Nintendo mad at pc gamers again

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Nintendo faces an uphill struggle trying to scrub the unofficial Super Mario 64 PC port from the internet

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As expected, Nintendo is taking action to try to scrub the eye-catching unofficial Super Mario 64 PC port from the internet. But it faces an uphill struggle.

This week TorrentFreak reported on how the Super Mario 64 PC port executable had disappeared from some file-hosting sites, pointing to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown from US-based law firm Wildwood Law Group LLC, a company said to be working on behalf of Nintendo, of a Google Drive link that had done the rounds.

"The copyrighted work is Nintendo's Super Mario 64 video game, including the audio-visual work, software, and fictional character depictions covered by U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA[REDACTED]," the notice reads.

"The reported file contains an unauthorized derivative work based on Nintendo's copyrighted work."

It looks like Nintendo's lawyers are also targeting videos of the PC port on YouTube. The video that came to light this week as part of a report by VGC is no longer available due to a copyright claim by a third-party, presumably Wildwood. Reports indicate Google search results, Reddit posts with direct links to download and file-hosting services have also been targeted.

While this specific DMCA takedown has worked, and you can no longer access the file from the Google Drive link mentioned, and this one video is no longer on YouTube, Nintendo's lawyers face a perhaps impossible task of scrubbing the PC port from the internet. The executable is still freely available on social media and other platforms, and YouTube is full of gameplay videos of the port.

According to Eurogamer sources who corroborated a report posted by VGC, Nintendo Switch's first-party line-up for the rest of 2020 will be dominated by Mario games old and new, to coincide with the original Super Mario Bros.' 35th anniversary. Mario 64 is one of them.

So it comes as no surprise that Nintendo is taking action against an unofficial port of the seminal 3D platformer. The question is, at what point does it become more bother than it's worth?

PC version.

We PC gamers dont need childish Mario. nintendo can keep it up.

Rather than fight piracy, devs should embrace it. You can’t beat pirates. It’s an invisible, formless entity that cannot be stopped or killed.

lol I wonder what Ghosts' childhood was like.

when i was kid, i prefer sonic over mario.

Dunno why but everytime Nintendo tries to fight these things, I find it funny. Should learn from Sega and make the port official and earn some money from it.

Lol. Nintendo is at it again I see. I'm sure they want to sell you the 720p version on the switch later no doubt.

It's a reverse alteration of their code on an existing game WITHOUT their permission... bloody hell.

what do you mean "was?"

Meanwhile Valve heroically let fans recreate their classic IP and supported them, even allowing it to be released at the same time as Alyx, with Crowbar Collective profiting from it.

Very altruistic company.

Nintendo...

Nintendo wants to sell Mario 64 every gen to you through their shitty virtual console.

Buy it on N64, but it again on Wii, buy it again on DS, buy it again and again and again.

@uninspiredcup said:

@nintendoboy16 said:

It's a reverse alteration of their code on an existing game WITHOUT their permission... bloody hell.

Meanwhile Valve heroically let fans recreate their classic IP and supported them, even allowing it to be released at the same time as Alyx, with Crowbar Collective profiting from it.

Very altruistic company.

Nintendo...

So? Not every company is the same and reserve the right to determine who and what works with their properties. Sure, it might attract some game publishers (like Swyter on Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy or Samuel Villarreal on Doom 64) and that's great if it happens, but still, Nintendo reserves every right to say "Sorry, you can't do this without our permission."

Not saying I agree, but this is one of those things we're going to have to deal with for the time being. Meanwhile, more serious matters literally plague our world right now.

Yea, really regret jumping on the Switch bandwagon.

@nintendoboy16: We won’t have to deal with anything. Nintendo will because they won’t be able to stop any of it.

Which is now dead...

I understand taking down the game file but going after all internet videos of its existence is a bit draconian. Oh wait... we're living in a pandemic where many f**kers in a position of power are overreaching significantly.

Well it is their IP so I don’t see anything wrong with a company protecting that myself.

This file is so hard to find...

Lets pretend that Mario 64 wasn't already available on PC. 😎

@nintendoboy16 said:

@uninspiredcup said:

@nintendoboy16 said:

It's a reverse alteration of their code on an existing game WITHOUT their permission... bloody hell.

