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They keep taking advantage of it by putting Quote, Curly Brace, and many other characters into so many other games whilst Daisuke Amaya seemingly doesn't see any profit from that.Įdit: It appears that Nicalis is claiming that the reverse-engineered code based on the freeware version, contains code from their privately developed retail version, on the basis that they received the source code for the original freeware release. To put this into perspective, Nintendo did not take legal action against the community that reverse engineered Super Mario 64 because they have no case, but Nicalis are brazenly taking action against the community that reverse engineered the freeware version of Cave Story that does not belong to them.ĭespite Cave Story+ itself being a good product (less said about Cave Story 3D), it would make me happy to see Nicalis lose the rights/license to Cave Story. Whatever agreement Nicalis has with Amaya, it has allowed the company to put characters from Cave Story into other games its has published or developed, including the puzzle title Crystal Crisis and the fighting game Blade Strangers.
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A note about the CSE2 DMCA takedown was added on both the "download" and "custom engine" pages.Īccording to the Cave Story Community Encyclopedia, Cave Story is licensed to Nicalis but is owned by Amaya therefore, it would appear that Nicalis is overstepping the terms of its licensing agreement by trying to snub out freeware versions of the game – although there are have been rumours that Nicalis has "duped" Amaya out of the rights to the game ( this video does a good job of covering and even disproving these reports). Removed links to the CSE2 repo due to the DMCA takedown.
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It's worth noting that Cave Story remains available for download on sites such as, although, on November 24th, that particular site was updated with the following message:
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Several major participants in the CSE2 project (myself included) are currently planning to approach nicalis to settle on the matter.
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The DMCA claims Nicalis owns the code to CS+ and believes said code exists in the repos, but that's not the case to our knowledge. It appears Nicalis acquired the code of it when they got the IP. I'm the main dev behind a major CSE2 fork, so I'd like to clear some stuff here!Įffectively, CSE2 was a decompilation project of the original Freeware release of CS. One of the developers behind a CSE2 fork – which is a "decompilation" of Cave Story which has "an emphasis on accuracy to the original code" – has also responded to the original tweet, shedding a little more light on why the takedown request was filed: Download the freeware original, then buy Kero Blaster to support the actual developer of the game, instead of these ugly shenanigans. The tweet was spotted and reshared by famed indie developer Rami Ismail (he of Vlambeer fame, the studio behind Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, and Nuclear Throne), who then posted the following message:Ĭave Story is one of the most important games every made and I will 100% recommend you do not buy it.
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So has decided to start DMCA'ing the freeware versions of Cave Story and fan made rebuilds of the freeware version that supported mods while also largely not even using the original source code. Twitter user Buttons Montgomery posted the following message (warning: bad language) on November 24th, along with a screenshot showing evidence of a DMCA takedown notice:
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Cave Story+ – based on an updated version released on Steam – was converted to the Switch in 2017.ĭespite all of the various retail versions available, the original computer version of Cave Story has remained a freeware product and can be freely distributed online, and a mod community has grown up around the game. Nicalis came on board in 2010 to port the game to WiiWare and DSiWare, and also produced the enhanced Cave Story 3D on 3DS in 2011.
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Original Story : Publisher Nicalis is issuing DMCA takedown requests against sites which offer the freeware version of the iconic indie Metroidvania Cave Story, it has been claimed.Ĭreated by Japanese developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya over a period of five years, Cave Story was released on PC in 2004 and quickly became famous with fans of indie titles. We unilaterally endorse the official commercial versions of Cave Story. It's by their good will that the modding community continues to thrive above ground. The maintainers of CSE2 have no intention of disparaging Nicalis.