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CSE2 - The Cave Story decompilation project

Dec 28, 2020 at 9:09 PM
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As far as I know, distributing the source files is a big no-no, but mods and builds on their own should be less of a legal problem? It's still entirely up in the air as to what happens, but my mod hasn't been taken down yet, and at this point I think builds and mods should be fine.
I'll keep that mind, then.
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Dec 30, 2020 at 8:48 PM
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I fucking hate how it's taking so long for NICALIS to respond to the developers of CSE2.

I already know the trick behind their sleeves, they're just gonna fuck the devs over.
 
Dec 31, 2020 at 12:46 AM
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It is really easy to get something taken down as a big company but putting it back up is so slow.
 
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Apologies for the necropost, but has there been any new news as of late concerning CSE2?
It seems like Nicalis just pulled a Nicalis and nothing more has come out of it.
By changing one value in CommonDefines.h, you can make the screen not just wider, but taller

Also, short question: what value does that happen to be?
 
Apr 9, 2021 at 12:49 PM
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Apologies for the necropost, but has there been any new news as of late concerning CSE2?
It seems like Nicalis just pulled a Nicalis and nothing more has come out of it.
To put it simply: don't get your hopes up. I can't say much more than that.
 
Apr 9, 2021 at 9:28 PM
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It's a real shame that Pixel chose to license the game's source to such a greedy company. I hope Nicalis changes, but knowing from experience, I'm not counting on it.
 
Apr 10, 2021 at 4:48 AM
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It's a real shame that Pixel chose to license the game's source to such a greedy company. I hope Nicalis changes, but knowing from experience, I'm not counting on it.
Nicalis will never fucking change.
 
Apr 10, 2021 at 11:46 AM
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Nicalis: Pixel we would like to put your game on Wii
Pixel: O K
Nicalis: sign this not suspicious contract the takes a games source code.
*Pixel Signs the contract*
Nicalis: makes 5 ports and a PC remaster.
*NXengine exists*
Nicalis: L E G A L
*CSE2 Exists*
Nicalis: time to screw some devs over.
I don't understand why a company would ruin such a cool thing like CSE2 (I think I never got to try it).
 
Jan 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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why does this exists after nicalis DMCAing cse2
 
Jan 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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why does this exists after nicalis DMCAing cse2
Nicalis DMCA'd the GitHub repo, which had the source code. They didn't try to scrub everything that was ever posted on the internet about CSE2. It's still actively used to make mods/fangames.
 
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