US 12,478,870 B2
Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with executable information processing program stored thereon, game system, game device, and information processing method
Masamichi Sakaino, Kyoto (JP); Naoya Morimura, Kyoto (JP); and Satoshi Kawamata, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to NINTENDO CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by NINTENDO CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Jun. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/209,575.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-179455 (JP), filed on Nov. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0149157 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. A63F 13/49 (2014.01); A63F 13/48 (2014.01); A63F 13/533 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/49 (2014.09) [A63F 13/48 (2014.09); A63F 13/533 (2014.09)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable information processing program stored thereon, the information processing program causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to perform:
executing a game program adapted to multi-person play with an emulator;
when another information processing apparatus issues a request for participation of another player in the multi-person play based on communication,
allowing a state that the another player has not participated in the multi-person play to continue while the game program is being executed, and
allowing the another player to participate in the multi-person play when transition to a scene where execution of the game program with the emulator is started is made;
proceeding with the multi-person play of the game program with the emulator based on communication between/among information processing apparatuses of players who participate in the multi-person play; and
during the multi-person play,
temporarily suspending a game when an instruction to quit the game is given or when a request to quit the game is given from another player based on communication, and
terminating the game program when an instruction to quit the game is given from information processing apparatuses of all players who participate in the multi-person play.