An idea crazy enough...

[Russ]

Okay then, submit it or whatever you have to do. But if ZC gets taken over by Nintendo, you are responsible for it.

[MoonCheese]

I agree that ZC needs to be more well-known, but I'm a bit scared of it being advertised in Nintendo Power. I could see Nintendo not wanting to advertise a free and more powerful version of the game they're selling on Virtual Console and maybe still for GBA. And if they try to use their copyright on Zelda to get the rights to ZC, I could see ZC having to rename itself to "Blornjoomia Classic" or something equally lame and hastily change all the graphics to follow the adventures of Spink in Byrule trying to save Princess Blornjoomia from Cannon. I once saw a fan project for another game series have to do stuff like that.

This is only tangentially related to the thread, but I was working in ZQuest at work today and someone was like "That's an interesting thing to do while you're here." or some such. So I told him about ZC. Everyone knows what Zelda is (well, a lot of people know), but few people have ever heard of ZC.

[Aliem]

Nintendo can't really do anything about Zelda Classic, other than say "hey, stop using our graphics." And that is simply a matter of not packing Zelda graphics with ZQuest, yet still making them easily available.

The reason for this is simple... Zelda Classic is a homebrew game engine, not a direct copy of the game. The first quest that comes packaged with ZC is, but ZC itself isn't.

Gotta love copyright law ^_^

[Joe123]

I think if Nintendo wanted to shut down ZC, they wouldn't have too much hassle doing it...

Just they don't.

[Russ]

I think if Nintendo wanted to shut down ZC, they wouldn't have too much hassle doing it...

Just they don't.

They don't now, but if it had a sudden popularity boom, they might.

[Joe123]

Heh, rather sinister =P

When ZC starts becoming profitable is when Nintendo will shut it down.

[Russ]

Heh, rather sinister =P

When ZC starts becoming profitable is when Nintendo will shut it down.

And if it gets advertized in Nintendo Power, chances are it will get profitable and Nintendo will shut it down. That's why I think it's a bad idea.

[Nicholas Steel]

That was EGM that had Zelda Classic featured, not Nintendo Power. There was one screenshot from one of Exate's quests, 2 sentences, and a website link.

But even still, drawing in a bunch of users that makes Nintendo see Zelda Classic as a way to make money, they take it over, and ZC goes to hell (If it hasn't already...)? No thanks...

Maybe it's just me that feels this, but everything just seems to go to crap once it stops being humble.

nintendo could sue for ripping the original graphics, but i think thats all they could do.

[Nicholas Steel]

I think, we just need to stop scaring people away from using the latest alpha/beta for quest building and playing quests with. that way 2.5 will actually come to fruition before the end of 2008.

more people use it = larger debugging group.

[Dan Furst]

That was EGM that had Zelda Classic featured, not Nintendo Power. There was one screenshot from one of Exate's quests, 2 sentences, and a website link.

EGM, eh? My mistake.

You guys should flag the devs over here. I'm sure they would have something to say.