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If you download a copy of a game off the internet, however, thatвЂ™s piracy - and thatвЂ™s what Nintendo sees happening here. Ripping the game counts as backing it up for personal use in US copyright law. If you own a GameCube, then download Dolphin and then rip Melee from your own disc, thatвЂ™s arguably all fair use of the content youвЂ™ve purchased in the past. Emulation is generally legal so long as you follow certain requirements, such as ripping your own copy of a BIOS or the game images you want to play. The Big House is on NintendoвЂ™s radar - the company has sponsored past iterations of this event - so were they really surprised when Nintendo stepped in after seeing something it didnвЂ™t like?ДЄll of this sits in a legal grey area. It all feels rather futile, however, and as an outsider I canвЂ™t help but wonder how the people behind The Big House didnвЂ™t see this coming. Others have genuine points, though, like how some of NintendoвЂ™s more hostile actions towards the Smash community have shut down events that wouldвЂ™ve raised huge sums of money for charity. A lot of it is low-quality rubbish, like a meme mocking Nintendo for shutting down a tournament for using emulation despite deploying emulation themselves for the Super Mario 3D All-Stars release. So people have written cute parody songs, but others are screaming into the ether about how a billionaire needs to buy Nintendo to save the franchise. Despite my jokes, I do respect that concept. Anyway, the point is, Smash has never been like other fighters - in the competitive community, Melee is practically a different franchise.

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When Evo dropped Melee, I tweeted a joke about being free of the tyranny of Smash taking up two valuable game spots and my replies blazed with everything from genuinely funny burns to death threats and racism for over a week. Either way, aside from anniversaries and throwbacks, most franchises run one tournament game at a time. This is relatively alien to me - in Street Fighter, the new game comes out and we move on, unless the new game is so bad that it warrants rolling back to the previous one, as with Street Fighter X Tekken. When Evo announced that it would no longer host a Melee tournament in favor of just Smash Ultimate, to glance at Melee Twitter or EvoвЂ™s replies was as if the world was ending. The organizers refused, Nintendo says, so the company lawyers broke out a cease and desist letter, forcing the overall cancellation of the event - meaning the Melee issue took down the perfectly serviceable Smash Ultimate tournament also.ДЇor someone like me, primarily a Street Fighter fan with a passing interest in competitive Smash Bros, the following outcry was predictable.

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In a statement issued to Kotaku, Nintendo explained that it contacted the organizers of The Big House and asked them to cancel the Melee tournament due to its use of the Slippi mod framework, which requires an emulator and thus a ripped copy of Melee to use. So the organizers of The Big House decided to put together an online pandemic-safe Melee tournament using the mod. Anybody into fighters knows that rollback is the gold standard for online, and in truth the mod, Slippi, was really built with Super Smash Bros. ThereвЂ™s an excellent fan-created mod for the GameCube emulator Dolphin allowing Melee to be played online with silky smooth rollback netcode. community has always been split between the new games and the old - and so something had to be done about Melee. The game has online functionality, and while it is classic Nintendo-level online - that is to say, lacking features in places - itвЂ™s serviceable enough to run an online tournament with a bit of organizational jiggery-pokery. In the midst of a global pandemic the tournament organisers did what many have done with games like Street Fighter, Killer Instinct and their kin - they took the tournament online.ДЇor Super Smash Bros. вЂThe Big HouseвЂ™ has been a mainstay of the Smash tournament scene for many years. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Attempting to get going with the MLG, fighting over which Smash games are selected for Evo, even dealing with abuse within the community - the Smash scene always seems to be going to war over something. Melee community and Nintendo are at loggerheads again.ДЇor those who follow the wider competitive fighting game eSports scene, thatвЂ™s a semi-regular occurrence. Reset the clock, because the Super Smash Bros.

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