Random: Amateur Dev Releases Reimagined Remakes Of The 1993 Zelda CD-i Games - Nintendo Life

An amateur video game developer known as Dopply on Twitter has released reimagined remakes of the 1993 Phillips CD-i action-adventure games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon.

The games were created in Game Maker over four years and feature the original assets.

"I developed these over the course of 4 years in Game Maker as an exercise to teach myself game development and fulfill an in-joke between friends!

While these are "not 1:1 remakes", Dopply believes they "capture the spirit" of the original games.

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Shame he used the original assets, now that it’s been reported on then it’ll be taken down.

That’s the problem with fan games and remakes, any recognition means your work will inevitably catch the attention of the suits?

The greatest contribution of these games has been YTP.

I have watched one of my favorite Youtubers play all the Zelda CDI games and I have to say that I don't think I will ever be giving these games a chance, remastered or not.

Those games were a joke.

The game is online, anyone that truly wants to play it will be able to--once it's on the Internet it's pretty much there forever--and that's end of that, regardless of what Nintendo says or does now.

Wonder what’s mentally harder - suffering through play of one of the CD-I games....

If I ever stuck with any of my games for that long I'd probably have created some pretty great games by now.

The current game I'm working on is all art assets for now, which I'm actually enjoying rather than the way I normally do it where I try to do everything at once and usually just hid a dead end and some point and then stop working on the game anymore, and I really hope I actually give it the time and attention it deserves to be realized as a full quality product.

I don't think Nintendo cares much for losing the CD-I market right now.

@impurekind While he’s released it and nothing’s ever gone from the internet, the point remains that using the original assets gives Nintendo far, far more reason to take this down than if it just used the basic outline and was a remake from scratch.

Of course, that would have taken longer than 4 years, especially in Game Maker.

I just don’t think he has a leg to stand on legally speaking when he has used copyrighted material and released it free of charge.

The assets from the original game are still copyrighted?

@nessisonett Also, these games were made by Phillips, not Nintendo.

About the the only thing Nintendo can claim copyright on is the characters which have resemblance to Link, Zelda and Ganon.

If Phillips cares enough to sue this guy, that would be a news story on its own.

And Nintendo threatening this guy would require Nintendo to acknowledge the CDi games existence.

@nessisonett The company who made the assets went belly up.

I think it’s safe.

"The games were created in Game Maker over four years...".

"On one hand, they are using the Zelda name and characters,.

On the other hand, if do something about it, it means we actually acknowledge the existence of those games.

This game always reminds me of the cartoon link, "excuuusssseeee me prinsess"" 🤣🤣

Legend of zelda, The silent link

Its good that everyone with a pc can now try these games

The CD-i emulators are a massive pain to set up properly, so this might be my one actual option to play these

Smart of him to use the one property that Nintendo doesn't actually want to publicly acknowledge

Does Nintendo own the assets of this game

I don't think so

Does it use original and reverse engineered code

Does a non-profit use of the Zelda name result in a lawsuit

I think I may be the only person who likeS Wand of Gamelon as I bought a Phillips cdI several years back to play Wand and the Laserdisc FMV games (and went through the hassle of fixing the timekeeper battery)

I do wonder how many commenters have actually played the games

Probably not because it’s a cdi game and Nintendo would want nothing to do with the game

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