Nintendo slams Game & Watch hacker with YouTube copyright claims



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Nintendo blocked videos from a modder who successfully hacked his Game & Watch handheld to allow him to play several other titles. Two videos on YouTube were made unavailable after the publisher claimed copyright on the channel in question.

This account belongs to the modder “Stacksmashing”, who bought the Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Game and Watch device in November and immediately set out to tinker with the $ 50 handheld, experimenting to see what could be done with its rudimentary technology. Stacksmashing has managed to get several titles to work via ROM swaps, including the original NES edition of THE Legend of Zelda and, of course, id Software Condemn.

But sadly, Nintendo hasn’t been too kind to the Stacksmashing experiment and has issued copyright claims against its videos, which have been confirmed by YouTube. Stacksmashing notes on Twitter that rather than being picked up by an algorithm, their videos were distinguished by a Nintendo representative. Nintendo’s claims seem directed More precisely at use of in-game sequences, rather than directly referencing the hardware hack itself.

In the end, it’s another day at the office for Nintendo, which has long been very strict about any form of bypassing its gaming, hardware or software regions. So if you choose to play with your Game & Watch, don’t upload the results to YouTube … or play Nintendo games on YouTube? … or both? … or all three?

Nintendo claims copyrights to hacked Game & Watch videos [Gizmodo]

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