<RANT>
Jeez - enough already!!! Get that chip off your shoulder. With an attitude
like this it's no wonder that Nintendo turned you down as a registered
developer. Why shouldn't Nintendo expect a return on their investment?
They've poured MILLIONS into R&D, marketing, manufacture, just so that you
can bitch about how unfair life is, and how the world owes you a living.
Nintendo didn't turn the industry into the state that its in at the moment -
the general public did, by buying lots of games. Do you really thing that if
there was no bandwagon to jump on, the suits would be here?? NO!!! I'm
getting sick to death of hearing people bitching about companies wanting
to - god forbid - make a profit.

Can we all now PLLLEEEEAAAASSSEEEEE *S.T.F.U.* with all the bitching and
wingeing and get back to talking dev issues?? Take it off-list, for
chrissakes.
</RANT>

Phew!


Dave Mariner


Technical Director
Medlab Group
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http://www.medlab-group.com





----- Original Message -----
From: <norm328@...>
To: <gbadev@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:44 PM
Subject: [gbadev] Re: Nintendo's 4th Reich


> I should have the "right" to create a game without jumping through
> any damn hoops for Nintendo. If I know the profit from my work is
> getting leeched by a company I can't stand, I am not inspired to
> create it. Nintendo has set up a system that only big companies full
> of people that don't like their jobs can tolerate. I hate how they
> have perverted what used to be, and could be, a creative exciting
> industry. I can't and won't get on my knees peasant-like to receive
> the "right" to develop for the parts they assembled.
>
> Jetpack is not a port, but it doesn't seem like the type of thing
> publishers jump on these days, since everything has to be 3D.. but I
> think that's a shallow result of the industry being overrun by
> uncreative business types. Jetpack was written in 1993 and still got
> 15,000 downloads last month. http://www.adeptsoftware.com/classics
>
> Adam
>
> --- In gbadev@y..., "Nick London" <nutzboy@y...> wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge on this, Nintendo cant do squat about
> you
> > developing for the platform. The can point and wave a nasty looking
> > finger... but that's about it.
> >
> > Making your own carts and selling the games they CAN do something
> about,
> > because the GBA cart design is patented (To the best of my
> knowledge) and
> > you also have to have that Nintendo logo in the ROM for it to boot,
> which is
> > copyrighted (Lets not get into a war about 'Cant copyright
> electronic
> > storage' shit).
> >
> > BUT, if you REALLY want to get it publish, do what I'm doing, make
> an
> > impressive demo, write up a beefy lookin' design doc and plonk it
> on the
> > table of some developer/publisher. If they like what they see,
> they'll
> > publish it. (Just make sure you have copyright and stuff sorted out
> > beforehand... and make sure you dont give them any hard copies
> before a
> > contract has been signed)... or, if you show it to a publisher and
> they want
> > you to develop it... they can actually ask Nintendo to give you
> developing
> > rights.
> >
> > I've been out of the GBA community for a while, so this might have
> changed,
> > but this was true as of about 3 or so months ago.
> >
> > But I doubt Jetpack would go very far, mainly because it's only a
> port
> > (Correct?) of another game, and probably wont blow the socks off any
> > publishers.
> >
> > Still, anything's worth a try. :)
> >
> > But I'd say at very best you'd get hired into a development company
> for
> > showing your competence... and hey, that aint all bad. :)
> >
> > Then just work your way up to game designer.
> >
> > BTW: Does anyone know if anyone at trade shows/expos/developer
> conferences
> > have any problems with you using writable carts? AGDC (Australian
> Game
> > Developers Conference) is in a week and my company has a demo it
> wants to
> > show off. :)
> >
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> >
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