Emulators themselves aren't illegal, but in the majority of cases ROMs are. The Ninth Circult will have a field day with this one. On the other hand, if I look up the Store description for this app, it mentions one very particular killer (as in, it will get this app killed) feature: The inducing conduct angle is most interesting because it probably wouldn't apply to retro consoles, which are emulators internally but have real cartridge slots and are sold exclusively for playing legitimate copies of old games. Many people misunderstood it as an overturning of the 'Betamax decision', but it's really more about marketing and overall conduct. Inducing conduct: Does NesOne's marketing materials induce users to commit copyright infringement? This is a difficult to understand legal doctrine, given that it originally only applied to patents until the Supreme Court said otherwise 10 years ago.Patents: Does Nintendo still own any patents regarding the NES or emulating the NES that are being infringed by an emulator? Keep in mind that Nintendo already owns a bunch of troll-level patents regarding emulation from around the time they were starting development on Virtual Console that likely haven't expired yet.

Trademark concerns: Does 'NesOne' infringe on Nintendo's existing trademarks regarding this system? As explained above.

While emulation is technically legal, there are so many other potential legal pitfalls out there that most other companies don't want to touch it. Hell, we can't even get Apple to allow emulators unless they only run licensed games sold through the App Store. Or Nintendo will just fire off a DMCA and scare the developer away. Same thing Sony did to the Play Store when they launched PlayStation games to their Xperia app store or whatever.Or Microsoft could get cold feet and retract the certification. Nintendo could still pull trademark bullshit with a name like 'NesOne'. Six subreddits from this multireddit are randomly shuffled every hour. You can also read the rules in more depth on our wiki. Putting text into this format will hide spoilers: (/spoiler) becomes Nintendo. Don't put spoilers in post titles at all. Please be considerate when discussing plot details for games new or old. However, please read other subreddits' rules before submitting there. We will try to tell you how you can resubmit, or recommend a more a suitable subreddit. However, we do ban users who make personal attacks or buy/sell/beg. Our moderation policy is not to keep track of every rule infraction, and everything is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

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