I want to know the answer to the following question:
What did Nintendo consider emulators?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Proponents of SNES emulation cite discontinued production of the SNES constituting abandonware status, the right of the owner of the respective game to make a personal backup via devices such as the Retrode, space shifting for private use, the desire to develop homebrew games for the system, the frailty of SNES ROM cartridges and consoles, and the lack of certain foreign imports.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no