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Unofficial Link's Awakening PC port put to sleep by Nintendo (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 11 months ago by nanoUFO to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It was a free download.

Yes, it contained original assets. No extract and mod.

~~No open source that I know of, but maybe I missed it.~~ Apparently I missed it!

[–] nanoUFO 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think it was open source at some point, https://github.com/ihm-tswow/Links-Awakening-DX-HD

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The source is included with the download. Idk what you guys are so confused for.

[–] nanoUFO 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I haven't unzipped it yet but thanks for pointing it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

At least you guys didn't jump to conclusions or anything before even looking....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Cool! I don’t think that was on the itch page. Good to know maybe we’ll get updates.

edit: nice, we can compile ourselves if they update it

[–] nanoUFO 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The author released 1.0 so I think he pretty much finished it up before releasing the timebomb, which was smart. And yeah I know the 1.0 naming convention doesn't really mean anything but I think he is implying that this was his full more polished release. He must of known this was coming everyone did.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, he had to know. Nice that he provided a short term full package release.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the answers!

Too bad it was never open sourced. Seems like someone could have stripped out the assets, made a tool to extract assets from the ROM, and the result wouldn't infringe.

Maybe the author would be willing to open source the engine with no assets now. We can hope, I guess.

Just seems like it wouldn't have taken that much more work to make it less likely to be taken down by threats from Nintendo.

Edit: I wrote this response before I saw @nanoUFO's response about it having been open source.

Edit2: I just realized the GitHub repo doesn't indicate what license that code is under. So, not FOSS and it's unclear what's legal to do with that code.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Actually check nanoUFO’s reply to me, someone forked it so the source is available and can be compiled.