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Can someone ELI5 how valve could possibly be sued by Nintendo? As far as I know, valve had nothing to do with the project.
Nintendo has never publicly released the tools required to build games for the N64. The tools that he used during development (specifically the libUltra library that helps programmers talk to the N64 hardware) therefore are not legally his to use, nor does he have legal rights to distribute software built using it.
As such, Valve is stepping up and asking the project to halt because if Nintdo wanted, they could cause legal troubles for the developer and/or Valve. Since the Portal name and assets are in use, Nintendo could go after Valve as well for seemingly "supporting" unauthorized use of their proprietary tools.
Sounds like a reason to distribute it via the high seas instead, if you ask me... no 'support' by anyone but still available
Just like AM2R and plenty of other things, once it's out there in the internet, it'll never truly disappear. However, the dev expressed some relief in not having to build more than he already has.
I have high hopes for his next project ^^
Me too. He is clearly insanely talented and I’m sure that with the right people and ideas he will make a fucking masterpiece. I really look forward to anything he’s a part of in the future.
AM2R is amazing by the way. I enjoyed all three versions of the game. I’ve played the original once, SR twice, and I’ve played AM2R about 7 times now. I expect that I’ll play it several times in the future.