It seems with all the people emulating games on the Steam Deck and how popular doing so has become, Nintendo has continued to take notice and fired off some DMCA requests to have images taken down (thanks GBAtemp).
To get started with: what is SteamGridDB? It's a website that hosts various images for various games, to help you add fancy artwork into Non-Steam games you add into your Steam Library. So instead of seeing Steam's default image for Non-Steam games, you get it all looking nice. Naturally, this means people will be uploading plenty of images they don't own, and often the official game images for various games on other platforms for when people are doing emulation.
Nintendo being clearly unhappy with this, fired off many DMCA requests and now you might spot several images across the likes of (each link an example of one removed): Pokémon Scarlet, Pokémon Violet, Splatoon 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Super Mario Odyssey, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
It's not just for emulation though, it has game pictures for tons of games that you can use as an alternative to the official images included with Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Mountain Man Nov 24, 2022
I also have to laugh at people saying, "If Nintendo ran their business the way I think they should, then they would be successful!" when Nintendo has consistently been one of the most successful and profitable companies in the game industry.
Last edited by Mountain Man on 25 November 2022 at 2:05 am UTC
No worries about me pirating Nintendo ROMs, not even in spite. (I have no use for anything that comes out of their rectum)
Thank God steam is fair and solvent. If they ever go under it will be a terrible day in gaming history at this point.
So, like, one question in my mind . . . is Nintendo making this stuff available in any other way? Can you buy the games from Nintendo? I'm thinking probably not.
If you look at the list of the games that were DMCA'd, they're all Switch games. You'd be right if these were like GameCube games but they're clearly targeting Switch emulation.
Either way though it's dumb, this is just cover art. It's not like it's gonna stop people from being able to play these games. All this does is force people to go on Google Images to make the Steam shortcut look pretty instead of letting a script do it for them
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