It looks like Nintendo is going after fan games again. Earlier this year, Nintendo sent cease and desist letters to two fan games that used Nintendo properties; Pokemon Uranium and AM2R. But it looks like NOA isn't quite done shutting down fan projects this year, as renown romhacker "Coolboyman" has received a C&D for all of his romhacks. Not only has his completed but unreleased hack called Pokemon Prism been targeted, but Rijon Adventures and Brown must also be taken down to avoid legal pursuit. (Of course the latter two have been distributed over the internet many times, so it's pretty much a nonissue.) Last week also saw Konami issue a C&D to a Castlevania 1 remake in Unreal Engine. It's a sad, harsh lesson to everyone that those who wish to create fan projects should not generate hype, but instead quietly release their works and then promote them after the fact. Pokemon Prism was the result of 8 years of Coolboyman's work, and will now likely not see a release.

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[munchy_cool]

the rom has been leaked :3

a few hours ago

 

[PolloDiablo]

You playing it on an actual Gameboy Color?Thats pretty cool.Didn't know writable GB/GBC carts existed.I have seen GBA ones.Prism is pretty good so far.

Yeah, it's pretty cool to be abble to play romhacks on the real thing. I'm using an everdrive.

 

[MadMageKefka]

I understand Nintendo's point of view, but this was dumb. All they managed to do was draw more attention to the hack.

 

[pokemoner2500]

I understand Nintendo's point of view, but this was dumb. All they managed to do was draw more attention to the hack.

Honestly, I hadn't even heard of Prism prior to this xD

 

[Clydefrosch]

I understand Nintendo's point of view, but this was dumb. All they managed to do was draw more attention to the hack.

its nintendos lawyers, who are literally just tasked with 'do what needs to be done to keep the copyright to Pokemon intact'
this is about doing that.

 

[CrazyMaxx]

Is the Prism Game forever down? Or will he it release the patch under secrets

 

[Pokem]

Is the Prism Game forever down? Or will he it release the patch under secrets

it already leaked

 

[FAST6191]

Guys, did you get that it's not nintendo directly doing this, but someone hired for that? Nintendo don't even know about it to have a idea like " wow lets officialese it" like people dream doing stuff like that pokemon urainum ...
Funny how sega used like " yes it was nintendo and we are better, post your romhacks for us! muahhaha" hahha XD these marketing people...

You are reading far too much into this. This sort of thing for a legal office is trivial and boring gruntwork, very much the sort of thing you task interns at outside council with doing.

 

[03bgood]

What the fuck is wrong with Nintendo these days? That company has gone to hell, ever since Iwata passed away!

 

[sandytf]

The ChronoTrigger C&D letter was a fake. My best guess is that the rom hackers fabricated the whole thing to get more views for their YouTube walkthrough videos.

 

[Noctosphere]

I don't understand why they are against fan project:
1st they dont make any profit from them
2ndly, it makes publicity for the original game.
SO WTF NINTENDO, STOP THAT

 

[ItsKipz]

I don't understand why they are against fan project:
1st they dont make any profit from them
2ndly, it makes publicity for the original game.
SO WTF NINTENDO, STOP THAT

Its IP protection, its fucked up but its what they have to do.

 

[Noctosphere]

Its IP protection, its fucked up but its what they have to do.

intellectual property my ass
THEY WANT TO RUIN FANDOM 4EVER

 

[ItsKipz]

intellectual property my ass
THEY WANT TO RUIN FANDOM 4EVER

If they dont do that, they can literally lose rights to pokemon itself because they cant argue against it in court, so no more pokemon games.

 

[Deleted User]

Its funny to read how many of you think you understand copyright law. Also, wink wink nudge nudge, the games been leaked anyway for you to enjoy

 

[ItsKipz]

Its funny to read how many of you think you understand copyright law. Also, wink wink nudge nudge, the games been leaked anyway for you to enjoy

Yeah, sorry if what i'm saying is wrong, i really dont know much about this stuff

 

[Xiphiidae]

Nope. Don't buy it one bit. It wasn't Nintendo in Europe that would be sending the notice. It would be NOJ or NOA.

Whoever drew up the notice may not have been a native-born American? Maybe they were educated overseas? I'm sure there are a number of explanations for why "unauthorised" was used. I'm just saying that the notion that -ise is incorrect spelling is laughably false.

 

[Cha0tic]

Anyone know how much content or how long is the prism leak?

 

[8BitWonder]

Anyone know how much content or how long is the prism leak?

From what I heard it's the version twitch got.

 

[Xiphiidae]

Anyone know how much content or how long is the prism leak?

From the other thread:

From what I've heard, the 0.91 version is the version TwitchPlaysPokemon had. Basicly the game with a few tiny flaws and no online.