Nintendo of America took the same stance against the distribution of SNES ROM image files and the use of emulators as it did with the NES, insisting that they represented flagrant software piracy.
Nintendo adoptou a mesma postura contra a distribución de arquivos de imaxe e emuladores ROM de SNES que adoptara no caso da NES, insistindo en que constituía un caso flagrante de pirataría de software.