Nintendo has issued multiple DMCA takedowns targeting mods hosted on the popular community site GameBanana. According to member ‘Waikuteru,’ over 60 DMCA takedowns were issued within a few days, with 40 directed at their own mods. This wave of takedowns has left Waikuteru’s GameBanana profile devoid of any mod submissions. The targeted mods include a variety of custom content for popular Nintendo titles. Notably, mods for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, such as a randomizer and custom maps like Lon Lon Ranch and Skyview Temple, have been affected. Additionally, mods for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate have also been targeted. When visiting the mod pages in question, users are now met with a message stating that the content has been removed due to a verifiable DMCA takedown request.
Waikuteru has expressed interest in issuing a counter notice, citing doubts about the authenticity of the takedowns. If the takedowns are genuine, Nintendo would have 14 days to respond. In the interim, Waikuteru has uploaded the Zelda mods in question onto MEGA.
“expressing doubts about authenticity” exasperates me this kind of puppet who violates copyright to then pretend to be the victim….
You just have to do that legally, end of story
The problem is on monetization of modding than modding (like patreon)
Modding is acceptable itself without monetization (but may be takedown ?)
Forgotten to add Wakuteiru patreon, which don’t hide the goal … https://www.patreon.com/waikuteru
It’s already the case with Skyrim mods, patreon = support only, without reference tu mod production.
Please. Create your own morals instead of blindly believe what the law tells you is right. Yes modders are the victim here. Nintendo is a multi billion dollar company that doesn’t get damaged in any way by a fucking fire mario skin mod for smash 4.
You talk about morals and yet doesn’t respect what Nintendo prefers for their games. Why do you ignore it when they have the rights to do it? Do you think the modders have more rights than Nintendo, the owners of the IPs?
Mods on Switch need a modded console, and that is one of the reasons they don’t allow it. They also don’t like their games being changed without their approval.
Mods on switch need a PC with a legal emulator too, in this case it’s not an issue.
Most people use an emulator with a pirated rom to play these mods. That is the issue. Nintendo is trying to prevent this kind of thing.
Did you play a mod in your life ? It doesn’t require a modded rom, just modified files to overwrite or complete existing ones (so it needs installation of the game before on most case, not a modded rom).
You confuse rom hack which is illegal (and not the subject) with mods for a game.
I don’t think he meant that a modded ROM was needed, but most people that play emulators use pirated Roms (ei; illegally downloaded) to be fair, most people using emulators don’t dump their Bios or ROMS have a know how on how to dump BIOS and ROMS, let alone have the hardware to do it. And doing everything yourself is the only way it isn’t considered illegal.
Downloaded dumps are illegal, but it doesn’t concern mods.
Mods are just a set of file(s), not the full game. Gamebanana doesn’t provide full roms, and the subject is about mods only.
dude what the fuck are you talking about? They don’t like their games changed? Nintendo is not an individual artist that gets mad when they draw Mario smoking weed, they are a company that tries their best to suppress people’s creation for no reason, they had no reason to take down that gorgeous Mario 64 guide but they did even though they did absolutely nothing with that. Stop praying these practices they are scummy as fuck
They are in their rights, because they are following copyright laws.
you have no morals and you blindly believe what the law tells you. make your own beliefs instead of mindlessly supporting nintendo, shigeru miyamoto could probably kill a man and you would probably go ”HE HAD TO DO IT, HE HAD AN ILLEGAL COPY OF ICE CLIMBERS ON HIS HARD DRIVE!!!!!!!!!”
You are mentally ill. Seek therapy and get heavily medicated. Blindly believes what the law tells you? What a moron. lmao
explain yourself.
shut up american rule-following sheep
You need a fucking therapist dude.
It’s exhausting when folks say, “Nintendo is well within their rights to pursue x,y,z, but I wish they would take an approach more like Sega and other companies, etc” and then the corporate shills answer with “they are well within their rights…”
Like, do people even read the replies before answering? We know they are legally within their rights to pursue fans so relentlessly, we just wish they would take a more moderate and reasonably approach.
was hitler also in his right because he was doing what the law says then
No, I never said that. Another nonsensical excuse for an argument. Hitler changed and imposed laws which violated the constitution. Do your reasearch first before saying incorrect things on the internet.
Yeah I doubt it because you know how fans are with Nintendo.
Why should we care about what the corporation prefers for a game and not the people actively playing it?
What’s up with this mentality that the creators of the content have no say? Do you think using the name of the games and assets without Nintendo or any company letting it is ok? They don’t like it, simple, and copyright supports them.
Nothing you said has anything to do with what I asked.
Lol, it literally does. Read it again.
Okay, let me ask again. Why should we care about what the corporation prefers for a game and not the people actively playing it?
Because they own the Intellectual Property of the game and by definition, copyright gives this right to them, to stop people from using IP against their approval like they are the assets of a third party and not the company’s property. That is basic copyright. Nintendo sells a limited license to play the games, not to allow people to use assets, copyrighted titles and names for their modified versions.
you didn’t answer the question, you just repeated the same old ”THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT!!!!!!”
