YELLOW RAT'S REVENGE
PC Gamer US Edition|May 2024
How a DMCA'd PALWORLD modder got back at Nintendo
Harvey Randall
YELLOW RAT'S REVENGE

Nintendo is a legendarily litigious company-with mods and emulation often falling under the gaze of its burning, all-seeing eye. Nexus Mods, the world's biggest mod hosting site, has even enacted a ban on Pokémon conversion mods for Palworld, citing Nintendo's record of "submitting legal challenges".

No one knows that record better than YouTuber Toasted Shoes, who received a DMCA notice after posting a teaser trailer for his Palworld to Pokémon mod that he was going to release for free to the community. But Nintendo got there first. Before the video could accumulate even 100,000 views, the corporation swept in to take it down. But Toasted Shoes wasn’t one to be stopped, and quickly assembled a team of modders to devise an infernal concoction of bootleg Pokémon, from Hades.

TOO LEGIT TO QUIT

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