Long debate in the locked topic a few posts down. Nintendo is concerned the music is close enough to copyright infringement that (possibly with the game's higher popularity and RIAA's bigger thirst for lawsuits) could get them sued now.
I imagine that part of the reason might have to do with changes in RPGs over the years; a lot of the older RPGs that would appear on VC may be considered "archaic" in design or gameplay (think FF1 NES and item-buying, for example, or things like always having to use the "Door" command in DW1 NES) for more recent RPG players (notice that the DS/GBA remakes of older RPGs tend to include many modern gameplay "enhancements").
I am really surprised that the Dragon Quest games aren't even on the VC in Japan. SInce the Final Fantasy games are slowly coming to VC, I bet we will see the Dragon Quest games someday.
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Well, when Squenix FINALLY decided to get in gear with VC releases, they decided to largely release games that were never released outside of Japan originally. I keep noticing VC titles from them pop up on the Japanese VC lists almost every month, and they always wind up being something that's simply not available in an official English format. I really do wish they'd hurry up and release all my favorite Enix games, though (and Terranigma as an import title so I can finally play it).
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Long debate in the locked topic a few posts down. Nintendo is concerned the music is close enough to copyright infringement that (possibly with the game's higher popularity and RIAA's bigger thirst for lawsuits) could get them sued now.
Who is the RIAA? And by "could get them sued now", does that mean they can still get sued for the game even thought Earthbound hasn't been released yet?
RIAA=Recording Industry Association of America. When you here about a 12 year old kid getting sued for downloading mp3's, that's them. If they could sue, I'm sure they would have already, so they would probably have to wait for the game to be released.
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I believe that "could get them sued now" statement was meant to be relative to the original release of Earthbound, when all this stuff was unknown and people were generally less lawsuit-happy anyway.
A question: Has anyone here ever heard of anyone getting in legal trouble for using the word "Yo-Yo?" Frankly, I find the idea absolutely ridiculous, yet it seems to have been a concern of Nintendo's. This question is mostly out of curiosity, though I admit that evidence that nobody's ever cared would even FURTHER prove just how paranoid Nintendo's legal team really is.
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I believe that "could get them sued now" statement was meant to be relative to the original release of Earthbound, when all this stuff was unknown and people were generally less lawsuit-happy anyway.
A question: Has anyone here ever heard of anyone getting in legal trouble for using the word "Yo-Yo?" Frankly, I find the idea absolutely ridiculous, yet it seems to have been a concern of Nintendo's. This question is mostly out of curiosity, though I admit that evidence that nobody's ever cared would even FURTHER prove just how paranoid Nintendo's legal team really is.
Let me guess. Nintendo legal team is like this "What are we going to do? If we don't change that word, we'll get mountain of lawsuits!" Maybe that's why it's taking so long for Earthbound to arrive.
Have you heard the word Yo-Yo used recently? Last time I remember was an episode of Recess. And before that, in The Simpsons. But those are quite old now.
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That literally IS just a guess, but it's the only explanation I can come up with for such a seemingly insignificant thing to be changed.
@Bass X0: What's that got to do with anything? Surely that's not a reason why the word would be edited out of a game for its Virtual Console release. Besides which, the most recent reference to the Yo-Yo I can immediately recall seeing was from The Emperor's New School, which is only a couple years old.
So I've heard. But I don't think they're actually going to go out of their way to pursue legal action over it. That would be like Kleenex, Xerox, and Hoover suing everybody for using those words to generally mean, resectively: Tissues, copiers, and vaccuum cleaners. It just doesn't make a lick of sense.
EDIT: SO sorry...I just realized that I threw out the "Yo-Yo" question on the wrong thread. I think I got confused as legal talk crept into this thread and became VERY similar to a discussion in this thread, specifically starting at post #70.
one i would like to see is Rygar for the NES, used to play that one all the time. they have the arcade version of it for download already, but its just not the same, because all the RPG elements were added in for the one on the NES
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