Brand New Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Mod Successfully Adds Multiplayer Splitscreen

I would love to play local multiplayer botw. Perhaps with two Switches, side by side? Not paying for NSO, but would love to do it locally.

Certainly seems to work better than age of calamity's multiplayer

more hopes for Link & Zelda playable side by side in 2!

This is one of the coolest mods for the game yet. I would love to try this out with a friend once it's fully released.

@silverninja Indeed. I'd love to play a BOTW game with Link and Zelda helping each other out with puzzles and battles. A guy can dream.

@Solaine
Because it's running on hardware more powerful than the Switch, so obviously it's going to run better.

Where the heck does one obtain this version of the game? I assume it’s simple, but I can’t track it down.

@Nancyboy
Best Buy, Amazon, Target, a locally owned Gaming Store, the Nintendo eShop. How do you pirate the game illegally for the PC? I will let someone with less morals than myself answer that one for you.

@calbeau
From the little footage we've seen so far from Breath of the Wild 2, it looks like your short lived dream may come true.

Link and… Linkle?

… Wun can only hope.

This is the holy grail for multiplayer: drop-in co-op on a grand scale of a game like BOTW or Skyrim. This is why Pokemon is so exciting. Just the idea of drop-in co-op for Scarlet/Violet is very exciting

Wow very cool! Would love a version that can play on a modded Switch. 😁

@steventonysmith you can legally dump your own copy of the game... Not everyone pirates games to mod them.

@Nancyboy obtain a rom of Botw by dumping it from a hacked console, put it on a pc, and run it in an emulator. Then install the mod.

@steventonysmith "How do you pirate the game illegally for the PC?" ... Linus' recent video of Switch emulation on Steam Deck basically put an end to that rhetoric. Essentially, with the ownership of the original hardware, original software and the right tools, emulation can be perfectly legal.

Neat. Thanks for speeding up the takedown process!

@solarwolf07 and @Link-Hero Thank you.

@yuwarite
Yes a random tech YouTuber who does not have a law degree has settled it everyone, have fun when Nintendo's lawyers come knocking and/or your ISP shuts off your internet service

@solarwolf07
You can not legally dump your own games, the hardware required is circumnavigating protection software in place to prevent copying and thus you are breaking the law by reverse engineering a licensed game. Again though you are free to believe in this fantasy if you want but don't cry if your ISP and Nintendo's Lawyers think differently

In before Nintendo shuts it down

The only thing that looks disruptive about this is the item menu pausing both players. The BotW engine was built around that, but probably some non-pause menuing would have to be implemented if it was going to be multiplayer.

Actually the series that most came to my mind while watching this is the Warriors games. After googling it, apparently Age of Calamity and Fire Emblem: Three Hopes have split screen multiplayer like this? But you have to progress in the game to unlock it, and I've never once seen it advertised for any musou game. That formula, arcade-y hack n' slash button mashing, seems like a good successor to the beat-em-up genre and could really do with better multiplayer integration.

@steventonysmith please explain how these (perfectly legal by the way) emulators are extremely popular and still available to download? See, if you don't pirate the actual game roms, it's perfectly fine. And if i own my console, i can do what i like with it, such as running cfw. If Nintendo doesn't like that, they can ban my console from their servers but that's my problem.

@solarwolf07
Because Nintendo hasn't taken legal action yet doesn't make them illegal. The emulators by nature are reverse engineering patented software. Nintendo has taken action already against people and sites offering these services and products. They will again, especially with sites like NintendoLife talking about them and mods for their current generation of games.

You can do anything, even illegal things, but eventually you will be caught.

Funny enough botw would make a perfect multiplayer game, with how big the world is.

Why does the article not mention that this is the Wii U version?

@nukatha Why does it matter. They are essentially the same game anyway, and the mod is not on official hardware.

Wasnt there a bounty for a mod like this for this game?

@steventonysmith clearly you have ZERO idea how big LinusTechTips is as a channel. What they have done is perfectly legal, and it would stand up to every single precedent set so far. why do you white knight for Nintendo so much man? They are a greedy company who deserves to be crapped on with their disgusting business practices.

@steventonysmith what is so illegal about reverse engineering? It's writing your own software, to do something another software can already do. If that was the case, hardly any software would ever exist.

@steventonysmith That’s fundamentally not what the emulator is doing. It mimics the hardware which is then used to run the OS. Which needs to be provided separately. If you bought every single component in a Switch individually and soldered them onto a motherboard, is that breaking any copyright laws? No, it absolutely isn’t.

@nessisonett
There are chips and software in place to authenticate a cartridge or downloaded softw are. Getting around that is where the law is broken

@steventonysmith Firstly, LTT is not just a "random tech YouTuber"; they're pretty much the biggest tech YouTuber on the platform.

And like they say in the video, they have a legal team ready to take Nintendo to court should Nintendo even try to take down their video. They made the video with the intention of trying to get Nintendo to try to take them down, because they knew what they were doing was perfectly legal.

I'm guessing you didn't actually watch the video, but if you do, watch from 12 minutes in. Here, they explain what the law actually entails and how what they did technically classifies as legal and would technically hold up in a court of law.

