Right, but all you're arguing for is a shift of legal responsibility on a project that's unlikely to be bothered legally, which will in-turn add another meta la

Right, but all you're arguing for is a shift of legal responsibility on a project that's unlikely to be bothered legally, which will in-turn add another meta layer of development for the people involved(let's build a patcher). It's illegal, yes. It's also : 1) a massive PR blow to sue fans who have taken an interest 2) a legal money-sink on decades old property that isn't producing less profit as a result. For all you know, this github could have generated revenue for Nintendo through the revitalization of interest in the franchise using nostalgia against current day software developers...