I signed it because I hate Nintendo, so it will make things harder for them.
Kidding... Most fan games suck; that's a fact. But there are good fan games out there. I remember making tons of Mario Fan Games when I was 7...They really sucked, so I never posted them.
Anyway, that's one more sig, isn't it?
Fine Garbage since 2003.
CURRENT PROJECT:
-Paying off a massive amount of debt in college loans.
-Working in television.
I think when Nintendo made this threat or whatever, they weren't targeting tgf megaman clones and such, but rather the almost exact code of some fangames written in c++ or something. I've played the metroid "fangame" that was so much like the real one, I shivered, and I've noticed recently that the game has been removed because the coder was accused of stealing the code. If they wanted to prevent the low end fangames, the would probably be gone already.
Also, most people who make fan games in the click community do it because there is a large access of resources, such as sprites and midi.
Bottom line, be orginal, and screw fangames, unless you really are truely a fan, and if you were a fan enough, you would want official stuff, not amature wannabes.
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"Computers in the future may perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons."
-Popular Mechanics, forecasting the development of computer technology, 1949
Am I misunderstanding copyright laws, or does Nintendo have the right to do this? Wanna know why you don't see non-fangame nintendo games anywhere but on nintendo consoles? It's because Nintendo owns the rights to their games and want to be the sole money makers from it... Copyrights were invented for a reason, and even if you got a billion signatures on that petition, it would make no difference. People don't just bend laws because it makes petitioners happy, they only bend laws for corrupt buisnessmen and politicians.
If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a Java program.
The rest of them will write Perl programs.
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