The Xbox 360 launch title that got away with STEALING Nintendo assets

[@cjchamp789]

"nobody gaf" being the thing that saved the game from being beamed out of existence is probably the funniest fucking reasoning possible

[@NickEx00]

UNIRONICALLY THIS LMFAO

[@CombatGrunt2Fast4u]

Little known fact, but “stealing an asset” isn’t stealing an asset as long as you change it enough. I think it’s 25%.

[@cjchamp789]

@@CombatGrunt2Fast4u wait deadass

[@matthewrowlett1564]

Not really that nobody GAF, it's that not enough people Played Amped 3 TO GAF... trust me, if that game had even sold MILDLY well, Nintendo would have swarmed them like Ants... And then Big-Finish Games Wouldn't exist, because most of its members would be so far in debt due to legal fees they can't see the sun... So I guess it's a blessing to them that their game was so damn mid, eh?

[@CombatGrunt2Fast4u]

@@cjchamp789 Yes, and with pixel art, changing the color of 25% of the asset is changing the asset. Whereas with a 3D model you would need to do a structural change to the model. I studied Video Game Art and Design in college.

[@blueberyramune]

"Nintendo is a company that needs zero introduction" *proceeds to give an introduction*

[@scritoph3368]

Yoooo jade harley homestuck

[@Del-dee]

@@scritoph3368goated

[@billyrob612]

​@@scritoph3368 *Jad harl*

[@kellymountain]

average KZbinr

[@iswhatheis]

Gotta get that watch time

[@GamerRoman]

You just wanted an excuse to talk about the game, not the stolen assets, admit it! ;)

[@NickEx00]

Maybe.....

[@Krookzior]

@@NickEx00 I don't blame you tbh, I was surprised how good this game looks, especially for the time. Thanks for sharing.

[@WandererEris]

I think it helped that the sprites were edited into something else and could count as parody, rather than used directly.

[@Crow_Rising]

Considering this is Nintendo we are talking about, honestly I don't think that helps at all. For a recent example, just look at Palworld; The creatures present in the game use pretty much exactly the same artstyle as Pokemon and Nintendo decided to crack down on it immediately. They found no copyright violations with the game after months of looking into it, so now they're slapping them with a patent violation instead. Nintendo does not care if something counts as parody, they care if it's successful. They cannot tolerate competition. It's like if the Call of Duty devs patented first person shooter gameplay to kill off the Battlefield series.

[@scarpergirl]

NickEx's avatar: Ramona Flowers NickEx's voice: Seth Rogen

[@guidomista16]

Typical Twitter user

[@SleepyLuigi]

It’s more like MagicMush

[@macincko4616]

Ikr it's mega cringe

[@blackreaperkaneki9900]

@@macincko4616saying “mega cringe” is cringe

[@creativename_]

​@@macincko4616How is it cringe lol

[@TheRealJochen]

Ain't no way it took bro 10 minutes to show an edited fire emblem sprite 💀

[@Scrumtrulescent0]

Exactly what happened, and I sat here all the way up to it.

[@AirshBornely]

​@@Scrumtrulescent0Thank God I have a skip button that took me to the part where he reveals it. Ain't sitting through all that

[@joemungusphart]

yo waht

[@retromannyli]

atleast he brought more awareness to the game in a way lmao

[@WhoWatchesThis]

​@@retromannyliand I'm happy he did. Id never know about this game otherwise

[@sushyhacecosas]

you know, i kind of find really funny that for that event happening someone at the team behind the game not only knew about fire emblem and the japan exclusive gba entry, but knew how to access its assets or knew a website that had them, in order to just grab roy's portrait and modify like that, in 2005 or even 2004

[@NickEx00]

@@sushyhacecosas yeah again this is mostly me speculating on things, how this really happened is still a mystery, hence why i'd be more than happy to hear back from that one employee on how this happened in the first place

[@HyperSonic1999orJTH]

The process was probably very simple, use an emulator to take a screenshot of the sprite, cut it out of the screenshot and edit it.

[@burningphoneix]

It was probably the Fire Emblem Sanctuary of Strategy website. It was the only western Fire Emblem website at the time.

