Nescaline - Nintendo Emulator iPhone App Removed from App Store After Brief Appearance

Andy
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For a brief couple of hours yesterday, Nintendo fans were offered a fully functional Nintendo emulator on the Apple App Store. Just as the blogosphere caught up to it, Apple realized that it was a blunder and pulled the iPhone app away from the App Store. The iPhone app, called...

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  • skeezix
    skeezix Posts: 1
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    An emu does _NOT_ violat any copyrights. If he didn't include the games, he did not break any laws or ethical points. It is Apple being a buddy buddy to Nintendo and other Big Companies, and thats it.

    More to point though .. if Apple isn't going to allow a Java VM (essentially an emulator of a nonedxistant platform), and troubles a C64 emu for fear BASIC might be used to write competing apps (seriously?), then a NES emu with Big N breathign down its neck has no chance.

    But theres no legal quesiton here; Apple can do what it wants, and Apple likes to be a goof.

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  • duston
    duston Posts: 26
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    imagine, a seemless JAVA game emulator, oh god that would be awsome
    millions of games

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  • tony b
    tony b Posts: 1
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    someone needs to get this cracked and put onto cydia so we all can try it out the layout for the buttons looks so much better than NES3.

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