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Nintendo files patent to emulate its Gameboy on phones

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Prior Art [1]:

  * no$gmb
  * VGB-DOS
  * Boycott
  * GNUBoy
  * HelloGB
  * KGB
  * Virtual GameBoy

Just as Nintendo owns few of the patents on the computer chips inside the original GameBoy, they do not automatically get to patent the rights to a virtualized version. "Possible" improvements (especially when none are listed or implemented) do not allow wiggle-room for this patent, either.

Someone should call Marat Fayzullin [2], and have him sue nintendo for violation of his intellectual property (Virtual GB was the first implementation), then bring that lawsuit to the patent office as evidence of an improper patent filing, in order to bring it up for a review.

1. http://www.zophar.net/gb.html

2. http://marc.rawer.de/Gameboy/Docs/GBCPUman.pdf & http://fms.komkon.org/GameBoy/

Hmm... wouldn't Prior Art render this patent null and void?

There's an interesting argument behind that.

Back in the days of the DS, an emulator of the DS was leaked.

I don't know much about US legislation, but apparently if you develop an patentable artifact and it's publicly known, the creator has up to one year to file a claim for a patent.

I'm confused.

The DS was released well over a year ago, so I'm confused why you're bringing up the one year filling bit. Can you clarify?

It's Ok, I'm just bringing that up.

Since they themselves developed an DS emulator and never filed a patent claim that's a precedent. Ok the DS and the GameBoy are different but if you add that Emulation is not something new, plus they never considered protect that asset so is another argument Against that patent.

I think this is a little late. There are so many free emulators out there, why would I go through Nintendo?

Because Lawyers. They think Nintendo could Bleem all the emulators, so they are preparing the move to fortify their position.

Next develop/release a proper emulator then Use the Google and Apple stores to enforce their copyright and profit!

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