[@EvilBookMan]

Fe-planet was also a thing at the time. I remember having my mind blown by sacred stones monster sprites as a kid

[@hahasamian8010]

@@HyperSonic1999orJTH The process was probably even simpler than that, it's very well possible that they just searched online for typical RPG character sprites. It's even possible that the edit didn't belong to them and they reposted someone's OC for all the world to see, truly a terrifying prospect

[@lordmatro]

I can't believe you made a video about stolen assets from Nintendo, but you overlooked another stolen asset that you've even put in your video. There is the pipe from Big Blue in F Zero X, we can see multiple times in your video. Wait, what if there is more...

[@Scotter95]

Just bought a copy, I'll let you know if I find anything.

[@jamiewilliamson9829]

Can you give a timestamp for that?

[@AzumarillConGafasBv]

Will you give us a timestamp?

[@justinmillard8196]

8:50 is probably what they are referencing. I’m no expert, but there are similarities.

[@justinmillard8196]

Looks distinct to me, but yeah similar. Likely there’s some inspiration in there.

[@pir_hana]

Not even kidding when I say this, but I think stealing assets for a game like this actually helps contribute to it's presentation, back then any game was able to get away with *literally anything*

[@JoeContext]

I mean, I know I clicked on this video for the stolen assets, but now I'm just intrigued by the game itself. I'm not really interested in the snowboarding, but holy hell this game looks so full of personality, and I love 2000s pop culture and this seems like a prime example

[@raelogan]

I used to have a copy. It was honestly pretty fun and funky

[@justinmillard8196]

Looks like it takes cues from SSX Tricky and SSX3, and is less sim than the first Amped on Xbox.

[@Swampert_Tube]

7:47 Saints Row 2 does something like that. The character voice you pick has slightly different dialogue for each cutscene

[@SugaPinto]

Saints Row The Third and IV do it too, funny enough Sweet little details, shame we never got a new one after IV tho

[@xythrr]

​@@SugaPinto Well, we technically did... But we all know it doesnt count. The Third peaked anyways

[@AFKei]

Those cutscenes look like something straight outta 90s Nickelodeon...

[@Kintsugi23]

Yeah, the cutscenes feel like they wouldn't be too out of place as sketches on Kablam

[@WarHelmetCombine]

Nintendo after seeing this: OH SHIT TURN THE CAR BACK AROUND!

[@OtobongJaya]

I remember going to university and being in a bit of a slump, not really going to class and not really socialising. I had a crappy CRT in my room and my 360, and was looking through my game collection for something to play. Found this, wasn't sure where I got it from but thought it would be fun. I was blown away by how creative the whole thing is, really put a smile on my face and I always look at Amped3 with fondness since :)

[@TKontent]

1:05 RIP Vimm’s Lair, I used to play with my bros all the time there.

[@Yorkshiriann]

I love how this comment implies that Vimm’s Lair is a real place

[@lssjvegeta7103]

There's other sources, but loose lips sink ships and i din't want me remaining vessels to be boarded me matey so ye can embark on your own voyage for hidden treasure

[@LogicLeftTheGame]

It's where I managed to try out the first Mario Galaxy and even Sunshine, and it's also where I grabbed a digital copy of NSMBWii since I have a scratched up (but still readable) legit copy of that game but can't play it on my real Wii because is not usable as of making this comment (it's not dead but the Wii is in a now kinda messy room where I can't play it now). I'll miss that site so much...

[@Insanabiliter_In_Linea]

Vimm's Lair is still up and running, they were never taken down, Nintendo just removed some games.

