Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 Fan Port Hit with DMCA

Nintendo are the Disney of the gaming industry in regards to protecting their IPs.<p>Any in-game footage of a Nintendo game on youtube can be flagged by Nintendo (of Japan usually) at any time. They don&#x27;t really check for fair use beforehand.

Nobody hates their most hardcore fans more than Nintendo.

Don&#x27;t worry, it&#x27;s still out there, just like AM2R. Give it a few weeks so Ninty can parade around like they won something, and if you&#x27;re in the right places, you&#x27;ll hear about the continued development.

While this is crappy, it is the default behavior of most large companies when it comes to copyright. As people have described I mistakenly said that copyright must be enforced or it is lost. Agreed I was confusing it with trademark. Despite that, I see many companies treating copyright the same and harassing all copyright infringers with abandon even if it is harmless.<p>I will also share another story. Some years ago I owned n64.org. I ran a fan website of Nintendo 64 games there. It was quite popular. I was underage ( &lt; 18 ) at the time I bought the domain, and I bought the domain before NOA registered &quot;n64&quot; as a trademark.<p>NOA threatened to sue me for the domain. I refused as their claim that people would think my fan site was the official Nintendo site was entirely nonsense. In the end they wrote a check to me for like $50 or something equally ridiculous.<p>Nintendo is not your friend. They don&#x27;t do a good job taking care of their fans. They will happily sue or threaten you for doing anything they don&#x27;t happen to like.

They seem to really hate direct ports of their work.<p>Curiously, there is a thriving Super Mario 64 rom hacking community that is rarely hit with notices. Afaik, no one really knows why. There are 100+ games and even a nearly complete level editor. Even when Nintendo were demonetizing videos of their games, these were spared.

Dissappointing, but entirely expected.<p>That&#x27;s OK. The DMCA action will have little impact on the community of people who enjoy this kind of thing.<p>(people who have been around long enough to know better is possible here)

This is a duplicate of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19730987" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19730987</a>

I fail to see how this takedown benefits Nintendo.<p>How could a C64 port of a NES game released more than 30 years ago could threaten <i>any</i> sale of <i>anything</i> ?

Bummer. I was fully prepared to exhibit this amazing bit of work at my new retro-computing exhibit [1], and I expect it would have been inspiring for a lot of local indie game developers to have had the chance to see it in person ..<p>Well, instead, I&#x27;ll just focus on some of the other gem releases of the retro-dev scene, and fortunately there are a <i>LOT</i> of other great works being produced for these old machines - of limited commercial value - but massive cultural worth. Still, seeing a near-perfect port of Super Mario Bros. on the old C64 is an amazing thing, and fills me full of inspiring thoughts. Bummer, Nintendo.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;subotron.com&#x2F;7635-timetron-2019&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;subotron.com&#x2F;7635-timetron-2019&#x2F;</a>

Yeah, Nintendo seems to be pretty intense with this stuff (sometimes very unfairly, like in this instance with Modern Vintage Gamer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AKtaFU2ky9E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AKtaFU2ky9E</a>)

I grabbed a copy of it if anyone’s interested.

Wow, the Slashdot thread on this was actually more informative. I think that&#x27;s a first for me.<p>The issue is trademark: if they don&#x27;t defend it, they could lose it. It&#x27;s really that simple.

They did the same with a fan-made remake of Metroid 2, though that was Nintendo USA:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AM2R" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AM2R</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;metroid2remake.blogspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;metroid2remake.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a>

It shows the C64 could run NES type games.<p>Gaina Sisters did SMB first but also got sued by Nintendo.

What is another strategy around this aside from release quickly and hopefully gains enough following.<p>We see this with Disney, Star Trek but not to this extent.

A lot of people here a like &quot;Nintendo hates their fans&quot;, but seriously, this is a product that Nintendo is currently selling (Well, technically renting to subscribers) why should they stand idle as people pirate it?