How are emulators legal but then fan games aren't?
How are emulators legal but then fan games aren't?
Charles Gutierrez
Brayden Cooper
fan games are fine until they encroach too much. if they start resembling something people would otherwise pay for if the dev made it they need to be shut down to uphold the notion of "must pay money to get new quality installment."
there are a shitton of fangames or romhacks better than the originating game that stay up cuz they're unknown or don't encroach too much. chrono resurrection clearly occupies the encroaching category. if properly realized it would he the definitive version of the game, and for free!
Michael Wood
The Sony v Bleem lawsuit set a precedent that has made emulators completely legal.
en.wikipedia.org
Jonathan Scott
How does that precedent not apply to fangames then.
Ayden Green
>NOOO YOU CAN'T SPEND MULTIPLE YEARS OF YOUR LIFE JUST TO MAKE A FREE TRIBUTE TO SOMETHING YOU LOVE, IT'S MY PROPERTIERINOOOOOO I'M GONNA SUE YOU
Angel Martin
Emulators themselves don't make use of any copyrighted content. If you want to play a game, you need a rom to run in the emulator.
Fan games make use of characters, storylines, and sometimes even assets like sprites, textures, and music from the original games.
David Powell
yes.
Andrew Morales
I'll take a shitty coded emulator any day over a deviantart fanfic trash
Dylan Flores
I don't understand why people invest so much time and effort into fangames
Why not just make your own IP at that point
Sebastian Reyes
can't sue me if I'm in Russia
Adam Martinez
I sometimes wonder why they don't just change everything slightly and then relaunch. That's what Matt whatsisname did with A Fox in Space. Slightly altered character designs, changed all the names, and Nintendo didn't send a C&D.
Asher Sanchez
good thing russoshits are too inept to make fan games
Xavier White
because they love the original work? they want to enhance it in whatever way rather than make something new?
Easton Nguyen
William Jackson
because steam didn't exist in the heads of indie fags in the heyday when they started
Robert Long
Chrono Trigger Resurrection was not going to be a complete remake of Chrono Trigger. It was going to only be a select few noteworthy scenes in the game. The fact that you retards still believe this narrative that a small fan team was going to remake Chrono Trigger entirely fucking 15 years after it was shut down astounds me. It would have been fucking garbage and you would have wanted more than they offered when they released it. Let. It. Go.
Carter Brown
to be fair, most companies like sega and capcom are fine with fan game.
it's usually just Nintendo who are completely paranoid about fangames and they sue anybody who make anything related to their games.
They even claim to own any fanart of Pokemon and yet nindie pedos still drink nintendo cum for a living
Joshua Garcia
How come doujin games are allowed?
Levi Reed
God that model looks fucking awful, I'm glad they shut that shit down
Joseph Walker
Looks like shit now. We have the technology to make Crono Kino but they won't do it.
Nathaniel Cruz
NINTENDO
Jaxson Brooks
if the muggle and chocobo weren't there you wouldn't even know this was FF related
Aaron Adams
That model looks fucking horrific, aren't remasters meant to improve things?
Jaxson Ross
ok, (You), I get that charities exist to help people like you, but cmon. Evolution gave you a brain to use, don't neglect that.
Legal: make emulators, illegal: share the copyrighted games that are played on emulators
Legal: make fan games, illegal: share the fan games using copyrighted material
Xavier Collins
You think.
Leo Reed
Because emulator creators once defended their interests in court while fan game makers usually just cross their fingers that they don't get a C&D,
Oliver Gray
I do
Brody Taylor
Because no company wants to admit they exist
Asher Adams
lol
Cameron Anderson
I remember seeing screenshots of this in magazines back in the day and getting excited as fuck. Looks extremely lame now.
Carter Gray
yeah but then why not just make a game with similar mechanics or similar characters
at least then you won't be buttfucked by a corportation
Samuel Cook
why don't these idiots just release fan games from a burner with none of their personal information, which has never connected to their home network, on public internet? not like theyre going to get sued with no accountability
Easton Sanders
An emulator is a piece of software made by someone to emulate another piece of software and/or hardware.
Fan made games are using the actual software or the characters etc. - shit owned by the ones who made the game unlike the brand new emulation software.
Emulators would be illegal too if they used parts of the original code - ISOs, for example - from the original system.
Liam Sullivan
Get off Vent or I’ll have you bent.
Luke Cooper
>implying you wouldn't
Jace Davis
Reminds me of this
en.wikipedia.org