The Pokemon Company is not nearly as hawkish with their IP as people say. They shut down a handful of fan games years ago but they’ve just kinda given up on that it seems. There’s so many hugely popular ROM hacks that streamers play on twitch, clearly using emulators, and TPC does nothing about it. Wolfey Glicke, a VGC player who has done many official collaborations with Pokemon, has played them on stream and made videos about it on Youtube.
It seems like Pokemon has decided it’s not worth the hassle or maybe they see benefits in letting them exist (many of the biggest Pokemon creators basically only play ROM hacks), either way they haven’t shut down Pokemon-related fan projects in ages.
Yeah idk I checked the GitHub and the website just now cause I was curious. MIT license but I dont see how this is still standing unless Nintendo likes to keep it around? Or unless you can do this as long as it doesnt make any money or take donations? No idea.
I figure if Nintendo ever made a comparable product they would sue them out of existence, but tolerate it as long as it doesn’t compete directly with them. Sort of like the understanding Blizzard had with private WoW servers until they created Classic WoW and sued them into oblivion.
still don’t understand how pokemon showdown has existed for a decade at this point
The Pokemon Company is not nearly as hawkish with their IP as people say. They shut down a handful of fan games years ago but they’ve just kinda given up on that it seems. There’s so many hugely popular ROM hacks that streamers play on twitch, clearly using emulators, and TPC does nothing about it. Wolfey Glicke, a VGC player who has done many official collaborations with Pokemon, has played them on stream and made videos about it on Youtube.
It seems like Pokemon has decided it’s not worth the hassle or maybe they see benefits in letting them exist (many of the biggest Pokemon creators basically only play ROM hacks), either way they haven’t shut down Pokemon-related fan projects in ages.
Fair use maybe? I’m glad its still around.
Idk they use the exact mechanics, names, music, art, moves, etc. as the base games
Yeah idk I checked the GitHub and the website just now cause I was curious. MIT license but I dont see how this is still standing unless Nintendo likes to keep it around? Or unless you can do this as long as it doesnt make any money or take donations? No idea.
I figure if Nintendo ever made a comparable product they would sue them out of existence, but tolerate it as long as it doesn’t compete directly with them. Sort of like the understanding Blizzard had with private WoW servers until they created Classic WoW and sued them into oblivion.
A satisfying hypothesis but also chilling. These things become a psrt of the zeitgeist and they’re all seemingly a finger twitch away from the void.