Jeff, while this sounds cool, copyright law may come to bit you in the butt for this one on a couple of ways.
1. I'm assuming you downloaded the dreaded "
R"
word of the game. Unless you actually own the cartridge of the game, that's illegal. It would be the exact same as downloading the full DROD from a peer-to-peer app, and we all know Erik's thought of that.
2. The makers, Nintendo, haven't given people permission to use the engine, graphics, music, or anything along those lines. While you could argue that changing all of the graphics, music, and sounds would make it right, you are still using an engine owned by Nintendo that is, believe it or not, still being sold today via Mario Advance 2.
If you don't want to give up the whole "
Creating a non-DROD game into a DROD game"
, do a bit of research. PC games are the best for having open-source released for you. For example, DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D (Two random games that I have no knowledge of
. ) have their sources released freely, meaning that if you created brand-new graphics, sound, music, and the like, you could freely distribute it to others. And there is a plethora of mods and tools for those two games.
I'm not trying to throw water on your flame, but I just want to make sure that your enthusiasm doesn't get you into trouble.
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--That guy with a million different aliases since he doesn't like this name anymore.
[Last edited by gamer_extreme_101 at 10-28-2005 11:45 PM]
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