Back in June of 2007, I participated in a fan event called PK Siege which was a fan campaign to get the EarthBound games released on Virtual Console, and MOTHER 3 out on GBA at the time. This was an conversation, I made at the time with a Nintendo of America Representative. EDIT: After reviewing the video some more, I realize that putting this up for long would not come with desirable consequences, so the URL taken down by out of personal safety. I'm taking people's replies here out of consideration and I will see if I can even revise my video. For once, this may be seen as an act of cold feet, but I'm a poor boy here, and I can't really risk any sort of legal shit. =P I thought that by censoring the guys name and proving a fake alias would minimalism any sort of legal persecution which I'm not facing right now mind you, but by realizing what potential trouble me and my account would face, I realizing that it's just not worth it (yet). So at the very least, I'm leaving just the key points here. I hope people can understand my reasoning here. Thanks. Key points: The representative says he was aware of the Mother 3 campaign that I was participating on at the time. I mentioned to him about Mother (EarthBound NES) translated into English but never released outside of Japan. Following that, I told him that a ROM of it leaked to the internet. Believing that I found myself in over my head, I played dumb of it. He didn't seem to care though. I brought up Star Fox 2 to raise a point about unreleased games making to the Virtual Console. According to the representative, those kinds of game were, at the time, considered for release on Virtual Console, as well as imported titles to the US. Note that Sin & Punishment and Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels would be released weeks after I "conducted" this "interview." At one point, I had asked about Super Mario RPG for VC as well. The rep said that no sales data existed or was available at the time, citing that the data would be obscure overtime. Paul, as he revealed his name, was eager to pass along my "ideas" for "priority topics," for NOA to discuss for future releases. Unfortunately, we all know how this all turned out few years later. I entertained... well, asked (Hey, Paul and I were on a roll here!) about if Nintendo could possibly consider releasing old pre-release material of old games to VC as sort of bonus material. He seemed to knew what I was getting at, and stated that it was *considered* and "definitely seen as potential for" release , but I think he was just doing his best as a representative to inform or "entertain" me of what they could possibly do with stuff like that. Paul did say that they could (have) released that stuff on collection discs, for example. Too bad, Super Mario All-Stars Collection on Wii didn't live it up. =P Pretty nice of the guy to talk so much with me, instead of a cold, flat "No Plans" reply. This guy actually bothers to explain the situation to me.
Pretty cool recording, I wish more of these inside transcripts would leak out concerning game development and release.
Yeah, I wouldn't be advertising/publicizing the fact that you illegally recorded someone without their knowledge. This gets into criminal misconduct, as wiretapping laws are very strict most places...
I know in Canada only one party is required to know the conversation is being recorded, therefore this would be legal. In the U.S. it varies state to state, but according to wikipedia only 11 states require that both parties know they are being recorded. California Connecticut Florida Illinois Maryland Massachusetts Montana Nevada New Hampshire Pennsylvania Washington -adrianc
Your information is partially correct, however, wiretapping laws are NOT as cut and dry as most people/websites would have you believe.
Oh man, and to think that other companies PAY to get this kind of "customer awareness", let alone participation! The sad fact is that nintendo, much like apple does, spends hundreds of millons in PR to make themselves look like cute innocent companies, while in fact they're both corporate behemoths that will sue your ass if you do anything without their explicit consent. Seriously, apple fucking sued one of the biggest maclover forums out there, and they werent doing anything illegal like publishing jailbreak tutorials or shit like that.
I missed the YouTube link when it was up yesterday morning Would it be possible for this recording be put on a site like Mega Upload or similar and the d/l link given out to interested members via PM?
''On january 24th Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh and you'll see why 1984 won't be like ''1984'''' What a load of bollocks that was. As soon as Wozniak left Apple quickly became an evil corporation. I hope it goes to court in all honesty. ''So the name comes from an old english saying and the logo looks nothing like yours?'' ''That's right your honor''
It's so adorable when people think some ginormous multinational corporations are somehow better than others. They're all in it for the profit, folks.
