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[VGEsoterica]

Its been a few years now since Paper Mario was 100% decompiled from its compiled N64 game to its source code and associated assets but it looks like finally Paper Mario will be getting a PC port by Harbour Masters, the same team that made Ship to Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian (the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time PC port and the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask PC port)

so hopefully "soon" (months, a year?) we will all get a chance to play Paper Mario on PC with all the graphical enhancements, QOL improvements and 16:9 support with extra mods like we see in the Zelda N64 ports

 

[Magic-DEI-Hire]

In before Nintendo sends their lawyers after them.

 

[VGEsoterica]

In before Nintendo sends their lawyers after them.

haha its all allowed per DMCA and clean room decompilation

 

[Zacfoldor]

Why advertise it? It's like Nintendo reads the internet too. They have youtube in Japan. Have people never heard of keeping shit on the DL?

If there was ever a game to shadowdrop this was it, lol.

Edit: this is not an attack on the OP, lol, sorry OP, I was just talking in general.

 

[Holammer]

Played the game to completion via emulation back in 2020. I wouldn't mind another go when it's ported to PC. With a HD texture pack this time.
Shame they ruined the series with gimmicks after Thousand Year Door.

 

[MMaRsu]

I love your channel but you are a mumbling mfk

Also why do you raise your voice at the end of sentences like its a question but in fact its not a question

Very annoying to listen to m8, sorry to say

 

[KaiserBecks]

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Has no one seen all the decomps posted lately?

SM64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, MK64, Starfox 64, but this is the one that's gonna get the lawyers involved?

 

[Aesius]

Has no one seen all the decomps posted lately?

SM64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, MK64, Starfox 64, but this is the one that's gonna get the lawyers involved?

I don't think Nintendo has much legal standing over decomps/recomps because they don't use any copyrighted assets nor do the creators/hosts of them profit from the releases. Users have to provide their own copies of the games.

 

[Gp1]

At this point i'm in need of a launcher to keep track of all the decomps.

ps. Nice channel by the way

 

[VGEsoterica]

I don't think Nintendo has much legal standing over decomps/recomps because they don't use any copyrighted assets nor do the creators/hosts of them profit from the releases. Users have to provide their own copies of the games.

Correct. It's a losing court case. Will that stop Nintendo though? So far it has

 

[Grenseal]

 

[IbizaPocholo]

A NEW Paper Mario game is here for everyone to enjoy...and it was made by one developer! NicTube just released Paper Mario Star Nova and it's a from the ground up new game using Paper Mario 64...and it's every bit as good as Nintendo ever made! New Mario games? Yes please This is why retro gaming is making a comeback...fan developers

 

[Susurrus]

I don't think Nintendo has much legal standing over decomps/recomps because they don't use any copyrighted assets nor do the creators/hosts of them profit from the releases. Users have to provide their own copies of the games.

They literally use the core programming, graphics, and music, what are you talking about?

Provide their own copies of the games? Unless you're saying people need to get a cartridge reader, you're saying the same dumb argument people use on ROMs but nobody actually follows.

 

[WaterOnix]

Trailer:

seems neat

 

[Mephisto40]

 

[Lokaum D+]

just play the "refolded" fan mod



VS Original

 

[Aesius]

They literally use the core programming, graphics, and music, what are you talking about?

Provide their own copies of the games? Unless you're saying people need to get a cartridge reader, you're saying the same dumb argument people use on ROMs but nobody actually follows.

They don't use any copyrighted assets. It's just reverse-engineered code.

And the ROM thing is a moot point. Nintendo can't police where people are sourcing their copies of these games from, and the copies, whether ROMs or cartridge dumps, are the only things that actually contain copyrighted assets. The reverse-engineered code doesn't run the games by itself, so there's really nothing to go after legally.

 

[Susurrus]

They don't use any copyrighted assets. It's just reverse-engineered code.

And the ROM thing is a moot point. Nintendo can't police where people are sourcing their copies of these games from, and the copies, whether ROMs or cartridge dumps, are the only things that actually contain copyrighted assets. The reverse-engineered code doesn't run the games by itself, so there's really nothing to go after legally.

Mario himself is a copyright of Nintendo. Are they changing up all characters, names, graphics, and music?

 

[Aesius]

Mario himself is a copyright of Nintendo. Are they changing up all characters, names, graphics, and music?

Mario as a copyrighted entity does not exist in reverse-engineered code. Again, recomps and decomps are useless without game files (which do contain copyrighted material), but the people who create them don't provide those. That's how they are able to get away with this without much (or any) potential for legal ramifications. Yes, 99% of people who play recomps and decomps use ROM files they didn't dump themselves, but that doesn't matter because the recomp/decomp people aren't providing the ROM files. So the risk falls on the people hosting/sharing the ROM files, not the people hosting/sharing the otherwise inert reverse-engineered code.

 

[playbignbox]

I love this game, I played it so much in my childhood.