Nintendo also, if you remember, patented emulators for all its systems (or at least the Gameboy, not sure of the others) so that it's illegal to even HAVE a emulator for some of their consoles now...
Quote:Nintendo cracks down on fan-game developers and their projects
Posted by Ash Paulsen at 04:57:45 AM EST on 8.19.2004.
There's news coming out of Zelda Universe today that Nintendo has gone on the offensive and sent warning E-mails to the developers of various fan games based on their most popular franchises, and also to the websites that host current builds of these games on their servers.
In addition the increasingly well-known, popular "Ocarina of Time 2D" project, other fan-games - including "Open Zelda," "Adventure Zelda," "Zelda: Link's Odyssey," "Zelda 2: Enhanced," and "Super Mario World Classic" - have already been targeted and affected by Nintendo's actions.
Nintendo is no doubt only doing what they feel is right to protect their interests and properties, but this is also sparking some heated controversy on whether or not the company's going too far and/or picking the wrong targets. In any case, there are heated arguments on both sides of the issue and it will be interesting to see how this develops.
If any more news of interest develops from this story, we here at GAF will be sure to let you know!
Source: Zelda Universe
Well there goes that planned Zelda fan game for me! I must say that this is one of the dumbest things that Nintendo has ever done. They're struggling enough as it is to gain new fans, and now they're alienating the few hardcore fans that they have left. Microsoft didn't stop those fans from making that neat-o 2D Halo game, Valve didn't stop those fans from making that 2D HL games. The only reason why people are doing this is because they love Nintendo's games so much. Lucasfilm embraced the fan film community and even hold an awards ceremony each year to congratulate and award the people who make these wonderful tributes to Star Wars. And several of these amateur filmmakers have gone on to work for ILM and Lucasfilm! What better way to find new talent!
Nintendo is making a huge mistake here. This is the last thing they should be doing. Well fuck 'em, this is going to hurt them a lot more then it will hurt us.
Quote:Nintendo will release the GameCube tennis game Mario Tennis in Japan in October 2004, the developer Camelot is planning to reveal new details of the game sometimes next week.
It looks like we'll probably get MT sometime in early '05.
I've probably missed our thread(s) on this, having been away as I have been---but man who's seen it here--? It's amazing; it's a great tradition RPG, on a Nintendo system, the first one that I can recall since the glory days of the SNES! My friend rented it; I may have to buy it. Everything about it was top-rate in my opinion.
As of late, I've been analyzing politics, and I hereby declare that I am no longer a REPUBLICAN. While still slightly right on the spectrum, I've found too many things are wrong with the REPUBLICAN party, and that I am incredibly liberal on many, many things. Here are those things now, conveniently listed:
Abortion: OVERWHELMINGLY CONSERVATIVE
Immigration: CONSERVATIVE
Gay marriage: SLIGHTLY LIBERAL
Death Penalty: SLIGHTLY LIBERAL
Religion: OVERWHELMINGLY LIBERAL
Aff. Action: OVERWHELMINGLY CONSERVATIV
*The peaceful, happy-go-lucky world of Post-Goron Occupational TC Forums is shattered with the thunderous roar of cannon fire. Moments later, the drone of twin-engine Goron transports can be heard...the sky turns to blazing orange, as the denizens of Tendo City realize that the Goron war machine is back on the road, and inbound!*
HERE YE, HERE YE!
Darunia's back. He has a new version of Netscape that works.
I... am too lazy to post a link or article. Let ABF do it to make up for his years of laziness. Basically what has happened is that Star Fox has been delayed to sometime next year, which I think is a good think since it still looked a bit rough at E3, but it's also a bad thing for Nintendo since this makes it the second big GC holiday title to get pushed back to 2005 (the other being RE4). Will Paper Mario 2 and Metroid Prime 2 be enough for Nintendo's holiday? I don't think it'll be able to hold up to all of the big XB and PS2 holiday games, but I'm personally okay with it.
Hey maybe with this delay they'll be able to muster up the imagination and give it a better title than simply "Star Fox". :p
Incredible I really hope those bastard whores on B.net forum quit their bitching about Blizzard being evil, Because they really dont have to do this adding new content and units. Really I think blizzard should make a 2nd exspansion I wonder if these units are hints of it? I soppose WOW might screw that up. Maybe they should add the Naga as a full scale race because they almost are, The Warcraft universe is becoming more diverse and forever changing then ever the possibilities are endless to be quite frank blizzard almost doesnt need to make a new franchise they got enough already to last for years.Warcraft III could be like Half Life were when ever the game starts to get old they just add new content and a exspansion to bring life back into it, It would be more profitable and cheaper to just improve existing games rather then start somthing new from the ground up. Blizzard North needs to make another franchise so each division of blizzard has two universes to work with and cash in on.
