Well yes, yes they did. It is called Canoe and is for example running inside the SNES Classic Mini. And that is not the only emulator they wrote. Writing an emulator is not some obscure magic, and it is way easier if you own all the schematics and other Information used to build the original hardware.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Is it a known thing that they discontinued canoe or something?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's not how any of that works

[–] BonerMan@ani.social -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why? You can just say its the official Nintendo emulator.

Nobody gives a shit if its legal or not, this is a Nintendo bashing club. We hate them and wish them to go bankrupt.

[–] Lumu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

Sure but why would the source code be available? It'd be funny if it was but it's probably a compiled program, right?

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Implying they have their own emulator and it's not just running retroarch or something

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Nintendo has their own emulators for running these games on newer consoles.

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they would do that it would be very useful in court.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not illegal for Nintendo to run retroarch.

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its not illegal for anyone else either, but them running such software for profit might be a licensing issue depending on the exact version they use.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

RetroArch and most of its cores are under the GPL or MIT, which allow commercial use.