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That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 10 months ago by billothekid2@kbin.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn't even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.

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[–] torvusbogpod@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Valve removed it because it used official N64 APIs that Nintendo holds as classified information. I think if it had totally been bottom-up crafted from scratch, it would have survived. But Valve does NOT wanna deal with a Nintendo lawyer.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Classified?

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wait but why is Valve involved at all, then? Not like it's their fault that some people they have nothing to do with are building a game based on those APIs, so shouldn't Nintendo approach the developers of the port directly instead?

[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Valve holds the copyright to Portal, so Nintendo probably just "encouraged" them to pull some strings.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Nintendo probably just “encouraged” them to pull some strings.

Nintendo have their own litigation-happy lawyers. With the exception of the Portal Collection release for Switch, both companies have nothing to do with each other.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo sues everyone they encounter in the faintest context of their IP with the power of a thousand suns. See also, the failed launch if Dolphin on Steam. Valve is justifiably cautious here.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Valve is justifiably cautious here.

Valve doesn't distribute the port.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t matter

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Doesn’t matter

If fact it does for the claim that Nintendo would sue Valve otherwise.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Right, but what the heck is up with Nintendo clinging into ancient obsolete stuff? They're not stupid right?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Yes, Nintendo is stupid. They see capitalism as a zero-sum game, and so any time someone has or keeps their own money, that's the same as Nintendo losing that money, so they do whatever they're legally able to do to ruin people financially, going as far as taking 30% of your income for the rest of your life if you do wrong by them.

[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 5 points 10 months ago

No but Nintendo is fiercely protective of all of its IP. We know there's not really harm being done here but it is within their rights to block this and that is the road they always choose.

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I may be overinterpreting this but it almooost seems, if you stretch it a bit, as if valve saved poor guys. Valve said stop, Nintendo'd say pay up.