Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoFan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide supportwww.videogameschronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squareLorem Ipsum dolor sit amet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoProbably not, they don’t provide copyrighted files and Nintendo reeeeeaaaally doesn’t want to create precedent that decomp is fair use (which it probably is) which could make emulators 100% legal.
minus-squareblackjam_alex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoDecomps are legal because they’re clean room reimplementations of the original code rather than exact copies. It’s the same approach IBM PC compatible manufacturers used back in the day to create their own BIOSes.
Probably not, they don’t provide copyrighted files and Nintendo reeeeeaaaally doesn’t want to create precedent that decomp is fair use (which it probably is) which could make emulators 100% legal.
Decomps are legal because they’re clean room reimplementations of the original code rather than exact copies.
It’s the same approach IBM PC compatible manufacturers used back in the day to create their own BIOSes.