
The criticisms ultimately come off as petty under even a little scrutiny. There's also a vague accusation of broader plagiarism with older mods. The main criticism is that theboy181 copied, and then paywalled, the work of Redditor ChucksFeedandSeed, who had been posting framerate-based mods on the NewYuzuPiracy subreddit since well before launch day, and didn't adequately credit his work. "I'm ashamed to say I paid my mandatory $1 for these," the poster wrote, before including a "mini-exposé" about theboy181's "hacky" modding practices. On Wednesday, someone using a burner Reddit account named PaywalledModsLMAO created a thread on r/NewYuzuPiracy with a download link to all of theboy181's in-progress Zelda mods. The ethics of emulation: how creators, the community, and the law view console emulators The race to perfectly emulate Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is on, and already extremely promising
