Nintendo Fan PC Ports Taken Down: Four Mario and Zelda Recomps, What Remains, and What to Check (Nov 2026)
TheGamer reported four unofficial Nintendo PC ports removed on 13 Nov 2026. Nintendo has not issued a public statement. What was taken down, what still circulates, and what users should check. Not a how-to.
TL;DR: On 13 November 2026, TheGamer reported that four unofficial PC ports of Nintendo games had been removed from their public repositories, in what the outlet described as a new DMCA wave. The named projects are PowerMoon (Super Mario Odyssey), SkyRecomp (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD), Project Tandem (Mario Kart: Double Dash) and MTF-Recomp (Mario Tennis Fever). Nintendo has not issued a public statement naming these four projects. GitLab, where the Odyssey port had been hosted, does not publish per-project takedown notices, so a formal, public DMCA filing for this set was not independently confirmed. The PowerMoon author's own comment, quoted by TheGamer, is the clearest first-person account: they would not contest whatever happened. Reuploads of that project were reported within hours. This is not a how-to, and it is not legal advice. We do not link to unofficial ports, game files, keys or circumvention tools.
Last checked: 13 November 2026 (KST). For the legal background on publisher takedowns, bring-your-own-files ports and why "the repo is only code" is not a safe harbour, see our earlier explainer, Is reverse-engineering a game legal?.
What was reported taken down
The four names come from TheGamer's 13 November report, published at 3:53 a.m. EST (17:53 KST). VGTimes, repeating the same set, also notes that Nintendo has not issued an official statement about these specific removals. The circumstances "point to the possible use of copyright-protection mechanisms, including the DMCA process," but that is an inference, not a posted notice.
| Project | Game | What we can verify | What is still open |
|---|---|---|---|
| PowerMoon / Power Moon Recomp | Super Mario Odyssey | The original GitLab project, created 1 November 2026, and its account both returned 404 by 11 November, according to Held Games. TheGamer later quoted the author on Reddit: "I can't go into what happened, but let's just say I won't try to fight it." | Whether a formal DMCA notice was served; Nintendo has not confirmed it. Reuploads were already being reported. |
| SkyRecomp | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD | Reported on 13 November as removed from its public repository. | We did not independently confirm the original host, a public notice, or any later copy. |
| Project Tandem | Mario Kart: Double Dash | Reported on 13 November as removed from its public repository. | Same as above: reported removed, not documented by a public notice we could read. |
| MTF-Recomp | Mario Tennis Fever | Reported on 13 November as removed from its public repository. | Same as above. |
Two earlier dates matter, because they stop this from being collapsed into a single "Nintendo struck on 13 November" event.
Held Games, writing on 11–12 November, had already documented that the Power Moon Recomp GitLab page was gone. An archive snapshot from 6 November still showed the project as live. The same piece found reuploads under other accounts dated 9 and 10 November, before most people noticed the original was missing. That is consistent with TheGamer's later line that another copy appeared "mere hours" after the original came down, with claimed changes. We are not linking to any of those copies.
Separately, on 6 November, Nintendo was visibly filing takedowns — but on GitHub, and against different targets. Held Games reviewed public notices posted in GitHub's DMCA archive that day and said they aimed at Switch modchip firmware and a Switch emulator, not at these four recompilations and not at GitLab. We checked the same archive for a notice that names PowerMoon, SkyRecomp, Project Tandem or MTF-Recomp and did not find one. That absence is not proof that no complaint was filed somewhere else. It only means the paper trail that exists on GitHub does not identify these four ports.
Which recomps remain — and what that does not mean
The honest answer is narrower than a directory.
Held Games enumerated recompilation projects on GitLab on 11 November and argued that a category-wide purge was not happening. Older projects that had already been removed from GitHub and rehosted, plus other titles that were never part of this week's four-name list, were still publicly listed at that check. TheGamer, in the same 13 November piece, also mentioned recent unofficial ports of Super Mario Galaxy and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days as examples of the broader trend; those two were not named among the four takedowns. We did not re-verify the current hosting status of every project mentioned in those articles, and we will not turn this page into a live catalogue.
Three cautions follow from that:
- "Still listed yesterday" is not "safe today." Availability in this category changes quickly, often without a public explanation.
- A 404 is not a shopping list. Once a project is mirrored, a dead bookmark and a living unofficial copy can look the same from the outside. That is a reason to be careful, not a reason to go looking.
- We are not going to point you at unofficial builds. Even projects that ask users to supply their own game files sit in a legally risky area, which we covered in the legal explainer. This article will not help anyone obtain a game, a key, firmware or a circumvention tool.
If you maintain your own game or a public demo, the practical question is the other way around: how exposed a build is once it is in the wild. That is the subject of How to protect a game demo from AI decompilation and cloning.
What users should check
| Check | Why it matters | What we found on 13 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Has Nintendo, or the project's author, said anything on the record? | A social rumour is not a legal notice. | No Nintendo statement naming these four. The PowerMoon author, quoted by TheGamer, said they would not fight it and would not go into details. |
| If the host is GitHub, is there a notice in the public DMCA archive? | GitHub publishes the complaint and the listed repositories. | No notice we found names these four ports. Notices dated 6 November were described as targeting other Nintendo-related software. |
| If the host is GitLab, will a reason appear? | Usually no. GitLab reports aggregate yearly counts, not per-project paperwork. | Silence on GitLab is the default. It does not, by itself, prove or disprove a DMCA. |
| Is the original account gone, or only the project? | A vanished account can mean a deletion, a terms ban or a repeat-infringer shutdown. Those look identical from outside. | Held Games found that both the Power Moon project and its username were gone. |
| Should you download a random "reupload"? | No. Unofficial mirrors are a malware risk as well as a legal one. | Reuploads were reported. We are not linking to them and we do not recommend chasing them. |
| Does a tool or "fix" ask you to bypass technical protection? | Circumventing access controls can be a separate legal problem from copying a game. | This article does not describe how to do that, and you should not look here for those steps. |
This sits in the same 2026 pattern we have already documented: faster unofficial rebuilds, faster publisher responses, and very little of it being settled in court first. See also AI game cheats, the PS5 Relapse jailbreak and AI-rebuilt games and our overview of REA, the "Reverse Engineer Anything" toolkit and the legal stakes.
Sources
- TheGamer, "Nintendo Takes Down Four Huge Fan-Ported PC Games In Big New DMCA Wave," 13 November 2026, 3:53 a.m. EST
- Held Games, "GitLab Is Not Purging Recomp Projects…," 11 November 2026, updated 12 November 2026
- VGTimes, "Fan-made PC ports of Mario and Zelda games hit by a new wave of Nintendo takedowns" (notes the lack of an official Nintendo statement)
- GitHub DMCA notice archive, including Nintendo notices dated 6 November 2026
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