Some observers also pointed to other reasons to doubt that these leaks were an “official” Nintendo work product. Some skepticism might be warranted, too, because there is some historical precedent for an emulator developer trying to get more attention by pretending their homebrew product is a “leaked” official Nintendo release.Įnlarge / Why would an official Nintendo emulator make reference to third-party flash carts? While suggestive, none of this is exactly hard evidence of Nintendo’s involvement in making these emulators. Footage from the leaked Game Boy Advance emulator also includes a “(c) Nintendo” and “(c) 2019 – 2020 Nintendo” at various points. NERD’s history includes work on the software for the NES Classic and SNES Classicas well as the GameCube emulation technology in last year’s Super Mario All-Stars, so the division’s supposed involvement wouldn’t be out of the ordinary. That folder includes commit logs that supposedly reference development work circa August 2020 from a NERD employee and, strangely enough, a developer at Panasonic Vietnam. In short order, dataminers examining the package found a. Later in that thread, the original poster suggested that these emulators “are official in-house development versions of Game Boy Color/Advance emulators for Nintendo Switch Online, which have not been announced or released.” The two leaked emulators-codenamed Hiroko for Game Boy and Sloop for Game Boy Advance-first hit the Internet as fully compiled NSP files and encrypted NCA files linked from a 4chan thread posted to the Pokemon board Monday afternoon. That has some industry watchers hopeful that Nintendo may be official planning support for some emulated classic portable games through the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service in the future. But experts tell Ars that a pair of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulators for the Switch that leaked online Monday show signs of being official products of Nintendo’s European Research & Development division (NERD). In most cases, the release of yet another classic console emulator for the Switch wouldn’t be all that noteworthy. Enlarge / Are we looking at an official Game Boy Advance emulator made by Nintendo?

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