So to no shock to anyone, Nintendo had to go and ruin the party by sending multiple takedown notices to the creators of Pokemon Uranium.

After receiving more than 1,500,000 downloads of our game, we have been notified of multiple takedown notices from lawyers representing Nintendo of America.
While we have not personally been contacted, it’s clear what their wishes are,
and we respect those wishes deeply.
Therefore, we will no longer provide official download links for the game through our website.
We have no connection to fans who reupload the game files to their own hosts, and we cannot verify that those download links are all legitimate. We advise you to be extremely cautious about downloading the game from unofficial sources.

We are blown away by the response this game has received, and we thank you all so much for your outstanding support.
We will continue to provide Pokémon Uranium-related news and updates through our official channels.

You are welcome to continue discussing and sharing content related to the game on our forums and Discord, where there is a very active community.

Thank you for reading, and let’s share the love of Pokémon!

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For 9 years Pokémon fans have been working on Pokémon Uranium. After many years of hard work the game has finally released.

You obviously can’t buy Pokémon Uranium in stores, or play it on your handheld devices. This is a fan made game meant to be played on your PC.
Get the Pokémon Uranium Free download HERE.


VIDEO SOURCE – POKEMONURANIUM
POKÉMON URANIUM FEATURES

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  • Tropical setting
  • Over 150 new custom-made Pokémon
  • The ability to talk to your creatures
  • New class: Nuclear Pokémon

Pokemon Uranium is a fan-made Pokemon RPG that has been in development for over 9 years. Set in the tropical Tandor region, the player will encounter more than 150 all-new species of Pokemon in their quest to collect all 8 Gym Badges and triumph over the Tandor League. Along the way, the player must battle against a sinister threat that’s causing Nuclear Meltdowns, and will encounter an all-new type of Pokemon: the Nuclear type.

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Edit: You may need to run Windows 10 in compatibility mode XP Service pack 3. I know my boyfriend was having trouble launching it on Windows 10 64Bit until he ran it that way.
Wine users (Linux, OSX, BSD, ect) follow this guide
http://pokemon-uranium.tumblr.com/post/106346927830/how-to-run-uranium-on-mac-os-x

Edit again: Site crashes a lot due to heavy traffic, you will have to refresh the pages a few times. Or just download the games directly from these links
https://mega.nz/#!6YdCSJ5Q!hkyWiwm9p7nIyGJrnZIDBegjlhOsIfe8Jov4jMjzW-o
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4HusEKrIZiQbUlvd0kySHZKSXM/view?pref=2&pli=1
https://mega.nz/#!lJZFEJjZ!FiKskDcBgDfmuz-48V6s4FukclWH44YHgPwBWSqTEc8

 

[GamingAori]

I like the idea that you can choose between male, non binary gender, and female. A lot of non binary gender people thanks him. I wrote with twitch about it.

 

[Deleted-355425]

Nintendo has put the dmca shit their way for this

 

[mediabob]

The thing is, with copyright, the less you defend it the weaker it becomes. This project, and the Metroid project don't really hurt Nintendo in any way, but the law pretty much forces them to take action regardless to protect their copyright.

If Nintendo (or any company) decides to ignore these types of things, even for as, minor as they are, it would make it harder to fight a real claim later, like for instance if a company decided to rip of Pokémon and sell it.

Unfortunately that's how copyright works. By not taking action on anything, no matter how minor, it makes it weaker until eventually you have nothing left.

Realistically, there is now way these developers didn't know this would happen.

That said, both of these projects have been publicly in the works for years. Nintendo could have shut them down at any time years ago and they didn't. They waited until they were released then dropped the hammer. But once something is in the wild on the internet your never going to contain that shit. Food for thought.

 

[The Catboy]

Aaaaaand Nintendo shit all over their fans again
http://gbatemp.net/threads/pokemon-uranium-taken-down-after-multiple-nintendo-notices.438034/
Those evil fans ruining their games by showing their love for the games.

 

[seresaa]

The thing is, with copyright, the less you defend it the weaker it becomes. This project, and the Metroid project don't really hurt Nintendo in any way, but the law pretty much forces them to take action regardless to protect their copyright.

If Nintendo (or any company) decides to ignore these types of things, even for as, minor as they are, it would make it harder to fight a real claim later, like for instance if a company decided to rip of Pokémon and sell it.

Unfortunately that's how copyright works. By not taking action on anything, no matter how minor, it makes it weaker until eventually you have nothing left.

Realistically, there is now way these developers didn't know this would happen.

That said, both of these projects have been publicly in the works for years. Nintendo could have shut them down at any time years ago and they didn't. They waited until they were released then dropped the hammer. But once something is in the wild on the internet your never going to contain that shit. Food for thought.

I like to think they did it on purpose right around now just to give Twitch and JV more publicity, but I also have a walk-in closet full of tinfoil hats

Either way I know they're going easy for as long as they can manage it. Twitch seemed pretty alright with it too judging from a conversation I had

 

[The Catboy]

I did a thing

 

[TotalInsanity4]

btw was Iwata ever this evil with take downs then this new prick of a company president?, ever since he came in charge all nintendo has been about was money and not care for the consumer, this new guy sickens me

You're young, aren't you?

