Posted by Fire Surge

Funny how graal denies graphics for being copyrighted when nearly half of the current tile set is directly taken, pixel for pixel, from "A Link to the Past".

Posted by MrSimons

Nearly half, pixel for pixel? You're joking right?

Posted by Vendetta

The only "pixel for pixel" bits that I can see are parts of the castle and the water/waterfall.

Posted by Fire Surge

I'm obviously exaggerating a tad but yeah, a lot of pics1.png is pulled straight out of A Link to the Past. Some parts of Sardons that you see today are pixel for pixel copies out of ALttP.

Posted by dusty

Graal was called Zelda Online... because it was actually Zelda 3 with multiplayer support. Stefan took the graphics of Zelda 3, recoded the game from scratch and added online capabilities. Fan games are not really a rare thing, and Zelda is one of those games that tend to get a lot of fan games. Back then it was free, Stefan didn't get money for Zelda Online so was he in the wrong? Nah. Whether or not he got a C&D order from Nintendo is unknown. Some say he did, he says he never did. He may have just wanted to make his project more serious, and a fan game can only get so far before you DO have legal issues. Eventually he revamped and made his own graphics and changed the name to Graal. Most of the overworld tiles ended up looking fairly unique and different, some tiles suffered from looking like cheap upscales(castle tiles mainly).