A couple of days ago, we informed you about a fan-made remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX for PC. And, unfortunately, Nintendo has sent a letter to itch.io to remove it. As such, the game is no longer available for download.
The issue with the unofficial PC version of Zelda was that it had everything in it. Unlike other remakes or remasters, it didn’t need the original ROM file. This meant it was distributing copyrighted material. And yes, that’s most likely why Nintendo took action.
If this game needed the original ROM file, the user could have avoided it being taken down. That’s why the PC version of The Legend of Zelda – A Link to the Past is still around.
The PC remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX gave a cool new look to the much-loved classic. It mixed the feel of the original with modern PC enhancements. PC gamers could play it at high resolutions and framerates. Plus, it worked on widescreen monitors. And, you could zoom the map all the way out, which was a neat feature!
Since this unofficial PC remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX has already hit the Internet, you may find it on some torrent sites. Like always, we won’t allow links to them. So, don’t bother sharing any links to it. Still, if you are interested in it, you will be able to find it. It’s not that hard.
Now I don’t know whether Nintendo will hunt down other Zelda fan games. However, I suggest downloading this free 3D remake of The Legend of Zelda NES in Unreal Engine 4 while you still can. You never know what can happen in the next couple of months. And no, Nintendo won’t be able to take down CryZENx’s Ocarina of Time Remake in Unreal Engine 5.
So, there you have it. As with most free games, we recommend downloading them the moment we share them. And that’s precisely what you should have done with this Zelda PC game!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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The funny thing about this sort of shysterism by the likely tribester, but cryptos, nintendont is that for the myopic dickism/hostility to rabid fan base, they’ve pissed off so many people that that’s likely the motivation for the now almost regular leaks of their games online. Nintendont doesnt lose sales by those who don’t play on consoles so would never buy their games anyways, they do lose sales by people who still buy consoles and use these leaks as homebrew or whatever they call it on their nintendont consoles.
Even if they go full tribester and use denuvo the games are largely so simple I would think more people than some lone weirdo would be able to “fix” them for wide release much faster. Although really thats for the lost sales on console users with jailbroken equipment. It’s also possible nintendont is pulling a kabbalistic dialectical thing and leaking them early for the pc market to flood and thus either prepare an eventual move to software only or to get the largest install base of pc players to notice their games more and convert to buying consoles. As I said no lost sales on non console owners using emulation, never going to do it but you can pry loose some.
Ah, yes, Nintendo. Gleefully showing the world, yet again, why it’s the biggest pile of s**t in gaming. Yes, even bigger than Activision, WB, EA, SquareEnix, Ubisoft, bigger than all of them, for the sheer contempt it has for fans of its properties.
Unleashing their lawyers at even the slightest whiff of anyone even dreaming about something involving their properties.
Remember, these are the a**holes that wanted to BAN game rentals, once upon a time. 😆 I mean, that’s Metallica-level of hositility, as showcased against MP3s in the past.
Nintendo is garbage. Always has been, and it appears, always will be. If there’s one company I would love to see go belly up, and liquidate all its properties, it’s easily Nintendo.
May my wish be fulfilled someday in the near future. 🙏
Don’t overlook that Jesus was a Jew also. He’s not like the image on popular paintings of a Western European person that trickled down from the Dark Ages in Western Europe to today in images.
He looked so much common as any other Jew looked that Judas had to point him out to the authorities for 30 pieces of silver.
No, i don’t think he looked like a brown african like those 3d renders or similar to Ben Shapiro.
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This is a common pic of what I see often as a rendition of Jesus but Jesus was not a Western European. If he had looked like that then he would have stood out like a sore thumb in Israel at the time and there would have been no need for Judas to point him out to the religious authorities.
That was what I meant in my comment.
The Son of God is Jewish.
Thanks for the information, gonna convert to judaism and enjoy the chosen perks, such as r@pe of gentiles and killing children s/
You can convert to Judaism but you still won’t be a Jew so God’s commandment to his Chosen People to go into the Promised Land and murder every innocent man, woman and child that they find there won’t apply to you. There’s another zinger that Christians never here about in Sunday Morning Services.
It gets even more disturbing for Christians that have no idea what is in the Bible. The Disciples once asked Jesus what God the Father looked like and he replied that whoever has seen me has seen the Father. So, that would mean that the Father looks like what we call Jewish as well.
There are people in Syria and palestine that look like the picture above. research about people of the Levant.
Stop the misconception that Mediterraneans were all brown, David was described as a ginger, the philistines had fair skins, as for the jews there is a lot of diversity some are browns,blacks,gingers,white and even some of them looks Asiatic.
The problem with the big gaming companies is that they are extremely successful even while doing the sh*tty things that they do. For example Nintendo posted revenue of almost 12 billion dollars from their 2023 fiscal year and from that a profit of a little over 3 billion dollars.
The vast majority of consumers don’t care what Nintendo does. They just want the consoles and the games.
Look at Epic. The company that just won a lawsuit against Google for anti-competitive business practices and yet they routinely engage in anti-competitive practices with paying Publishers to keep their new game off Steam for a year with exclusives.
I love gaming but the reality is that the industry is a damned cesspool.
“The company that just won a lawsuit against Google for anti-competitive business practices and yet they routinely engage in anti-competitive practices with paying Publishers to keep their new game off Steam for a year with exclusives.”
I woudn’t call that move anti-competitive. It’s hard to play “fair” against behemoths like steam
EGS is small compared to Steam but it’s because it’s a mediocre managed store that barely survives by giving games away and hosts timed exclusives. Epic, the company, is a behemoth too just like Valve so don’t feel sorry for them. They make plenty of money from gamers.
