Lame & Watch
Nintendo blocked the videos of a modder who successfully hacked his Game & Watch laptop to allow him to play several other titles. Two videos on YouTube were unavailable after the publisher charged copyright claims on the channel in question.
This account belongs to the modder “Stacksmashing”, which bought the Super Mario Bros. 35th anniversary game and watch. in November and immediately started fiddling with the $ 50 laptop, experimenting to see what could be done with its rudimentary technology. Stacksmashing was able to get several titles up and running through ROM exchanges, including the original NES edition The legend of Zelda and of course id Software’s Doom.
But, unfortunately, Nintendo did not take the Stacksmashing experiment very well and issued copyright claims against its videos, which were confirmed by YouTube. Stackable notes on Twitter that, instead of being captured by an algorithm, your videos were chosen by a Nintendo representative. Nintendo’s claims seem directed specifically at the use of footage in the game, rather than referring directly to the hardware hack itself.
Ultimately, it’s another day at the Nintendo office, big ones has been very strict when it comes to any way of circumventing their gaming, hardware or software regions. So, if you decide to tinker with your Game & Watch, don’t send the results to YouTube … Or don’t play Nintendo games on YouTube? … or both? … or the three?
Nintendo is claiming copyright on Game & Watch hacker videos [Gizmodo]
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