Well, some of the patents have expired, there's at least one that has not (but I don't recall which) and the trademarks certainly havn't run out yet. So the clones may or may not be illegal based on how they're made. All of the ones with built in games still violate the copyrights on the games, so those are definitely going to be illegalneonerz wrote:According to Wikipedia Nintendo's patent is up....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famiclone# ... Famiclones
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I just noticed something funny about the wikipedia page, the picture of a noac came from this website, one of ths first websites to get me interested in building a portable