Random: A Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Multiplayer Mod Is Now In Development

This looks.... so cool. I would love to try this out with some friends.

Meanwhile, Nintendo will shut it down in 3... 2... 1...

Honestly, I'd rather not do mods that adds stuff, too much of a risk of a ban to my account/Switch. So yeah, just gonna stick with simple stuff.

Well, I've added songs in Smash Ultimate, but I heard that BOTW is way more risky.

@Anti-Matter Can't sue someone for making a mod.

@Joeynator3000 Tons of people just do it on their PCs in order to mitigate bans.

@VoidofLight Eh...using emulators and stuff on PC is a pain in the butt. Always had issues with them, crashes, bugs, performance stuff, even SNES games lagged. lol

As a co-op game running on powerful hardware, sure. As a competitive game, no.

@Joeynator3000 If you already have set up hacked switch then you can just use emunand and wipe your prodinfo. Now it is impossible for nintendo to ban you.

@VoidofLight Actually technically you can sue someone for making a mod. There is no law that gives you the right to do so. There is one (copyright) that doesn't give you the right.

And Nintendo has been taking down fan mods.

I see the angry virgins are out in full force 😄

It's just a mod you nerds, get a grip. No one is forcing you to install it on your holy Switch.

Multiplayer in Zelda is awesome, especially in games like Four Swords. These guys do what NintenWONT.

One thing I'd like to know how they handled is how the enemies target the players. I imagine it would be quite difficult to get the enemies to respond to multiple attackers at once.

@RubyDevilNine You can play the game on pc without illegal roms. If you dump it on your pc yourself, and don’t share it, it’s 100% legal.

Sometimes I dont get this site and this kind of news. Why they keep talking about mods, emulation of nintendo games when you clearly ned to hack your console or to have a pirated ROM to do all of this? are they encouraging us to do so? seems like.

I'm really looking forward to try this out once it's somewhat stable

@jikflet You don't need a pirated ROM, you can dump the files yourself if you own the game.

You have to ask yourself why they thought they would spend their time plagiarising someone else's work rather than making there own game. I am sure there are plenty of excuses for that, however if they did make a game and Nintendo came along and changed it and released it then they would crying all the way to a solicitors office to sue them for as much as they could get.

@Anti-Matter The haven't taken down the Super Mario Odyssey multiplayer (yet), why should they take down the BotW Multiplayer then?

I was wondering how they would handle bullet time (would time slow down for all players?) but the one part of the video that shows it, the other players' movement is so janky you can't really tell.

The World needs this right now, and me!

Little rough...but I think this is doable if only NIN would allow this and this would invite more gamers to the game and if local or Internet this would be a game changer. But the powers be if they don't agree it's not going to happen beyond the MOD camp only.

Wow what a wonderful idea, another Nintendo mod advertised by Nintendo life! Gee whiz! I sure do wonder how I would be able to play said mod? Oh how I wonder.

Seriously it's hilarious how these articles make their way to the site, while the "methods" it requires to play them are shunned upon.

@jikflet Exactly. It's become pure comedy how these mods get paraded on the site, while at the same time, the methods done to make them are outright frowned upon and shunned. It's so obvious that these articles exist for clicks it's painful.

@TommyTendo If it is legal, then Nintendolife should make a tutorial on how to dump our own games so we can all play this mods. right ? seeing that they love to promote mods.

@VoidofLight The issue isn't that it can be done or not. The issue is that Nintendo Life has a tendacy to "show" you these mods, yet refuses to show articles that teach you how to play them (even through more "legal" methods). It's weird and annoying, since the fact that such tutorials and methods don't exist on the site, proves that those methods aren't all that "legal" by their own standards. The censorship comes off as hypocritical, like telling you that alcohol is illegal, but advertising the latest brews and fine wines and asking which one you'd hope to taste test every week.

