billothekid2@kbin.social to RetroGaming@lemmy.world · 11 months agoThat Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator sayswww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1228arrow-down1external-linkThat Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator sayswww.pcgamer.combillothekid2@kbin.social to RetroGaming@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn’t even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.
minus-squaretorvusbogpod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·11 months agoValve removed it because it used official N64 APIs that Nintendo holds as classified information. I think if it had totally been bottom-up crafted from scratch, it would have survived. But Valve does NOT wanna deal with a Nintendo lawyer.
Valve removed it because it used official N64 APIs that Nintendo holds as classified information. I think if it had totally been bottom-up crafted from scratch, it would have survived. But Valve does NOT wanna deal with a Nintendo lawyer.