Silhouette - The secret SNES Emulator developed by Nintendo ? | MVG

Silhouette is said to be an official Super Famicom (SNES) emulator developed by Nintendo for easy testing and debugging for 1st party devs. In this episode we take a closer look at the emulator and uncover why I believe that this may not be true.

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[squelchedotter]

I stopped believing this the second that I read the "I was one of the two developers working on this". It would have been absolutely trivial for Nintendo to find out who did this at that point and nobody putting themselves at risk of a lawsuit would say that.

[JPlokford]

I worked on SNES dev back in 1990. We had an offical dev kit built & provided by Sony (not Nintendo). It used an emulator but it was hardware (ICE) housed in massive white box. It also used a Sony NEWS Unix box instead of a dev PC. I don't believe there was any official software emulator for developers back then. Certainly not that I saw.

The Sony dev kit was soon replaced with our own system (Software Creations in Manchester UK) - so I don't think we ever saw/used a devkit from Nintendo themselves although I'm sure they existed.

[sundhaug]

10:56 "GameGenieToRaw" a Nintendo internal emulator probably wouldn't have GameGenie support

[greatestcait]

What an incredible idea, making an emulator officially available after the end of a consoles life. God that would be incredible.

[ChalupaStudy]

I'm not buying this backstory. Largely because they refer to the Japanese arm of NOJ. This is pretty out of character for anyone doing internal work. The Japanese parent company is usually internally referred to as NCL.

[SaintMecha]

Did you get your SteamDeck devkit or not?

[martinantelo]

This stinks as a "My uncle worked at Nintendo" on an emulator level.

[XmorganlamiaX]

Something that stuck out to me from the History file is the multiple uses of "NoJ" to refer to Nintendo's Japanese side, something that it's never been officially abbreviated to. Although the American branch uses NoA and and the European branch uses NoE, the Japanese part of the company has always used their original name - Nintendo Co. Ltd., and always commonly abbreviates it internally and publicly as NCL. Surely if it was made by someone at Nintendo, they would say NCL rather than an incorrect abbreviation that they think it would be to match NoA & NoE... 🤔

[MrMario]

WOW, the sleuthing near the end was amazing. Great insight and investigation on this 😁

[Naamex]

Amazing video as always! One thing to note... Nowadays there are plenty of official Nintendo Emulators. For example, the ones found on NES/SNES Online on Switch, the ones made for the NES/SNES Classic, and the ones found on Wii and Wii U to play N64, NES and SNES

[Neonsilver]

If it really was an Nintendo project, then whoever leaked it could probably sued for quite a bit and the details in the readme file are probably enough to identify the person that leaked it. So I doubt it's real.

[Jaspa]

Another quality delve, much appreciated.

[americancitizen]

Interesting. Great video. Can you imagine having access to all these NES and SNES games library 30 years ago while being a kid and a teenager! It would’ve been unreal. Now as an adult I have two Nvidia Shield Pro loaded with pretty much every old school classic systems games available. It’s surreal. Love it.

[supabass]

The way the emulator spawned a clickable copy of the Metroid rom after running it reminded me of using SNES9X on MacOS9, I thought straight away that there was something up with that.

[jasonisjasondoes]

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they denied that it ever existed at this point“... convenient.

[ProtoMario]

I remember playing ZSNES on an older DOS machine at my friends house, and thinking how amazing it was!

[QuentinMatthysBoeckmansYJ]

Can believe you found all this by yourself just with the hint that some glitch look like something you saw before ! Amazing work.

[MaxOakland]

I love looking at the old Macintosh interface. It's so cute looking

[TalynWuff]

There was a final fantasy 2/4 or 3/6 players guide (for the PSX Anthology/Chronology releases) or pages somewhere, printed strategy-guide style, where I saw a few panes of screenshots that had the Snes9X menu bar in the shot. Really wish I could find that book again. Might help further commercial emulation hypothesis.

[dingdongbells]

2:04 "Nintendo 64 has not been the blockbuster that was hoped for in the US market"

Well, the commercial success can be debated, but the legacy it left was so earth shattering that I still recall my best friend having and actively playing his N64 well into PS2 era, even with having a gamecube