Anyone with a web browser can now play a fully emulated version of filing (and winning) lawsuits and sending out cease-and-desist letters about as fast as Lakitu drops Spinies on the plumber's capped head.
Among the emulators, copycats, and unapproved creations that have been caught in Nintendo’s legal crosshairs over the past few years were a PC port of Super Mario 64 that caught the internet’s attention in May 2020, as well as a painfully obvious piracy operation run by a Gary Bowser, who had been hacking and redistributing 3DS and Switch games for several years. That's not even to mention as the company's own legal drama surrounding a drifting glitch in the Switch’s Joy-Con controllers, over which it's still fighting a class-action lawsuit.
As such, the newly released Xbox controllers on top of a standard mouse and keyboard.
However, given that the aforementioned PC port of Super Mario 64 was taken down only last year despite requiring a legal copy of the game to work, Super Mario 64: Browser Edition's developer may be underestimating the lengths the Big N will go to protect the 25-year-old game. While the Nintendo Switch continues to host a diverse variety of interesting indie titles, Nintendo's sour opinion of fans' own takes on its IP is no secret.
Given how low-key the web browser-based emulator of Super Mario 64 seems to be at the moment, it might slip past Nintendo's radar for at least a little while. However, it probably won't be long before it ends up shut down like so many others over the past couple of years, so anyone interested in reliving the magic of Super Mario 64 in webpage form should check it out while they still can.
Source: froggi.es, NintendoLife
