I’m not sure Nintendo cares about what’s legal
Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 14 hours agoNever happened with many Zelda and Mario games before. They are on the safe side, if the code is 100% self written. The assets are not part of the project, they can be extracted from the official games. This is legal.
kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 13 hours ago
It doesn’t matter what Nintendo cares, if it is legal.
killingspark@feddit.org 12 hours ago
The experience and risks of being sued depends heavily on the amount of money you have. Just being sued, even if eventually unsubstantiated, sucks hard. It consumes time, energy, and money, and all this time you live with the “but what if I get the one bad jusge,?”
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 12 hours ago
Sued for what? There is nothing Nintendo can sue for. Also we talked about Cease and Desist before, not sueing. Also can you explain me, if you are right, why Nintendo didn’t do that with prior decompilation projects of Mario and Zelda games that reached 100% and are played on a variety of systems now?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
C&D is part of the SLAPP suits strategy, and isn’t really about legal or not, it’s intimidation until someone give up due to the legal fee of fighting said lawsuit. It happened to Yuzu.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 12 hours ago
This is not what happened to Yuzu. They gave up, because the Yuzu team would lose the case. Nintendo collected evidence in their Discord server, how the developers of Yuzu shared Tears of the Kingdom millionth of times. It was 100% not legal. On the other side, we are talking about legal projects like decompiling.
If you are so right, why didn’t Nintendo Cease and Desist prior projects? What makes it Twilight Princess so different or special, that it will happen now? I know why, because Nintendo can’t do anything here. Cease and Desist letters are a personal request, not a legal threat. If the team ignores it, nothing will happen.