The Future of Portable Emulators

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

I seriously doubt gamepark announced that it would include GBA emulation built into the console, especially since early prototypes of the system didnt even have enough buttons to emulate it (it had 4).

Even if they did say it was a possibility of a gba emu, nintendo would have no grounds for suing gamepark, because as I said, GBA emulators, emulators in general, are NOT illegal. Bleem, VGS, the only way Sony stopped these two way by buying out connectix, the company who made VGS, and Bleem pretty much killed itself. Too many delays.

 

[pubjoe]

Bleem, yeah, how I remember was they tried to charge for there emu and release game specific versions, ie: Bleem Tekken 2 - £20

prats!

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

That was Bleemcast. The original PC Bleem was quite a feat, best emulator out at the time, ran extremely well on low spec machines.

 

[NiN^_^NiN]

Well i think u bring up a good case that if they are saying using emu is bad then u can say they r usng emu ont her gamecube. But then they can argue they are allowed as they made the system that is being emulated, but still its remains gamepark would die if it went to court they wouldnt be able to sue the big N for damages the lawsuit did.

h34r:

 

[RoboJoe32]

Actually they could..... for monopolization of the handheld market, and intentionally bringing gamepark to court to drain them of their funds and to rub them out of the picture...(Aren't small corporations supposedly protected by some sort of small business clause?) (Something microsoft loves to do once they have the slightest bit of evidence, and the court got POed and hit microsoft a few times)

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

Why didnt sega shut down development of the sega emulators if they had the chance? Well, they didn't have a chance!

EMULATORS ARE NOT A GREY AREA! THEY ARE PERFECTLY LEGAL! ANYONE CAN DEVELOP AN EMULATOR, AND AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT INFRINGE ON SOMEONE ELSES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WHICH THEY RARELY DO, THEY CANNOT BE TAKEN TO COURT.

You see that PC that your on now? If it wasnt for reverse engineering, it would be an IBM manufactured computer. If you try to bring up the DMCA, you must realise that its only in effect in america and about 2 other countries.

VGS was NOT made by sony. Sony attempted to sue them, and they were successful at first, but only because they managed to convice the court that they stole intellectual property. Bleem found a loophole, they said they did not copy anything, they simply viewed it, and learnt from it. They didn't copy anything. VGS made the same case, they won, and Sony had no choice but to buy the company in a desperate bid to stop the development of the emulator. This was uncessesful, you can still find unofficial updated versions on the net.

There are many emulators out there for the PC that emulate macs. You need to original, or pirated software to use them however, along with a macintosh bios. Can Apple go after the companies that make them? No. So you know what they do? They ignore the emulators. They havn't sabotaged the development at all by deliberately making software incompatible.

In conclusion, nintendo wont do it. They can try, but THEY would be the ones losing the money. Gamepark would just gain more interest, more publicity. Sales would increase. Gamepark wouldnt lose money, they would GAIN money.

 

[crazeeplaya]

what is VGS? and what did it emulate?

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

Virtual Game Station, it emulated the Playstation, almost perfectly I might add, even to this day, its probably the most compatible emulator out there.

Doesnt use 3d accel tho, its all software.

 

[Flip & Flop]

Correct me if im worn g here but say the gba emulator comes out for the gp32

Nintendo would sue gameparks ass

but the GBA itself, also runs emu's

 

[khephren]

Nintendo wouldn't win such a case- there are to many legal examples showing they would lose. So long as gamepark stay's away from advertising the compatability, there should not be a problem. Nintendo are already in trouble with their shareholders over the failure (in sales terms) of the cube, they can't afford to risk losing the case. Many shareholders probably still remember the big N taking codemasters to court for reverse engineering snes carts, and losing. Codemasters then went from a budget firm to a massive developer-all with the help of Nintendo's cash.