{"id":72072,"date":"2018-12-29T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/random_chinese_developer_found_selling_super_mario_bros_rom_on_microsofts_digital_store"},"modified":"2018-12-29T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T05:30:00","slug":"random-chinese-developer-found-selling-super-mario-bros-rom-on-microsofts-digital-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/random-chinese-developer-found-selling-super-mario-bros-rom-on-microsofts-digital-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Chinese Developer Found Selling Super Mario Bros. ROM On Microsoft&#8217;s Digital Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5d78efa7a629\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5d78efa7a629\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Super Mario Bros Img\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5d78efa7a629\/super-mario-bros-img.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5d78efa7a629\/super-mario-bros-img.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Super Mario Bros Img\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Digital storefronts are certified platforms allowing users to buy safe and legitimate content. Due to sheer amount of programs, apps and games approved for these platforms on a daily basis, sometimes there can be oversights.<\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chinesenintendo\/status\/1078485425138720768\">Chinese Nintendo Twitter account<\/a>, there&#8217;s been a big one in China. The local Microsoft Store front, where developers can share paid and free programs digitally, has allowed a third-party Chinese developer to sell a <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/super_mario_bros\">Super Mario Bros.<\/a><\/strong> ROM for \u00a513 (roughly $1.85 \/ \u00a31.46).<\/p>\n<p>The developer, known as FengWangStudio, has essentially enabled the ROM to be played on the Xbox One and PC. According to Nintendo Soup, it\u2019s rated 2.5 out of 5 stars based on more than 200 reviews. This means the developer has possibly made around $200. The alarming part about this story is the fact the game has reportedly been up on the Microsoft Store since January. So basically, it&#8217;s been available for an entire year now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital storefronts are certified platforms allowing users to buy safe and legitimate content. Due to sheer amount of programs, apps and games approved for these platforms on a daily basis, sometimes there can be oversights. According to a tweet on the Chinese Nintendo Twitter account, there&#8217;s been a big one in China. The local Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}