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OUYA will launch with NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 emulation support

By Shane McNaboe

Posted on March 25, 2013

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As indicated by the forum admin/owner Ed Krassenstein, the OUYA will launch with emulations of the good ol’ NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 consoles. EMUya, the NES emulator, has already been submitted for review and should launch with the console itself. The SuperGNES (SNES emulator) will also be available at launch, as well as the Mupen64Plus (Nintendo 64 emulator).

There will probably be more emulators ported for the OUYA in the future. We are already aware of an N-Gage emulation port being developed for the console. It is also notable that obtaining the actual video game ROMs can be illegal, yet it is legal to produce and run the emulators themselves. It is also legal to run a game in emulation if you own a copy of the game’s copyrighted content. The OUYA console is set to launch on March 28th.

Shane McNaboe

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I was five years old when I played my very first videogame: 'Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World' (on the Super Nintendo.) Although, that was back in 1996, during the beginning of the Nintendo 64 timeline. Thus began my trend of always being one console behind. I owned a Nintendo 64 during the days of Xbox and PlayStation 2; and I owned a Game Boy Color during the prime of the Game Boy Advance. It was only until recently that I have started keeping up to date with the current console timeline. I bought an Xbox 360 during it's launch, and it is my gaming platform to this very day. Now hoping to someday own a PlayStation Vita, and a non-craptastic PC, I am also hoping to keep up with the gaming industry from this point forward. That is, until I become too old to care to keep up with technology. Or until I'm too old to remember my name, or something like that. You know, looking on the bright side of things.