Nintendo has never shied away from protecting its intellectual property. Their games and their characters are your two most important sources of incomeand that is why she has always been willing to defend them tooth and nail against piracy and any action that she felt might represent some kind of economic harm.

Nintendo Switch emulation in that sense was one of the most important problems which Japanese society had to face. We already know what the result was, the various emulators that were available on PC have dropped one by one and there are no more publicly available due to Nintendo’s harassment and demolition campaign.

This might lead us to believe that Nintendo doesn’t like emulation, but that’s not really the case, the Japanese company doesn’t like to dig into their pockets, that’s all. Its interests are purely economic, like the interests of any company, and therefore use emulation when it may be of some use or benefit to you.

We have a clear example at the Nintendo Museum in Japan, where the Japanese company uses PC emulators to create classic games from its consoles. This is very easy to verify because when you unplug the Super Nintendo controller that was connected via USB you will hear the classic sound that Windows makes when the device is disconnected.

This is completely understandable and completely logical because it’s much easier place a PC with classic game emulators before filling the museum with original consoles and cartridges. It also reduces costs and simplifies the maintenance of all equipment and facilitates the replacement of faulty equipment.

Some saw Nintendo’s attitude as a kind of double standard, but the truth is that in the end we are left with a company defending its interests and fighting against piracy, something that is completely legal. Big N also uses custom emulatorsthough it would be interesting to see how much they relied on third-party emulators to create their own solutions. Unfortunately, we will never know.

I’m not against emulation as a method keep and continue to enjoy classic games that they could not be played differently, but I also believe that not everything goes in this sense and that emulation should not be used as an excuse to defend piracy.