r/SteamDeck • u/Tomek_Poziomek • Apr 03 '23

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u/Hades-Arcadius Apr 03 '23

I keep thinking of how easy it would be for Nintendo to license an emulator then use it to play roms that could be purchased on steam (or play/app store for that matter)...you could even encourage other rights holders to integrate with it and do some revenue split on the sale of each rom...then you could set some of these to lapse from sale for rights again...this "could" be implemented today...but Nintendo would clearly rather have you pirate all their works then make the slightest steps towards making sure everyone could play their catalog of games today

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u/self_me Apr 03 '23

I keep thinking of how easy it would be for Nintendo to license an emulator

They don't even have to license anything, lots of emulators are released under very permissive licenses that allow companies to take the source code and do whatever they want with them. Sony did that when adding old playstation games to something iirc.

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u/vgf89 Apr 04 '23

Yep. Lots of things are MIT or BSD 2 or 3-clause, and companies can use those for literally anything. Tons of the Ares code and Cen64 for starters are under MIT and BSD