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Hi,

If you like Zelda on Nintendo, you will like it on Salix:
http://www.zelda-solarus.com/jeu-zsdx

zsdx: Zelda Mystery of Solarus DX
zsxd: Zelda Mystery of Solarus XD, a fun parody.

You can install them via slapt-src/Sourcery.

Have fun

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Looks interresting, but is it legal to use the name Zelda without the agreement of Nintendo ?
I'll test this tonight :p

Edit: Solarus is missing lua in the dependency in slapt-src.
Edit2: Seems that I cannot find the licence for zsdx. Solarus is GPL, but the data (zsdx) seems not to have any licence. The main author said that he "ripped" some data from Zelda A Link to the past. So I think that the game itself is some warez (for the graphics), while the engine is free.

is it legal to use the name Zelda without the agreement of Nintendo

Zelda is just a name/surname, for example: the surname Zelda is the 254,452. most frequent name in the US.
http://www.dynastree.com/maps/detail/zelda.html

Edit2: Seems that I cannot find the licence for zsdx. Solarus is GPL, but the data (zsdx) seems not to have any licence. The main author said that he "ripped" some data from Zelda A Link to the past. So I think that the game itself is some warez (for the graphics), while the engine is free.

Warez ? WoW
Yes, ripped, but only visualy, all have been written.

The engine is GPL and the quest is opensource, with no choosen license, that means, from what I understand about, that you can only read the code and ask the author if you want to do something with it.

Quoted from the README:

This package contains the data files of the quest Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX.
This quest is a free, open-source game that works with Solarus,
an open-source Zelda-like 2D game engine.

All is online.
https://github.com/christopho/solarus/t ... uests/zsdx

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