@RubyDevilNine
Edgy brooooooooo
Also you do realize the odyssey mod is legal and has been up for months and gotten a lot of popularity right? lol
insert devil emoji for no reason

This actually looks really cool, I like how they chose for them to be Mipha and Revali too lol, still kinda janky though (to be expected)

@jikflet
They "promote" mods because they can be really cool fan made innovations on the games we know and love
It's like promoting a cool fan film based off a movie series you like, nothing wrong with it
Nlife is staying safe because if they make a tutorial trolls like you are going to come on and yell at them more than you do for this
Kind of dumb to come onto an article just to critique the writers, who do this for a living, ain't it? Want someone to walk into the place you work at and yell at you?

@DevinRex You're usually a Google search away from finding these, but these early multiplayer mod builds can be a bit more difficult to find. Seems like a lot of them are dropped on a Discord server rather than a mod site. I actually like that they don't put links on this site, since they get so many trolls demonizing emulation on here (not trying to imply that you are one). It really sucks when a group of people that blindly hate you suddenly find a way to rag on your stuff.

@RubyDevilNine I wouldn't take their user agreements at face value. They are more of a catch-all that, in some cases, cannot be legally followed up on.

@RubyDevilNine It’s perfectly legal to dump a game as lpng as you don’t share the files.

Needs split screen to work with open world environment. Co-op link and Zelda would be awesome in the sequel.

Nope, not interested and would never support this.

@FroZtedFlakerZz People come and yell at me all the time in the place i work, i am a ship crew member. And life on board is rough. Since when critique it means i am yelling? or attacking? i am not. i think critique is one of the fundamental freedoms in a healthy society. withouth the posibility to critique we would be living in a totalitarian state. and withouth the ability to receive criticism and improve ourselves we would not have personal growth. But anyway to the subject... this is NOT an emulation or mods news website. i get it. People love Zelda. we all do. but constant weekly news about moding the original game should be on emulation or rom forums. not on an "official" nintendo news website. News here shold focus on things we all can enjoy in our nintendo consoles withouth any modification. Official releases. Official Information. I am not against emulation but if i want to be informed about the subject, ill go on other sites or Discord. Is very weird read stuff like this here. seems completely out of place. Simple as that.

@RubyDevilNine Most times, mods don't get taken down, unless the company is as evil as Take 2. Nintendo just usually takes down fangames.

@dew12333 Found the person who has no idea the tremendous amount of effort it takes to create a (good) videogame!

A mod that adds multiplayer to an already existing game vs creating an entire game from scratch with your own ideas, art, sounds, AI, everything... It would be the equivalent of going to the store to buy spices to an already cooked meal and adding said spices vs planting the herbs and other plants needed for the ingredients, caring for them and waiting for them to grow mature enough to bare all the ingredients you need, then going to a butcher to slaughter the meat yourself, get the right cut of meat, then finally cook all of it together so that you can have your own meal that you created yourself without anyone else's help.

One task requires a set of skills in a single line of work for likely dozens of hours while the other requires several more sets of skills in several vastly different lines of work for a combined total of thousands of hours.

This looks absolutely great. I mean inside Nintendo's R&D caves, they might have done this before so its nice for the public to get a glimpse of what could be thanks to the modding community.
I would totally play this and having this in a game like BotW2, which a quarter of all Switch owners might buy, it could really enable so amazing online sessions and opportunities.

Its a bit sad how Nintendo would argue that the game isn't designer for that so they cannot have it to not break the game. But at the same time hey throw a motorcycle into Hyrule. sigh.

Ooh mannn i want this sooo much. Haha

@dew12333 If that is how you define plagiarism, then you have to ask yourself why you thought you would spend your time plagiarising Sakurai's work rather than making your own avatar.

@IpwnedU123 Did you like my drawing of Piddy and Bob?

@Kilroy The only correct place that you can say the words 'person who has no idea' is when you say that you don't know me or what I know.

Your comment makes no excuse for them anyway, they use this game because they will get more money for their work.