 

[mediabob]

btw was Iwata ever this evil with take downs then this new prick of a company president?, ever since he came in charge all nintendo has been about was money and not care for the consumer, this new guy sickens me

Iwata was in charge when other projects were shut down and people were getting their let's plays and other youtube videos yanked down left and right. Bottom line is the CEO doesent make these calls, it the lawyers.

Newsflash if companies are not making money they don't stay in business, they ALL only care about the money. Protecting their IP has nothing to do with caring for the consumer.

 

[Sliter]

btw was Iwata ever this evil with take downs then this new prick of a company president?, ever since he came in charge all nintendo has been about was money and not care for the consumer, this new guy sickens me

I don't think even nintendo of japan care about parodies/references/fangames .. (I don't know how are fangames there but there's an " legend of kusakari" on japanese eshop that not only parody zelda, the logo is the same style lol), I know NOA is very strict to this not allowing even fanmovies (that aren't bad like the LICENSED super mario movie ) .. I Know about their hunt for good fangames projects on the daniel barras' OOT 2D ...

 

[Subtle Demise]

Already up on private gaming trackers too, so gg Nintendo lol

 

[marksteele]

I kinda feel like game companies should have cheap licencing for fan projects like this (like how Disney licensed their characters to a daycare for $1 years and years ago). That way they can protect their IP and allow fan projects to grow (and perhaps gain official nintendo support)

 

[Deleted User]

I kinda feel like game companies should have cheap licencing for fan projects like this (like how Disney licensed their characters to a daycare for $1 years and years ago). That way they can protect their IP and allow fan projects to grow (and perhaps gain official nintendo support)

That honestly sounds like a really good idea, but unfortunately, I highly doubt that would ever happen.


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[Tigran]

The thing is, with copyright, the less you defend it the weaker it becomes. This project, and the Metroid project don't really hurt Nintendo in any way, but the law pretty much forces them to take action regardless to protect their copyright.

If Nintendo (or any company) decides to ignore these types of things, even for as, minor as they are, it would make it harder to fight a real claim later, like for instance if a company decided to rip of Pokémon and sell it.

Unfortunately that's how copyright works. By not taking action on anything, no matter how minor, it makes it weaker until eventually you have nothing left.

Realistically, there is now way these developers didn't know this would happen.

That said, both of these projects have been publicly in the works for years. Nintendo could have shut them down at any time years ago and they didn't. They waited until they were released then dropped the hammer. But once something is in the wild on the internet your never going to contain that shit. Food for thought.

Don't bother trying to explain anything to these dumb idiots. They have no idea how anything actually works in the world and just like to go "Whaaa whaa whaa!" Nintendo is mean.

 

[marksteele]

That honestly sounds like a really good idea, but unfortunately, I highly doubt that would ever happen.

Ya I mean the odds of it ever happening are slim to none but I just wanted to make clear to the "they have to protect their IP" folks that they CAN do that while allowing the game to go forwards, they simply don't.

 

[chrisrlink]

as for the updat servers their gone too I'm guessing along with the online features simple solution set up a server in a country with virtually no copyright laws (like denmark iirc has very weak copyright laws TPB may get taken down but they always come back up within a day cause denmark tells the uS they have no juristiction in any forien country

 

[codezer0]

btw was Iwata ever this evil with take downs then this new prick of a company president?, ever since he came in charge all nintendo has been about was money and not care for the consumer, this new guy sickens me

Iwata is the reason that:

• Mother 1, aka earthbound zero, while finished on the nes, never released.
• Mother 3 never officially left Japan.
• Nintendo never went online outside of Japan until the Wii.
• Their hardware developers didnt even k ow how online services like Xbox live and PSN work even after designing the wiiu.

Need I go on?

 

[seresaa]

as for the updat servers their gone too I'm guessing along with the online features

Wrong and wrong

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Wrong and wrong

I was gonna say, I just got two mystery gifts yesterday, so unless that happened within the last 12 hours they're still up

 

[chrisrlink]

my bad they appeared to have switched update servers

this is from the pokemon uranium forums detailed instructions on how to switch update servers

For those who have trouble updating their game, i found this steps that worked for me.


[*]Go to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Pokemon Uranium Team\Pokemon Uranium 1.0 (or wherever you've installed the game to)
[*]Look for the folder "neoncube" and open it
[*]Inside is the file "neoncube.ini". Open it with whatever texteditor you prefer (has to be run as administrator).
[*]Change the line "patch_site = pokemonuranium.com" to "patch_site = www.pokemonuranium.com"
[*]Change the line below to "patch_list = /Patches/patchlist.txt"
[*]Your Patcher should now work as expected

Alternative:

• Go to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Pokemon Uranium Team\Pokemon Uranium 1.0 (or wherever you've installed the game to)
• Look for the folder "neoncube" and open it
• Download this file and put it in the folder you just opened (replace the existing "neoncube.ini")
• Your Patcher should now work as expected

speaking of my theory will nintendo shut down the servers for Uranium's online functions through C&D order? I'd say trade and battle online while you can

 

[Osga21]

It seems that Nintendo as of late has been letting these fan games get a complete 1.0 release and are only then shutting them down, like they did with AM2R.
And to everyone flaming Nintendo for taking down fan projects,nintendo HAS to take them down to protect their IP's, otherwise they would be in copyright hell. Just be glad that Nintendo has been waiting for full releases and not just killing these projects before they're finished.