[@HunterAnsorge-ok9jk]

@@lssjvegeta7103 Ill trade you an anime library (9) for a US cartoon library if you’re not already using it

[@jtnachos16]

I hate that I'm enough of a nerd to mention this: The portrait sprite could possibly actually be mis mashed sprites of Eliwood from blazing sword, Roy's dad, and Roy. Blazing sword DID see a release internationally, and thus makes a lot more sense to have had assets pulled. Something about the mouth looks closer to Eliwood's blazing sword sprite to me somehow, and some of the eye shapes that are shown during the spastic animation look far more like they were pulled from Eliwood. It's hard to tell, as Eliwood is very similar to Roy, intentionally, with Eliwood technically having been designed after with a slightly more angular/sharper look to his features.That said, the standing combat sprite is absolutely Roy, so it's quite likely most the portrait assets is also Roy. Also, yes, it's a shame it took Awakening for the games to take off in the west. I blame a lack of marketing, because Sacred Stones CERTAINLY could have taken off if there had been better awareness of it in the general public eye, considering it's the game that introduced a number of the things that made Awakening more palatable to the general public relative to other FE games. There is a reason the GBA fire emblem games have a relatively active modding (romhacking technically) community to this day.

[@NickEx00]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing this! That could make sense as to how one of the employees made those heavily traced sprites if it's Eliwood's sprites rather than Roy's.

[@Perdix64]

@@NickEx00I think they also yoinked the patch from another character from Blazing Blade I think.

[@M0D776]

Just got this recommended, as soon as I saw that portrait and sprite I knew it was Roy, this whole situation is super funny, it's made even funnier with the commentary though, I was laughing all the way through, so you've earned my like :)

[@Larry]

Oh, I reckon one of the artists went on Google images for reference material and just traced over some images they found to save time. IT's essentially how Capcom ended up with IGN watermarks all over their Okami box art.

[@MZMDev]

**shows a game with a snowboarder on the cover** bro you’ll never guess what this game is about

[@theanubisfan10]

the one thing I'm taking away from this video is the fact that I trust WienerBoy with my life.

[@Thefirespirit1]

A 20 minute video for AN EDITED SPRITE?!?!

[@onkarlally]

No,it’s a 20 minute video on an obscure snowboarding game that just so happens to have edited fire emblem sprites. It’s pretty obvious that dude just wanted to talk about a childhood game and stolen Nintendo assets is a good hook to pull the viewer in.

[@Thefirespirit1]

@onkarlally thanks for explaining the obvious bait bro

[@XyerDark]

This game looks insane. This is the type of game you'd see small teams make as throwbacks to their favourite franchises. It's like watching a nostalgia tribute from the time you'd be nostalgic about what a trip.

[@Crackhog]

The prequel game released after Roy's game, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, introduced the somewhat canonical mother of Roy, a light blue haired dragon. It's either an insane coincidence or a deliberate reference that this is just Roy with light blue hair and dragon ears, along with other minor edits.

[@LinuxGamingChronicles]

I didn't care about the stolen assets I just appricated a video on Amped 3. It's like you said, Amped 3 is TRULY underratted. This was my launch title of choice and I have such good memories with it and when i go to see if other people liked it, it has ZERO online presence. The story is a damn fever dream (perfect if you "partake" like I did at the time), there was so much fun challenges to do, the combo system was "Tony Hawk" fun, and the soundtrack was so good that to this day I still have the artist Anberlin on my Spotify playlist whom I found from this game.

[@vthisademu]

Yes man I still play it almost every other week. I'm trying to 100% complete it again.

[@symphony-of-the-mint2008]

Anberlin and Copeland are so good

[@obentomagnum]

11:03 I 100% misheard this as "the biden blade" god i wish that was its real name

[@FluffyDragon-cm8bz]

Lol same

[@theanimatormustachegrunt3307]

10:29 i think it's just a parody reference to the Roy sprite most videos game characters are appearing in TV shows and others way in the style of parody or bootleg this is 100% fair game by the developer and Nintendo when bothered by it because it considered to be a parody

[@fromthegamethrone]

This video is the definition of "this could have been an email"

[@Micha-Hil]

They used an edited Roy sprite from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade and put it in one of the first missions, in the select screen where you pick it. You can see it at 10:27.

[@UltraGoldStar]

you made a 19 min video on 1 singular stolen sprite?

