Nintendo cease and desists ROMHack Pokemon Prism

[Seeka 12,372]

Proves that not all publicity is good publicity. Remember, don't advertise your illegal actions folks.

ROM Hack Pokemon Prism receives cease and desist.

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Today it has been announced by Koolboyman (also known as Coolboyman) on Twitter and Facebook that ROM Hack Pokémon Prism is cancelled. It received a Cease and Desist (C&D) from Nintendo.

Pokémon Prism is a ROM hack of Pokémon Crystal, a second generation game. Its release date was the 23rd of December. This ROM Hack was recently hyped up in popularity. Part of this popularity was a successful fan trailer which received over a million views.

This, however, means that ROM hacks are no longer safe from being taken down anymore. With breakthrough hacks seeing more and more attention from online sites, it's becoming harder and harder to keep releases small and quiet. Koolboyman posted a video in partnership with Twitch Plays Pokémon, and the video has seen more than one million YouTube views so far. It was claimed that an IPS patch was NOT the patch of choice, rather, a custom patcher was going to be used to release the game, and that a dump of Pokémon Crystal would be used with this custom patch, however, Nintendo's layers did not care one bit. This now means that even a patch file still carries legal consequences.

I don't think this will effects hacks that much. I mean, I'm sad that this has happened (though I was excited about it) but it kind of indicates you need to be a little more careful with hacks and fangames now. It also indicates Nintendo is being more corporate in practices.

[pachinko 10,216]

what is a ROM? 

[FATCAT 59,799]

Just now, pachinko said:

what is a ROM? 

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[calmar 22,038]

Unfortunate. Glad there's still a few out there that are complete.

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2 minutes ago, calmar said:

Unfortunate. Glad there's still a few out there that are complete.

There's quite  few out there. Pokecommunity has an entire forum section.

I think the main problem was the fact that they were on purposely advertising it.

Pride cometh before the fall. Honestly, it's bound to happen. I know the guy making it spent 8 years on it, but still...

[Edonis 28,916]

Yeah is kind of their fault for making such a public spectacle about it with YouTube videos and everything. Unfortunate but there are still a lot of good ROMs and hacks available 

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1 minute ago, Edonis said:

Yeah is kind of their fault for making such a public spectacle about it with YouTube videos and everything. Unfortunate but there are still a lot of good ROMs and hacks available 

Yeah, there's faults on both grounds.

The creator for making into a public spectacle.

And Nintendo for becoming Anne Rice of gaming companies.

[RAMROD 107,179]

What do you expect, Nintendo ofc gonna protect their products, music, movies and tv shows stealing are enough trouble for the business, and now we have this too.

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47 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

What do you expect, Nintendo ofc gonna protect their products, music, movies and tv shows stealing are enough trouble for the business, and now we have this too.

Well ROMs aren't anything new. I think it's mostly because of the fact it was highly publicized.

Nintendo should know what the main problem of their business is. They don't appeal to adults besides the ones they captred while they were young. And maybe some new peeps with Fire Emblem becoming a burgeoning franchise again.

[Pacify Him 9,073]

They brought justice on an awful album  Well done Nintendo