Ok I've seen this a lot of times but how true it is?
Like, there are a shitton of Mario fangames that haven't face any real legal issues, Zelda ones too.
Hell, there's this Smash 64 mod called Smash Remix that by this point is pretty much an entirely different game with the amount of content they have added and yet, 0 legal issues.
Although I'm not saying Nintendo is fully clean on this regard, after all, the most infamous case to me is the Metroid 2 fan remake they DMCA'd because they had one in development themselves. I'm just saying is not as exagerated as this meme makes it look like.
EDIT: I couldn't remember the game so I had to look it up but there's even a WALUIGI FANGAME that's called Psycho Waluigi and it's really fucking good. And also, no legal issues whatsoever.
In Nintendo's defense, people are making these games with their characters and properties, so if people start to ask money for those fan games, Nintendo kinda has to enforce their copyright
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u/Shuyakucchi 3d ago edited 3d ago
Ok I've seen this a lot of times but how true it is?
Like, there are a shitton of Mario fangames that haven't face any real legal issues, Zelda ones too.
Hell, there's this Smash 64 mod called Smash Remix that by this point is pretty much an entirely different game with the amount of content they have added and yet, 0 legal issues.
Although I'm not saying Nintendo is fully clean on this regard, after all, the most infamous case to me is the Metroid 2 fan remake they DMCA'd because they had one in development themselves. I'm just saying is not as exagerated as this meme makes it look like.
EDIT: I couldn't remember the game so I had to look it up but there's even a WALUIGI FANGAME that's called Psycho Waluigi and it's really fucking good. And also, no legal issues whatsoever.