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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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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A Portal-like game without using Portal assets and Valve had no leg to stand on...

This wasn't taken down because it was based on Portal. It has nothing to do with Portal or Valve, really. It was taken down becuase it uses the official N64 SDK, which is still for some reason considered "confidential." Valve said to take it down either under duress from Nintendo, or because Valve expected to be under duress from Nintendo and didn't want to be. If it had used the libdragon API library instead of Nintendo's official one, then this wouldn't have happened and Nintendo would have been told to bite rocks.

[+] woelkchen@lemmy.world -12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You have no clue. It was Valve who issued the DMCA takedown. Yes, based on the wrong argument that APIs are copyrighted by Nintendo but Valve cannot take down random software. They are only involved because it uses Portal assets.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

I think you need to read the comment you replied to again.

Here's the bullet points:

Valve doesn't want Nintendo getting involved

Valve think Nintendo will get involved because the project is using confidential Nintendo code

Valve think Nintendo may litigate (or are already) against them because Portal is Valve's IP

Valve want it down so Nintendo can't mistake it to be Valve's responsibility and so Valve don't get the blame

[–] LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It wasn’t a DMCA. They advised the dude to take it down due to Nintendo bring Nintendo.

This information is really easy to look up.

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

It wasn’t a DMCA. They advised the dude to take it down due to Nintendo bring Nintendo.

This information is really easy to look up.

People here are constantly claiming that Nintendo demanded from Valve to take action in order to not get sued. I suggest you complain to the paid authors of PC Gamer because they are the ones writing about Valve lawyers: "there's at least a possibility Valve could end up sucked into a dispute over it. Even if it's only tangential involvement, Valve's lawyers may have just decided that it's not worth the headache."