Nintendo's Takedowns On Pokemon Fan Games & What The Devs Are Doing Now

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  • Опубликовано: 21 янв 2025

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  • @Genoci
    @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +16

    If you're interested in ROM hacks and fan games, I have a large tier list where I quickly review 50 of them.
    ruclips.net/video/gg3x_MFuU58/видео.html

    • @Cayden.1
      @Cayden.1 8 месяцев назад

      if your looking for new romhacks to try out id reccomend pokemon tectonic and pathways. pathways offers a unique choice system in a school setting, tectonic has the best use of the pokedex in any pokemon game, and it literally shows you every pokemons stats, moves, and level up changes from the start of the game which is essential since alot of pokemo received buffs and nerfs.

  • @BlankPapers
    @BlankPapers 9 месяцев назад +37

    "I've met with some employees..." *Nintendo Ninjas with a knife on his neck* "...and they're nice people!"

  • @Bokatrice
    @Bokatrice 8 месяцев назад +9

    I love that RUclips still has a game section for Pokemon Uranium

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  8 месяцев назад +1

      Ikr, I wonder if Nintendo knows

  • @docbreeb
    @docbreeb 9 месяцев назад +25

    I found Lucbui's Discord account a little over a year ago. He has a different screen-name now. We talked about Glazed, what he's up to now, and etc. As for the takedown, I think he was kind of honored something he made was worthy of being taken down. As for what he does now, I won't disclose anything personal he told me, but he hasn't been in the Pokémon rom hacking sphere for about 8 years and won't be going back into it. It was a nice chat. I should get back with him. I kinda left him in the dust lol.

  • @isuckatgaming1873
    @isuckatgaming1873 9 месяцев назад +72

    I find it wild that Nintendo views small scale fan games as competition when they have the biggest ip in the world and constantly make record sales
    That is, until I consider the quality of the recent games. It's almost as if they know they are going to release unpolished messes lol

    • @leonardofarias8843
      @leonardofarias8843 9 месяцев назад +2

      Nintendo had to protect copyright

    • @leonardofarias8843
      @leonardofarias8843 9 месяцев назад +3

      And some of these games were asking for real money

    • @isuckatgaming1873
      @isuckatgaming1873 9 месяцев назад +26

      @@leonardofarias8843 and I'd agree the ones asking for money were problematic
      The ones that weren't had no effect on nintendos bottom line lol
      A great comparison is sonic, whose Fandom is carried nearly entirely by fan games and fan media
      Despite the frequent awful quality of sonic games, they still sell extremely well, and sonic is far smaller than pokemon
      Saying it's them protecting copyright is like dragging a 20 year old guy away from flowers because you had to protect him from a butterfly

    • @leonardofarias8843
      @leonardofarias8843 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@isuckatgaming1873 But Nintendo had to intervene anyway

    • @isuckatgaming1873
      @isuckatgaming1873 9 месяцев назад +15

      @@leonardofarias8843 whatever you want to think bud lol
      Considering people can still access the fan games to this day it clearly didn't do anything

  • @connorradcliffe1769
    @connorradcliffe1769 9 месяцев назад +48

    Japanese game company's in general are quite brutal with fan games or roms, which is so weird because as you said, most of non profit. it's also kind of funny because games like pokemon insurgence did the regional varients years before sun and moon and their regional varients

    • @gabrieldevoogel6225
      @gabrieldevoogel6225 9 месяцев назад +8

      No no, they didn’t do regional variants, they did delta species from the card game

    • @MetalKing1417
      @MetalKing1417 9 месяцев назад +2

      Which is made even more ironic if one considers all the doujin (porn or no), some of which ARE sold for profit.

    • @polocatfan
      @polocatfan 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@gabrieldevoogel6225 it's effectively the same thing.

    • @gabrieldevoogel6225
      @gabrieldevoogel6225 9 месяцев назад

      @@polocatfan it’s similar with how they did it but it isn’t exactly the same, it’s a mutation randomly occurring or being made rather then differing evolution

  • @NanomachineExE
    @NanomachineExE 9 месяцев назад +11

    Thanks for covering this. I am surprised Prism hasn't reached 1.0 yet.

