... by lmb on Saturday November 29, 2014 @06:24AM (#8673562)
Things like the CGB / SGB compatibility are stored in the ROM header [1]. So yeah, been there done that.

[1] http://www.enliten.force9.co.uk/gameboy/carthead.htm

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Re:Nintendo files Patent Application for Hand-Held Video Gam... by rasz_pl on Saturday November 29, 2014 @01:49AM (#8673274)
Yeah, its such a good idea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!

did it in 1999 to enhance Gran Turismo 1/2 graphics.

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Re:Nintendo files Patent Application for Hand-Held Video Gam... by akersten on Friday November 28, 2014 @11:02PM (#8673048)
> Can someone de-patentese this?

No. Because there's really nothing novel there. It's as generic as it sounds, and absolutely unenforceable - but it got through anyway. No surprise there.

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Re:Nintendo files Patent Application for Hand-Held Video Gam... by DSMan195276 on Saturday November 29, 2014 @01:55AM (#8673286)
What do you mean it got through? It is an application, not a patent.
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Re:Nintendo files Patent Application for Hand-Held Video Gam... by JohnTHaller on Saturday November 29, 2014 @02:36AM (#8673336)
It is. But it'll get through. Patents in the US have been a joke around the world for a while now.
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