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I don’t believe you read the article there… he ported zquest an engine remake which you can play with your original ie. self ripped Zelda rom.

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"I ported Zelda Classic to the web. You can play it here–grab a gamepad if you have one!"

Yep, I thought they'd just include some user made quests/content to showcase the web port but it defaults to loading a replica of NES Zelda.

I'm wondering if it could be prudent to at least make the default quest be one of the custom quests. And maybe remove the remakes of the original games (1st, 2nd, and BS Zelda).

For the classic quests that remake original games, they are made in the ZQuest engine so I'm not distributing any ROMs. However, there are some videogame music files which may be ripped from the ROMs (not sure on their origination). And the graphics are obviously taken from the games too.

Although, pretty much every quest uses some sort of copyrighted material (these are fan games after all). Not sure if any of this falls under fair-use.

I just did the bare minimum and set something other than the original Zelda as the default quest.

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