  • @UltimateFunBilly
    @UltimateFunBilly 9 месяцев назад +55

    Imagine developing a fangame putting in over nine years of work, only to have Nintendo show up at your door the day after your life’s work finally drops. The same life work you’ve been slaving day after day for.
    A Metroid fangame would suffer the same fate.

    • @eightcoins4401
      @eightcoins4401 9 месяцев назад +1

      And then the Nintendo version was inferior with Metroid

    • @UltimateFunBilly
      @UltimateFunBilly 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@eightcoins4401 You know the Metroid fangame, right?

    • @fleshreaper5933
      @fleshreaper5933 9 месяцев назад +2

      But if your "life's work" is based upon someone else's work, then you can't really complain..

    • @marroon8220
      @marroon8220 9 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@fleshreaper5933
      Fangames should be legal and Nintendo's treatment of them means Pirating their games is the morally correct option

    • @fleshreaper5933
      @fleshreaper5933 9 месяцев назад

      @@marroon8220 what? No it doesn't :p that's an extreme and borderline communism. I hate that they aren't legal, but I'm being realistic, as should we all.

  • @Abigdummy4life
    @Abigdummy4life 9 месяцев назад +23

    "Only consume our latest products until it dies for another newest one, we don't care about preservation or if we made something lasting"
    "Our way is the only legal way, nothing else, or else; only we can do no wrong in leading innovation"
    "King Kong vs. Donkey Kong lawsuit totally didn't traumatize us"
    - Nintendou in a nutshell.
    P.S.
    Also Nintendou: "Yeah GameCube is a failure cuz we followed the norm and er what WiiU?"

  • @louiepikmin3184
    @louiepikmin3184 9 месяцев назад +2

    The thing that sucks about pokemon brick bronze is that we were literally like a month away from getting the elite 4 before it got deleted. But hey, loomian legacy may not have as much content as pbb, but the quality of what's in the game is definitely WAYYY higher

  • @MMR_LM
    @MMR_LM 8 месяцев назад +1

    19:58 There was also Pokemon Omega which was taken down in 2014 shortly before ORAS were revealed

  • @paulmann8570
    @paulmann8570 9 месяцев назад +72

    With Nintendo acting the way they are, I’m gonna stick to Inclement Emerald instead of their products.

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +21

      Good choice! One of the better difficulty hacks out there.

    • @Magikarpador
      @Magikarpador 8 месяцев назад +3

      Play Rejuvination. Best Pokémon game, probably my favorite game period.

    • @fraymakerfan3628
      @fraymakerfan3628 8 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@MagikarpadorI second this. It has been the most fun I've had playing a Pokemon game.

  • @orochi1655
    @orochi1655 9 месяцев назад +2

    Your videos are always so damn high quality, love it

  • @Himmelschenk
    @Himmelschenk 9 месяцев назад +4

    Been a fan of pokemon for 20+ years, as much as I love their new pokemon and play their games on the regular these days Its hard to overlook how aggressive the copyright. Not to mention the awkward presentation that SV had
    Its easy to move on to a different RPG franchise be it monster collecting or not, I mostly go back to Pokemon to press A to win and shut my brain down for a couple hours as a form of break before moving to a more intensive RPG.

  • @Justaguywhoisretired
    @Justaguywhoisretired 3 месяца назад +2

    Honestly fan made games are almost always better than the mainline games anyhow. They should be hiring these people, instead they shut them down.

  • @shadowfan115
    @shadowfan115 9 месяцев назад +4

    I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo went after wizards or D&D fans for making homebrew Pokemon based campaigns for example I know someone who's basically doing a mystery dungeon meets mainstream pokemon d&d campaign

  • @BelliEX420
    @BelliEX420 8 месяцев назад +2

    10:37 For the Roblox section, there was also Pokémon Fighters EX, mostly a role playing game but also had lots of pvp. Do some research and you can maybe make a short or smth.

