Gamefaqs and a dozen other sites (including here) hosted them for decades, the former tending to be rather anti piracy (which did lead to amusing scenarios on the DS but I will skip that one).
Generally save data is a combination of user created data and any company data is unlikely to meet any kind of creativity threshold to get copyright protections -- a list of stats for an RPG character is not really anything. Worst case scenario in general is someone draws a trademarked logo in a game that supports such things, and I have never heard of anybody getting in trouble for that. There might be some exceptions like Daigasso Band Brothers which had a massive save for DLC of a sort but that would be a case by case basis.
If said saves trouble online games somehow then that can make some people upset. Here though online games have been dead in an official capacity for years so there is not even that.
Basically if your goal is the classic "all levels unlocked, all items unlocked, max money/items, start with X, use this save to do this challenge run..." style save database then you should be fine.
Generally save data is a combination of user created data and any company data is unlikely to meet any kind of creativity threshold to get copyright protections -- a list of stats for an RPG character is not really anything. Worst case scenario in general is someone draws a trademarked logo in a game that supports such things, and I have never heard of anybody getting in trouble for that. There might be some exceptions like Daigasso Band Brothers which had a massive save for DLC of a sort but that would be a case by case basis.
If said saves trouble online games somehow then that can make some people upset. Here though online games have been dead in an official capacity for years so there is not even that.
Basically if your goal is the classic "all levels unlocked, all items unlocked, max money/items, start with X, use this save to do this challenge run..." style save database then you should be fine.
i am gonna elaborate on my answer
they usually don't have stuff like the intellectual propriety of the developers, i mean like music, art, videos etc, textures, code of the game, or designed maps.
they USUALLY only have stored info about what you unlocked, stats, stuff that you got, your location and plenty of other stuff that are related to your progress..
sharing game saves had always been allowed in all places.. i don't see why it should make a problem, unless for some weird reason the developers programmed the game in a way that would store complete stuff from the rom into the save, instead of where you are and where is stuff, what you defeated and etc
Yeah. I looked at a save file and most of them are just 512KB.
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There's also a category in FileTrip: https://filetrip.net/nds-downloads/game-saves
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companies tried but failed (until now at least in japan) to block things like Action replay Game genie etc courts ruled in the cheat devices favor citing that cause save data is user generated and volitile (erasable) in most cases i recall that resident evil (one of the 3ds games,to deter used game sales) couldn't be eraseed anywho same principal ruling in Nintendo V galoob (the ruling i stated above) could be applied to sharing saves as they are user genned and volitile
If they are copyrightable (which needs to be considered case by case, on the virtue of containing nontrivial artistic effort - think of certain things that can be done in Warioware DIY, Minecraft, Animal Crossing, Mario Paint or its 64DD sequels, ... - or from another already mentioned point of view, games where DLC is actually not built-in && stored in the save) then it's copyrighted by whoever put the creative effort in, who of course then get a saying on who ought to be able to redistribute copies
(Is Nintendo infringing on my copyright by obstructing my ability to backup and distribute my saves? I think so but it would be interesting to see the actual outcome in court in various countries)
(Is Nintendo infringing on my copyright by obstructing my ability to backup and distribute my saves? I think so but it would be interesting to see the actual outcome in court in various countries)
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@TwoSpikedHands, I'll preface this with the fact that I know nothing about the game, but, I think it depends on what your goals are. Are you trying to make a definitive version of the game? You may want to refocus your efforts on the EU version then. Or, are you trying to make a better US version? In which case, the only way to make a better US version is to keep on plugging away at that one
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I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the differences between the two versions, but I'm wondering if at least some of those differences are things that you could port over to the US version in your patch without having to include copyrighted assets from the EU version
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@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it!
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I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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do y'all think having an sd card that has a write speed of 700kb/s is a bad idea?
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@The Real Jdbye it hasn't given me any error trying to write things on it so I don't really think it's faulty (pasted 40/50gb+ folders and no write errors)
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@The Real Jdbye, I considered that, but i'll have to wait until i can get the eu version in the mail lol
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@The Real Jdbye, I considered that, but i'll have to wait until i can get the eu version in the...