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But these won’t have the Nintendo Seal of Quality
The Machine is better than a lot of that stuff lol
So fucking good I bought the physical copy and played through like 30 times after buying the rom. It kinda spoiled me because I haven’t been able to find another new GB game of that quality since, even from that same developer.
Yeah I feel the same. Have you played possum country?
No, I’ll have to check that one out, thanks for gf recommendation!
That was only during a period of high rate counterfeit games being sold around for cheap. This isnt happening anymore because, well, digital piracy.
The Nintendo Seal of Quality is still put on Nintendo games.
My physical copy of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus on Nintendo Switch has one on the back of the box next to the barcode.
I thought they dropped “quality” years ago.
The word perhaps, but the seal is identical in design, color, and function. I believe now it just says “Official Nintendo Seal” which doesnt much change the function except they can’t be sued for licensing bad quality games I guess? Fits in with their anti-consumer theme though.
That’s actually the certificate of ownership, just in case you buy it and think it’s yours
Maybe we’ll get a sequel to Lee Carvalo’s Putting Challenge II.
dang
May I suggest a feather touch?
You have selected: POWER DRIVE
*Ominous rumblings of the horde of Nintendo lawyers being summoned.*
Nintendo cease and desist (or worse) in 5… 4… 3…
Why would be this be a concern? If they publish it in cartridges to be used in original systems, it shouldn’t be a problem for Nintendo, especially if the developers pay Nintendo whatever licensing fee needed.
I doubt Nintendo will let them buy a license. Why would Nintendo sell them a license for a handheld console they don’t even make anymore? It would not encourage sales of their newest product, and therefore they don’t care. Nintendo has historically stopped people from developing homebrew games for their older systems if they get too big or popular, why would they suddenly change now?
Nintendo is the MOST anti-consumer company of the three major console makers, with Sony following in second. There is no indication they would ever change to do anything that benefits the consumer. They tried to make us all buy NES Mario on Virtual Console twice, and now you can’t even buy VC games, you have to rent them.
+1 for the anti-consumer statement.
This is a company that goes after groups who hold tournaments with their games and issues takedowns against people on video platforms just playing their games. Genuinely an awful company (good games don’t excuse the behavior.)
Nintendo has a horrible history of shitting on its fans and projects such as these. In all probability the modders are actually inadvertently (I haven’t checked) falling into Nintendo’s trademark trap on the Gameboy. The Nintendo logo it shows at the start is a check that enables the boot of the game… and is an asset that must be present on each cart. That means if the logo is displayed… they can sue for trademark infringement. If not then they are exploiting the hardware- and we know what happens from there, unfortunately.
This is a cool project and I hope it does well but Nintendo is a shit company that doesn’t deserve the fanfare they are given.
It’s not illegal or anything to develop games without the permission of the console manufacturer. The NES had a 40kb game release in 2019 called Micro Mages. The developers are entirely in the right.
Illegal to develop for? No.
Illegal to bypass security mechanisms? Gray area. Courts typically side against the hackers, historically.
Illegal to display trademarked material? Yes.
The NES has defeatable copy protection which led to a decent dev scene that could ‘legally’ publish games. The game boys copy protection is interesting in how they approached it:
https://piped.video/watch?v=ix5yZm4fwFQ
Basically the catch is you either have a hacked cart or display Nintendo’s logo … so they can go after you either way.
Homebrew seems to be fair game.
It depends on a few factors, but in general yes. The issue is how it gets on the system. Nintendo is staunchly against emulation and has also gone after people who bypass their game systems security. They have a rabid pack of lawyers and the company is more than willing to use them.
Play Gameboy games in your browser
Pretty sure some of these are not made by Nintendo.
meh, im discouraged to pay money to nintendo anything because they will use that money to take out each and every fan project i like. currently blasting through pokemmo before the inevitable c&d then bye.
