This is amazing, but they're very brave to put this up at all. I can hear the thundering hooves of Nintendo lawyers already.
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Link's Awakening DX HD
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#22Itch has flagged the download for review due to potential suspicious behavior from the page owner. I'll wait for that to clear before downloading (and hopefully before Nintendo catches wind of it)
https://itch.io/t/1659440/psa-beware-the-try-my-game-scam
> If you see a zip file that is “password protected” DO NOT DOWNLOAD. Scammers encrypt their zip files with passwords so file hosts can’t run malware scans on the contents.
It is a .zip file but I can't see anywhere on the page that says whether or not it's password protected. Would that show up on the page? I guess that might be moot if itch.io doesn't scan zip files without a password.
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#23Itch has flagged the download for review due to potential suspicious behavior from the page owner. I'll wait for that to clear before downloading (and hopefully before Nintendo catches wind of it)
https://itch.io/t/1659440/psa-beware-the-try-my-game-scam > If you see a zip file that is “password protected” DO NOT DOWNLOAD. Scammers encrypt their zip files with passwords so file hosts can’t run malware scans on the contents. It is a .zip file but I can't see anywhere on the page that says whether or not it's password protected. Would that show up on the page? I guess that might be moot if itch.io doesn't scan z…
It's not password protected. It also contains a source.7z that is not password protected.
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#24Redistributing Nintendo owned assets (textures/sounds/data) on the internet? What could go wrong!
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#25Itch has flagged the download for review due to potential suspicious behavior from the page owner. I'll wait for that to clear before downloading (and hopefully before Nintendo catches wind of it)
I imagine that's an automated thing that flags new accounts with games that suddenly are very popular (maybe with lots of referrals from discord?).
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#27This seems like a really good way to get a lot of people to install some kind of malware, right?
Am I just being paranoid?
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#28Dot net core, but no linux port?
EDIT - Oh they include the source. Nevermind :-)
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#29I was very sad when I bought the Switch Link's Awakening game, because it looks beautiful and plays well but the music went in a direction I really don't like. They took gritty and energizing chip tune music and replaced it with breathy, gentle wind instruments. It fits the aesthetics of the game but it's so boring. I'll have to grab this before nintendo kills it.
> I was very sad when I bought the Switch Link's Awakening game, because it looks beautiful and plays well but the music went in a direction I really don't like. They took gritty and energizing chip tune music and replaced it with breathy, gentle wind instruments. It fits the aesthetics of the game but it's so boring.
Same with Super Mario RPG's music. Yoko Shimomura didn't quite capture the same feeling with a lot of the tracks, such as Forest Maze [1, 2]. It's cool that they rehired her and it's cool that they let you switch the music between the two versions in the remake.
I wasn't a fan of either art style reimagining, either. The mood of both games was changed entirely.
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#30This seems like a really good way to get a lot of people to install some kind of malware, right? Am I just being paranoid?
It is, as any page hosting a binary is, but this also includes the source code so you can get as comfortable as you want by going down that route instead.