On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > > This game cannot be packaged, it infringes a lot of Konami copyright. You > > must remember that the game *design* itself is copyrighted, as well as the > > name, the characters, the graphics, etc. > > What about Bomberman? Pacman? Pingus? Supertux? No I will not remove it > because of the reasons you gave.
Konami is actively enforcing their copyrights. Even a completely NEW game (Manesis) which only used the gameplay and themes from Nemesis/Gradius had to be pulled by its author because of a direct Konami request. And Manesis was almost 100% new stuff. Also, try to find Tokimeki Knightmare for download. Can't, well, that's because it had to be pulled for the same reason. And Tokimeki knightmare is on the *same* gameline as Maze of Galious (i.e. Knightmare, Maze of Galious (both editions), and Shalom). Konami knows their old games are more than good enough to sell well in emulation CDs for newer systems and also they are about just right for the mobile market. > With the completely new graphics, sounds and source I don't think it is > a problem for Konami. Unless they say so some day I will leave this ITP. The map is the same. All the things postfixed with the two magic letters" TM" in superscript are the same. The *graphics* are mostly the same in at least a few of the themes, and are very close to the same in all but one or two of the themes. Packaging this game is not a good idea IMO. I speak this as a major fan of the entire knightmare series. As for the other games you mentioned: I don't know about PacMan, that one might be on the public domain for all I know. Same for bomberman. Pingus only copies the concept, so it would be in about as much trouble as Manesis was, except for the fact that Lemmings is *not* from Konami, and nobody ever heard anything from Psygnosis requesting Pingus to be withdrawn. I have no idea about Supertux. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
