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Fans making 2D Zelda Ocarina of Time

They will be receiving their first C&D soon. Until someone challenges these remakes in court, possibly under the parody laws established by none other than 2 Live Crew! (Thanks Roy Orbison), they will continue to be shut down.
 
Nintendo militantly protects their IP. There's a smarter way to release this kind of stuff. Announcing it 10% into development is not the right way to do it.
 
If this gains any amount of popularity, it will be shut down. History has shown this.

There was only the one "exception" regarding the translation of Mother 3, but I don't think Nintendo actually had a legal recourse in that matter.
 
ImpulsE69 said:
If N were smart, they'd just hire them to finish it and release it
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It wouldn't be smart for Nintendo to allow a bunch of unknown hackers to produce a buggy software title that no one will buy and give them a portion of the profits even though said programmers have zero rights to the intellectual property.
 
Rakehellion said:
It wouldn't be smart for Nintendo to allow a bunch of unknown hackers to produce a buggy software title that no one will buy and give them a portion of the profits even though said programmers have zero rights to the intellectual property.
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You are making quite a few assumptions there.
 
They would not have that much money into it honestly. It would do much better than many of their latest endeavors. Granted, even if they C&D, all that means is nothing will be said until it is finished - thus even if QoS was a concern, they'd be better off taking a chance on it. Of course, I agree with you, they probably wouldn't, because that is not like them. They are still stuck in their old ways. Where I disagree is that I think they should take the chance. They have the power and resources to make it good (and release it in their virtual shop).
 
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This idea doesn't even sound good on paper. Take a great game like Ocarina of Time and give it worse graphics and worse gameplay to sate some hipster nerd's retro fantasy. I'll pass.

Chances of a random gamer being able to produce a game of the same quality as a muliti-billion dollar video game company: Slim.

And importantly, if Nintendo did give this one its blessing, it would start a wave of hundreds of poorly-made spinoff games from every developer hoping to cash in. In essence, Zelda would be the next Flappy Bird.
 
Pretty sure I heard about this a few years ago. Even downloaded a preview of it where I could walk around the starting area (Kokiri Village?). Wonder if this is the same team/game. 10% is pretty piss poor progress for as long ago as I think it was (3-4 years?).
 
Nashemon said:
Pretty sure I heard about this a few years ago. Even downloaded a preview of it where I could walk around the starting area (Kokiri Village?). Wonder if this is the same team/game. 10% is pretty piss poor progress for as long ago as I think it was (3-4 years?).
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Nah, normal translations come and go and can take 10+ years because people are just doing it in their spare time as they keep interest. Resources leave projects, life gets in the way, etc. The fact that any get finished at all is amazing. These larger undertakings have an even smaller fraction of completion just by the nature of them. It takes some dedication (and boredom) to see them through to the end.

As to whether anyone wants it or not..personally I do. I get not everyone would but to dismiss it because 'you' don't want..eh...apples oranges. Hating on it w/o seeing it is yet another thing.
 
Nashemon said:
Pretty sure I heard about this a few years ago. Even downloaded a preview of it where I could walk around the starting area (Kokiri Village?). Wonder if this is the same team/game. 10% is pretty piss poor progress for as long ago as I think it was (3-4 years?).
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There was some other project to do this almost a decade ago, so maybe you're thinking of this. Eventually one of the people spearheading it faked his own death to try and get away from the project because it was more vaporware than anything else.

This is the kind of project that gets shutdown by legal departments in a hurry, so it's probably unlikely that this will see the light of day either. If someone actually wanted to make something like this, they should just shut-up and work in secret until it's finished and then release it.
 
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