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Playing old console games through browser-based emulators is a niche pastime of some of the most dedicated gamers. <\/p>\nPlaying old console games through browser-based emulators is a niche pastime of some of the most dedicated gamers. <\/p>\n
For Game Boy Advance fans there are a few websites that offer such a nostalgic trip down memory lane, free for all.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Nintendo is less pleased with the fan-made projects. This week the company took down a popular Game Boy Advance emulator that was hosted on the developer platform GitHub.<\/p>\n
The website in question offered JavaScript-powered versions of many popular titles including Advance Wars, Dragon Ball Z, Super Mario Advance, Pokemon Emerald and The Sims 2.<\/p>\n
While fans may like it, Nintendo sees the site as blatant copyright infringement.<\/p>\n
“Nintendo requests that GitHub, Inc., disable public access to the web site at http:\/\/jsemu.github.io\/gba\/,” Nintendo writes in their takedown notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n “This web site provides access to unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s copyright-protected video games and videos making use of Nintendo\u2019s copyrighted Pok\u00e9mon characters and imagery in violation of Nintendo’s exclusive rights.” <\/p>\n Nintendo’s takedown notice<\/strong> Shortly after GitHub received the takedown notice the Game Boy Advance emulator was shut down<\/a>. The user who hosted the files also appears to have removed his GitHub account, possibly to avoid any further trouble. <\/p>\n The above means that nostalgic Game Boy Advance fans will have to dust off their old consoles again or find another way to play their classics.<\/p>\n Interestingly, the code for the Game Boy Emulator itself, without the pre-loaded games, is open source and still hosted elsewhere on GitHub<\/a>. Several copies of the full site are also still floating around. <\/p>\n This is not the first time that Nintendo has gone after a Game Boy emulator. The same happened with the popular iOS application GBA4iOS, which the company nuked in a similar fashion last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: TorrentFreak<\/a>, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites<\/a> and the best VPN services<\/a>.<\/p>\n Playing old console games through browser-based emulators is a niche pastime of some of the most dedicated gamers. For Game Boy Advance fans there are a few websites that offer such a nostalgic trip down memory lane, free for all. Unfortunately, Nintendo is less pleased with the fan-made projects. This week the company took down … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"nintendogit\"](\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/images\/nintendogit.jpg\")
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