Nintendo's cracking down on speedrunning and ROM hacking videos

[The Murderous Cop]

http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-s-cracking-down-on-speedrunning-and-rom-hacking-videos-310152.phtml

Nintendo, you've made poor decisions before, but this is one of the loving worst.

Also, if you don't know who PangaeaPanga is, he made the Item Abuse series and several other good ROM hacks.

Please note this is gonna effect other people who make good hacks as well.

Absolutely ridiculous.

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[DrHitius]

wow why?

[The Murderous Cop]

wow why?

Because apparently they assume you got it illegally just because you're using a ROM/emulator, even though you can backup those legitimately while owning the cartridge.

[crazy54311]

loving christ nintendo.

Out of all things, you chose to do this. This is going to backfire like hell, I guarantee it.

[Otis Da HousKat]

While Nintendo does have a right, and obligation, to protect its IP, acts like this show once how far behind Nintendo is in the online scene.

[AtlasBlue]

[Obliviongate20]

title seems a bit misleading, i don't think they care about speedrunning, they just don't want tool-assisted speedrunning out there
it's still stupid tho

[Masterlegodude]

Does this in any way affect things relating to Super Mario Bros X, like contests and stuff?

[eboyblue10]

vinny gon get hit hard

[maplelink64]

vinny gon get hit hard

I think everyone was aware

[rambo1220]

vinny gon get hit hard

forget
rip vin and jontron

[shitlord]

forget
rip vin and jontron

:^(

[Masterlegodude]

forget
rip vin and jontron

Raocow too

[Ipquarx]

I cannot begin to describe how stupid this is. Hopefully people will actually protest this decision instead of just forgetting about it like they do with most everything else.

[otto-san]

oh no RIP raocow :(