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

 

[SSG Vegeta]

99.999% of people couldnt care less

Speak for yourself the community revolves around roms,romhacks & homebrew that's my point.

 

[BlueFox gui]

nintendo should just die

 

[migles]

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.

if ya know or find something about the links, give me a tip, these tools are precious, shouldn't die
sadly i didn't knew about them until now :C

i am already rom hoarding so..

 

[Alex S]

Nintendo never learns. once its on the internet, its never "taken down". what really happens is it just goes to another website over and over just like roms. you can't even secure your own consoles security nintendo... what makes you think that the internet itself is somehow controllable too?

 

[ken28]

Nintendo never learns. once its on the internet, its never "taken down". what really happens is it just goes to another website over and over just like roms. you can't even secure your own consoles security nintendo... what makes you think that the internet itself is somehow controllable too?

nintendo secured their console this time, or do you say you know more then scirem about it?
Its nividia that f-ed up not nintendo.

 

[kumikochan]

Fuck Nintendo, Easily gonna pas EA in worst company

 

[Coto]

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

actually, the correct terms would be trademark (worldwide), patent (more like local legal scope, falls under the copyright section, invention), copyright(worldwide, expression of an idea, such as artistic work) and software licenses(worldwide) being entirely different from these.

(these points have been acknowledged by real life lawyers btw)

there are two infringements in the DMCA case:

1) a software license that you the consumer do not have to use/redistribute the product. You infringe that because you can't license work that does not belong to you. (the infraction raises in their software license, from the game it originally comes from, and you are subject to its clauses, which IIRC does not allow you to tamper with any form of the code at all, nor redistribute it).

2) the work belongs to the IP of Pokemon Company and Nintendo. So there's a copyright infringement. Different would be, if you were to use their logo in your personal work, that would also raise a trademark infraction if they didn't allow that. (such as youtube channels), and there is permissive licenses such as this one from USA (that enables you, a citicen to apply to 2) point), being:

"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use"

 

[Dominator211]

Things like this gave it life. I’m even more frustrated being a switch owner. So many emotions. God damn it Nintendo

 

[Tigran]

Or maybe fan games should do their -own- work and not steal other's?

Hell.. It's not that fucking hard.

Remember the Castlevania in unreal that was taken down?

If the guy had changed the sprites a bit and called Simon "bob" and Dracula "Steve." not a whole lot could be done. Instead it was "Look at my casltevania!"

Hell.. Look at Curse of the Moon. It's fucking Castlevania 3, but since it's literally their own game with no stolen assets, not a lot can be done.

 

[RedoLane]

So anyone ready for a boycott?

 

[Dominator211]

They're just being assholes at this point

We should have the creative freedom to do stuff

 

[Tigran]

So anyone ready for a boycott?

Oh I boycott "fan games" all the damn time.

 

[Alex S]

nintendo secured their console this time, or do you say you know more then scirem about it?
Its nividia that f-ed up not nintendo.

a failure is still a failure. they made the poor choice of asking nvidia to work with them one time. they never had issues before with ati/amd

 

[ken28]

a failure is stil la failure. they made the poor choice of asking nvidia to worl with them one time. they never had issues before with ati/amd

wow thats a strsange definition of guilt.

 

[chrisrlink]

hell I'm selling my nintendo shit after this

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Copyright infringement is what it is. It's amazing it lasted this long, but it had no right to.

We should have the creative freedom to do stuff

Stealing and redistributing assets is not very creative, though, lol. Creativity would implicate you make your own.

 

[Alex S]

wow thats a strsange definition of guilt.

if your neighbor leaves your backdoor unlocked for just anyone to walk into because you gave them the key. who is at fault here?

 

[AutumnWolf]

F*cking disgusting

 

[ken28]

if your neighbor leaves your backdoor unlocked for just anyone to walk into because you gave them the key. who is at fault here?

if you had no reason to suspect the neighbor doing so then cleary the neighbor but this anology isnt entirely correct. that would imply the neighbor leaving the door open intentionally but in this case it would be more like him accidently leaving the door open.
But this scenario isnt that unlikely, many people gives secondary keys to neighbor in case they locked themselves out. In real life this situation is more of an can happen situtation since you dont need to give him a key at all even if you trust them.

But unless you make your own hardware you need hardware manufactores which you need to trust. And let us face it nvidia is far from "untrust" worthy.

 

[SomeKindOfUsername]

Why is it only Nintendo that does this? You literally don't see any other company doing this kind of thing.

For real though, distributing or using ripped assets is playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes. The rage is comical, especially considering most are pirating their stuff anyway.