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http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/12/nintendo-sends-cease-and-desist-notice-to-pokemon-rom-hacker/
A fan-made Pokémon ROM hack in the works for eight years was set to launch this Sunday. But a letter sent by Nintendo's Australian law firm on Wednesday has stopped those plans in their tracks.
According to Adam "Koolboyman" Vierra, developer of the fan-made Pokémon Prism project, Nintendo's Australian law firm sent him a cease-and-desist letter, which he uploaded to Google Drive with identifying information redacted. (American representatives for Nintendo were not able to confirm the letter's authenticity as of press time.) The request alleges that Koolboyman's project, which alters the source ROM of the 1999 game Pokémon Gold to create an entirely new adventure, violates multiple Australian laws.
[...] Pokémon Prism is different because it's a "ROM hack"—meaning, it's not a full game. Rather, Prism is a small patch file that is worthless without the original ROM file (which can either be legally dumped from a cartridge or maybe-not-so-legally downloaded from the Internet). Computer gaming fans would describe this kind of release as a "mod." Mods do a similar thing: they take existing, paid-for game engines and assets, and they apply a patch file that remixes existing content and adds new twists.
(Score: 2, Troll) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday December 25 2016, @04:59PM
Koolboyman's project, which alters the source ROM of the 1999 game Pokémon Gold
This guy should thank Nintendo: they're giving him an opportunity to turn off the computer, go outside and start a normal life again.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:02PM
Maybe some people have different interests than you.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:04PM
Yes, all three of them.
(Score: 1, Troll) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:24PM
Exactly. Somebody needs to rough up those three and make sure they get the message. Anybody engaging in pursuits that doesn't make them a better sex object for women needs to know their role.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:12PM
Dicking around with ROMS is boss as fuck, it's the Pokemon part I have a problem with -- what are we, 12 years old?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:53PM
Yes, You are 12 years old.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 25 2016, @06:15PM
Give me your lunch money, Pokemon player, or else!
Aww yeah, I can buy some candy bars after football practice with this loot!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by tathra on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:17PM
says somebody inside, away from a so-called "normal life", posting this on a computer.
you can take your "normal life" and shove it. what you call "normal" is, at best, merely an appeal to tradition. not everybody thinks like you and trying to force your opinions, values, and morals on everyone else is tyranny and oppression.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:26PM
What's more pathetic, spending a long time hunched over a computer working on a personal hobby project, or patting yourself on the back for hunching over a computer writing pithy comments mocking those with knowledge and capacity to work on such projects?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:27PM
Imagine if it was koolgirlwoman doing this, would you say the same thing with genders inversed? And if not, don't you find this to be kind of sexist?
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday December 25 2016, @09:47PM
Nintendo did the same [twitter.com] to a parody of bootleg games by a feminist homebrew developer.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday December 26 2016, @07:21AM
It's a standard reaction regardless of whether the geek in question is male or female. The main difference I've seen is usually in how much of the snarky comment is devoted to implying that the person is physically unattractive in some way.