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« on: November 17, 2014, 05:20:41 pm »
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http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-ips-can-officially-be-used-for-fan-projects-endorsement-scheme-announced-for-japan/

Link to the article.  Fan projects that are well received can potentially be endorsed by Nintendo.  This spells great news for fangame creators.  I could easily jump in on this and make that high quality Zelda 1 remake I've always envisioned, and actually have it officially recognized.
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2014, 07:41:27 pm »
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Except it only appears to be in Japan for now. I mean it could be worldwide, but I'm waiting for a similar announcement from NoA about this.
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2014, 10:25:51 pm »
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that just rustled my jimmies honestly, I find it interesting that they'll potentially endorse the widely recieved ones, even if it's through a 3rd party program.
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So Nintendo finally woke up on that issue? Wish this was back then, some good projects got C&D'd.

Also does this go for people making videos of Nintendo games/ game-plays on YouTube? I think there was an issue with that, people having their videos taken down or Nintendo demanding a bit of money from said video.
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So there's an update on this, and it currently only applies to video and fan art.
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Honestly I was kind of surprised people were believing this applied to fan games... Nintendo has always had a very... very strict and firm stance on this. From a legal standpoint, it makes 0 sense to allow derivative works of their IPs to be distributed freely. There was a huge surge of posts on my facebook feed about it and it's just... Ugh... I get that hopes tend to skew reality but disconnecting from the excitement and looking at this rationally it wouldn't make sense. Also there's still no credible sources even on the video stuff, but as far as I can tell it's just an "ok" for people to publish gameplay videos on Nico Nico and draw fan art. Even if there were mention of fan games, there's a low chance it would even affect the west given their stance on emulation and fan games.

I mean the most logical way to break it down is that if Nintendo condoned making fan games using existing assets, they'd condone emulation. They don't. At all. It would make 0 sense for this to cover fan games.
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