Nintendo Copyright Complaints Leveled Against Popular Super Mario 64 ROM Hacker

If you have a soft spot for the old school Super Mario 64 game odds are you are familiar with Kaze Emanuar, the person who has been hacking away at Super Mario 64 ROMs. His latest project is Super Mario 64 Online and allowed up to 24 people to hop on and play that game together online. Nintendo has issued copyright complaints against Emanuar and these complaints have resulted in many of the hacker’s videos being pulled from YouTube.

The game he hacked is also no longer available for download. The hacker also says that his Patreon account had been removed as well, which was how fans of his mods were supporting him. Emanuar says that videos containing “Audiovisual content” including gameplay and music from Mario 64 were removed.

He does point out that they also took down videos without Mario 64 music in them. The hacker says he never received any direct contact and was only notified by emails showing his videos had been taken down and his account suspended.The target of Nintendo was apparently the Mario 64 Online videos.

This was inevitable, Nintendo has a long history of protecting its copyright vigorously. Emanuar says that before the game was pulled by Nintendo, tens of thousands of people were playing it. He does say that there has been no cease and desist sent to him by Nintendo reports Kotaku.