Meanwhile Valve heroically let fans recreate their classic IP and supported them, even allowing it to be released at the same time as Alyx, with Crowbar Collective profiting from it.

Very altruistic company.

Nintendo...

So? Not every company is the same and reserve the right to determine who and what works with their properties.

They do but, Valve are nice.

@uninspiredcup: Calling a corporation "nice"...

Nintendo would turn the internet into China internet if they could get away with it.

Nintendo should just pull a SEGA at this point.

Hire Super Mario 64 Remake devs, put it on PC and Switch, put it on Steam. Better than wasting all this energy combating it.

There is a huge market for Nintendo-esque titles out there on PC. Pummel Party sold between 1-2 million copies.

I don’t really see why Nintendo would be mad at PC gamers. I have been a gamer that has been on the PC and with Nintendo for the most part.

I'm part of the problem though, for me the Switch will be worth it when I can play metroid prime and Mario Sunshine in handheld mode.

Now you have to pay a subscription to access Virtual Console games, which I'd say is even worse.

Please stop using the "we" in your posts

Nintendo probably planned to resell Mario64 for $60 (adjusted for inflation) for all their upcoming consoles until the end of time. So I can see why this is upsetting to them.

If they made a PC version themselves, they'd have made a bit of money from it.

History. Not. Learned.

And being interested "Nintendo-esque" games does not mean they are interested in what Nintendo themselves has to offer.

What we really need next is F-Zero X on PC along with the level editor that was released on the 64DD😉

If it means more people are going to experience the game aka Mario 64, who am I to complain?

Hell, Mario 64 is 24 years old as it is, this isn't worth fighting for despite its Nintendo's IP.

They are anti-consumer, so they won't.

Just another reason hermits are the scum of the gaming universe.

China doesn't respect foreign IP. There are many Android-based game emulator handheld devices from China being sold on Amazon or Aliexpress.

I guess he meant it as a complete control/censorship. "China internet" would be otherwise like "**** everything, pirate anything you want as long as you pay for internet"...

You're making excuses for a corporation as we speak, get a clue.

@WESTBLADE said:

@i_p_daily said:

Just another reason hermits are the scum of the gaming universe.

Nah hermits are the aliens & shit rolled into one, PC customisable scum.

That's how i picture Nintendo's headquarters.

They are making these Nintendo-Esque games because Nintendo is NOT putting them on PC. Why do you think there is such an epidemic of Piracy Targetting ESPECIALLY Nintendo products in general. None of the other console devs have the issue go THIS bad.

As Gabe Newell once said:

"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

Hmm... sounds VERY much like he was thinking of Nintendo when he thought of that.

Or they make them because they like concepts of them, but fervently dislike the company and damn near everything else they have done. For god's sake, Nintendo was blamed for ruining THEIR genres from an N64 FPS (Goldeneye) to not one, but two GameCube strategy games (Pikmin, Battalion Wars).

You can bet that if the "REAL" thing was on PC, PC gamers, like PS and XBOX gamers before them would ignore them STILL. It's as I keep saying, the audience isn't there. And it would probably be better to let Nintendo rot before they do. It did almost happen... twice (Virtual Boy, Wii U).

Only recognizing their right to protect their work (once again, an unofficial bootleg of an existing game screwing with owned code and being released WITHOUT consent, which they clearly said not to do), and to say "Nope, we do not approve." And finding it baffling people continue despite past incidents (and why, this isn't a freaking conflict of politics).

Never said they were "nice". Every company has their anti-consumer side. Valve included (remember, they joined with Bethesda with paid mods until the got flak).

Mario is a middle-aged plumber though.

I am sure most people dislike the business practices of the company.

But the actual games are generally considered really solid.

Only in concept...

If that was the case, they wouldn't have been all these custom mario games around on PC.

You know, the actual thing that inspired Super Mario Maker.

So what's the real difference between this new PC version and all the emulated versions that have already been available on PC for decades?

By what, a small sector of PC gamers? The larger side of it either prefers the clones, rags on them for ruining their genres (see examples above), or ignores them completely. To say Nintendo would make a ton off PC is a lie that would make Todd Howard (and nowhere near memed devs from Harada to Sakurai) blush