I can’t believe Nintendo hasn’t taken it down yet
“So I report about it on PC Gamer and make Nintendo aware of it.”
This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is so cool I can't believe Nintendo hasn't taken it down yet
Submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
DLed for posterity, so once it’s down I can still share it with those interested in actually enjoying it, rather than letting Nintendo continue to ruin shit like the whiny babies they are.
kromem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s less Nintendo and more shitty trademark and IP laws.
If you don’t aggressively go after anyone that is transgressing your IP, you can lose it.
IP really needs major and comprehensive reform. It’s not going to happen anytime soon as too much is built up around the status quo, but it really should be done.
AnonTwo@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm pretty sure that only applies to trademark laws, not IP laws.
EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s *less about shitty trademark or copyright laws, and more about Nintendo.
First off, in all of your posts, you really don’t seem to realize that trademark has nothing to do with fan fiction or recreations. Not a single project that anyone has referenced has attempted to mimic Nintendo’s name and brand to sell a product. Zelda is trademarked, yes, so people can’t sell video games with “The Legend of Zelda” name- which has no bearing on this article or the work cited.
Second, the statute of limitations doesn’t go back three years to some arbitrary date, it goes back to when the alleged crime or infringement occurs. So if someone begins selling a TLoZ knockoff game, they have no grounds in court to say something dopey, like “well actually I started thinking about selling Zelda knockoff games five years ago, so even though I just started last month it is out of the statute of limitations”.
Third, from your list of shitty companies making it the norm, try Valve, who actively gives permission for people to mod and remake their games, and even allow the selling of remakes on their own platform. Or try Capcom, a Japanese company who has never attacked a fan game and still has full control over its IPs. But I digress, not being the norm has nothing to do with this.
If the laws surrounding copyright were suddenly and drastically changed today, Nintendo wouldn’t change their stance or their scare tactics. They don’t have to do it, they aren’t losing out on sales from it- and if modders had the ability to stand up for themselves in court, I don’t believe Nintendo would win even a notable amount of cases.
gearheart@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh great. Now I gotta download this before Nintendo takes it down.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Oh don’t worry, Nintendo has a death squad en route to the creator’s house in this very instant.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Is Nintendo owned by Wizards of the Coast?
520@kbin.social 11 months ago
No, but they are just as litigious when it comes to their IP
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’ll be gone within the next 48 hours now.
insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 11 months ago
12 hours ago: https://itch.io/takedowns/2402026
Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social 11 months ago
Game looks cool, but I always have mixed feelings about articles like this. On the one hand it helps raise awareness about the game to the people who want to play it, but it also helps raise awareness about the game to the people who are going to send the cease-and-desist letter.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m pretty sure devs are fully aware of what’s going to happen which is why they avoided putting their names on the project and included the source code.
Hammer was always going to come down since they included game assets in the build - news articles won’t really change much on this matter,
insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 11 months ago
Including a trademarked term right in the title is the thing that gets most fan projects. It's a multiplier for takedowns, it can't get any easier for companies than running a simple script that just searches Itch/Gamejolt/Github for terms and then doing a mass takedown of the results.
Sure user-added* or redone assets could help, but just distancing the name would help a lot more. Having 100% new assets won't stop a takedown if you use trademarked terms (see DMCA's Sky), and the DMCA system doesn't really discourage overstepping unless somebody has the willingness/money/time to take it to court.
*=image detection could be a thing as well though, so be careful with screenshots especially with a logo
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It blows me away that people do these incredible projects but just for the thrill of to see if they can.
Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 11 months ago
Someone should get a bunch of games that Nintendo shut down and call it the forbidden library.
Bread@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You know, that’s not a bad idea.
Jonny@kbin.social 11 months ago
Well I'm glad I managed to hear about it before they do! LA DX was my first Zelda game. Time to relive some memories in HD!
DemBoSain@midwest.social 11 months ago
The Link’s Awakening remake on Switch is worth your time. I loved the original, and I loved the remake. I hope they continue bringing their old games forward like this (LA, Mario RPG, etc.)
Jonny@kbin.social 11 months ago
Oh funny you worry, I've completed it. But thank you :)
I agree, I thought it was great and I felt the art direction really fit the original perfectly!
I've been slowly working my way through 100%ing every Zelda game. Fine almost all of them other than BotW & TotK.
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 11 months ago
just download it and shut up then
Scrof@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Fans do what Nintendon’t.
nafri@lemmy.world 11 months ago
keep it before nintendo ninja does their job
modus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I created a torrent file for this game. Does anyone know a good place to post it?
TBi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I tried downloading and the website says the download was quarantined. Anyone else see this? I was able to download anyway.
Donut@leminal.space 11 months ago
Yeah it’s a safeguard by Itch.io which flags potentially malicious users, but they let you proceed if you are sure you can trust the author
verdantbanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
pretty gone as of this moment
anyone got a new link
approxamatrix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah, you’ll have to wait until the next Zelda game comes out.
FatTony@discuss.online 11 months ago
Get while it’s hot.
(Or in other terms: Get it while it has not been taken down yet)
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
That sounds awesome
Darorad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They will now
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's out there now though. Just like PGP, decss, and countless other things, it will be kicking around at the usual places for anyone who wants it for long time, probably well past the point where anyone cares anymore.
Darorad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh, yeah, I was mostly joking, more people have it downloaded means it’s basically impossible to take down
Freeman@feddit.de 11 months ago
Nintendo already shouldnt care about it, as they dont release good emulators/PC Versions anyway.
paddirn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
First rule of Game Club: We do not talk about fan-made games.
Second rule of Game Club: We DO NOT talk about fan-made games.