Date: Source: Title: Quote/Summary

January 28, 1999: IGN: "N64 Emulator Hits the PC": "New "UltraHLE" can run Nintendo 64 games on a Voodoo-equipped PC...."

January 29, 1999: FGNOnline: "N64 Emulator Withdrawn": ": Following news that Emulators Unlimited had released a revolutionary downloadable N64 emulator for PC, the company has temporarily withdrawn the technology due to a surprising piracy explosion...."

January 29, 1999: IGN: "Emulating Mario": "UltraHLE shakes up the emulation scene and Nintendo speaks out. IGN64 has the full story...."

January 31, 1999: Slashdot: "Open Letter to the Emulation Community": "Panix has written in with an open letter to the Emulation community where he addresses the recent rise and fall of the UltraHLE- the N64 emulator, ROM piracy, and the real reason for console emulators. Click below to read what he has to say...."

February 1, 1999: Wired: "Nintendo Clone Released, Yanked": "The authors of the first software to allow videogame fans to play Nintendo 64 games on their PCs yanked their program offline late last week, only hours after its release...."

February 2, 1999: Techweb: "Nintendo May Sue Emulator Makers": "Two programmers sparked an avalanche of responses last week when they released software on the Web that lets people play Nintendo64 games on their PCs...."

February 3, 1999: The Register: "N64 emulator vanishes after lawsuit threat": "Nintendo N64 emulator UltraHLE (Ultra High Level Emulator) finally made its appearance last Thursday, only to be removed from the developers' Web site hours, Emulators Unlimited, after its release...."

February 4, 1999: Gaming-Age: "Nintendo May Sue UltraHLE Authors": "Very recently there was a new Nintendo 64 emulator released to the public, called the UltraHLE. Up until that point there really hadn't been anything decent available, but the UltraHLE was as close to a real N64 as you could get. It had decent sound support and used Glide in order to replicate the N64's graphic hardware...."

February 5, 1999: Techweb: "Emulators Strike Back": "Creators of a software emulator for the Nintendo64 system issued a defiant response Friday morning to Nintendo. The game giant has said it may take legal action against the emulator creators -- called "Reality Man" and "Epsilon" -- for developing the UltraHLE emulator that lets users play N64 games on PCs...."

February 8, 1999: The Register: "Nintendo legal rumblings provoke boycott call": PC users keen play games using emulation software have been urged to boycott Nintendo in response the Great Satan of Italian Plumbers' statements that is considering legal action against the two developers of the latest N64 emulator, UltraHLE...."

February 10, 1999: Slashdot: "UltraHLE Source code?": "Well, it seems a person nicked GossiTheDog has released the sources of UltraHLE (a good Nintendo 64 emulator)...."

February 11, 1999: The Register: "Linux Fan Releases UltraHLE Source": "The Nintendo vs. UltraHLE case took a new twist yesterday when a programmer posted source code for the Windows-based N64 emulator on the Internet...."

February 11, 1999: The Register: "Dissecting Sony's Game": "Sony's action against Connectix is nevertheless a precedent-setting case, and one that will be watched closely by other console vendors --- in particular, Sony's rival, Nintendo. Right now, it's pondering whether to sue two non-professional developers for their PC-based N64 emulator, UltraHLE...."

February 12, 1999: Techweb: "Nintendo64 Emulator Disassembled": "As Nintendo continues to ponder what steps to take against developers of a PC-based Nintendo64 emulator, the source code to the emulator has been released on the Internet as freeware...."

February 12, 1999: The Register: "Programmers slam 'useless' UltraHLE source code": "Programmers were yesterday angry with a fellow software writer who posted what he claimed to be C++ source code for controversial UltraHLE Windows-based Nintendo N64 emulator...."

GossiTheDog released a statement regarding the articles above. It can be read at http://www.udders.freeserve.co.uk/emu.html

February 12, 1999: The Register: "Nintendo will sue UltraHLE developers": "Nintendo has confirmed it will take legal action against the two developers of UltraHLE, a Windows-based N64 emulator...."

February 17, 1999: IGN: "Correction: UltraHLE Source a Fake": "An update to yesterday's UltraHLE source article reveals the code is practically useless...."

February 17, 1999: The Register: "Press coverage forces removal of UltraHLE 'source'": "The programmer who posted so-called 'source code' for the UltraHLE Windows-based N64 emulator has pulled the code from his Web site...."

February 17, 1999: Techweb: "Creator Of N64 Emulator Website Speaks Out": "Ben Welch-Bolen wants to open up the source code of N64 emulator, even though Nintendo may sue its creators...." And yes, that is BWB of Emuhq.

March 5, 1999: Wired: "Reality Check for RealityMan": "One of the two developers behind a controversial emulator for Nintendo 64 has decided to throw in the towel...."

March 5, 1999: The Register: "Nintendo N64 emulator programmer quits": "One of the authors of the controversial Nintendo N64 emulator, UltraHLE, has decided to abandon not only that particular project but work on any kind of emulation -- "for good"...."

April 8, 1999: The Register: "3dfx wraps up wrapper Web sites": "3dfx has launched a series of legal strikes to prevent Web sites posting 'wrappers' -- software utilities that map calls to 3dfx's Glide 3D graphics API onto the APIs of other vendors' accelerator cards...."

April 12, 1999: The Register: "3dfx tech support says yes to Wrappers": "It appears that, unbeknownst to the company's aggressive legal team, its tech support people have been suggesting that Voodoo3 users who can't get the controversial UltraHLE Nintendo 64 emulator to run should download and use... a Wrapper...."

May 24, 1999: The Register: "Nintendo pursues emulator sites": "Nintendo has declared all emulators illegal and has begun shutting down Web sites that contain them, starting with www.snes9x.com, online home of Dutch developer Jerremy Koot, on Friday...."

November 12, 1999: The Register: "Film biz delivers legal threat to DeCSS-linking Web sites": The MPAA's strong-arm tactics are reminiscent of moves made earlier this year by Nintendo to prevent Web sites from linking to or providing the N64 emulator UltraHLE, and 3dfx's similar moves to limit the availability of 'wrappers' -- applications that allow games written for 3dfx's Glide API to run with non-Glide 3D accelerator cards...."