  • @paz8723
    @paz8723 9 месяцев назад +16

    Funny how its always the games that evolve the franchise to new heights that get the DMCA hammer

    • @leonardofarias8843
      @leonardofarias8843 9 месяцев назад +2

      Fangames of any kind are safe if they’re created with custom characters and pokemon

    • @Some_Anonymous_Guy
      @Some_Anonymous_Guy Месяц назад

      Could it be that Nintendo is a fan of stagnation?

  • @bomboleriot
    @bomboleriot 9 месяцев назад +3

    Great one, Inspector Columbo

  • @Nameless_mixes
    @Nameless_mixes 8 месяцев назад

    My favorite game of all time was Pokemon Crater. It was so cool how you had access to basically all gyms, locations, and mons. It sucked when Game Freak/Nintendo took it down 😭

  • @Chronocrossfangirl2002
    @Chronocrossfangirl2002 9 месяцев назад +2

    With people saying that rom hacks & fangames were free, while that is entirely factual there are people like ducumon who take peoples work and puts ads on their website etc. Its an entire rabbithole that is unerving their discord is even more disgusting. If nintendo should take anything down it should be them honestly

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +2

      I've been trying to wrap my head around such websites for the longest time. It's like those Pokemon games in app stores that keep popping up.
      I've seen many of those websites come and go, but there are a few that I've known for years and they're still online without any problems. One of them even stole a thumbnail of mine to use as a banner on their website and they have never bothered to remove my logo from it.

  • @Sizzyl
    @Sizzyl 9 месяцев назад +1

    hadn't heard of a few of these

  • @PlatinumLucario
    @PlatinumLucario 7 месяцев назад +1

    Adam knows very well that after the takedown of his Pokémon Prism ROM Hack, that no fan game or ROM Hack is safe. And even now after he said he understands fully that it was causing direct competition with their products, deep down inside, he knows very well that both Nintendo and TPC are taking away every fan's creative thinking. We always forget that Nintendo and TPC have an authoritarian mindset, where they don't like anything that's not done their way and will actively go scorched earth to take them down. I'm well aware that Adam still hasn't got over it completely, he still feels for all the unfortunate devs who've had their ROM Hack eliminated by either Nintendo or TPC. And the sad thing is, there's nothing we can do to prevent it, it's only going to continue to get worse and worse, as Nintendo and TPC become more powerful. All anyone can do, is just try to stay hidden, to avoid a potential C&D.

  • @directorphobosrighthand9879
    @directorphobosrighthand9879 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thats why i am a Sega and Valve Fan, they don't care about what People do with their content

  • @dougstrother5184
    @dougstrother5184 9 месяцев назад +1

    The only romhack I’ve ever played was ash grey, a hack of fire red/leaf green. It was pretty good, it’s meant to follow ash’s story but as a game and it hits the nail on the head with it

    • @CaptainEffort
      @CaptainEffort 8 месяцев назад

      You should definitely try some others, that one is super dated.
      I’d recommend Unbound or Gaia for GBA, and Prism or Crystal Clear for GBC.

    • @dougstrother5184
      @dougstrother5184 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@CaptainEffort okay, I’ll check em out. I just ordered a gba flash card actually cuz I wanted to try some of these but I still wanna play on my gba to make em feel more legit lol

    • @CaptainEffort
      @CaptainEffort 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@dougstrother5184 I totally get that lol, Gaia in particular feels really legit so playing it on actual hardware will be perfect

    • @dougstrother5184
      @dougstrother5184 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@CaptainEffort bet, I’ve been wanting a flash card for awhile to try rom hacks so I’m definitely excited

  • @PFGFrankly
    @PFGFrankly 9 месяцев назад +2

    you miss the relic castle. it been taken down

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +3

      That's not a game, but still tragic

    • @PFGFrankly
      @PFGFrankly 9 месяцев назад

      @@Genoci still it's more important. That's why some of the fan games and resources are being hold there

  • @afvpegknight
    @afvpegknight 9 месяцев назад +22

    The incredibly skilled people making these games should make their own original ip video game to compete with Nintendo

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +9

      There are already a lot of indie monster collecting games out there. Casette Beasts is one that's very good. If you want games that are made by bigger studios, then Dragon Quest Monsters or Shin Megami Tensei can fill the void.

