I'm not reading all of that. Especially after your first sentence contains such a ridiculously hypocritical statement Mr. house analogy.

Ok, so your argument then is that Nintendo can tell you that your painting of Mario that holds sentimental value to you for whatever reason (for the sake of the hypothetical scenario, creating it was the last thing you ever did with your father before he passed away) is unauthorized and that you have to burn it, you…

That's hardly a rational analogy. You could use the exact same reasoning to get pissed off at fan drawings or fan websites. But if Nintendo started suing everyone who drew Kirby (the gag here being that Kirby's Adventure opens with a short tutorial telling fans how to draw Kirby) no one would be happy about that. And…

I disagree with your sentiment (that because Nintendo has legal authority to shut down projects that use their IP means that fans shouldn't be irate when they do), but it wasn't really what I was talking about anyway. I'm just saying that Nintendo has yet to issue a C&D to any projects that I'm familiar with... and…

Fat chance.

Well, I was 2 when SMB3 came out, so by the time I got around to actually playing the SMB games, there were already three other titles to compare it to and it was pretty obvious which one was the odd man out.

Nintendo and SEGA have generally been pretty good about not issuing C&Ds to fangamers. Obviously Square Enix is the glowing example of when game companies do issue C&Ds.

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Ok, so you are saying he edited the version string?

What does that screenshot demonstrate exactly other than that a 3DS is running firmware 8.1.0-19U?

As far as I know, most of the Wii U exploits are still relatively limited in scope and all of them rely on browser exploits that can be closed if Nintendo issues an update to webkit. As for the 3DS, everyone using flash karts for it is stuck on old firmware which isn't distributed with new handhelds anymore. I'd…

Well, they learned their lesson, but at this point neither is as popular as their easily compromised predecessor. Sort of makes it questionable whether all of that investment was worthwhile (and all the extra encryption and such comes with a cost). Piracy sucks, but I want myself some SSB4 mods!

You might want to get that checked out. Cyanosis is a pretty serious symptom.

Remember that SEGA published these.

Of course it isn't, I'm just saying you get a little more mileage out of it in a game where your characters actually spend enough time in close proximity to do something like this:

I'll just take bland retort that as your way of accepting the situation. On the other hand, if you want to be the butt of centuries old joke about pseudo-intellectuals, well... be my guest.

To be fair, level 9 CPUs in SSB4 are waaaaaaaay more evasive than the ones in Brawl ever were. It's not like a level 9 in one game is equivalent to a level 9 in another. It's... well, it's this joke:

Sure, to an extent. But I don't mind not getting the console experience on a handheld platform when the game in question doesn't hinge on having solid and precise analog controls. But this is Smash Bros. we are talking about... the game was built around the concept of analog controllers. Hell, that's basically where…

I feel like your argument would be true of any game, though. Portable Metroid vs. console Metroid. Portable Metal Gear vs. console Metal Gear. Portable Sonic vs. console Sonic.