I already said it. We should care because Nintendo owns the IP, that is the answer. The modders don’t have a bigger saying than them. Is that hard to comprehend? Do you even question the modders or think anything is fair use?
And I still don’t know why your average person should should care. When a company already got their money, anything further is just flexing their power. Copyright law shouldn’t extend to things that isn’t affecting your bottom line imo.
go bootlick the billion dollar company somewhere else you pathetic excuse of a human being
Making cash by promoting mod of Nintendo IP is the issue, not the skin.
thank you for speaking some sense. people don’t seem to understand that copyright and intellectual property laws have only existed for just over 100 years and serve the SOLE purpose of benefiting corporations like disney and nintendo. we have let a very small number of rich people decide how infromation gets distributed. laws don’t come from nowhere, they aren’t some kind of immutable moral ground, and things like this are often decided on primarily by the rich and powerful and are thus often purely in their interest alone.
If you create your own morals rather than obeying laws made by people objectively and irrefutably smarter than you, then you’re going to have a bad time. Please think the next time you post something.
Holy fuck it’s me but cooler
Modding switch is against terms of use, and if you’re emulating it to use the mods you likely didn’t purchase your copy. It’s not as black and white as you’re pretending it is either.
So many big game brand channels/news outlets always makes these kind of mods or fan made game content trend, so most times it not really surprising why stuff like this catches Nintendo eye.
You can’t defend this in any way. Smash ultimate will not get new updates anymore. This is just people having fun by making the most out of their product for pure passion and no gain whatsoever, I fucking hate Nintendo when he does this shit, so fucking corny it’s insane.
You’re clearly underage.
ok boomer
Corporate shill retard.
I’m not protecting just stating I seen content being advertised by big gaming news outlets like Kotaku,Nintendo life, gamexplain and etc advertising big mods or popular fan games that usually get dmca once they hit all over twitter other avenues of social media after a couple of days its literally the reason palword exist
That’s the whole reason why Nintendo doesn’t tolerate people copying their IPs by making revenues out of it and ended up suing anyone who uses them. People hated Nintendo for ruining their fun and enjoyment all because of this type of nonsense.
It’s just video games, calm down. Go do something else.
”erm why do people are discussing about le videogames in a le videogame blog??? erm ok?????kinda cringe????”
I don’t understand what you are saying, or who you are quoting. I’m an adult, so whatever you kids say doesn’t make sense to me. I just think you’re going overboard over some video games.
Doesn’t understand what is happening yet HE NEEDS to say to other people that they are going overboard, also you sound insecure as shit about your maturity, you keep repeating you are an adult like a kid trying to buy cigarettes at a supermarket
Wow, there’s really no need for all the cursing and attitude. I didn’t say I didn’t understand the situation, I said I didn’t understand a word you were saying. It’s most likely because there’s an age gap, I don’t understand youth slang very well.
You’re overreacting and overthinking this.
As much as I don’t agree with many of these Nintendo take downs, I also can’t feel sorry for anyone that gets hit with one. Nintendo has ALWAYS been this way, they have always been very and extremely protective with their IP. So who in their right mind goes into a project thinking that They won’t get hit with one? Especially after monetizing it. And the moment you put a donation link, it stops being a passion project. They’re either extremely ignorant to the industry, or arrogant.
dude. think about it, how does a guy profiting off of smash mods interfere in any way with nintendo’s buiseness, ”Nintendo has ALWAYS been this way” ok? are we just going to sit down and nothing about it because nintendo is a little bitch? people have the right to be mad about it, this take downs are useless, i could agree with you if this was about new switch games roms but THIS?
They can definitely do something about it, but bitching isn’t going to help. How about, not supporting the platform? How about modding for a platform that embraces modding? Instead of Smash, why not that Nick game? Go mod Horizon instead of Zelda. I personally stopped supporting anything Sony, will my lack of support kill the company? Of course not, but I don’t believe in their vision anymore so I refuse to support them. Anyone that doesn’t support Nintendo Should, and I wholeheartedly encourage them to stop their support for them, completely. Just like you have a right to complain (which won’t lead to anything) they have a right to protect their IP as they see fit. At the end of the day, it’s their property.
cause nobody wants to play that nick game they want to play smash, what are we talking about here? and yes Bitching about it DOES help, look at the helldivers 2 situations and how the whole bitching lead to a mass refund wave that pushed sony to retreat on their decisions. if you stay mute and you do not do anything about it, not only this behavior from nintendo will continue but it will get worse too.
Did it really help? Because the complaing wasnt the reason Sony did that, it was because STEAM went ahead, ignored their own 2 hour play return policy, and refunded everyone. And the refunds came after the fact that Sony wanted to implement PSN forced logins to HD2. STEAM only did it because PSN covers roughly about 70 countries, but STEAM sold the game in over 190 countries. Not only that but the pages for both GoW Ragnorak, and Until Dawn on the PS website say that PSN logging’s are required to play in PC. So did complaining really help?
Tell me this, because the bitching is louder than ever now. Has Nintendo stopped handing out these C&D letters since the complaining started? Because to ME, Nintendo has become a ton more aggressive. But maybe in not really up to date on this.
