Nintendo PC build

[glimmingdjghost]

Is it possible to have a NES or the new Nintendo products play on your computer without buying a emelator but by having the game and hooking the disk/cartridge reader to it

[LogicalDrm]

No. All Nintendo consoles are locked systems. You need emulator of some sort (either hardware or software) to even get started. Windows doesn't know how to read Nintendo cartridges, they don't have installer to install anything, they are just bunch of gamefiles packed for consoles system to read.

[glimmingdjghost]

well it would be cool to play a game boy games on a PC just by hooking up a cartridge reader they did it with floppy disks and it was on computer how come they don't have readers for those

[Himommies]

10 minutes ago, glimmingdjghost said:

how come they don't have readers for those

Because that would be copyright infringement

[GoodBytes]

12 minutes ago, glimmingdjghost said:

well it would be cool to play a game boy games on a PC just by hooking up a cartridge reader they did it with floppy disks and it was on computer how come they don't have readers for those

Sure, but how would the game play?

You still don't have the hardware. It needs to be emulated. I mean the games are compiled for a specific hardware configuration that your system doesn't have.

 

And asking Nintendo for this... is something that will NEVER EVER happen. Here is why:

• Even if games are old, you have the huge headache of region locking with publisher battle still in full effect, and deals can't be made easily due to many complications in publishing, with some with games signed to only run on a specific system on a specific region, and so if you make an official tool to allow to run on a PC, than you have potential legal problems, and as Nintendo would make that possible, than they can be taking to court. All this region locking is super complex, and affects Music, Video and Gaming industry. Just until recently, games are out of this battle mess, as basically the industry as a whole, said "no more"... and with the ease of digital distribution and publishing content as whole, reduce cost and publishers are large enough to cover global release and marketing of games. The Internet also helped creates lots of culture clashes that things mixed up enough that a British ad can work elsewhere, for example, helping drop marketing cost.
   
• Nintendo strongly believes, and I full agree with them, about the overall game irreverence. SNES games on the PC is not the same than with the original system. A switch isn't a Switch without its controllers and portability form factor, and the ability to plop it on a dock, and instantly resume your game, and remove it, and continue that game without any delay, flickers, or whatnot, despite resolution change, and that can be done at any moment of the game... start, in game, or loading screen. The WiiU isn't the same experience when played on the PC. And the games are adapted for that system, with the system controller in mind. You can boast how graphically a game might look with emulators enhancements, but the end result is the experience is not even close. This is too dear for Nintendo, and that is why you will NEVER see a Nintendo game on the PC or other console system. Heck, even their mobile games are new games made from scratch. They are designed for smartphones.
   
• Nintendo makes money on the consoles and accessories (including licensed ones). It's part of their business model. What you are asking for will cut through that.
   
• Nintendo likes to protect their games and third party devs. That is why you have DRM solutions and systems in place to make it hard for games to be pirated. Usually a console get properly pirated with easy solutions by the time the console life span has past. And that if that gets achieved, it is a success for Nintendo. And if it beats that, than expect Nintendo to be quick with new revisions changes on the hardware, which may be the same hardware as before. For example, the Wii, got a hardware change where they started to put thick layer of epoxy glue on area open to hacking tools. f course, Nintendo prefers not to do it, due that it creates waste (can't repair boards), pollutes more (manufacturing the glue), and increase cost, but they'll do it, if they must.
   
• Nintendo like to protect its users. This is what the Nintendo Seal of Quality is all about. Nintendo likes to control content to ensure that the games release are playable, and follows Nintendo policies (hence why you don't have porn games on the system). All stuff that played part in the video game crash in North America. Where you had real garbage games being sold, some not even close to working state, flooded the market.. taking advantage of the user lack of access of information (you didnd't have the internet, game magazines was weak, and not really a thing, "gaming" culture and community was parse and not really formed). It was all work from month and looking at the box art and text on the back of a box of a game. That is all you had. Consumers were fed up being ripped off, and everyone decided to spend a dime on anything gaming, and no investors where interested anymore due to the massive lost of money they got.

 

 

 

[AshleyAshes]

Fun fact: Sega actually produced an ISA expansion card that contained a whole Mega Drive on it, it was sold for the Amstrad PC as a kit called the Amstrad Mega PC.

 

[8uhbbhu8]

7 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Fun fact: Sega actually produced an ISA expansion card that contained a whole Mega Drive on it, it was sold for the Amstrad PC as a kit called the Amstrad Mega PC.

 

gimme!!!!!!

[LogicalDrm]

12 hours ago, glimmingdjghost said:

well it would be cool to play a game boy games on a PC just by hooking up a cartridge reader they did it with floppy disks and it was on computer how come they don't have readers for those

Again, floppies had data that was in format OS was programmed to read. Actually same things still apply. If you connect USB or anything that contains just random files, you can't use or open those files. Not without software coded to read them. Console games are coded to run on console OS. Hence why you need emulator to use ANY console games.

 

Back in the late 90s,when Pokémon came to this chilly and dark country, we had floppies with first gen Gameboy Pokémon. But those run in some integrated emulator as there was sequence to run them.

[glimmingdjghost]

Well I beg to differ someone made a portable N64 and it works

 

[elpiop]

29 minutes ago, glimmingdjghost said:

Well I beg to differ someone made a portable N64 and it works

 

it works because it's using original N64 hardware

[glimmingdjghost]

And can't you just integrate the software with pc

[LogicalDrm]

9 hours ago, glimmingdjghost said:

And can't you just integrate the software with pc

Sure. That's called emulator. There are Linux based OS' which are essentially emulators acting as OS. So what you see is console, but what you actually have is emulator running on PC hardware. LTT has made couple of videos on those. They've even made one of their own.

 

This has come full circle. You asking if this can be done without emulator (on which answer is no) and now asking if it's possible to have OS based on emulator (to which answer is yes).