    • @afvpegknight
      @afvpegknight 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@Genoci i love atlus lol im playing through persona 5 royal

    • @emanueleromano2633
      @emanueleromano2633 9 месяцев назад

      the creator of SMBX also did terraria

    • @louiepikmin3184
      @louiepikmin3184 9 месяцев назад +2

      That's what the Pokemon Brick Bronze devs are doing! It's definitely taking a while to get the main story, but there's already around 300 loomians and it gets updates anywhere from once a month to once every few months

    • @afvpegknight
      @afvpegknight 9 месяцев назад

      @@louiepikmin3184 roblox is for little kids. As an adult im not going on a game where little kids play. Lol

  • @BananaR777
    @BananaR777 9 месяцев назад +1

    When comes to rom hacks, here in usa they are legal, just as long as you give only the patch and not the base game rom.

    • @megaman37456
      @megaman37456 9 месяцев назад

      I don't do patches, I just hack the rom and dm it to anyone who asks for it. Fuck Nintendo. Emerald rom hacks don't impede their profits at all and is essentially abandonware.

  • @travv88
    @travv88 3 месяца назад

    Nintendo should be looking to recruit people who make good fangames.

  • @danielle975
    @danielle975 9 месяцев назад

    What is the game at 19:40 minutes?

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +2

      PokéMMO

  • @scro910
    @scro910 9 месяцев назад +1

    Do yall prefer Pokémon fan games with fakemon or something like blaze black where it’s the main game without the hand holding and all Pokémon are obtainable. Cause I haven’t played any of these fan games except for the drayno’s hacks. And those are how Pokémon games should have been ngl

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +2

      I like both, but fakemon hacks slightly more. I do dislike games that put every existing Pokemon in it, unless it's up to gen 5 or 6.

    • @Nadid_Dhrabb
      @Nadid_Dhrabb 9 месяцев назад +1

      You should play Pokemon Unbound!

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +1

      @Nadid_Dhrabb I already have ;) ruclips.net/p/PLga6v_fZGZ1oSBOR2IOIVZnxG6dwzL0Zc

    • @piranhalettuce
      @piranhalettuce 9 месяцев назад +1

      I prefer romhacks like Pokemon Coral or Orange, a game that's set in a new region but uses already existing pokemon. I've played Renegade Platinum and Blaze Black 2 however I wasn't very fond of them.

    • @CaptainEffort
      @CaptainEffort 8 месяцев назад

      ⁠@@piranhalettuceGotta say I love Drayano’s hacks, but totally agree with the first part of your comment.
      You should definitely check out Gaia, Unbound, and Prism if you haven’t.

  • @fuzzyhair321
    @fuzzyhair321 4 месяца назад

    pateron support would helped pay people for their work without paying for the game which would definitely hit pokemon IP. heres hoping these lads got jobs in the market after showing off their work. game freak should scout them for jobs

  • @yellownomadglitch3309
    @yellownomadglitch3309 9 месяцев назад +5

    For me I moved on with Pokemon completely, fan game or main game, at least fan games that are based on Pokemon universe. Original games with the same gameplay seems to outclass Pokemon every time, with a fraction of what Pokemon Company has. Hard to support Pokemon in any capacity now, seeing how toxic they are to their fans.

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +2

      What do you play then? I personally enjoy Persona and Shin Megami Tensei a lot. Digimon is also pretty good, especially Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory. Some of the indie monster collecting games like Coromon and Casette Beasts are also very good.

