Nintendo Emulators Being Prepped for Ouya Console
N64, SNES and NES emus could be ready for console's launch.
We smell a lawsuit coming! Ouya's open-development console is bringing with it some not-strictly legal activities, as work on a variety of Nintendo emulators near completion.
The crowd-funded console runs on a customised Android operating system, meaning that many emulators already developed for the platform can run on Ouya with a little bit of tweaking. And already, coders took to the Ouya Boards to showcase N64, NES and SNES running on the environment.
Videos of an N64 emulator, Mupen64plus, can be seen on a YouTube channel belonging to one blackoutworm, along with Ouya emulations of other titles such as Ubisoft's iOS platformer Rayman Jungle Run.
Development on Mupen64plus started after it was successfully funded on Kickstarter. You can learn about the homebrew project right here.
It's an interesting development for a console that puts the power of development in the hands of the independent coder... but hopefully this isn't the start of a trend that ends up muddying Ouya's otherwise positive message.
Via Polygon
The crowd-funded console runs on a customised Android operating system, meaning that many emulators already developed for the platform can run on Ouya with a little bit of tweaking. And already, coders took to the Ouya Boards to showcase N64, NES and SNES running on the environment.
Videos of an N64 emulator, Mupen64plus, can be seen on a YouTube channel belonging to one blackoutworm, along with Ouya emulations of other titles such as Ubisoft's iOS platformer Rayman Jungle Run.
Development on Mupen64plus started after it was successfully funded on Kickstarter. You can learn about the homebrew project right here.
It's an interesting development for a console that puts the power of development in the hands of the independent coder... but hopefully this isn't the start of a trend that ends up muddying Ouya's otherwise positive message.
Via Polygon
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ergo 25 Mar 2013 21:52
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Ah yes, this is what Ouya wants, a massive lawsuit that will suck them dry and destroy the console before it even gets rolling. Brilliant management.
(Contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as bad publicity.)
They'll also, willfully, force a new battle on the legality of emulation which *nobody* wants since the status quo, for now, works in their favor but, given the tenor in the corridors of power towards copyright these days, it will *not* end to anyones advantage *except* those who would love to see emulation disappear.
(And no, no amount of Kickstarter money is going to save you from a company with tens of millions to burn on killing you.)
(Contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as bad publicity.)
They'll also, willfully, force a new battle on the legality of emulation which *nobody* wants since the status quo, for now, works in their favor but, given the tenor in the corridors of power towards copyright these days, it will *not* end to anyones advantage *except* those who would love to see emulation disappear.
(And no, no amount of Kickstarter money is going to save you from a company with tens of millions to burn on killing you.)