Super Mario Eclipse is an ambitious fan-made mod of Super Mario Sunshine, designed to expand and enhance the original game with a wealth of new content and features.

    • hope
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      10 months ago

      It’s a set of patches for the base ISO, so hopefully it’s pretty resistant to takedown? In either case I’m downloading it now while it’s up.

    • @Glytch@lemmy.world
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      1210 months ago

      It’s a patch that requires a “legitimately” acquired ROM to work. This is how sites like SMW World avoid C&D’s, they host patches and mods and don’t have the actual ROMs on site. Nintendo can’t take it down because none of their code is there.

        • @Glytch@lemmy.world
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          410 months ago

          Wasn’t that more about cracking the encryption on those games and leaking them early rather than modding them?

          • @yamanii@lemmy.world
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            110 months ago

            No? There’s no leaking happening over at gamebanana, why are you confusing it with the Yuzu situation?

    • @MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
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      210 months ago

      Nintendo really only has a history of taking down fan remakes of existing Nintendo games or games that are charging money. They’ve never to my knowledge had a free fan game or romhack taken down nor do I think they’d have any sort of legal grounds to do so even if they wanted to. And this essentially boils down to a ROM hack. Which is almost certainly completely safe from Nintendo’s lawyers since it doesn’t contain any Nintendo made assets.