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the NES Games on the Wii U and 3DS Virtual Consoles do not have iNES headers either. Other VC system's ROMs did not have any community-based header data. It's old news.Īnother thing that the article carefully omits: this was only the NES games on Wii Virtual Console. They act like they made this discovery, but it's not news at all. You can't infringe your own copyright.Īlso, that 2017 article infuriates me for any number of reasons. Fact is it is impossible for Nintendo to "illegally download" ROMs they own. The reason my answer was no is because of your phrasing.

Now, That may seem to contradict my "no" answer, since they probably did download it, but it doesn't. In either case, they obviously noticed the header but probably assumed it was actually part of the ROM data (many consoles do include header data in the ROM itself) and so just had the VC skip that header, not realizing it was actually something designed outside Nintendo. It's possible they might have used a cartridge dumper too (those usually write headers). It was probably easier for them than trying to go through whatever process was needed to get the ROM internally. The most likely explanation is that the ROM files were downloaded and used as-is, by whichever small teams were responsible for the VC. The argument that "they hired a former iNES dev, so he simply reimplemented that system for Nintendo’s own NES emulators." is bullshit, though because the VC Emulators literally ignore the iNES header. Of course both are ironic given Nintendo's stance on emulation. Their presence does generally mean that either the ROM Was downloaded from a pirated ROM set, or, it was dumped with a cartridge dumper. and the VC Emulators just skip the header when reading the data. The iNES headers are not used by the Wii VC Emulators mappers are hard coded. There are absolutely no Nintendo VC Games that are "illegally downloaded ROMs".

What are some Nintendo VC games that are actually illegally downloaded roms resold to us?Ī.