Nesbox pulled from all Windows stores

amp.windowscentral.com/microsoft-unpublishes-nintendo-emulator

>Yesterday we reported on Universal Emulator one of the first game emulators built on the Windows 10 platform. The app let users load ROMs, often illegally, from Nintendo and Sega, to play on Windows 10 PCs and phones. It even supports the new Bluetooth wireless Xbox One S controller, HoloLens and Microsoft's Continuum for phone.

>Those trying to find the app today are unlikely to be successful. The app was indeed pulled from the Store.

>The bad news is the app was pulled because it was also submitted as an app for Xbox One. Many people wondered if Microsoft would let a full-fledged game emulator on to the Xbox gaming console potentially ruffling feathers at Nintendo. We now have our answer as Microsoft does not want the app on the console.

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No shit.

lol based nintendo btfo xbox fags

>Windows 10

It's been on Windows 10 for months. Soon as they tried to put it on the Bone it not only got denied, but taken off Windows 10 as well. If they hadn't have been greedy, they would have stayed on Windows 10 unnoticed.

All nes games are shit snes fucking sucks ass

>often illegally
more like always illegally.

>360 faggots getting hyped over emulators like vita fags

I can guarantee you this is the opinion of someone that is considered nintendo's current fanbase.

Vita is hacked. Stay mad nintendrone

>Nothing to even play or emulate on the 3DS
What other options are there? The 3DS has a shit library.

>Nothing to ever play on ____

Fucking the same shit every fucking thread.

3DS is the only system that has games to play right now, you filthy non-gamer

F

Emulators are 100% legal

Microsoft are huge pussies

the roms aren't. Neither are the use of the names and logos.

If you own the game the ROM is completely legal

And the emulator doesn't use Nintendo logos

Here's a good talk on emulation:
gdcvault.com/play/1023470/-It-s-Just-Emulation

Basically, legal emulation is totally possible but the industry is afraid of stepping on the toes of the hardware manufacturers, even though that is legal too as long as they don't use the BIOS or advertising materials. This is why you can't play those SNES or PlayStation titles made by third parties even though they have the source code (for the most part) and instead have to wait for much more expensive ports and remakes.

Thank you. This guy's talk should always be posted in emulator-related threads

>app store
I think i found your problem mate

Sup Forums BTFO

>W10
Kek
Shit like this is why I'll be staying on 7 for as long as possible.

people seriously thought nesbox was going to gain traction? Sup Forums delusional as ever

>i only pirate games so everyone else does too

I saw people in console war threads already using nesbox as support for argument that xbox is the best, fucking morons

>paying for any sort of digital media or entertainment in 2016

imagine living like this

Microsoft added cross platform play to all their games and added mods to games. Emulation could be seen as another yet step in making a more open and appealing console. Microsoft is probably one of the only companies in the world capable of taking on a legal battle from basically every console manufacturer to have ever existed.

They deleted nesbox from windows marketplace because some faggot started a shitstorm when nesbox was approved to xbox one.

>App Store

Well look on the bright side OP, you can still go download it from your browser.

For now. At least until MS succeeds in completely locking down PC and turns it into a closed platform where the only place you can download anything is the app store.

They also got the N64 one removed for shits and giggles

It's unfortunate, but it's not like you can't get emulators on a Windows PC easily anyway, and nobody owns a Windows phone.

Can't you emulate NES games through the browser at this point anyway?

Why does this matter? You can download emulators anywhere else.

The only thing this sucks is for Xboners, but any toaster can run an emulator like that. This is making a fuss over nothing. If this is about 'Oh hey, Microsoft is allowing an emulator on their console, haha, Nintenfags BTFO', then, no shit the fucking thing would be taken down. That would more than likely start some legal shit and we all know how Nintendo's been about that lately.

Sega > Nintendo

They probably just didn't notice it until people started mentioning it when talking about nesbox emulator.

> that image

made the part that should be big small and the part that should be small big

I think the main purpose behind this was to set a precedent. Emulation in general is not illegal so there's no actual reason Microsoft should have had to take the emulator down as long as the thing didn't contain any copyrighted code. If Nintendo sued they would almost assuredly lose the lawsuit, the main problem is Microsoft is not willing to deal with a lawsuit on behalf of random people.

The lawsuit would officially set the record straight on emulation but it could also lead to other devs requesting Microsoft do the same for them.

We need an official lawsuits to set the precedent on emulation and fan games so badly. Fuck this industry

That already happened. There was a PlayStation emulator in the 90s that was sold commercially and Sony sued and lost.

Wouldn't be as clear cut because the Bleem! case hinged on people mostly using real disks to play on the emulator.

I highly doubt the same could be said for people using Nesbox to play Fester's Quest.

you literally can't extract NES roms from your games legally at the moment

Bleem company was ultimately forced to close up shop because the costs of legal defense coupled with the development costs became too much to handle.

Emulation is legal but defending it will still require money.

There was actually two or three of them. Bleem!, Bleemcast(for the Dreamcast), and the Connectix Virtual Game Station for MacOS.

Sony attempted to sue Bleem and Connectix for them but they lost both of the lawsuits. Bleem would later go bankrupt from the legal fees while Connectix got bought up by Sony who shut the whole operation down.

>Microsoft pulls a NES emulator from their store.
No kidding. This is probably a whole mess of legal issues and I'm sure that Microsoft does not want to be in the middle of it all.

It's actually a multi-system emulator, it can run nes, snes, genesis, gameboy, gameboy color, and gameboy advance games apparently.

It's only legal for 24 hours.

Yes you can. Retro Freak says hi.

What. It has nothing to do with W10 the OS, it was taken off of their app store.

I'm sure they don't want to deal with people emulating games they don't own, such as myself.

Based Nintendo

BUT THE XBONE WAS FINALLY GOING TO GET GAMES

There's no legal issues actually, emulation is just considered a 'nono' in the corporate industry due to paranoia about it somehow not being legal and being seen as condoning piracy (even though emulation and piracy are two different things)

So is 3DS.

Stay mad Vitagen

Was this really something people thought would be okay ? It's retarded to think that Nintendo or Microsoft would allow emulators on their store. It's only working with Android and Apple because that shit is less regulated.

would i really get in trouble if i save this image?

Microsoft pulled it to not damage relations with Nintendo. It would be stupid to excommunicate with such a big player in the industry over something so small.

imagine actually beliving this

microsoft shills are saying they couldve handled the legal battle, as soon as I heard about this I knew the shit was going to be canned, nobody is that dumb except Sup Forums

There's a difference between saying Microsoft "could" defend themselves against Nintendo, which they obviously could, and saying they would want to. While Microsoft has a fuckload more money than Nintendo, they have no reason to hurt relations between the two companies.

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