![]() ![]() Because that would have taken me a long time to figure out." I want to meet him, and I want to learn from him. I looked at the code and had a couple of questions on how he determined a couple of offsets he used. "That morning I tested it out, and I was quite impressed. ![]() "I'm like, oh, so it might not even be the original author's work," he said. In our interview, theboy181 told me a user had brought the dynamic fps mod to his attention on a piracy site. But as theboy181 explained to me on Monday, he wasn't initially positive who did the work-and shortly after, he released a new mod explicitly designed to work hand-in-hand with Chuck's. To the Reddit posters this was a smoking gun: proof of poor accreditation and unfair paywalling. In his dynamic fps mod, ChucksFeedandSeed had written "if any paid patch devs want to use the info here feel free, I don't mind, just please don't make me wait weeks to try it out myself." Theboy181 publicly posted Chuck's code in his announcement channel with a single modification, writing "Thanks for the unknown modder," and then also uploaded his adjusted version of the dynamic fps mod in the private Tears of the Kingdom channel. The criticisms ultimately come off as petty under even a little scrutiny. There's also a vague accusation of broader plagiarism with older mods. The main criticism is that theboy181 copied, and then paywalled, the work of Redditor ChucksFeedandSeed, who had been posting framerate-based mods on the NewYuzuPiracy subreddit since well before launch day, and didn't adequately credit his work. "I'm ashamed to say I paid my mandatory $1 for these," the poster wrote, before including a "mini-exposé" about theboy181's "hacky" modding practices. On Wednesday, someone using a burner Reddit account named PaywalledModsLMAO created a thread on r/NewYuzuPiracy with a download link to all of theboy181's in-progress Zelda mods. The ethics of emulation: how creators, the community, and the law view console emulators ![]() The race to perfectly emulate Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is on, and already extremely promising ![]()
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