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(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)

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[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.

[–] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

Corporations using open source projects to maximize profits is very common.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't remember which game, but there was one that it came out that they straight up lost the files for and had to download from a ROM site to put on the virtual console thing