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11/11 #132「Final Ⅳ 『Companion』」
11/18「Pocket Monsters: Koko」 (movie re-run)
11/25 #133「Project Mew」
12/2 #134「Get the future!」
12/9 #135「Pokemon! It was a pleasure to have met you!」
@TerminalAutism @ryo A spiritual successor does not infringe on copyright.
Even back when I was lurking around on ROM hacking communities (mostly Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart 7, Mario Kart Wii, New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario 64 DS, and several Pokemon focused ones), even the people active on these noticed how Nintendo was swinging their lawsuit hammer like a motherfucker against fan games, piracy sites, JewTubers, flash cards, modchips, custom firmwares, and even emulators, but they've left ROM hackers alone for some weird reason.
@ryo @TerminalAutism @Alex A lot of ROM hacks uses patches which makes them somewhat less copyright infringing. At that point, it would be no different than a mod for a PC game.
Nintendo also doesn't seem to care about fan translations like the Mother 3 fan translation. I guess they feel like since it's unlikely that game will get a localization anytime soon that taking it down would be a dick move.
They have also turned a blind eye to anything related to the Satellaview, but that's probably because it is literally impossible to get those games anywhere else and what is left of many of those games are incomplete since a lot of them were meant to be played along with an audio broadcast (though for the BS Zelda games, the audio has been recently re-dubbed thanks to a custom SNES chip, the MSU-1 which allows MP3 quality audio on the SNES).
And recently, you have decomps, disassemblies, and PC ports. Those generally require the original ROMs just to extract the assets, and decompiled code does not count as original source code in legal terms. A lot of replacement engines for PC games pretty much do the same thing for the same reason. So, Nintendo can't do much about those.
And eventually the admins became certificate indie devs for Nintendo platforms, Nintendo actually knew of their existance, and even the fact they were distributing .nds ROM files.
That community didn't go down because of Nintendo suing them, they went down because all their most talented memebers decided to throw the admins under the bus and set up a Discucked chat room instead back when its popularity exploded and started taking over public forums in general.
@ryo @TerminalAutism @Alex Toby Fox (of Undertale fame) used to be an Earthbound/Mother 2 ROM hacker, yet Nintendo doesn't seem to care about his past and let him publish Undertale on Switch and have Sans be an DLC Mii costume in Smash Ultimate. But to be fair, Toby doesn't seem to look at those ROM hacking days fondly.
