Smokedaddy

Serin sees the world through distorted lenses. He likens his critics to "elementary school bullies" when a more apt analogy would be that they're adults, increasingly annoyed with a bratty second-grader who thinks schoolwork is beneath him and stealing people's lunch money is a pretty neat idea.

He is also being disingenuous when he says any of the haterz became his friends. I know some of the people in question, and none would count him as a friend.

He didn't make mistakes. He committed crimes. Major crimes. Felonies across four states totaling well over two million dollars. His wife left him not because of finances, at least directly, but rather from a pattern of lies and mental abuse so awful it was a wonder she lasted as long as she did.

Next time you see Casey, ask him about what really happened on 9/11. (He'll tell you all about how the Jews did it.) He swallows any crackpot theory whole, be it financial, historical, medical, social, or you name it, as long as he is promised secrets "they" don't want you to know. He has utter disdain for education and regards work as something for the rest of them; the condescension is so deep you need a snorkel to breathe sometimes. He fancies himself an "investor," despite never having invested anything but other people's money (another of his desiderata) and an "entrepreneur," despite never having a business that lasted more than a few days, or a business plan that was ever coherent enough to write down.

Midway, through some really amazingly boneheaded legal maneuvering, managed to lose the rights to the name "NBA Jam" to Acclaim several years ago when they had Acclaim do the console ports. I have no idea how they managed it, but that's why it's been NBA Shootout and Ballers and whatever else since. Even though Acclaim subsequently went bankrupt before the name was bought by Howard Marks and he started doing . . . well, whatever it is he's doing, Midway still can't use the name.

Now ninjas have kidnapped Bob's game. Fuckin' ninjas anyway.

Bob has become tiresome, but I keep watching to see how weird it can get before it collapses under its own weight to form a sort of huge weirdness-burrito.

A game built with the official SDK can be put on a cartridge and sold. The build will contain codes that give the hardware permission to run the game, and the licensee can be identified so you just DON'T let your tools and codes leak out. You can't legally sell a cart built with anything but a licensed SDK; the DRM can be worked around (hence the existence of flash carts) but Nintendo would go into their pack-of-rabid-wolverines-on-speed act if you tried. No retailer would touch such a thing.

Security is one of the prerequisites for a developer license that Bob probably doesn't meet. Looking over the license agreement, I don't understand how he claims to meet most of the requirements because he's clearly not even close.

Along with access to the tools and support, they issue a unique crypto key to each official developer. It's used when making a cartridge-ready build.

If he got the SDK and torrented the result, platoons of savage Nintendo lawyers would descend upon him like a pack of rabid wolverines on speed. The smell of napalm in the morning is all that would be left. Nintendo can tell instantly from the second-party crypto key whose SDK made a build.

Speaking as a Nintendo developer with access to the dev tools, Bob is doing several things wrong and is operating under some severely incorrect assumptions.

Nintendo does not grant developer priveleges to games, but rather to developers. Bob doesn't have sufficient experience, expertise, track record, sufficient facilities, financial stability, nor connections no matter what he says. Nintendo has no obligation to waive the requirements for one person; if they did so, they would alienate all the developers who worked very hard to qualify for their status.

It is never good practice to direct creepy insults towards the president of the company in order to get what you want. Even if it could be overlooked because he targets the president of NOA, his claims to be better than Miyamoto would not sit well in Japan. The effective approach is to bubble up from the bottom, not attack the top. He has effectively severed all ties with Nintendo at this point; the most he can expect from them is a lawsuit if he persists in his foolish direction.

Developer status is only granted when the relationship is perceived to be profitable to both sides. At Bob's rate of output, he would not be able to produce another DS title while the DS is still a viable platform. Not only that, but he has no way to document, manufacture, package, sell, and ship product to retailers -- this is a publisher's job, but he states he doesn't want a publisher. Obviously, he is unclear on how the business operates. If he had engaged a publisher months ago, they could have easily added him to one of their developer shops' licenses and he would have all the tools he wants, plus a way to get the game on shelves. He refuses all of this, so Nintendo will never approve him.

Were he to sign with a publisher, the title "Bob's game", the "a game by one person" subtitle, the character name "Yuu", and the final boss "Bob" would be gone before the ink dried on the contract.

To wrap up:
1) Despite his claims, he flatly doesn't come anywhere near meeting the requirements for developer status and access to the tools. Either he doesn't understand, or he's lying.

2) He has no way to manufacture, package, sell, or ship cartriges.

3) The game is of dubious quality. He refuses to show it beyond some video clips (some of which were obviously done on the PC), and no one will take a chance on such a thing, ever. If he showed more, maybe he could prove this wrong. So far, he won't.

4) He continually insults Nintendo upper management. This is unlikely to make them sympathetic toward his cause.

5) He insults some of the most powerful people at Nintendo of Japan (Miyamoto, for starters). This is practically unforgivable.

6) His output is unlikely to ever generate more titles while his license, were it granted, exists.

7) He doesn't have the financial resources nor the physical space to host a development effort larger than one person. His finances are questionable to begin with: where does he get the money to work full time on a game for 5 years, buy computers, game consoles, and keyboards, make trips to GDC, and have a space where he can be barricaded for 100 days with no income?

8) He is either an incredible drama queen hoping to create "buzz" by his antics, or he's very unstable. Neither one will induce Nintendo to give him developer access.

tl;dr, I know, but there it is.

Schumin!
His picture should not link to Wal-Mart, but rather to http://www.schuminweb.com/index.htm

I'm diabetic. There have been times when I've been injected with a 31-gauge needle and I really couldn't feel it, let alone have any painful sensation. That's the thinnest available. A needle that's, say, half that diameter could still deliver a usable flow and be practically undetectable.

When there's pain, it comes from the volume of the dose, not the needle prick. Mind you, that's subcutaneous, not intravenous or intramuscular.