Zelda Modder Performs The Ultimate Renovation On Breath Of The Wild's Hyrule Castle

Looks really quite impressive and before anybody starts, MODDING IS NOT ILLEGAL

Wow the time some people have, but looks great tho.

@nessisonett Wait a moment...something is not right here. This game has been tampered with. Its running better than the switch version. I'm telling Nintendo.

@N8tiveT3ch God I know, it’s one thing putting naked Waluigi into Mario Kart but smoothing out the frame rate and bumping the resolution? Unacceptable.

Just shows you how talented some people are. I couldn’t even dream of making this.

@nessisonett modding isn’t illegal, but I didn’t know this game had released on PC?

Still impressive work though and I hope Nintendo don’t hit it with a law suit.

It's interesting to see what it could look like, but the fact that this guy is offering a paid option for these mods seems wrong.

He hasn't made the tools or the models, he's just patching up the work of other people and making money from it.

@AJDarkstar There’s no law against ripping your own carts and Wii U discs. It’s illegal to share them online, running them in an emulator is perfectly legal. There is absolutely no legal precedent.

Dang, this is some spectacular stuff!

But the decayed guardians randomly floating around kinda spoils the view... Maybe they'll get rid of those later?

What I got from this video is that the castle somehow grew taller after the calamity.

I would have loved that in the game to be frank

PC Master Race bla bla bla

@AJDarkstar Dumping ROMs is not illegal, not to mention it requires you to have a Wii U and the copy of the game, so not only is it legal, it also doesn't hurt Nintendo in any way.

@nessisonett sure, modding and even ripping your games is not illegal. Pretty sure selling the mods is the bigger problem here.

@ShadJV Oh yeah, this guy is a total idiot but the nuances of modding are rarely discussed on this site when the anti-fun brigade say they’re going to tell their mum that you’re doing naughty things.

I always kind of hoped we'd get a pre-calamity DLC (or maybe a post-calamity rebuilding?) I mean, I'll settle for Hyrule Warriors... but this is more like what I had in mind.

Having recently done the escape hyrule castle mission in age of calamity... neat.

Such a shame that Nintendo are so precious with their IP's and don't allow mods like Skyrim.
Mods would give me reason to go back and replay BotW as it got really stale once I had done everything (apart from finding all of the Korok seeds as the reward wasn't worth the grind once my inventorywas full)

@nessisonett

And yet every commenter on here whines the moment a company sells a tool that allows switch players to mpd, because it hypothetically could be used for piracy.

Couple design flaws but overall it looks really nice, I wonder if the guards can even talk.... But I really like the Sanctum and King Rhoam touch, too bad he didn't add zelda. I don't like how the Lynel gates close. Also can everybody just quit talking about whether its legal or not, if it isn't legal than Nintendo will do something if they care, either way it looks cool

Watching him walk past koroks, memories, chests, and shrines really made me cringe tho haha

@Desrever pre or post-calamity DLC would be really cool.
I personally won't settle for hyrule warriors. I tried the demo and I just don't enjoy the warriors games. Sure it looks good, but it's nothing like a Zelda game and doesn't capture any of why I love BotW

@AJDarkstar that may be the case in the U.K. but in usa making backups of your own media is perfectly legal

You guys complain about roms and modding but these are the projects and people that inspire the games we play. Some developer or some kid somewhere is going to see this and be like "yea I can do that".

@konbinilife I don’t think that’s entirely true in practice. I believe Fair Use laws in the US allow this, but the DMCA makes things like that pretty difficult.

DMCA states that you can’t circumvent DRM to make your back up / format shift / space shift. If you need to break DRM then it most certainly is illegal in the US, with some DMCA exceptions.

Some example of DMCA exceptions involve things like critique, some derivative works (Which maybe you could argue modding as), some educational purposes, etc

Every 3 years when the DMCA can be altered the EFF frequently pushes for more exemptions. Here is a list of some of their attempts:

https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca-rulemaking

Edit: to include bit about EFF

@AJDarkstar So you’re telling me that iTunes is illegal. Ok.

@konbinilife I think I'm about a quarter of the way through Age of Calamity, and I'm enjoying it way more than the demo, and there are some interesting twists to the story that keep the plot interesting. But as it is with every Warriors game, they can get very repetitive, and I know I'm going to hit a saturation point later on.

Since its not a first party Nintendo title, it might actually go on sale at some point. If you're a big fan of BotW but hate Musou games, its still definitely worth a spin for the novelty factor, just maybe not at full price.

@Desrever I'm sure we'll get something like that in BotW2. The end of the first game certainly implied rebuilding, anyway.

@AJDarkstar dang is that illegal in UK? That sucks in the US you can rip a game you own and play it legally. You just can't legally download someone else's rip (even if you own the game). That's where stuff like PC project M stems from and such.

@nessisonett honestly though you rushing in here to say that as if you're some internationally recognized authority on the subject is more insufferable than any other take.

@AJDarkstar actually according to the article you sent, when referring to US it states, "The law makes no explicit grant or denial of a right to make a 'personal use' copy of another's copyrighted content on one's own digital media and devices." Theres actually no law on it. If you want i can bring up some other sources too. Depends on how invested you are since I dont really feel like searching for them right now lol

@nessisonett In this case it is, because there are no official BotW ports on PC. So, its totally illegal, because if wasnt Nintendo would allow third party emulators of its hardware, but they dont.

@CorvoRevo Your argument being ‘Nintendo would allow it if it was legal’ holds no water. Nintendo doesn’t let me murder my ACNH villagers but it’s perfectly legal.

@AJDarkstar You're here by banned from the Interwebs for using facts in 2020. How dare you, dear sir. How... dare... you!!

Nice! Must have been a whole lot of work, I'm sure.

As for the question of modding legality (referring to US laws), well, emulation is definitively legal reverse engineering, while it's definitively illegal to pirate games you don't own. ...That's about all we know, really. A lot of this question lies in the Fair Use exception, which is generally vague but essentially comes down to "am I infringing on someone else's profits by doing this". My interpretation is that, in most cases, it should be perfectly fine to rip a game you own, or even to download a game you own if you could achieve the exact same result by ripping (though say, if you own BoTW on Switch, it would be illegal to download the Wii U version). As long as you don't share it, it's fair game...although you probably are infringing if you emulate the game on a device with an official port of said game. As I said, it's kinda vague. And no, pirating GameCube games would still be illegal because, even though Nintendo isn't making any money off of them, they still own the rights to rerelease them at any time, and it can still be seen as infringement if they never port it if, say, you choose to pirate Double Dash instead of buying MK8.

It's a complicated question and it really has no definitive answer--there is very little legal precedent. I found this article very enlightening, from which I pull many of the above extrapolations: https://www.howtogeek.com/262758/is-downloading-retro-video-game-roms-ever-legal/

Holy crap, that is some impressive sh** right here. Very well done.

@AJDarkstar Wrong... Go put your head back up Nintendo's arse again, I can see it needing a good licking lol.

@Aprosey Don't listen to a Nintendo knight lol. It's perfectly legal to back up in the UK as long as you aren't sharing it with anyone else.

@AJDarkstar thank god most nations arent the goon state that is the uk then.

@liveswired The potential issue here is that the modder outright says on the YouTube that he'll be sharing the mod, and at that via Patreon release. Patreon is a honey trap for these kinds of things given how easily projects can be tied to donation tiers (which counts under monetization and thus rips the "fair use" defense apart). That's how Nintendo was able to shut down Super Mario Bros. Z, among other things.

@nessisonett fair. If he gets busted. It’s for trying to make money off this. I believe that’s pretty much the only thing one can do when modding that is outright illegal.