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NSO Missions via Emulator Memory

The patent regarding NSO Missions for Nintendo Classics is granted in Japan, and will be soon in the US.

The Nintendo Classics app (e.g. Super NES) contains a mission program (image 1 below) that monitors the emulator program’s memory (image 2).

Drawing from patent US20240173627: FIG. 6 shows an exemplary illustrative non-limiting drawing illustrating a program 17 stored in a storage 13 based on the embodiment.
Drawing from patent US 20240173627: FIGS. 12A and 12B show exemplary illustrative non-limiting drawings illustrating a method of determining a status of accomplishment of an objective based on the embodiment.

When certain data in the emulator memory meets certain criteria (“accomplishment”), the mission program communicates that to the NSO server (image 1 below), which then determines the mission status (image 2).

Drawing from patent US20240173627: FIG. 13 shows an exemplary illustrative non-limiting flowchart illustrating communication processing in information processing apparatus 10A based on the embodiment.
Drawing from patent US 20240173627: FIG. 14 shows an exemplary illustrative non-limiting flowchart illustrating processing in server 30 based on the embodiment.

Previous Missions & Rewards patent here.

P.S.: Prominent dataminer Yakumono replied on Bluesky that the Super Mario Advance 2 drawing above (figs. 12A & 12B) contains “actual expected RAM and assembly code”.

[Originally posted on 2026-01-01 Pacific Time]