Lame & Watch
Nintendo has blocked videos of a mud that successfully hacked its Game & Watch computer to allow it to play several other titles. Two videos on YouTube were made unavailable after the publisher filed copyright claims on the channel in question.
The account belongs to the mud “Stacksmashing”, which the Super Mario Bros. 35-year-old game and watch device launches in November and immediately starts tinkering with the $ 50 computer and experimenting to see what can be done with its rudimentary technology. Stacksmashing successfully launched several titles via ROM swaps, including the original NES version of The legend of Zelda and of course id software Doem.
But alas, Nintendo did not experiment too kindly with Stacksmashing and issued copyright claims on their YouTube-maintained videos. Stacksmashing notes on Twitter that their videos rather than being picked up by an algorithm excluded by a Nintendo representative. Nintendo’s claims seem to be directed specific by the use of in-game footage, rather than referring directly to the hardware hack itself.
Finally, it’s another day in the office for Nintendo, who has tall been very strict when it comes to any form of evasion of his games, hardware or software. So if you choose to fiddle with your Game & Watch, do not upload the results to YouTube … Or do you not play Nintendo games on YouTube? … or both? … or not all three?
Nintendo makes copyright claims on Game & Watch hacking videos [Gizmodo]
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