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Solarus (http://www.solarus-games.org/) is both a very polished fan sequel to A Link to the Past, and also an engine for building your own action-RPG games in Lua.

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Wow, this looks great. How are they able to use "The Legend of Zelda" title in their released games?

edit: Getting "Bandwidth or Storage Limit Exceeded" when attempting to download from the Solarus packagecloud.io. Sadface.

It's back. I also wonder how they are able to do that. The graphics, sounds and music is all from the SNES Zelda title. How can this survive if you aren't even allowed by Nintendo to upload movies to YouTube?

The website owner and lead of the project is not based in the US. If he's received any notice from Nintendo, he's probably just ignored it with no consequence.

Youtube is different because there's a monetization angle with the ads. The artwork in Solarus is certainly not legal to distribute in most countries, but it's so low-profile that no one has bothered to go after them.

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