[@RikoIsUnavailable]

and he spend half the video just yapping

[@georgebaynard4096]

The cherry on top about that edit is that it’s such a lazy rush job that you can still see Roy’s red hair behind the hair overlayed on top of it. It’s just *chef’s kiss* perfect

[@RednekGamurz]

I honestly wonder if Nintendo could've done anything about it, since the sprites are edited so much. I know I see products with Mega Man sprite edits all the time that aren't licensed by Capcom, and Capcom doesn't do anything about them, so I wonder if there's a point where you can edit a sprite just enough to avoid legal action.

[@dabmasterars]

depending on the amount of editing, it can either be considered derivative use (you have to get permission/license) or transformative use (different enough so the copyright belongs to you). in this game, the sprites have a color change and new hairstyle, which is too little to be considered transformative. still, it's up to court to decide.

[@dabmasterars]

it is probably considered derivative content, which means that you still have to get a permission or a license. if they redrew the sprite from scratch, it would probably be seen as transformative content, which means you own the redesign, although trademark laws could still be an issue. sorry if you got this notification twice, youtube keeps removing my comments for no reason.

[@dabmasterars]

it is probably considered derivative content, which means that you still have to get a permission or a license. if they redrew the sprite from scratch, it would probably be seen as transformative content, which means you own the redesign, although trademark laws could still be an issue.

[@dabmasterars]

it's complicated

[@i010001]

I feel like this could probably fall under parody, since it's used as a pastiche of JRPGs in it's genre and in a comedic manner you aren't intended to mistake for the original. It's very brazen, and copyright laws are different in the US and Japan. And that it was a direct asset, not a general parody or style pastiche, may raise some questions. But there's a strong chance that this was fine actually.

[@cianeatsgrass]

“Nintendo is a company that needs zero introduction” and proceeds give it an introduction anyways

[@iannazario2028]

Holy crap, who gives a shit. Obviously not everyone who clicks on this video is going to know about Nintendo's fucking legal history.

[@cianeatsgrass]

@@iannazario2028 jeez do you need somebody to talk to or something

[@lankthedank6931]

Seriously. I skipped that part because it’s such a waste of time.

[@vanilla8956]

Video starts at 9:14

[@triumphthetrain6433]

💀💀💀

[@kpcenti]

Thx

[@hahasamian8010]

The chapters are right there, you guys should stop being jerks and go back to KZbin Shorts if you don't wanna hear anything but a trivia fact

[@kpcenti]

@@hahasamian8010 they were not there previously

[@yoyonoodle1986]

​@hahasamian8010 To be honest I love long form videos and watching videos about game related history/facts. But this took really long to get to the point and felt like a lot of redundancy. It shouldn't have been a 20 minute video.

[@geckoo9190]

Well its their fault who names a game armpit?, Im surprised that it had a sequel

[@Brokenore9180]

I loved the OC. It got to a point where I didn't care about what the stolen asset was, I just wanted to see the anime girl's expressions

[@juliannocartagena2007]

WHO PUT FIRE EMBLEM IN MY XBAX SNOBORD GAME??!!?!?!?

[@tcrubsy]

funny how Amped 3 and SSX On Tour came out at the same time. They both had stylized menus, and while they hadn't done it yet, the SSX series reboot would've eventually use real mountains (hell, it was the whole gimmick!)

[@notgavin7039]

0:40 let's keep it a buck fifty... They're just as evil.

[@AliluluMillion]

10 and a half minutes just to show a FE portrait edit, outstanding.

[@4zy1]

i was expecting some ripped models from popular nintendo games but it was just two small sprites 💀

[@WavesNGames]

I want you to know that I clicked on the video because I saw a blurred Amped3 in the thumbnail. Here's to being one of the 25 (*self proclaimed) people that have played this game.

[@VolWrightX]

Damn, Roy was everywhere back then except his game huh? Also oh god I think I just rembered I played the 2nd one as a kid! Good video! The nerd who drew the thumbnail also did a good job, whoever it may be :^)

[@SUE.ROGERS]

The amount of people (like at least 2) who are complaining that you didn't immediately show the sprited and didn't make the video less than 5 minutes long is crazy

[@dawg338]

Not really, its clickbait.

