Board Thread:Questions?/@comment-71.233.11.173-20130517135302/@comment-3448772-20130517191839

From my understanding of how it works, each game system has its own types of input (touch screen, wii mote, controler buttons) and coding that it works by. As such, a game from one system cannot be simply modified to play on another system, as the ways that they work are different. Games that are made for several systems are generally much different, because of the differences in how the systems work. So making a game that is tailor made for one system (like Super Mario Galaxy) would be very difficult, if possible without making many core changes to the game to incorperate the new system.

However, I have heard of cases like this: for older games (like NES games), due to the systems' simpler programing it may be possible to run a game on another system with hacking of the system and putting a copy of the original system's coding (as an emulator) into the system, as well as a copy of the game's ROM file, then it can run the game.

However for more recent game systems it is not possible, or nearly impossible (much work and recoding of the game, hacking of the system, and adding of an emulator of the original system), to do so.

As for the official Nintendo seal, I don't think that is really a big factor in terms of putting it onto another console. It would likely only be a matter of the system the game is for, and the factors of the individual game.