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This is a page is about licensed games that have interesting emulators in them that were exploited to play other games not originally intended.
==Nintendo 64 Games==
===Pokémon Stadium GB Tower (Super Game Boy Emulator)===
Using the Transfer Pak with Pokémon Stadium in GB Tower mode, you could connect physical Game Boy cartridges of the handheld Pokémon games and play them on the Nintendo 64. It turns out it is software emulation that can boot many Game Boy games in SGB mode as well as GBC games, but with a whitelist for just the three games , it officially supports.
Someone [http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=1283.0 here] managed to circumvent enough checks to boot modified GB ROMs on Game Boy flash cartridges, with a vanilla Transfer Pak and unmodified copy of the US version of Pokémon Stadium. For now, there's are not much many useful tools released, but a romhacking project for the N64 game could disable these checks (considering they're documented), and even have the ROMs directly on the cartridge for far easier injecting.
One notable thing about this emulator is that it contains an alternate revision of the CGB bootstrap not found anywhere else.
This was a compilation disc including the NES and N64 Zelda games in emulated form, albeit with occasional crashes and analog sensitivity being a tad more than what it should have been like.
NES emulation was present in Animal Crossing too, with modified FDS bios images and no iNES headers and only support for some mappers. The real interesting part is the N64 emulator. It was extracted in a standalone format and a custom rom injector made for it.
Compatibility is very low, with only these games confirmed working: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, Kirby 64 (partially working), Zelda: Majora's Mask, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Zelda: OoT Master Quest, Duke Nukem 64, Mace: The Dark Ages, Wave Race, Star Soldier, Pilot Wings. Possibly other games too.
===Pokemon Channel (Pokemon Mini Emulator)===
This is a game for GameCube that contained a an emulator for playing Pokemon Mini games. Hackers removed the emulator to make a stand-alone Pokemon Mini emulator for GameCube, and because of their efforts later Pokemon Mini emulators were made by reverse engineering it.
Download: [http://scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2005%2Fbreakpoint05%2Fwild%2Fshizzle.zip&fileinfo SHizZLE's Pokemon Mini Emulator]
===Pokemon Box: Ruby and Sapphire / Naruto Collection (GBA Emulator)===
These compilations try to convince users that they stream GBA games through a Link Cable to play them on a GC screen. They require the GBA cartidges cartridges too, however , in fact , the full data for all the cartridges needed is in the GC disc, as well as a working GBA emulator, developed by Nintendo even for third-party games using it.
Compatibility is poor though - both the ROM files and the emulator are heavily modified. When the extracted ROMs are played on regular GBA emulators, or regular GBA ROMs are injected in the compilation (it doesn't support 32MB ROMs), games do play but suffer a variety of glitches mostly involving sound.
Rename your ROMs (HuCard games) or ISOs (CD games) to match the internal filenames, and drag and drop those in UMDGen to replace the existing files (confirm overwriting existing files). You can delete the PMF videos used by the collection's gallery mode to make the ISO smaller. When you're done go to File and Save as ISO (CSO is smaller but doesn't play well on real hardware).
You can do the same with standalone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_Store_TurboGrafx-16_games PSN releases] of TG-16 games which were made available as well on the PSP/PS3/Vita PSN. You just have to sniff the PKG, extract it, decrypt it and replace the PCE files or ISO dumps just like with the other collections. After that , you just have to re-encrypt them and put the files on your console to play those. More detailed instructions are [http://wololo.net/2015/02/06/injecting-roms-into-psps-official-turbografx-16-emulator-by-reprep/ here].