[@JayLeeBeanz]

Don't pretend you didn't expect a bigger reveal when you clicked on the video. Together with most of the vid not being on topic, this is bait by definition. It's crazy how many people don't like deceiving KZbinrs. XD

[@mechadeka]

Functional adults don't want 13 minutes of their life wasted to find out a mundane fact that can be explained in literally five seconds.

[@TaiSaysHello]

​@@mechadekayou know you could have just skipped ahead in the video right

[@Sonic_Gamer501]

As someone who's only played demos for some of the modern games, I was still able to tell that those were Fire Emblem sprites.

[@werethless12]

Why is this 20min? Could have been a tweet.

[@Robrt476]

Bro you can see Roy's original hair laying beneath the blue one 😂😂😂😂😂

[@arzfan29]

It's legally considered parody, nintendo doesn't go after those, it's why peta was never stopped from their cringey pokemon black and white patody game where they failed to realize the villains of pokemon black and white are literally peta

[@lankthedank6931]

You have no idea how difficult it was to find this video after I suddenly remembered it. I wanted to show it to a friend but both KZbin and Google wouldn’t show the right results.

[@elecmagpulse7385]

9:06 I mean I totally clicked for a different reason, but I am now _fascinated_ by this game’s utter absurdity. There was _nothing_ that could’ve prepared me for the cutscene compilation. I’d gladly listen to a discussion of the soundtrack, vs mode, and/or plot. I’m hooked.

[@Phantastic_Otaku]

I love your OC on screen, gives the channel a bit of uniqueness.

[@MetalheadSean666]

KZbin constantly unsubscribes me from channels refueses to give me notifications for half the channels i watch but it will happily fill my notifications with random videos from a channel im not subbed to nor have ever heard of. Cool.

[@MetalheadSean666]

Double edged sword because luckily this is a video I'm interested in

[@MetalheadSean666]

Okay video was good at least 👍

[@PaulZappia]

Game: *has box art showing a character snowboarding* Nick: How would I have known this game had snowboarding????

[@Dairunt1]

This reminded me of the first time I saw Terraria. They use templates from Final Fantasy VI.

[@Cyricaaa]

No

[@thewinterprince1731]

You can even see the edges of Roy's hair behind the blue! They didn't even try to cover up the hair on the back of the neck either!

[@BinaryHedgehog1]

Nintendo probably can’t do anything about the sprite even if they wanted to, it’s very clearly being used as a joke about JRPGs in general and the sprite is edited enough that it falls under parody. The backing of a major publisher who could negotiate with Nintendo probably helped.

[@SkeevyDaniel]

They were probably placeholders meant to be changed but weren't before the game shipped.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Nintendo doesn't exactly own Intelligent systems

[@alface935]

Amped 3 was in a difficult position at the launch date of the Xbox 360 having to battle off against household names such as: - Call Of Duty 2 - Fifa 06 Road To Fifa World Cup - Madden NFL 06 - NBA 2K6 - NBA Live 06 - Need For Speed Most Wanted - NHL 2K6 - Perfect Dark Zero - Peter Jackson's King Kong The Official Game Of The Movie - Quake 4 - Ridge Racer 6 - Tetris The Grandmaster Ace - Tiger Woods Pga Tour 06 - Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

[@Langas_Konoe]

People are mean for no reason, the video was fun to watch.

[@gemship]

you know Nintendo aren't that strict by choice they have to be. if someone is not strict on their copyrighted property then down the line when they make a copyright claim it can be argued that well hey you let all this copyright infringement go before why are you up in arms about it now? and they can lose copyright cases. basically it's a case of protect it at all costs or potentially lose it.

[@LightslashGamingRocks]

This video was super interesting! I really enjoy your humor, style of editing, and script writing. You really got me to be intrigued by a game that I frankly had no interest in. Phenomenal stuff! Keep it up!

[@dyingstar24]

I think part of the reason Nintendo is so strict with copyright stuff is cuz they're kinda forced to thanks to some really archaic and outdated copyright laws that came out in the economic crash of the 90s that supposedly happened and allegedly still exist somehow

[@geminidreik2608]

So... They got away with it because Fire Emblem had yet to take off outside of Japan and because Amped 3 wasn't a commercial success; had Nintendo done something, it would've triggered some kind of Streisand Effect.

