If Pokemon Uranium was anything to go by, Nintendo hasn't had the best past in regards to fan games using its intellectual properties. In a jarring but not so surprising turn, the company has sent a takedown notice to a Pokemon fan game maker tool, Pokemon Essentials. This tool, an add-on script to RPG Maker, originally released in 2007, was particularly popular in the community of fan game creators, as it allowed users to easily create area maps thanks to its included graphical assets, which offered tilesets, music, sprites, and more. These very same included assets are reportedly why Nintendo issued the notice, as it has copyrighted graphical assets within the program. Nintendo went so far as to also delete Pokemon Essential's wiki, taking out the largest repository of guides and information on how to use the program. Maruno, the developer of Essentials was given a DMCA notice, issued from Nintendo's legal team, to which he obeyed, and took down all things regarding the tool. Essentials is no longer allowed to be distributed on many sites, though many know the dark recesses of the internet to be an immortal repository, especially when it comes to such cases like these.

Source: Pokecommunity

 

[Leobgood]

did anyone mirrored all that shit?
i am interested of having a local copy, including the wiki site...

Ditto...

 

[ken28]

if I was satoshi Tajiri I'd break contract by now and take complete control over the Pokémon franchise (I mean Nintendo don't even fucking make the games they just take 90% of the profits) Nintendo's been screwing over GF since red/green in 95 why was he this fucking stupid in the first place to sign up with such a toxic company?

companies like monolith would disagree with you on that. unlike other publisher nintendo allowed them to follow through with their dream of the xenogames even trough the lkast two atempy before hand where somewhat of a disasster.

 

[Uiaad]

aka any business ever

thats not just nintendo but all devs.

A difference is another dev/company does this barely anyone bats an eyelid but when Nintendo does it there is an uproar. I am not Nintendo's biggest fan but they have a legal right to do what they are currently doing. The question you have to ask yourself is this gonna really change anything in the grand scheme of things ?

Modding will always continue as will ROM sharing. This really does change nothing there will always be alternate routes to do what people are doing.

 

[ken28]

companies like monolith would disagree with you on that. unlike other publisher nintendo allowed them to follow through with their dream of the xenogames even trough the lkast two atempy before hand where somewhat of a disasster.

here is a nice video about the whole thing:


(so would the bayonetta devs since big n saves the series, but hey big n is all bad)

 

[shaunj66]

Ditto...

The Wayback Machine has a lot of the Wiki archived but it appears the Mediafire links for the downloads are also dead now. However I'm sure some users should have a local copy somewhere so I'm sure it will show up at some point.

 

[VitaType]

if I was satoshi Tajiri I'd break contract by now and take complete control over the Pokémon franchise (I mean Nintendo don't even fucking make the games they just take 90% of the profits) Nintendo's been screwing over GF since red/green in 95 why was he this fucking stupid in the first place to sign up with such a toxic company?

Pokémon was started with an for a videogame unprecedented marketing campaign. I don't think without what they did in the 90s to make the IP great we still would talk about this games. Nintendo did alot for GameFreak with this campaign.

 

[Clydefrosch]

well duh, its surprising they got away with hosting this officially for as long as they did.

 

[Bladexdsl]

nintendo are just c**ts now 1st they offer absolutely fuck all games for the switch and are more interested in mobile and cardboard GARBAGE. and now they are acting worse than apple with takedowns.

 

[CaptainSodaPop]

many games get taken down sooner or later for copyright infringement. the problem is that many of those devs are from china and thus are hard to dmca due different laws there.

Also there is differents between a clone and a rip off. Many gta v for free besides the name obviously dont use ripped//remade assets from the game.
Now for example look at the stuff pokemon essential comes with, mostly ripped assets.

But how they end up there at all strikes me... Google as one of the biggest if not the biggest American company is not protecting it's own country laws?

Using literally the same assets or not, being a real game or not. Stuff like this is beyond me.



Especially when app has ads inside that bring money to the shady developers. Obviously Sony doesn't own right to "Omega" symbol or Rockstar doesn't have right to that font. But come on, store is full of copycats like this for anything popular you can think of. Pokemon fan games are free and made for the purpose of having fun and Nintendo should be happy people are playing and promoting their games for free. Even hire some of the talented guys.

 

[Subtle Demise]

isnt that thanks to american copryright laws as in if they dont defend it they lose it?

That's not copyright, that's trademark.

 

[ken28]

But how they end up there at all strikes me... Google as one of the biggest if not the biggest American company is not protecting it's own country laws?

Using literally the same assets or not, being a real game or not. Stuff like this is beyond me.

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Especially when app has ads inside that bring money to the shady developers. Obviously Sony doesn't own right to "Omega" symbol or Rockstar doesn't have right to that font. But come on, store is full of copycats like this for anything popular you can think of. Pokemon fan games are free and made for the purpose of having fun and Nintendo should be happy people are playing and promoting their games for free. Even hire some of the talented guys.

lets u face it, google doesnt really checks the games like apple does. the only thing they do is check automaticly checks for viruses thats it.
and google being american results in it being taken down sooner or later, mostlikely later due ad money which google gets a precentage off

 

[Subtle Demise]

nintendo have to defend their ip, otherwise they wont be able to keep it. absolutely normal procedure and not a "dick" move in any way.
also its clearly ripping off their assets

Again, that only applies for trademarks, not intellectual property or copyrights.

 

[ertaboy356b]

Pokemon Maker incoming!!!!

 

[VitaType]

Pokemon Maker incoming!!!!

Hopefully it will have a feature where you can make photographs from two objects and the program will create a new Pokémon out of them.
Sounds like a great idea.

 

[Kigiru]

Cool and all but how they want to put it into work?
Sure, they can nuke the site and scare the group working on it into surrender, but there will be always some mirrors to last available version and people that want to use it to make their own game and people making unofficial patches...
It does not work like that, this is waste of time and in my opinion a clear signal that Nintendo does not even know what they are doing anymore.

 

[Zonark]

Pokémon Maker! Maybe real???

 

[SSG Vegeta]

If Nintendo keeps doing this then people are going to eventually leave them 0.0

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

Okay, that's an asshole move.

 

[VitaType]

Pokémon Maker! Maybe real???

No. Nintendo would never build a Maker that needs such a attention span and time window to make anything half-playable as a RPG. In the 90s maybe (Mario Paint and its 64DD succesor), but not today. They want to be open for everyone and we don't life in a time for that atm. Of course for a good Mario Maker level you need time too, but you also can trash something along in under a minute and call it a day.

 

[ut2k4master]

If Nintendo keeps doing then people are going to eventually leave them 0.0

99.999% of people couldnt care less