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How do grown ass adults look at this and think anything other than "damn, that's pretty cool!"? Literally nobody and no company has any conceivable money to lose over this and couldn't convince me otherwise. Law should have nothing to do with all this pussyfooting about legality.
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.
Right, but what the heck is up with Nintendo clinging into ancient obsolete stuff? They're not stupid right?
No but Nintendo is fiercely protective of all of its IP. We know there's not really harm being done here but it is within their rights to block this and that is the road they always choose.