Hence up popped a conspiracy theory that Redigit had faked the legal notice himself to get away from Super Mario Bros X to work on Terraria. However, a lot of people saw this as suspicious. The result was that the original videos and posts about the game were taken down, and the domain eventually transferred to Nintendo themselves.Ībove: As you can clearly see on the Whois listing. This name made it awfully easy for Nintendo to say the game was competing with their own products, and they eventually sent a cease and desist notice in 2011. Namely the domain name, which creator Redigit had chosen as ‘’. Designed as a cross between Super Mario All Stars and Super Mario World (with Zelda and Metroid elements added in later), the game let people make their own Mario games in the form of ‘episodes’, with custom graphics and music.Īgain, another fatal flaw came up. That project being Super Mario Bros X, a fan game and game maker tool for the Mario series. Unfortunately, the next project wasn’t quite so lucky… Once that time was over, the project stopped and any chance of things like DVDs or live showings went wth it. In fact, they agreed to license the movie for a few weeks or so, up until the end of the year in fact. This got Nintendo’s attention, and give the company credit, they weren’t too harsh on it. Why?īecause they tried to sell tickets to showings of the film in actual cinemas.
Unfortunately, the movie’s creators made a fatal mistake when it came time to release the movie.
Hosted on the Legends and Adventure forums, the project was going to offer a new story set in Hyrule with familiar species like the Gorons and Zoras playing important parts. The Hero of Time was a Zelda movie that was in production during the early 2000s, and was known for being one of the first live action movies based on the series. The Legend of Zelda: The Hero of Time Movie – January 2010įirst up, let’s head back to what may well be the first ever Nintendo fan work shut down by Nintendo. So let’s look at some of the many Nintendo fan works screwed over by cease and desists, DMCA notices or other Nintendo legal action… Whether it’s Full Screen Mario, Zelda 30 Tribute or Super Mario Remaker, the company certainly isn’t shy about shutting down projects that might hurt their bottom line. And heck, not a day goes by without some MMORPG private server being taken offline.īut how about for Nintendo fan projects? Well, it turns out that quite a surprising number of those get shut down for ‘legal’ reasons too. It nearly killed the whole ROM hacking scene for Chrono Trigger. As any budding fan game developer knows, the worst thing that can happen to a project is the IP owner sending a cease and desist notice to shut it down.
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