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Nintendo could've gone down this path, too, releasing stylish throwback Game Boys or Famicoms. Analogue built a business around the idea of creating beautiful versions of old Nintendo systems like the Game Boy and NES that can run real game cartridges on circuitry that mimics the original consoles. What a ridiculous thing to say when a whole company, Analogue, exists thanks to the last decade of progress in software and hardware emulation. (Wait a second-is Nintendo just still really salty about Mother 3?) Some other game developers have seen the light: just recently Square Enix veteran Takashi Tokita highlighted that fan translations helped spread interest in RPG Live a Live, and it finally got an official western release with the new HD-2D remake 29 years later.

There are so many wonderful fan translations that simply wouldn't exist without emulators making it possible to pick games apart and see how they work. Without the popularity of romhacks like kaizo Mario, would Nintendo have ever developed Mario Maker? That hack helped inspire a whole genre of 'rage games' instrumental in the popularity of speedrunning and Let's Plays.

Running games at 2x speed is another staple-an emulation perk now deemed essential in remasters of old JRPGs like Final Fantasy 8. Save states are so commonplace today we barely think twice about why they became a standard feature, but when Nintendo included save states in the emulator for its NES Classic and SNES Classic, it was leaning on something innovated (or at least popularized) by the fan scene. Save states, for example: Best as I can tell the ability to instantly save and load anywhere debuted in Nesticle in 1997, though another emulator might've gotten there first. Fan-made emulators are responsible for pioneering features that are now considered must-haves in official emulators. The blatant lie or ignorance of that line just keeps eating at me. Nintendo can claim it's lost money to pirated games played on emulators over the years, and I'm sure it has-but it also made millions of dollars by launching a service that emulation proved viable.

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