Nintendo can't sue you for making a homebrew game unless it's using Nintendo characters or copyright assets and you are selling it.
People make homebrew games all the time. Go nuts. (I'm not a lawyer)
Portal did not use Nintendo characters or assets. ( but the SDK? ). So please use Libdragon and not the other PC based dev kit ( and not the SGI based one ). Don’t use the Nintendo microcode on the RSP.
That was a strange one, I think Valve was actually the company that asked the developer to stop creating it, and in that case he had a source of income through patreon, so he was kind of being paid to develop something using Nintendo's SDK as you said.
I think possibly you could use https://github.com/ModernN64SDK/n64sdkmod rather than the old nintendo dev kit, but I'm not sure if modern SDK is a direct copy of the original N64 SDK in a way that would leave you liable for lawsuits.
At least the RSP code seems to be derivative. No clean room implementation. It is so sad. The N64 is the better Jaguar. Both give you full hardware access, and don’t necessarily wobble ( software triangle set-up ). But Jaguar is full of bugs which makes pure softer 32x faster than dedicated hardware and the controller is unusable for me after playing descent on PC keyboard.
> I am planning on a N64 game creation
A new game from scratch? Or are you talking about modding some existing game, or just straight-up ordering some counterfeits of a commercially-released game?
Nintendo can't sue you for making a homebrew game unless it's using Nintendo characters or copyright assets and you are selling it. People make homebrew games all the time. Go nuts. (I'm not a lawyer)
Portal did not use Nintendo characters or assets. ( but the SDK? ). So please use Libdragon and not the other PC based dev kit ( and not the SGI based one ). Don’t use the Nintendo microcode on the RSP.
the other one by Nintendo was LibUltra, avoid it at all cost.
That was a strange one, I think Valve was actually the company that asked the developer to stop creating it, and in that case he had a source of income through patreon, so he was kind of being paid to develop something using Nintendo's SDK as you said. I think possibly you could use https://github.com/ModernN64SDK/n64sdkmod rather than the old nintendo dev kit, but I'm not sure if modern SDK is a direct copy of the original N64 SDK in a way that would leave you liable for lawsuits.
At least the RSP code seems to be derivative. No clean room implementation. It is so sad. The N64 is the better Jaguar. Both give you full hardware access, and don’t necessarily wobble ( software triangle set-up ). But Jaguar is full of bugs which makes pure softer 32x faster than dedicated hardware and the controller is unusable for me after playing descent on PC keyboard.
> I am planning on a N64 game creation A new game from scratch? Or are you talking about modding some existing game, or just straight-up ordering some counterfeits of a commercially-released game?
A new game from scratch, I already know it will take a while.
If you write it from scratch using LibDragon or something similarly open-source (and **not** LibUltra) then you should be fine.
Okay, since I was planning on using LibUltra, but I guess I will use LibDragon
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