Reverse engineering is legal. However, check your local laws and as always, use your best judgement when it comes to playing games that you own or some great Homebrew as found on sites like these: http://pdroms.de
Don't forget that you can use some great adapters like Retrode on carts you already own! https://www.retrode.com
edit: I assume these little things are the reason why it would be difficult to port to other platforms. From what I understand, Apple has animation built into its core UI framework
> it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.
> Are Game Copying Devices Illegal?
> Yes.
I'm pretty sure that's complete crap. There are substantial non-infringing uses for such devices (e.g. playing your own games on your own computers). Using such devices to make and distribute illegal copies would, of course, be illegal, but the devices themselves aren't.
I think they are correct in the part you quoted, but I wouldn't take them at face value in general.
Nintendo is attempting to control the message (no one is going to check them on it and they're deliberately being ambiguous) and scare people away who would normally just be pirating their old games.