{"id":41989,"date":"2024-12-24T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T04:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=41989"},"modified":"2024-12-24T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T04:39:46","slug":"star-fox-creator-says-hes-personally-happy-about-fan-made-star-fox-64-pc-port-even-though-nintendo-wouldnt-approve-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/star-fox-creator-says-hes-personally-happy-about-fan-made-star-fox-64-pc-port-even-though-nintendo-wouldnt-approve-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Fox creator says he&#8217;s personally happy about fan-made Star Fox 64 PC port, even though Nintendo wouldn&#8217;t approve of it\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Star Fox character designer Takaya Imamura recently took to social media site X to express his appreciation for the fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64. The port was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shipofharkinian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harbour Masters<\/a>, a team dedicated to bringing classic Nintendo 64 games such as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/what-does-majora-the-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask-mean-art-director-explains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the latter of which Imamura worked on<\/a>) to PC. It features ultrawide support, improved resolutions, and increased frame rates for those with the emulators to run it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u4efb\u5929\u5802\u3068\u3057\u3066\u306f\u8a31\u5bb9\u51fa\u6765\u306a\u3044\u3068\u601d\u3046\u3051\u3069\u3001\u500b\u4eba\u7684\u306b\u306f\u3068\u3066\u3082\u5b09\u3057\u3044\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KgQV8UoxBB\">https:\/\/t.co\/KgQV8UoxBB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u4eca\u6751\u5b5d\u77e2 \/ Takaya Imamura (@ima_1966) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ima_1966\/status\/1871337679176237461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Post translation: <\/strong>I don&#8217;t think Nintendo would tolerate this, but I&#8217;m personally very happy about it.<\/em>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Nintendo is, as suggested by Imamura, famously strict when it comes to protecting its intellectual properties (IPs), several aspects of this fan-made Star Fox 64 PC port make it legally-sound. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/another-n64-classic-has-been-quietly-ported-to-pc-by-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VGC,<\/a> the fact that the port does not use leaked content or copyrighted assets, as well as the fact that it requires ownership of a legally-sourced ROM to run, makes it technically legal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"712\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41989-001.jpg\" alt=\"Star Fox 2\" class=\"wp-image-41994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41989-001.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41989-001-380x265.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241224-41989-001-768x536.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite being one of Nintendo\u2019s flagship IPs, the most recent entry in the Star Fox franchise is Star Fox 2 \u2013 a once-cancelled Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES) title that didn\u2019t see an official release until 2017 on the Super NES Classic Edition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takaya Imamura, fully aware of Nintendo\u2019s penchant for shooting down fan-made creations of its properties, is still happy that PC players can enjoy Star Fox 64 in a modern light. <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220421-11821\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He has asked for a Nintendo Switch port of Star Fox Zero<\/a> in the past and is working on Omega 6: The Triangle Stars, which is a video game adaptation of his Omega 6 manga that <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23097\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">draws inspiration from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Fox character designer Takaya Imamura takes to social media to express his appreciation for the fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":41992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-41989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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