• ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    TIL Animal Crossing has a fucking NES emulador inside the game that can run any ROM. Why?

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      3 days ago

      You could get special NES items in the game for completing certain tasks. They designed the emulator to work with arbitrary ROMs so they could add ROMs later as part of nintendo promotions and events using the eReader Cards.

      These custom items are encoded in a standard format in a user’s save file, so you can still visit people’s towns and transfer these items around.