By Jon Porter
After a brief stint on the Xbox One store, the N64 emulator catchily named Win64e10, has been removed from sale.
Although available on the marketplace, the emulator was never officially displayed as it had not been approved by Microsoft, but users were able to find the app by searching for its name directly.
The app is no longer available to buy on the store, but those who have already purchased it will still be able to access it.
Legal Gray Area
The app was able to make it onto the store thanks to Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform initiative, which allows Windows PC apps to be made available through the Xbox Store.
The app is a port of the open-source Mupen64plus, but as we explored in a recent article, emulators exist in something of a legal grey area that depends more upon a company’s willingness to pursue emulator users than any definite legal precedent.
While we have not seen a full-scale banning of emulators, the fact that few people are likely to be ripping their games from their own N64 cartridges means that most are almost certainly having to commit an act of piracy to use the emulator by downloading …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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