stay away from this.

Hey listen I watched one of the trailers for the new 8-bit heros movie ages back and in the trailer I noticed a clip of Shigeru Miyamoto making an announcment while laughing or something is this suppose to hint he knows something about NesMaker and that he's letting it fly or no. Plus if your not ready to tell nintendo about the program I understand. They could be pretty persnickety about games being made for a 'pre-owned console' back in the day. So my understanding if you can't. :)
 

Jonny

Well-known member
I wouldn't consider Nintendo to be against homebrew / indie games at all. They just want to protect their brand and IPs which is understandable as they're going for mostly a family friendly market and want to preserve quality. Of course they aimed to keep tight control over NES software when it was current gen. For new games on old hardware I honestly don't think they care. It's obviously not their product and legally I don't think they can stop indie NES carts anymore. Unless someone either uses their IP or branding it's not worth their recources and would do more damage to the fanbase than good. If NesMaker was using graphics from licenced Nintendo games for example or encoraging fangames, that's where they would take issue but NM are totally against that.

The only cease and desists I've heard of recently are the Metroid 2 remake AM2R and the Etika Joycons which unfortunately both infringe their intelectual property. You can't really blame Nintendo for that. It doesn't matter how good the product is or the reason behind it, the only person to blame is the one ripping off their stuff.

There's no way NOA don't know about NM but I doubt they'd suddenly start licencing NES games (unless they're limited run re-releases) for several reasons.
 
You know what I've learned a little something today, Maybe there might be no way of convincing Nintendo. But I'm gonna keep doing my own unique thing and making games and maybe doing a little fan stuff. :)
 

CutterCross

Active member
can I ask you something though is NesMaker against fangames entirely or just if they don't give credit and they're around nintendo stuff most of the time? I'm asking because I plan to work on a Lego Star Wars fangame based off of a book I'm writing.
One of the first things you see when you open the tool:
NESmaker4_5_IP.PNG

The team and this community are strongly against fangames and will not outwardly support them.

Also, refrain from posting in the IMPORTANT IMFORMATION section. Better to make an introductory post in the Introduce Yourself section.
 
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