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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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The real story here is that the servers are being shut down. Games like these deserve to have the ability to run their own third party servers. To this day I can still log unto a number of Unreal Tournament (1999) community servers and frag until my eyes bleed.
I'm sure one day they're going to be selling those user created levels back to the users who originally created them.
You're probably right. I'm starting to think Nintendo is fully rotten to the core.
Better late than never.
Better late than never!
I mean, I knew what I was talking into, but still. Interesting story, wish it had a better ending.
They're just a corporation.
Which is to say they're all rotten to the core when it comes to profits.
I already switched my Wii u over to the pretendo network. Uploading and playing levels already work in super Mario maker.
It's still far of from a drop in replacement, but miiverse, wara wara plaza and som in game things are working.
pretendo.network
It's weird, because I despise these Nintendo-style game murders, but love the Mario games... How can something so bad, make something so good? One need only look at Nintendo's complete and utter lack of respect for us the players and the games they kill with impunity to make a very solid case to increase our rights in preserving ALL of our video-game legacy. Legalize all sources for reverse engineering! This has gone far enough.
Engineers create value, then the suits monetize it.
Wait what? Ut servers are still running? That's insane
https://ut99.org/servers
Don't worry too much, the scene probably will pick this up and we will have custom servers (I keep playing Jump Ultimate Stars DS online, and its servers closed in 2014).
But yeah, Nintendo makes a really low effort to preserve almost anything.
Yeah but a lot of DS and Wii games got lucky because most of them were hosted on Gamespy, so getting the hands on the actual software was fairly easy.
A select few Nintendo proprietary games had to be completely reverse engineered, like Gen 4 and 5 Pokemon.
Although I do expect Mario Maker won't be too difficult.
If you play the old games, you aren't buying the new ones. Simple as that for Nintendo.
I think Digital Extremes has kept a UT server up since 2003.
Third party servers aren't always enough. Microsoft managed to ruin 3rd party Minecraft servers.
I still pop into UT99 games every now and then. One of the greatest games ever made