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Sticky Started by honestgamer, April 6, 2008. 1,042 replies.

Gordon Freeman Jul 7, 2018 edited by honestgamer
Title: Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube
Platform: PC
Genre: First-Person Puzzle
Developer: Liquid Flower
Publisher: Digital Tribe
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Info: http://store.steampowered.com/app/252550/Qbeh1_The_Atlas_Cube/

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Gordon Freeman Jul 22, 2018 edited by honestgamer
This one's a fangame, albeit a very notable one, so there should be no qualms in adding this to the database.

Title: Pokemon Uranium
Platform: PC Exclusive
Developer/Publisher: Pokemon Uranium Team
Genre: RPG
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Region: World (it's freeware)

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Gordon Freeman Sep 30, 2018 edited
Super Smash Bros. Project M
Developed and Published by Project M Development Team
February 7, 2011
Wii
Action/Fighting


Super Smash Bros. Legacy XP
Developed and Published by Legacy Development Team
September 5, 2016
Wii
Action/Fighting
Jason Venter Staff Sep 30, 2018
As a matter of policy, HonestGamers does not support piracy and emulation. The two games in question cross that line, as they're not even playable in most regions without console hardware modifications. Their development was also discontinued years ago, due to opposition from Nintendo.

The site has posted game profiles and reviews for fan projects that appeared on PC and don't require users to circumvent copyright protections the hardware manufacturers put in place. Those games were made with (and sometimes without) the blessing of the intellectual copyright holders. Homebrew projects for consoles and handhelds take things a step too far for the site's official purposes, however.

There are many thousands of games in existence--and thousands more are released each month--that do not cross that line and still can benefit from reviews. I hope you and others within the community will continue to enjoy reviewing those other titles here at HonestGamers.
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality

"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world
Gordon Freeman Sep 30, 2018 edited
I appreciate your articulated response and well-made points. However, I feel that these titles can be excepted from limitations due to the fact that they do not necessarily require homebrew hardware modifications or emulation; standard builds from both of these projects rely on a bug in Brawl's Stage Editor feature to boot, as opposed to running emulated isos or hardware modifications. The mere fact that emulation is an option -- one discouraged in the official Smash Bros. Legacy Discord server, I might add -- is no more an issue than the fact that emulating any other game is an option, and legal precedent does not prove a problem here, for that matter, especially since Brawl is a game disc you can put into your computer, instead of a cartridge one must get a rom file of to emulate. Moreover, Nintendo has not taken up any issue with either project; Project M was closed under the development team's own volition, and any more detail from anyone else but Nintendo is pure hearsay and speculation.

Most importantly, these mods that have been reached hundreds of thousands of people, including major figures in the Smash community like Alpharad, represent an important historical footnote in game consumption and creation (to say nothing of the good memories they've provided me and friends) and deserve to be recognized for their influence. Other media outlets have done the same -- Kotaku, Apex, Wired, GamesRadar, you get the picture -- much to the delight of their readers, and I would like to extend that same variety to our small but growing fanbase. If anything, my article is shaping up to be much more objective and historical than the aforementioned ones, as I've documented the development cycles of these works and even interviewed the developers personally. Should there be any worry as to legal ramifications of reviews of these works, precedent in the form the the aforementioned journalistic works as well as mainstream positive press and even commercial production of products far more dubious in nature than these mods that require ownership of the original product should prove more than sufficient to put any misgivings to rest. Heck, my review will have to go through the same vetting process as anyone else's, and if anyone significant wants it taken down you have the right to do so without a second thought.

I hope this will be enough to persuade you to allow me to publish my historical documentation of these remarkable creations. There may be thousands of games out there, but there's nothing like these.

EDIT: Compromise reached, look forward to a review/blog double treat sometime in the future...

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