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Hacking Please DON'T sign up for the Nintendo DEV program! And I'll explain why.
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YEAAAAH! IT'S THE INTERNET! WE DO WHAT WE WANT! Besides, Nintendo wouldn't really go out of their way to look for every single person signed up on their program who has either made or is working on homebrew. Right?
Who knows? Better not test your luck, though. I heard Reggie Fils-Aime can shoot lasers out of his eyes. ACK!!! Here he comes!YEAAAAH! IT'S THE INTERNET! WE DO WHAT WE WANT! Besides, Nintendo wouldn't really go out of their way to look for every single person signed up on their program who has either made or is working on homebrew. Right?
Do what you want, then if you are sued, it will be your fault, if you signed the NDA you have to do what it saysYEAAAAH! IT'S THE INTERNET! WE DO WHAT WE WANT! Besides, Nintendo wouldn't really go out of their way to look for every single person signed up on their program who has either made or is working on homebrew. Right?
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I signed up because I my self actually planned on making a rhythm game for the Wii U haha. Ofc just for learning purposes as it will be a clone of another game i adore. However with that said Nintendo must of known this would be coming (if people do leak the sdks) i am sure they wouldn't take back what they gave us devs as a blessing just because a few idiots decided to leak the sdk. If anything they would try to go only after them.
You say that like Nintendo doesn't still have a review process for the eShop. They aren't going to blindly accept anything that gets submitted; no twelve dozen flappy bird clones here.
I know how to test dev games on retail firmware, that's not the issue. It's how closely nintendo checks what hardware you have.
And until you shell out the cash for the Dev kit to get a proper build, your game is NEVER going to see the light of day. What does it take to get a DEV kit even if you have the cash? Everything you mentioned. That dev kit with its software is CLOSELY monitored by Nintendo. They give zero fucks about who is a "Nintendo game developer" according to their site. Once you actually get the devkit hardware, then and ONLY then are you a certified Nintendo Developer. Go ahead and sign up! Don't listen to OP.
SOURCE: Shipped 4 Nintendo game products.
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SOURCE: Shipped 4 Nintendo game products.
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They shelled out the cash and passed the interview process to license a dev kit.
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A fully realized working build will help your kickstarter 100% People are more likely to fund a finished game in need of final compliance hardware then some ramblings in a notebook and a "level" farted together in unreal.
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Actually, Nintendo has stuff put in place for indie devs that allow them to send the coded game back to nintendo to run through a catdev unit. Big problem with that is nintendo puts it out as a first party title you are on it as programmer. It also gets to be a huge pain when there are bugs to be fixed prior to release as you dont physically get to see them.
Also, nintendo has nice payment plans on the cat dev.
And if all you are doing is releasing free games they will give you one to use. There are many hoops to jump through to get one for free. But as far as assistance goes Ive never seen anyone as helpful as nintendo.
We had trouble with some stuff once and nintendo actually wrote the code to fix our problem. Yes to be a nintendo developer you really should buy a cat dev but they are really easy going on repayment.
I totally agree for a working model for kickstarter.
For us we build a functional game on pc and port to wii u.
This would probably be the best way for kickstarter as well so you have videos to show of the game running. Or at least some real good stills from your unity project.
Also, there is a special unity engine that is coded for wii u that makes the process pretty seemless for indie devs to release without a catdev unit
Also, nintendo has nice payment plans on the cat dev.
And if all you are doing is releasing free games they will give you one to use. There are many hoops to jump through to get one for free. But as far as assistance goes Ive never seen anyone as helpful as nintendo.
We had trouble with some stuff once and nintendo actually wrote the code to fix our problem. Yes to be a nintendo developer you really should buy a cat dev but they are really easy going on repayment.
I totally agree for a working model for kickstarter.
For us we build a functional game on pc and port to wii u.
This would probably be the best way for kickstarter as well so you have videos to show of the game running. Or at least some real good stills from your unity project.
Also, there is a special unity engine that is coded for wii u that makes the process pretty seemless for indie devs to release without a catdev unit
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Hu, you make a good point. Knowing that, I guess I was wrong. I'll put what you said in the main post.
does this mean you can still develop 3ds homebrew as long as it doesn't use info you got from the SDK?
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make the game using retail hardware to test then after the game is made start a kickstarter and use that to buy dev hardware so ninty will let u publish et
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