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Old 06-01-04, 05:15 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally posted by awdark
Arent GB emulators illegal now?
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/6,672,963
If it doesnt work its patent #6,672,963 at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm

Emulators are as legal as roms now?!
errrrrr, that patent is surely invalid. There have been emulators of hardware video game consoles since before November 2000 - prior art renders the patent invalid.

Whether any of the emulator makers have the balls / cash to take on nintendo when they try and enforce the patent is another matter, but I reckon it'd be an open and shut case....

i guess the only possible angle is that there were not emulators on PDAs and other "low performance" machines before then because they weren't powerful enough - that's very tenuous though, because you could argue that a PDA is exactly the same capability of a laptop of 10 years ago that COULD run the emulators available then...
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