    • @yellownomadglitch3309
      @yellownomadglitch3309 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@Genoci For now, I got my eye on a combination of IPs kinda, Touhou but with their characters and all in Pokemon style gameplay, TPDP is the name, there were also more actually based on Pokemon regions or used Pokemon Essentials, but TPDP is an original game. In the end not that I played too many pokemon mainline games or similar games, Shin Megami Tensei kinda caught my eye as well, one day I will check it better. Thanks for the various suggestions as well.

  • @2tontyler
    @2tontyler 9 месяцев назад +2

    Remember, Japanese copyright laws are the true villain in all of this.

    • @polocatfan
      @polocatfan 9 месяцев назад +2

      Nintendo not following US laws in the US, is the true villain.

  • @captndingpot3981
    @captndingpot3981 9 месяцев назад +1

    I'm pretty sure KBM right now is also working on both a Banjo-Tooie Randomizer and a Banjo-Tooie modding tool called Wumba's Wigwam. What this man has done over the years is amazing.

  • @cttommy73
    @cttommy73 4 месяца назад

    It's Nintendo. They have no idea Japan isn't the rest of the world, and they don't care, but because all these big corporations look only after themselves, they can have impunity to do whatever they want.
    Frankly, if the fans had more money and take them to court, 9 times out of 10 they would win. Just ask the Sony emulator people. Only problem is, because these corporations are so rich, they can do whatever they want. Also look at the Sony emulator people going out of business because Sony decided to use money to destroy them.
    But hey, want to protect your own information and sensitive personal data? Welp, Nintendo say "No no. Your personal information is ours to do with as we please but our IP? Our IP is ours and ours alone.". Scum.

  • @Parelily
    @Parelily 5 месяцев назад

    My opinion is leave it be unless they’re making profit

  • @Kafj302
    @Kafj302 9 месяцев назад +2

    nintendo really needs to get their Joycons out of their.....well i think you know where that phrase is going.

  • @ultimate_pleb
    @ultimate_pleb 9 месяцев назад +2

    Cobblemon is better than pixelmon

  • @fleshreaper5933
    @fleshreaper5933 9 месяцев назад +1

    Id argue ive played almost all of the fangames worth playing. Its not surprising to me that these get shut down, whether i love them or not. Nintendo had an attitude of f**k around and find out. It sucks when a good fangame dies, but everyone involved knows that sometimes its the price you pay. Property rights as a whole are there for a reason, whether we like it or not. Other than Disney. You think Nintendo is bad, go read up on everything Disney has done lol.

  • @everytingyouneed3707
    @everytingyouneed3707 8 месяцев назад +1

    Hahaha en dan lees je opeens. Dit account bestaat niet 😂 24:23

  • @StevenWilliams-q6s
    @StevenWilliams-q6s 9 месяцев назад

    Why Nintendo do not go after peta for games make that make pokemon look bad ?

  • @-error-7936
    @-error-7936 8 месяцев назад +1

    I hate Nintendo

  • @arrowblade_1238
    @arrowblade_1238 9 месяцев назад +3

    Hey people, now, you all may be prone to attacking nentedo for attacking these fan game creators, but for all of these games, they were threatened because they were generating profit from it, which is illegal and allows for gamefreak to sue the creators of those games.

    • @eightcoins4401
      @eightcoins4401 9 месяцев назад +9

      All of those games were free.

    • @Genoci
      @Genoci  9 месяцев назад +3

      They may be free, but earning money from them in any way is still not okay.

    • @johnnyknadler1157
      @johnnyknadler1157 9 месяцев назад +1

      What about the ones that weren’t?

  • @magnum_pig_2004
    @magnum_pig_2004 8 месяцев назад

    You guys are talking about these fan games as if whatever Nintendo makes are the worst games of all time, and that's kind of disgusting.
    But then again, that's just my opinion. Aren't you guys being too harsh?

  • @Amenomisthesecond
    @Amenomisthesecond 6 месяцев назад

    nintendo are evil, but play there games anyway because thats like, the whole reason we make fan games

  • @Kafj302
    @Kafj302 9 месяцев назад

    I am like number 288