Back in February, Nintendo made a very unusual move and provided access to a huge library of Pokémon Diamond and Pearlsound effects and music, even encouraging people to use them in their own (non-commercial) projects. What a lovely thing to do! Of course, three months later, it close it.
Pokémon Sound Library DP is an archive of music and sound effects from the 2006 game (and not recent remakes), which actively encourages the public to listen to the tunes and use them in personal projects. their personnel. From Nintendo, a company we are much more familiar with Report above Because stamping above small homebrew fan project, this seems to be a super positive move. So it’s like Pokémon Company notification record profitNintendo is take the whole thing offline.
The library project is surprisingly friendly in its permissions, as this is Nintendo we are talking about. It allows people to use music from the game as background music on YouTube videos, play it at non-commercial public events like parties and plays, or even play it as you walk into a wedding.
At the same time, and not surprisingly, this was never copyleft release it may have been, and commercial reuse is not permitted. Oh, and users better be extra careful, as it also doesn’t allow for some pretty vague purposes, including “anything that makes a statement about a particular ideology, religion, or politics.” “. That is, you know, everything that used to be.
Now (as discovered by Eurogamer), for unconfirmed reasons, this entire batch is being removed from the internet. The website front page now explain that by May 31, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. UTC, all things will be gone. Maybe someone at Nintendo found out they made someone smile without charging $59.99 the first time around, and that’s it. intolerable.
The message goes on to explain that people will still be able to use the music and effects they’ve downloaded, as long as they do so “within the scope of the Terms and Conditions of Use”, which of course will significantly harder to find once they’ve removed them from the site. This will at least give their wretched lawyers some fun in the future, once the aforementioned rules have long since been forgotten.
Quite why such a pleasure and pleasant-Presented project will be scrapped just three months after launch is unclear. We’ve asked Nintendo what’s up and will update if they let us know. In the meantime, download the whole thing now because tomorrow morning runs out.
