What does your request to remove Super Mario 64 have to do with my Super Plumber 64?
Super Mario 64 is an N64 console convoy released in 1996. In the era when 3D technology was still in the exploratory period, Super Mario 64 used its industry-leading 3D operation logic and mirror operation method to shock the four, becoming the benchmark and model for the development of 3D games in the future.
In order to let the players at that time quickly get started and smoothly advance this somewhat advanced game, Nintendo of Japan specially cooperated with the game magazine じゅげむBooks to launch a beautifully crafted guide book before the game was released: "Super Mario 64: Complete Clearance Guide".
As shown in the figure, in order to show the player the subtle level design of the game in all aspects, this guide book reproduces as much as possible in the form of clay stereoscopic models in the game. The game's ingenious box design makes this raider quite amazing in that era when 3D technology was in the ascendant, and the scene created of all clay is very rare even today.
Unfortunately, this guide book, which was only released in Japan, has not had the opportunity to be republished since the suspension of publication of books in 1999. For overseas users, it is not easy to get started with this out-of-print guide book, and on the overseas trading platform eBay, the price of this guide book has been speculated to hundreds of dollars, and sellers often cannot guarantee the quality of the product.
But just recently, Nintendo fan ComfortFoodVG came up with this rare guide book, adhering to the spirit of Internet sharing and his love for Nintendo, he uploaded the high-quality scan file of this out-of-print book to the Internet Archive, and this legendary publication finally entered the public eye.
In fact, Mario fans have been working on translating this exquisite guide book before, but because there are only a few pictures circulating on the Internet, the translation work has been delayed. The flow of the full version of the Raiders book has allowed the Mario community to finally focus on the full picture of the official Raiders of this epoch-making work again.
Although The original intention of ComfortFoodVG was only to save this long-out physical book in the form of a digital version of the Internet, so that future generations can also see the art created by this craftsman, but in the end, it is still impossible to escape the warning of a lawyer letter from Nintendo. On March 24, Nintendo took steps to remove the raiders, and the Internet Archives quickly processed it and removed the corresponding documents.
ComfortFoodVG was obviously dissatisfied with this, and he contacted the foreign media Kotaku at the first time and made his opinion public: "Honestly, I would like to challenge the legality of this lawyer's letter, after all, what can be the relationship between the current Nintendo of the United States and the 1995 Nintendo of Japan's authorized raider book?" ”
Not only that, he also said that although he can understand Nintendo's behavior of defending its own IP copyright, he still believes that "scanning and uploading an out-of-print guide book from 27 years ago will not hurt anyone, only the bad merchants who sell raiders for hundreds of dollars on eBay." ”
So ComfortFoodVG began his counterattack: he made Mario P on the cover of the Raiders book Bob Hoskins the movie version of Mario, and renamed the file "Super Plumber Guy 64" and continued to upload it to the Internet Archives.
According to Nintendo's usual style, this "Super Plumber 64" may not survive for long. But it is foreseeable that ComfortFoodVG will definitely change this guide book to avoid copyright disputes and let this book that should not be out of print continue to be passed on.