@yuwarite
I hope Nintendo takes them to court, even the biggest YouTuber will not be able to take on a law team Nintendo will throw at them and it will be hard to prove the techniques shown in their video can't be used to lose Nintendo millions

@steventonysmith How is Nintendo "losing millions" when you still need to buy the game to achieve what is shown legally? Nintendo's only gone after people who own websites that share ROMs, and usually only if they're making any profit off of the website.

Also, reverse engineering and circumventing software and hardware security is not illegal. An entire three-letter agency in the United States government exists that is dedicated to the task. The scope and purpose of the work they do is different but the methods used are the same.

So good for the industry to have all this chat about hacking new hardware.

Congratulations on getting your cheep gaming and thanks for the comments letting us paying customers see you getting it for free. I guess this type of thing as perfect for ensuring the future of the industry.

Something like this is my wish for BotW2. Of course the Switch is not powerful enough to render an open world twice, but maybe if you have to relatively near each other it could work. If not, I'll even take a Cappy Mode from Odyssey.

@coconut-gun
Because what is shown "legally" will be used for non illegal means more often than legal means.

343 and Microsoft haven’t gotten Halo Infinite Coop working with all their resources, but a small group of enthusiasts pump out BOTW multiplayer co-op… what is even up with some of these companies

@steventonysmith "it will be hard to prove the techniques shown in their video can't be used to lose Nintendo millions"

Except the video demonstrates the use of using original hardware and software; objectively, no form of piracy or theft takes place at all in the video. No roms, nothing, are being illegally downloaded. No one is losing money based on what is actually being demonstrated in the video.

You can straw-man an argument that, "what is shown "legally" will be used for non illegal means more often than legal means", but that wouldn't hold up in a court of law, because the video doesn't demonstrate any alternative 'non-legal' means.

Nintendo have gone after content creators for far less than this, so why aren't they taking the bait and going after LTT, with their video that has millions of views and has likely been forwarded to them several times? Because they know LTT are technically in the right; they know they will lose in a court of law against LTT, and they know it would be horrible PR for them.

You can pontificate about how Nintendo "should go at them", but the fact that they haven't, and continue to allow the video, is a clear sign that they can't, and that your argument, regarding the legality of the LTT video, is wrong.

@steventonysmith You are wrong and its funny. Gonna pirate Pokémon Legends right now....there it is! Downloading now. Hmm, the world didn't end but that's not a surprise.

@steventonysmith
Technically anything that is legal can be used to do something that is illegal.

As much as I'm not big on the idea of current gen emulation, Nintendo doesn't really have a leg to stand on in this case, especially considering nothing shown in the video was against the law.

in the end its down to convenience, any potential sales lost would barely put a dent in the overall sales of the switch.

When it comes to previous gen it is why things like backwards compatibility and making it easy to legally own the games are especially important which is something that Nintendo can make increasingly hard to do (especially when the last remnants of the virtual console will be gone next year)

@yuwarite
If LTT wasn't doing anything illegal why did they have to blur the screen of the Steam Deck?

@calbeau Yeah, there's so much potential for 2 player shrines. Maybe do it like Human Fall Flat, where every puzzle has many ways to do it, and the singleplayer solution is wildly different from the 2 player solution.

@steventonysmith Dude, the video literally has timestamped video-chapters for every single question you keep asking.

'The legality', literally answered about 12 minutes in; 'why is the footage blurred', literally answered from about 3 1/2 minutes in. You're not even trying to hide the fact that you haven't bothered to watch the thing you're arguing against, lol.

It would take you less time to just watch the video in full, than to ask me and wait for a response, but of course you won't do that, because you know it would invalidate every one of your arguments and destroy your rhetoric.

@yuwarite
I watched the video in full but if they truly believe they are doing nothing wrong then unblur the video, allow Nintendo to take the video down and send LTTs huge legal team after them

@yuwarite Nintendo should put that cartridge bad taste stuff on this dude's spoon to limit the ice cream binges

@yuwarite what's the % of people doing it legally vs people not? That is always what the pirates hide.. and what the owners of the IP have to contend with

@steventonysmith despite all your rage, nothing's gonna happen, because nobody cares 1/10 as much as you've chosen to for whatever reason.

@SpaceboyScreams
That's what every ROM site thought too until Nintendo started shutting them down left and right. Just because you do something that's illegal and immediate action isn't taken doesn't make it less illegal.

@steventonysmith Yes but from their ashes rose 100 more sites in their place, and nobody was arrested so I still fail to see why you keep throwing around that word like it has any weight to it. What is the importance of illegality to you? To most people it's knowing not to do something because they'll go to jail or pay a hefty fine. When neither of those actually happen, is the word "illegal" even applicable? Do you just like saying it over and over again because it makes you feel like a big boy police officer?

@SpaceboyScreams
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/02/nintendo-hacker-gary-bowser-sentenced-to-three-years-in-jail

Nobody went to jail for screwing with Nintendo? Ok

@steventonysmith Bro you should check out PokeMMO, it might give you a heart attack.