Let me simplify this. Let’s imagine you own a fruit stand and a competitor opens a shabby poorly managed fruit stand across the street from you. The competitor pays the fruit distributor to not deliver apples to you and in doing so you watch as your customers that would rather buy from you because you run a much superior fruit stand go to your competitor to spend their money instead because you don’t have apples. Is that anti-competitive?
For so many years I’d say “dang, I miss when game creators were small outfits that just loved making games”.
Well, after watching a dozen documentaries on gaming (Pinball, Pong, Atari, Goldeneye and more), it depressed me to realize those small devs that started it all – were always mired by deadlines, intercompany strife, publisher commitments, profitability.
Your fruit stand scenario, sadly, is every business person whether it’s a one man show or a behemoth corporation – since the barter system (probably before lol).
The food analogy would be more accurate if you where talking about fast food franchises like macdonalds, burger king, etc. Games are not essential goods, they are no longer physical media as well, it’s just one click away so customers are not deprived of the goods.
This post is why the West is dying,
the low lives can’t accept people better than them imposing a few sensible rules to allow polite society (nintendo);
And in spite prefer the lowest scum of all (Activision, WB, EA, Ubisoft).
Like the Jews saving Barabas and killing Jesus.
EDIT : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P8AvWMl_vI
But yes, the worst of all is Nintendo ! You f###ing braindead useful idiots.
So BigN is just like Jesus? We learn something new everyday.
Hmmm, I think I do recall I saw yesterday one article that begins like: This port is wonderful, its miracle how nitendo didnt took it down…
Cause and effect in motion. Notice that the dev kept his project in the dark the whole time, when he finally released it and people noticed, so did BigN lawyers.
Surprise, when you distribute on internet a Nintendo’s rom Nintendo strikes it.
Now the dev has to do it the correct way.
the correct way is already in motion, torrent and leaked roms a week before the official release. now gimmi your lunch money
Scumbags like John make headlines for Judetendo lawyers to get their dirty hands on these fan games. And when they put C&D letters, John refuses to put a download mirror in his website, pathetic blogger.
He’s not going to put his livelihood on the line for some random illegally-developed fan game.
Indeed.
Commenters also forget that it’s John that allows free speech here. It might seem like we have the power because we vote for it but the vote is given to us by John as well. He can take it away at any time. That’s why I don’t like seeing comments like fnd made. It went off the deep end. This is the only PC gaming site that I know of that allows free speech without censorship. imo we shouldn’t p*ss on the only guy that chooses to make this happen.
There’s a right way and a wrong way to make comments about how this site is run. Everyone has access to John’s email and can offer feedback. Choosing to do it in the comment section flaming John isn’t constructive and doesn’t get results.
I’m keeping up with the free speech values of this website, not gonna act like a doormat just because John allows some minor leeway for us.
Yet get what you give.
(btw that’s a great song by the New Radicals circa 1998)
Lighten up nggr. Be grateful.
“nggr”? I tought this site had free speech?
Then he shoudn’t report on it in the first place.
Buddy, I wouldn’t even know this existed if not for his article.
You and the Nintendo Lawyer woudn’t know, and that’s perfectly fine. Notice that the dev keep silent like everyone says a fan dev should do, only for the idiotic press to highlight the game and alert Nintendo law team.
Why?
Now people know it exists and it’s spread all over the net instead of being hidden in a corner of the web and maybe even being taken down without anybody knowing.
Now it’s all over archival and piracy sites.
No thanks to DSOG. The dev was smart enough to not post about the project until completion.
DSOG is niche, you’re acting like Nintendo beamed into this article by magic and took this down due to it.
And you are making excuses because this site has limited reach? John himself said he receives top hardware from NVIDIA he is not as niche as you think it is.
I’m not making excuses, I’m telling you how it is.
The choices are either obscurity and the always looming threat of a takedown notice, or exposure and being shared everywhere on the internet.
All I’m saying is that DSOG alone wasn’t enough for Nintendos Eye of Sauron to turn it’s way into that remake.
John writes articles about something we’re all passionate about. Not many small operations can do it at this scale and volume covering all these games, news, rumors, benchmarks, etc.
I’m grateful of his hard work and even the topics Im not so interested in I learn a few things. Sometime I skip right by things I dont care about. Other times he finds something I would have never heard about – yet other people aren’t interested in.
You clearly over the years display bitterness and rancor towards the topics and John.
So..
Why do you keep coming here?
Because free speech is a double edged sword, especially on the internet when you cant face consequenses or getting punched in the face.
Thats why this website attracted so many society rejects.
Force of habit mostly, but you have to understand fan games don’t need coverage or exposure, or you wake up the lawyers.
Someone should take Nintendo down for all the concepts they steal from other games.
Change those games just enough from a 1/1 copy, so they can no longer violate copyright.
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I didn’t downloaded it when it was shared at first, but now I must have it. Gimme LINK
John won’t help you here, he spoiled this game along other stupid game journos.
Dang! I’ll dig down the internet to find this one for Real.
Aaaand this is why I’ve always been a SEGA fangirl.
Screw Nintendo and all its grooming pedoboys.
Worst gaming company ever.
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This is why one of my favorite leisure is to pirate Nintendo titles and play the emulated superior version on my pc and NOT to pay those thin d*ck little sh*ts a dime. PMR b*tch now gimmi your lunch money.
use base 64 to decode
enjoy
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One day, Nintendo will DMCA Nintendo for using the word ‘Nintendo’.