Huge PSA For Anyone With a PokeProject

[Empty Pot]

Now I know that Pokemon Hacks are a lot of hard work. Between remapping and scripting, to creating brand new tilesets or models. But one thing I've been seeing a lot again which I can't stand is people selling their ROMs flashed onto a cart, or just selling their ROMs flat out. Of course this isn't done in PC as I doubt we'd ever allow this but I just want people to know now that this is against actual laws. With PC holding a good majority of the ROM Hacking community I feel its best to post this here to lead anyone from making any dumb mistakes. With Pokemon Uranium just taken down due to income (not selling ROMs but advertisement) its safe to say Pokemon/GameFreak/Nintendo or whoever does not want others making any money off them at all.

Just wanted to throw this out there as I've been seeing a lot of flashed ROMs of demos I've played here. Good luck on your games all!

 

[Deokishisu]

100% of the time, that's not the hacker doing that. It's a pirate who steals our work and profits off of it without our permission.

 

[chrunch]

^ And considering the GBA was discontinued a decade ago, there aren't many people doing that anymore. Nintendo has never taken down a hack, even ones like Shiny Gold that were very heavily bootlegged.

 

[PankajBlitz]

To make money people do these kinds of illegal things. I too bought Pokemon Quartz and realized after joining PC that it was free. To counter these things hackers insert screens which can be seen at Pokemon Life and Cyan.