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Nintendo uses copyright notices to remove YouTube videos that explain how to hack the recent Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. handheld color.
Hacker going through stacks of mashing handles successfully hacked the portable unit one day before its official release on November 13, thanks to fast retail delivery. But a YouTube video detailing this hacking method, originally posted November 14, was beaten down by a Nintendo targeted copyright infringement claim earlier this week. Another stunning video, titled “Bringing homebrew to the Nintendo Game & Watch”, was also removed by copyright claim.
Two other Game & Watch hacking stackmashing videos remain live at time of publication: one detailing how to load a Condemn port on the unit, and an explaining how to dump the firmware. None of these existing videos contain footage from Nintendo’s own games released on Game & Watch; these images are specifically blurred in one of the videos, in fact.
Nintendo doesn’t seem to target all automatically Play and watch: Super Mario Bros. YouTube game footage; you can still find many videos examining the unit while showing copyrighted images, for example. But Nintendo’s copyright in the games themselves gives the company an incredibly broad discretion over what “performance” those games are to allow or block through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Unlike the NES and SNES Classic Edition consoles, which were relatively easy to hack through a direct USB cable connection, the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. The unit has a locked processor, AES encrypted flash memory, and no data connection through the USB-C charger. So Game & Watch hacking currently requires opening the system and using custom hardware to dump custom firmware and homebrew software back and forth.
Stacksmashing tells Gizmodo that they are editing the videos in question and will file disputes in an attempt to get them back on the service. Nintendo did not respond to a request for comment from Ars Technica.
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