ElStormo

piracy is NOT stealing. this is an immutable, objective fact

@sanderev I see you comment on everything emulation/piracy/modding related. I won't be too harsh seeing as this is a moderated website, but I think you're pathetic

@Anti-Matter this is Wii Sports, but if we're sharing Wii music remixes I really like this one:
https://soundcloud.com/hellasketchy/wii-sports

@AstroTheGamosian maybe, I'm just going off of the fact SM64 PC port is still around. nothing really seems different about this situation

@AstroTheGamosian actually, the end result uses nothing from Ocarina of Time. It will more than likely just be a builder à la the SM64 PC port, requiring the user to provide their own ROM. It's on the user to provide all those copyrighted assets, and whether they obtain them legally or not is irrelevant. A few people in the comments already expressed this point.
I assume this is the reason SM64 PC port has remained untouched by Nintendo, and I expect OoT PC to fare similarly.

@SuperZeldaFun I misunderstood your comment. I thought you were saying the previous comment you quoted was a bad analogy, and telling people to please ignore it. My bad on that one, so I apologise. However, I didn't call you an idiot. So you're right, you don't have to take that from me—especially since I didn't give it in the first place.
As for my other comment that you reference, I stand by it. It had substance beyond my closing insult (and was in response to what was, frankly, a provocative comment). I don't owe a polite demeanour to someone who broadly calls others hypocrites (from a verifiably incorrect and morally unjustified position, mind you) and wishes for the demise of passionate fan projects.

@SuperZeldaFun completely incorrect use of the word analogy, and it 100% isn't the modder's concern where a consumer gets their game from. why would it be? and if they did concern themselves with it, what would come of that?

@ChakraStomps actually, piracy doesn't hurt. a study conducted in the EU showed that piracy correlates positively with game sales.
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
referring to p.148:
"For games, the estimated effect of illegal online transactions on sales is positive[...]The overall estimate is 24 extra legal transactions (including free games) for every 100 online copyright infringements"
so, you're wrong, and I'm surprised your tongue isn't tired, considering how vigorously you're licking corporate Nintendo's boots in that comment

@FuzzBall though I'd expect they'd be a minority, there is people who legitimately dump their games. perhaps we wouldn't have mods like BotW: Second Wind if there was DRM obstacles in the way.
clearly piracy isn't a major problem impacting Switch game sales as is. so why spend time/effort/money defending against it?

@FuzzBall I suppose it could be implemented without hassling your average Switch user, but I would hope it gets cracked either way. Emulation is important for plenty of reasons

@FuzzBall no thanks, I don't want any form of DRM added, especially not one that requires an online check. a solution that inconveniences people who're actually buying the games is a bad one

@KiraMoonvalley no argument, and a false assumption. I'll just assume you have no thoughts of substance to reply with

@KiraMoonvalley such a shame those dirty PC thieves stole the Metroid Dread master, and now Nintendo can't print any more copies of it. now it's just for them to emulate on their filthy 'Personal Computers'
wait, that's not how it works at all. because piracy ≠ theft

@Rika_Yoshitake because there's a difference between corporate Nintendo and developer Nintendo. not that hard to wrap your head around

perhaps I will finally try Ninjala. Installed it at launch, never touched it. there's just too many games to play, when you start thinking about which ones are going to eat up your time

I wasn't aware there was a rerelease of the Wii version at all. Glad to see it coming to Switch, I hope it supports D-pad input. won't need to use dolphin for this one anymore, if it all goes well

ITT: people make assumptions about games they've obviously never played

@CharlieGirl that's not proof against it being P2W. there's no way of knowing the levels of the held items anyone else in a game is using (or in most cases, which items they're using at all), so it's virtually impossible to know whether they've meaningfully impacted a game.
Irregardless of how much/little they affect the course of a match, it's objective reality that real money can be used to accelerate the growth of held items, even beyond the point that's currently possible having played free from launch.
Teamwork is an infinitely bigger factor in whether a team wins or loses, but it's simply false to say that you can't pay for an advantage. If you want to make the distinction that you can't literally pay to win, that's fine—but as far as P2W=you can pay for advantage, Unite is undeniably P2W

Camelot really puts a lot of thought and work into these games. Mario Tennis/Golf (Mario sports spin-offs in general) suffer from their price point, though

@AG_Awesome oracle remakes would be a dream come true. do it in a double pack like Famicom Detective Club was (I'd love to see Ages and Seasons have their own Switch menu tiles)

I'd love to see this. Between emulation on PC and the classic mini consoles, I was already playing existing NSO online retro games in other places. Game Boy and Game Boy Color games would be comfortable to play handheld, and are something I've largely never bothered with for emulation (outside of a select few 3DS VC purchases). Recently played Super Mario Land on 3DS VC and was surprisingly engaged, so a few more to play on Switch wouldn't be unwelcome

@IpwnedU123 agreed, a game with a nice healthy modding community is a special thing

@glaemay you shouldn't make embarrassing comments like this, it shows that you don't understand the topic.

@sanderev I'm sure Nintendo is very, very grateful to you. In fact, I'm sure you're their favourite customer and that all the execs consider you a personal, close friend.
I'm not usually this blunt on here, but you're genuine scum for reporting fangames.

@Luigisghost669 maybe if you were a blithering moron, you might think a fangame is an official Nintendo product. don't see how this is even in the realm of realistic argument

@Teksetter sorry if you felt like it was directed to your comments (haven't read all), if you were posting something considered and thoughtful. I was moreseo referring to comments that liken fangames to 'theft', or support Nintendo crushing fangames purely on the basis that it's their legal right (I saw a bit of that sentiment in the last Prime 2D article).
It's fine to look at the issue through different lenses, esp. for the purpose of understanding why Nintendo does this, why they might need to or feel they need to, etc., but at the end of the day I think arguing that Nintendo is morally upright by taking these fangames down is a highly indefensible viewpoint to hold. those who espouse that are the bootlickers, in my eyes.
I'm happy to have a discourse btw, I just didn't want to sift through all the comments that I felt warranted a reply.

Too many bootlickers in this thread. It's beyond frustrating seeing how many morally-underdeveloped people there are defending Nintendo's policy on fangames, and being fully confident in their reasoning.
I had thought about addressing some of those comments, but there's (sadly) too many. I can only implore those people to exercise some critical thinking.

They happened to choose my 3 favourite starters of each type, at least as far as first evos are concerned. I'll be going with Cyndaquil, because Typhlosion is my favourite final evo of the 3