

With a more polished rerelease of theirs (see ocarina of time 3D) you see that people will prefer to go the legal route to get it just because it is the best way to play the game (unless they use emulators, or homebrew, in which case they likely weren't going to buy the game in the first place).Įdit 2: Also as has stated, what Nintendo are doing with fangames would be similar to J.K. I believe in this regard Nintendo deserves the lost sales, just because of their general laziness. Meanwhile you have fan made works online which rectify so much issues the game has, and makes the game feel like a more polished experience. A lot of the games were only slightly touched up on, with games like Super Mario 64 (which I completed 100% this year, legally, through the wii u virtual console) having an awful camera system that reduced my enjoyment of the game by a considerable amount.

However there's still a lot of problems with it. It's a fine enough collection, one that I'm going to pick up myself once I can afford to. Take for example Super Mario 3D All Stars.

However a lot of the time these projects exist as competition whether (whether we like it or not). I do think that their line of reasoning is more valid with fan remakes or remasters. PA0001940271), and others.Īlthough I understand that this is Nintendo's intellectual property and they can do whatever they like with it, I still fails to understand how a fangame which is a sequel to a game released 20 years ago will in anyway hurt their brand image or sales.Įdit: I don't think there's anything that will change my stance on somewhat original fan games based older games.

PA0000901848), The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (U.S. "The copyrighted works are the video games in Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda video game franchise, including without limitation the audio-visual works, story lines, characters, and imagery in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (U.S. Spotted by Torrentfreak, the complaint reads as follows: The game was available from GitHub, but following the copyright claim, has since been removed. The game made use of the very same engine from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and aimed to bridge the gap between Ocarina, and later N64 title, Zelda: Majora's Mask. Well-known modder Kaze Emanuar, who has been releasing a number of unofficial Nintendo-based projects over the last few years, launched a title called 'The Missing Link' earlier this year. Nintendo's legal team has swooped in once again, filing a copyright claim on a fan-made Legend of Zelda game which has forced the project to be entirely delisted.