[@IosLocarth]

I was not expecting the assets to be from Fire Emblem, and certainly not the shittiest lord in the series lmao

[@WhoWatchesThis]

Dude my entire life is dedicated to searching for hidden gems. Thank you so much.

[@CyclonX]

wow that was definitely a top ten biggest (and pleasant) jumpscare ive ever gotten after clicking a random suggested video. very well made though, should do this more often if you enjoy it!! ❤

[@bradcompton1091]

did the people that created the amped 3 cutscenes happen to be the people that made the GTA IV GTA 5 cartoons I mean they gave off the same energy

[@ju2tunknown]

>looks at the sprite ... is that roy? [i fight for my friends]

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

How did AMPED 3 do in sales? Well, let me put it this way... I own and have completed Amped 1 and 2 on the original Xbox and enjoyed Amped 1 and 2 and I also own 146 Xbox 360 games (even some of the more obscure Kinect games) and I did NOT know there even was an Amped 3. How the heck have I not known about Amped 3 till now? I have no idea, but it's obvious that Microsoft did a HORRIBLE job letting everyone know that Amped 3 even existed when it came out for Xbox 360.

[@Oersted_LAL]

The funniest part about the edited sprites is that I was able to put the roy portrait back into FE6 after multiple edits

[@AzureOtsu]

This is really common. lots of licenced NES games back in the day used modified SMB small mario sprites, bomberman to name an example

[@bewearstar9462]

And a lot of pixel art edits are of megaman

[@InvidiousIgnoramus]

"One of the most popular consoles of the 7th generation" is a REALLY weird way to say "3rd place in a 3 horse race".

[@real-horse]

yeah had to double check, I knew the ps3 didn't do super well for ps standards but it just narrowly beat the 360

[@Nick1921945]

Save new viewers some time: They only took 1 asset and its a sprite for a character from fire emblem. There. thats the whole video.

[@hanerd4270]

19 min video for sprites in a single instance of the game

[@CoolPorygon]

For as "unique" as the UI and presentation looks... it just looks like SSX On Tour's UI presentation. Not exactly a unique style if a snowboarding game already did the same thing

[@FAKEAXIS]

There is a lot of 7th gen titles that never got the attention they deserved (everyone was focused on big releases), I'm glad you can touch on these older games that had love poured into them. We don't see much experimentation these days. Please bring back mirrors edge :(

[@krabs6457]

snowboarting

[@HelixAdamOxford]

how tf do you only have 1k subs this is awesome

[@dawg338]

They’re not stolen assets, they are borrowed sprites heavily altered, or inspired from. You want to claim something is stolen, you can look at the many covers from ‘80s NES titles such as Metal Gear Solid 2 or Contra which where created off of the pics from Terminator, Predator and Aliens, but no one cares.

[@DarkOverlord96]

Those were made in the 80s and sometimes they even got into legal trouble. Also, that's not "borrowing" that's STEALING, it's no different than a Chinese toy company "borrowing" assets for bootlegs.

[@dawg338]

@@DarkOverlord96 A lot of "assets" of games are used in other games that are heavily altered, technically maybe they aren't legal since I'm no lawyer, but people do it all the time on whatever. I seriously doubt anyone is getting sued over it and Nintendo loves to sue.

[@mechadeka]

Where are all these clueless children pouring in from?

[@TBoneTony]

I think there was a Fire Emblem Clone game that was released on the PS1/PS2 during the 2001/2002 year and I think that was how Microsoft Snowboard Game Dev got that character asset from. But that is just a theory that I think happened.

[@theta9273]

Those cutscenes you shared really got me wondering what the game's story even is

[@c0rps3k1ttie]

Ngl, i want that game

[@AlexTheHorrid]

Well, that was a lot more underwhelming than I was expecting

[@Strangeisntit_real]

🎣

[@Cylyx]

It took you 10 minutes to show an edited sprite. Well done…

[@Bacchus325]

20min video and 9min of fluff to tell us they stole a single image of Roy... Insane.

