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[–] nanoUFO 149 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How to play on desktop Linux:

  • Add the game as a non-Steam game within Steam
  • Install Glorious Eggroll and set it as the compatibility tool in the game's properties
  • On first launch it will prompt to install .NET 6.0 - go ahead and download it to the same directory
  • Open the game's properties in Steam and change the path to the .NET installer then run and install it
  • Change the path back to the game's EXE and it will play
[–] cirkuitbreaker 1 points 1 year ago

Doing the Lord's work 🙏

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You beautiful twat. ♥️

[–] nanoUFO 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Something something streisand effect

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks mate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Here's another mirror, if that helps in any way:

https://mega.nz/fm/4TIQTJ7a

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"you-know-which-site" has already archived the page. I love that site.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I bet it's an "Internet archive."

That zip file is likely mighty intersting.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First rule of Game Club: We do not talk about fan-made games.

Second rule of Game Club: We DO NOT talk about fan-made games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This needs to be more widely known, because it seems everyone who makes a fan game talks about it.

But I get it. If I worked really hard on something like this I'd want to tell everyone too.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be nice if they would just pull a valve and allow these developers to come aboard and develop stuff for them? It's free money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They don't want to water down their brand.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They're a toy company first and foremost. They don't think about games like other devs do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd understand if this was 2013 Nintendo. But we've seen lackluster and broken releases from the once mighty Nintendo. Including, ironically, a lackluster and inconsistent Link's Awakening remake, that ran at its best on an emulator.

We are once again seeing fans beating out the companies that created the games, at their own game.

Although I can't say I know nintendo's public position on this. I always find it funny whenever a corpo argues in favor of the "free market" as a reason not to do anything to improve the lives of everyone, but as soon as someone touches their precious decaying corpse of an intellectual property suddenly it's "infringing on my intellectual property and degrading the value of my assets.".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I had no idea this was even a thing but now I'm going to download it on principle.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

All it needed was an hour.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless it was updated from yesterday, it's really cool and also kind of a let down. I like it and will finish it.

There's no way to exit the game. That's baffling.
The textures are nintendos. They are Not HD whatsoever. Each pallet is like 240 across.

That's basically the only bad things. There are soft shadows and some very faint light effects. Being able to zoom the camera is very very cool.

What I really like about it is everything still functions as rooms/screens. Enemies won't leave their screen, but it works great. You would think it would janky. Somehow it keeps the charm of the game intact.

Also, full 360 movement with dpad and joystick.

Definitely worth it if you like the good Zelda games.

[–] Gullible 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Checked out some threads about it and it seems to have a fair number of bugs. It’s still a ridiculous effort for, what I assume to have been, one person.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh definitely, it's impressive.
I'm hoping someone uses it for something new.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If windows, just alt f4 to exit, if linux, run it from a terminal, alt tab back to terminal and kill it to close the game?

Also it wouldnt be too hard these days to run the textures through an ai upscaler, just have to find someone with a powerful enough rig and enough spare time to do it.

[–] kakes 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, these days you don't even need a particularly powerful rig. Just time and effort, really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The effort could easily be just the macros to proc the lot via AI.

[–] kakes 3 points 1 year ago

True, though if I were to do it, I'd want to vet/guide the process to get good results. Either way though, it's certainly doable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't paid for a Nintendo game in a decade and never will again. Easily the biggest scumbags in the game and there's tough competition out there.

I'm going to play on Ryujinx even harder now you fucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol. I too will play on my steamdeck... even though i actually do own the switch remake which means I'm not technically pirating it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Piracy isn't relevant here. This is a fan-created work of art, and free for anyone who wants to play it. Nothing was "stolen", and Nintendo is, as always, being a bunch of corpo fucktards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Something was stolen - they were giving out copies of Link's Awakening, not just the enhancements they made but the game and art content of the original game, which is Nintendo's IP so it is piracy (not to dispute the rest of what you're saying necessarily though). Projects normally get around this by releasing the fan enhancements as a patch that can be applied to a ROM, shifting the piracy from the project to the end user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah dude, totally pirate that free fan game. You go gurl

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know much about Link's Awakening DX HD. But I'm curious about three things:

  • Did Link's Awakening DX HD have a price on itch.io or was it a free or pay-what-you-want thing?
  • Did they distribute assets from Link's Awakening along with the engine, or was it just the engine with a tool to extract the assets from a Link's Awakening ROM?
  • Is Link's Awakening DX HD open source?
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] nanoUFO 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] pico -3 points 1 year ago