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'I'm also responsible for this situation,' he wrote. Vierra responded on his Twitter account by blaming himself for attracting attention to the patchВ close to its release date. 'Whilst this is appreciated, it unfortunately does not alter Nintendo's important role to ensure that all of its valuable IP is fullyВ protected and that there is no use made of any of its intellectual property rights without proper supervision and authorization.'

'Nintendo understands that you are a fan of its original products and its PokГ©mon franchise,' the letter to Vierra reads. (Other PokГ©mon ROM hack depositories are easy to find online.) It would have contained other tweaks, such as Brown'sВ specialВ monster types (wood, gas, wind, abnormal, and sound), a tweak to the game's 'clock' system, and new music compositions. That hack's new 'Rijon' region would have been hugely expanded upon in PokГ©mon Prism. Vierra himself might have assumed Nintendo would allow a PokГ©mon ROM hack, because his last one, PokГ©mon Brown, launched in 2004 with nothing in the way of dispute from Nintendo. (Other similar Mario-related hacks have been written about at Ars.) Instead of issuing C&D letters to the makers of these hacks, Nintendo has aimed its legal crosshairs at YouTube streamers who play these ROM-hacked Mario games. AdvertisementДЇurther Reading How an emulator-fueled robot reprogrammed Super Mario World on the flyAdditionally, giant online fan communities have formed around ROM-hacked versions of older Super Mario games, which mostly exist to make absurdly difficult versions of the games' classic levels.

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PokГ©mon Prism would have launched asВ a free patch file download, with no links to PokГ©mon ROMs, as well.

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Mods typically launch for free to avoid the most obvious legal issue that might arise from commercialization. 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. 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).

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PokГ©mon Prism is differentВ because it's a 'ROM hack'-meaning, it's not a full game. These legally questionable projects have typically been made from scratch, with game assets and art being extracted or recreated by the creators and then slapped into other game engines.

Other recent Nintendo takedown notices, like the one sent to a fan-made remake of Metroid 2: Return of Samus, have come in the form of DMCA notices. Nintendo's Australian lawВ firm, Addisons, has taken action against downloaders of commercial Nintendo products before, but the firm appears to have done little to nothing about makers of Nintendo-infringing software.

(American representatives for Nintendo were not able to confirm the letter's authenticity as of press time.) The requestВ alleges that Koolboyman's project, which alters the source ROM of the 1999 game PokГ©mon Gold to createВ an entirely new adventure, violates multiple Australian laws.Д®ven though Vierra's public profile says he lives near San Francisco and Nintendo has headquarters and legal firms in America,В Vierra clarified on his Twitter account that the game's planned launch site,, is hosted in Australia. But a letter sent byВ Nintendo's Australian law firm on Wednesday hasВ stopped those plans in their tracks.ДЄccording to Adam 'Koolboyman' Vierra, developer of the fan-made PokГ©mon Prism project,В Nintendo's Australian lawВ firmВ sent him a cease-and-desist letter, which he uploaded to Google Drive with identifying information redacted. A fan-made PokГ©monВ ROM hack in the works for eight years was set to launch this Sunday.