[@Wolf_bit64]

The hell do you mean the binding blade wasn’t localized? it literally was sure it wasn’t called the binding blade, but it was the binding blade. It was literally the first fire emblem game released in the west.

[@SSBBPOKEFAN]

You're thinking of The Blazing Blade, Binding Blade's prequel.

[@RayanfhoulaBR]

open video, skip half of it, finally get to see what was the stolen asset, close video

[@Strangeisntit_real]

🎣

[@JayLeeBeanz]

Install Revanced, if on mobile. Skips half of the video for you. (also no ads, etc)

[@-Insert_name_here-]

Nintendo is like the disney villain of gaming just a huge PoS for no real reason

[@RnA.2]

Lol, seeing you reference Nick at the end shows I wasn't the only one thinking that it's funny seeing someone beat him to the punch on some obscure game knowledge. Though also, it's just the fact this kind of video is usually what his content is too. Hope some devs from back then do come out of the woodworks though, since whoever gets that scoop, you included ofc, I'll be there's an interesting little narrative there hopefully.

[@hamlet1055]

When you were talking about the character voice tone customization in Amped 3 I was thinking about Fire Emblem Awakening for the Nintendo 3DS with the player Avatar customization. When I saw the sprite I didn't recognize the asset of the character they were using but I knew it was from a GBA Fire Emblem entry, I thought it was Ephraim from Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones because if you noticed something they inserted that games logo to that part of Amped 3, however it seems they used Sacred Stones logo, put Roy's sprite and story portrait but forcely inserted Ephraim's hairline and color scheming to Roy's portrait.

[@Artis_OTS]

Game was a fever dream, 3rd game I got on my 360 a week after I got the system for my birthday in early 2007. Game was so wacky yet so fun. I kinda miss it

[@midnightryder36]

Same here. Wish it were backward compatible on the xBox One.

[@dubslymp4]

To answer the question posed in the thumbnail: They stole assets from Nintendo

[@mother_foxxer]

i kinda forgot i was here for stolen assets. now i wanna hear nick talk about the game more.

[@PsychosStudio1]

No hate or anything, but this is actually the first video ever on youtube that pisses me off in 20+ years of existence, other than that solid video

[@fakesanityab777]

This video didnt need to be 19 minutes long

[@JayLeeBeanz]

​@DgovuoBut it really didn't. There wasn't enough stolen/not a big enough story around it to deliver 19 minutes of content. Yippee, a heavily inspired and referenced icon where a tweet would've been sufficient. Heck, I'd gladly watch a video twice as long about stolen assets - when it actually talks about stolen assets.

[@sourcherrycrunch]

aint no way u look anything like that little anime girl, big bro

[@NickEx00]

yeah i don't lmao, i just wanted to have something in the video to help visualize things throughout the video, so i used one of my OC's for this 💀 ig that it's cringe but idrc tbh

[@sourcherrycrunch]

@@NickEx00 well at least you're honest 🍣🛣

[@camharkness]

Man youre gonna have a stroke when you learn about vtubers.

[@ChrisShredfield]

Did u expect him to look like it?

[@ambrose3560]

Uhh, no shit?

[@Master-Cunninglinguist]

1:52 you unlocked some core memories of me in the library in High school playing fan made Nintendo games from websites recommended by others.

[@bablingbafoon8976]

I clicked on this video for Amped 3. Like you it was a big part of my childhood. I loved it so much and I wish we have more games like it.

[@SchnitzelRada]

9:17 this was when I remembered I clicked on the video to hear about how a company stole from Nintendo. I don't know if it's how you were explaining it or the game itself but I was super interested in hearing about "Amped 3".

[@Faebiebot]

I wouldn't be surprised if that asset was just a placeholder that never got changed out for final release.

[@maxjustice1542]

I imagine the devs were in a rush. The art team took whatever they could find. Change sprites to release this on time. Maybe there was one FE fan that just like Roy. Those little details/easter eggs that developers can get away with are cool. It’s also interesting that this normal looking snowboarding game has wacky cutscenes. Thanks for sharing about this.