YES. IT DID HELP. without the bitching steam would have done nothing about it. “Has Nintendo stopped handing out these C&D letters since the complaining started?” AIGHT GUYS NINTENDO STILL HASN’T CHANGED GUESS WE GO SILENT NOW AND JUST TAKE IT IN THE BUTT!
No, STEAM did it to save their bottom dollar. If Sony had indeed went forwards with the mandated PSN log in, more than half of those countries sales would’ve have became useless. They reacted to their bottom dollar, and Sony reacted to theirs.
You just keep ignoring the most crucial part of my argument. You don’t sit and take it, you STOP SUPPORTING THEM.
I too, don’t really agree with this, and yes it would suck if fan art was also hit with C&D’s, but that’s why I keep saying if you don’t like a companies policies/ideas/views/whatever you STOP SUPPORTING THEM.
I don’t care much for Emulators getting taken down, ROM sites getting shut, mods getting c&D’s. So it’s not my fight, and I won’t fight another’s fight. But the day that Nintendo does something I strongly disagree with, that will be the day I stop supporting them.
Let me give you an example, do you like Nintendo fanarts???? You probably do like me cause we like Nintendo and everything Nintendo related, wouldn’t it be awful if Nintendo started taking down people making fanarts of Nintendo brands imagine tons of great artists making inspired creations by the things we love absolutely destroyed cause Nintendo can’t accept a reality where people share their creations with their creations? How is this situation any different from this example, I beg you to understand that people should be free to make whatever they want and get awarded for the entertainment without some corpos taking shit down, let’s make that reality come true
You-you do realize that bitching about it leads to people not supporting said company right?
Not supporting Sony?
Not supportin Anything in general, remember when overwatch 2 released on steam and it got review bombed to the point it became the worst rated game on steam, that affected them really negatively and they had to respond to the controversy by making the game less greedy (which they did). Bitching helps and people should bitch about it if something is unfair
This is the best comment on this whole matter. Like you I also despise anything Sony related and my way of showing it is through my wallet. Not going to give Sony my money or time at all. If you hate a company you just don’t want to do anything with them.
Honestly, I dont agree entirally. I remember Nintendo hasn’t usually taken action against basic mod files, usually fan made from scratch, and Nintendo roms. Many do it probably because of assumption of reasoning.
Even if I’m wrong here on that part, I still think many of the modders are victims because just because Nintendo often does this (assuming though) doesn’t mean it’s right. And I don’t think it’s fair to argue that we now have to morally suddenly avoid modding the game innocently just because of how likely they will take it down. What if Nintendo someday changes their mind. Keep lawfully complaining about Nintendo doing this for the right reasons. I want many popular platforms to properly complain about Nintendo.
you’re saying that because nintendo has always been shitty, we shouldn’t be mad when they continue to be shitty? what kind of logic is that?
I’m saying stop supporting them. What logic do you see in putting money in the pockets of those that don’t share your ideals?
Shocked that people defend Nintendo’s modding policy. Nobody isn’t buying Tears of the Kingdom because of a Lon Lon Ranch custom map. The only nerd willing to even go through the trouble of loading up that custom map has probably bought Ocarina of Time five times and every other zelda twice. Very interested in why people think Nintendo is justified beyond “homie broke the law”
Consoomers. This behavior clearly goes against us but people are too attached to their products that they would rather take it in the ass over not supporting every decision made by their favorite company
The law is unfair but it’s the law, whether you are for it or against it won’t change anything, if you break it you pay the price, open your eyes a little instead of playing at the rebellious prepubescent teenager .
As for those who still think that emulation is legal…in this specific case, it is not legal since it violates copyright, put that in your head once and for all instead of player with stupid vigilantes.
I wholeheartedly support this. Go Nintendo!
Nintendo acting like a !!!! as usual.
Going after Game Banana is just stupid.
This is not a site that hosts full roms for people to download, it’s a site for downloading mods for games you personally have dumped. Yes, there are sites that let you download games for free, this is something even I do not support and actively support Nintendo taking down, but modding really shouldn’t be affected here. Just because little Timmy downloaded a Lon Lon Ranch Mod for Zelda TOTK doesn’t automatically mean Nintendo is gonna lose money, if anything it means he paid for the game.
And before anyone comes at me with “Nintendo is in the right legally” then I say this; Save it.
Of course Nintendo is in the right legally, anyone with common sense would know that, but there’s a difference between protecting your IP and just being an asshole. Right now Nintendo is being that spoiled brat that refuses to let others play on his game consoles. Yeah, the brat may be in the right legally, but he’s still being an asshole for no good reason.
As for the money side to this; This is the ONLY area I can see where Nintendo is coming from. At that point the content being sold is technically their IP which stuff like Fire Mario in SSBU or Lon Lon Ranch in Zelda TOTK would be Nintendo’s IP.
But honestly, 99% of mods I have seen are free to download. I’ve downloaded plenty of models from that site and not once have I had to pay.
Nintendo, grow up, stop being that spoiled brat.
Apparently Nintendo is hiring a third party which is using AI to haphazardly target content.
Randomizers are 100% original code