Link's Awakening DX HD is a fully custom port that adds high framerate and widescreen support, autosaving, and even a world editor.
  • Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Game looks cool, but I always have mixed feelings about articles like this. On the one hand it helps raise awareness about the game to the people who want to play it, but it also helps raise awareness about the game to the people who are going to send the cease-and-desist letter.

  • Jonny@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Well I’m glad I managed to hear about it before they do! LA DX was my first Zelda game. Time to relive some memories in HD!

    • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The Link’s Awakening remake on Switch is worth your time. I loved the original, and I loved the remake. I hope they continue bringing their old games forward like this (LA, Mario RPG, etc.)

      • Jonny@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        Oh don’t you worry, I’ve completed it. But thank you :)

        I agree, I thought it was great and I felt the art direction really fit the original perfectly!

        I’ve been slowly working my way through 100%ing every Zelda game. Done almost all of them other than BotW & TotK.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s less Nintendo and more shitty trademark and IP laws.

      If you don’t aggressively go after anyone that is transgressing your IP, you can lose it.

      IP really needs major and comprehensive reform. It’s not going to happen anytime soon as too much is built up around the status quo, but it really should be done.

      • Ender of Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It’s *less about shitty trademark or copyright laws, and more about Nintendo.

        First off, in all of your posts, you really don’t seem to realize that trademark has nothing to do with fan fiction or recreations. Not a single project that anyone has referenced has attempted to mimic Nintendo’s name and brand to sell a product. Zelda is trademarked, yes, so people can’t sell video games with “The Legend of Zelda” name- which has no bearing on this article or the work cited.

        Second, the statute of limitations doesn’t go back three years to some arbitrary date, it goes back to when the alleged crime or infringement occurs. So if someone begins selling a TLoZ knockoff game, they have no grounds in court to say something dopey, like “well actually I started thinking about selling Zelda knockoff games five years ago, so even though I just started last month it is out of the statute of limitations”.

        Third, from your list of shitty companies making it the norm, try Valve, who actively gives permission for people to mod and remake their games, and even allow the selling of remakes on their own platform. Or try Capcom, a Japanese company who has never attacked a fan game and still has full control over its IPs. But I digress, not being the norm has nothing to do with this.

        If the laws surrounding copyright were suddenly and drastically changed today, Nintendo wouldn’t change their stance or their scare tactics. They don’t have to do it, they aren’t losing out on sales from it- and if modders had the ability to stand up for themselves in court, I don’t believe Nintendo would win even a notable amount of cases.