Serious question.
I'm a CS student.
Let's say I remake an SNES or other game, I took the art but I make the older game with new shit on top and make it an original and interesting new game.
Will that give me legal trouble or is there any chance of contacting the original company and hope they release it as original game?
You're asking, if you take a company's assets and then make a game with it, if you're going to get in legal trouble. Is that right?
If it's some personal side project not-for-profit, maybe. If it's for profit, absolutely.
I think if you use any assets or code from the original game, that's grounds for infringement. I can't say anything for contacting the original company.
I know is infridgement but can at least contact the company to make an official spin off?
I always wanted to do my own kof game with marvel gameplay.
you can contact them but they will most likely not let you do that
Yes, it would, but you can avoid it.
The standard method for bypassing this, is to require the user to have the ROM file, and then you would supply a diff patch that is applied to the ROM.
Some way that people get around this assuming you want to go with the SNES game idea is to write code injection via a patch that is injected by an IPS program into the SNES ROM.
It worked out for Memetale.
not really a patch, more like a new game using C++/SDL
has there been any examples of a company making a fan game into a licenced product?
>not really a patch, more like a new game using C++/SDL
Ah ok. Then you can still require that the user has the ROM, and extract the assets during runtime.
Sega hired a guy who made Sonic romhacks. He now is in charge to make sonic mania.
sega seems ok with hacks, unlike nintendo, hell, even capcom and snk had said fan games are ok.
Just do it as a fan piece and don't stress it.
If it's great quality and gets enough traction the company might actually reach out to you for work.
yeah, I think I'll make some shit, even as training wheels.
even if I got in the news, that's good publicity for me.
worst thing that can happen is you'll get a C&D if/when its existence leaks into social media or news or something
go for it
The MegaMan vs Street Fighter crossover game was originally a fangame but Capcom liked it so much they decided to release it as an official product.
>tfw nintendo will never be like this
Well Sonic isn't a franchise worth money anymore.
>I know is infridgement but can at least contact the company to make an official spin off?
... Look man, if you really want to go down this road, why not just rip off a game word for word? No assets held by another company, just make Super Mario RPG but call it Pooper Hairy-O RPG and just redesign everything.
Guarantee it'd sell. Maybe not well. But it would sell.
have no artistic skill.
Just do like OpenMW retard.
Just make it and announce it the same day you release it. If you announce it before its even halfway done youll get dmca. So many projects got canned because they blew their load too early
Toby Fox didn't have any artistic skill either and his game sold fucking millions. As long as you can write something above a high school level, you can work with something.
If they don't know you're working on it, you can't get in trouble. If you try to post it online that you're working on it, you'll at the least see a C&D. Nobody likes it when someone takes their shit without permission and starts using it. Analogies are usually shit, but just apply the same concept to any physical property.
>infridgement
>le epic meme photo for r/Sup Forums
>getting assblasted over an image
Listen if you're too stupid to recognize obvious copyright infringement, then you're too stupid to make a game.
At one point I wondered why these people don't just make a literal rip off of these games. However I assume that that is
>Too much work
>Doesn't get the same amount of e-fame in most circumstances
>I'm a CS student.
>infridgement
>in FRIDGE ment
this fucking guy
you're in like sophomore year of high school.
>being this assblasted while calling me assblasted
fuck off to Reddit autismo, I'm not even op
>recognize something from reddit and call someone else out for reading reddit and posting a Sup Forums screencap that was of Sup Forums on Sup Forums.. because you saw it on reddit
consider your next move carefully.
People jumble up and edit these photos for r/Sup Forums, thought this was common knowledge by now
>thought this was common knowledge by now
>thing that has been part of Sup Forums culture since at least 2006 if not earlier with EFG stuff indicates the user is a redditor
Well you tried.
>I took the art
is the art still inside the finished product?
then yes, releasing the a game with stolen assets can get you in hot water.