I wish the keeper of many fond childhood memories wasn’t a company I fervently wish would die in a fire.
The gulf between Nintendo’s legal/corporate office and the game designers/developers is staggering to me
It’s sad but they’ve been like this since the get-go. They sued Galoob for the Game Genie (and lost), and they sued Blockbuster for copying manuals so that people could have the manual to review when they rented games (and won). Nintendo has always been excruciatingly aggressive about protecting and policing their copyrights and IP, even when they’re dead wrong.
This is not an attempt to justify what they’re doing, just to point out that it’s unfortunately nothing new.
Nintendo is why DRM is a thing. The NES CIC lockout chip avoided the 2600’s shovelware problem… and created an abusive monopoly, that generation.
Nintendo secretly had color screens developed for the upcoming Game Boy, switched to black & white, and left the screen manufacturer hung out to dry. Which is why the Game Gear and Lynx coincidentally have the same resolution.
Nintendo was politely informed by SNK that they’d be making their own handheld. A year later the Game Boy Color dropped as a secret fuck-you to the Neo Geo Pocket.
Nintendo informed Sony they had cancelled their SNES-CD add-on by announcing an SNES-CD add-on made by Philips. At the Consumer Electronics Show. After Sony’s big presentation about their SNES-CD add-on.
Nintendo informed Sony they had cancelled their SNES-CD add-on by announcing an SNES-CD add-on made by Philips. At the Consumer Electronics Show. After Sony’s big presentation about their SNES-CD add-on.
Sony really ended up winning with that one in the long run, though.
Only through Ken Kutaragi’s intense spite.
Yes, but that doesn’t make it any less of an absolute scum sucking move.
The color screen used waaaay too much battery life, making it untenable for a handheld console. The game gear’s battery problem was a huge contributor to why it didn’t do very well.
Yeah that one didn’t work out great for anybody involved.
I’ll never understand why Nintendo hates their fans so much. Just because Japanese copyright law is shitty, doesn’t mean that you have to be equally as shitty.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there is a law forcing Nintendo to enforce copyright. They willingly choose to be assholes.
Because of international trade agreements, Japan’s copyright and patent laws are not meaningfully or substantively different than any other neoliberal country’s. That is an excuse circulated by apologists. Nintendo’s aggressive, litigious, anti-consumer tactics are purely a matter of company policy.
This is why more games should openly embrace modding.
A “we’re legally not allowed to do this gameplay mechanic” writeup and let the community unofficially provide it.
There are a couple games where it’s an open secret that the “community” modders were the devs
Plenty of indie games on steam that have workshop support usually have a handful of mods from a dev. Usually qol stuff or just fun things to change.
I know at least one of the factorio devs released a few mods of things that didn’t really fit with being in the base game but are interesting mods, like MIRVs. But that isn’t even a secret, it’s published under the same name.
That’s funny! Any particular mods I should look for?
Nothing that I can think of off the top of my head but every once in a while you’ll hear about restored content or various IP shenanigans getting pushed by definitely-not-the-devs on modding forums.
Make game open source
What do now Nintendo?
pokemon billions dollar name, plus thier side business which is the card game which also billions dollar market too, but they do nothing of scalpers and collectors/investors(tcp japan)
Nintendo has sued multiple open source projects and their creators into oblivion.
“Fuck it, we’re doing Pikachu.”
The monkey paw’s finger curls…there was much rejoicing.
MAPLESTORY pokemon.
Love it. Just hope big daddy N doesn’t go after them too.
Is Nintendo the new “N-word”?
Reporting for using the N slur
(jk)
Racists soon trying to fit the N-word into Nintendo in 3…
Nintendo has been called “Big N” for a very long time, so I wouldn’t attribute that to this.
Make it open source
That won’t stop a C&D.
Then someone else forks it
Fork it to another git server. Because forking it on the same platform will also be caught by a C&D
You don’t even have to use a git server if you want. Just dump the source code everywhere.
The smaller the source code is the easier that is, I imagine a mod like this would take very little data. Would be extra funny if its so small it could be shared as a QR code. But probably not quite that small.
My shitty no-stakes conspiracy theory is that said modders are comprised of anonymous Palworld devs who are as salty about the removal as we are, and who know the code better than anyone.
As for a restoration of throw-to-release pals, there is a mod currently available along those lines, but it doesn’t work exactly as Palworld used to before last year’s patch (it doesn’t include the ball-throwing animation, rather summons the Pal where you’re currently looking).
Wouldn’t surprise me if they’re going full “avoid Nintendo issues” mode and make one mod for spawning, another for throwing animation and potentially potentially a third sacrificial one to make them work together. Iif you don’t make the second compatible with “all” items and don’t use the ball as an example screenshot.
