Mario Kart: Double Dash and three other fan PC ports hit by Nintendo takedowns

Nintendo legal department takedowns have removed four fan projects that allowed Mario and The Legend of Zelda games to run on computers. The affected source-code repositories for Mario Kart: Double Dash, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Tennis Fever, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD disappeared from public access in November. These decompilation and recompilation projects convert original executable code into C++ source code for Windows and Linux.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! · official art via IGDB

The company has not released an official statement regarding the specific removals, though circumstances point to copyright protection mechanisms such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The creator of PowerMoon confirmed on Reddit that public distribution had ended and stated no intention to contest the action. However, another user posted an improved copy of the project hours after the takedown. It remains unconfirmed whether Nintendo will target additional decompilation projects.