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It seems with all the people emulating games on the Steam Deck and how popular doing so has become, Nintendo has continued to take notice and fired off some DMCA requests to have images taken down (thanks GBAtemp).

To get started with: what is SteamGridDB? It's a website that hosts various images for various games, to help you add fancy artwork into Non-Steam games you add into your Steam Library. So instead of seeing Steam's default image for Non-Steam games, you get it all looking nice. Naturally, this means people will be uploading plenty of images they don't own, and often the official game images for various games on other platforms for when people are doing emulation.

Nintendo being clearly unhappy with this, fired off many DMCA requests and now you might spot several images across the likes of (each link an example of one removed): Pokémon Scarlet, Pokémon Violet, Splatoon 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Super Mario Odyssey, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

It's not just for emulation though, it has game pictures for tons of games that you can use as an alternative to the official images included with Steam.

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Tags: Emulation, Misc, Steam
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Mountain Man Nov 24, 2022
I personally have no problem with companies taking legal action to protect their intellectual property. A lot of people like to use the "grey area" defense, but I don't understand why they think that something that arguably exists in a legal grey area should only ever benefit the consumer and not the corporation.

I also have to laugh at people saying, "If Nintendo ran their business the way I think they should, then they would be successful!" when Nintendo has consistently been one of the most successful and profitable companies in the game industry.


Last edited by Mountain Man on 25 November 2022 at 2:05 am UTC
Grogan Nov 24, 2022
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I utterly detest Nintendo. I hate their games (since the 80's), I hate their devices and I hate the way they treat their customers.

No worries about me pirating Nintendo ROMs, not even in spite. (I have no use for anything that comes out of their rectum)
DOGMEATJR Nov 25, 2022
Why Aren't they going after Google/bing then that probably where the image originated from?
Bp968 Nov 25, 2022
Intellectual property is broken. Copyright terms of 100+ years, and the ability to allow old games to just die and then refuse to allow others to keep them alive and the ability for a company just to end access to digital purchases, etc is all broken.

Thank God steam is fair and solvent. If they ever go under it will be a terrible day in gaming history at this point.
Barnacleman99 Nov 27, 2022
Quoting: Purple Library GuySo, like, one question in my mind . . . is Nintendo making this stuff available in any other way? Can you buy the games from Nintendo? I'm thinking probably not.

If you look at the list of the games that were DMCA'd, they're all Switch games. You'd be right if these were like GameCube games but they're clearly targeting Switch emulation.

Either way though it's dumb, this is just cover art. It's not like it's gonna stop people from being able to play these games. All this does is force people to go on Google Images to make the Steam shortcut look pretty instead of letting a script do it for them
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