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Nintendo is using copyright strikes to take down YouTube videos that detail how to hack the recently released Game &amp; Watch: Super Mario Bros. color handheld.A hacker going by the handle stacksmashing managed to hack the portable unit , thanks to an early retail delivery. But a YouTube video detailing that hacking method, , was by a earlier this week. Another stacksmashing video, entitled "Bringing homebrew to the Nintendo Game &amp; Watch," has also been taken down by an apparent copyright claim.Two other stacksmashing videos on Game &amp; Watch hacking remain up as of press time: one detailing , and one . Neither of these extant videos features footage of Nintendo's own games shown running on the Game &amp; Watch; such footage is specifically blurred out in one of the videos, in fact.Nintendo doesn't seem to be automatically targeting all Game &amp; Watch: Super Mario Bros. gameplay footage on YouTube; you can still find reviewing the unit while featuring copyrighted footage, for instance. But Nintendo's copyright on the games themselves on which "performances" of those games to allow or block through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.Unlike the NES and SNES Classic Edition consoles, which were to hack via a direct USB cable connection, the Game &amp; Watch:&nbsp;Super Mario Bros.&nbsp;unit features a locked CPU, AES-encrypted flash memory, and no data connection through the USB-C charger. Hacking the Game &amp; Watch thus currently requires cracking open the system and back and forth.Stacksmashing that they're editing the videos in question and will file disputes in an attempt to get them back on the service. Nintendo has not responded to a request for comment from Ars Technica.Listing image byYou must to comment.

Nintendo is using copyright strikes to take down YouTube videos that detail how to hack the recently released Game &amp; Watch: Super Mario Bros. color handheld.A hacker going by the handle stacksmashing managed to hack the portable unit , thanks to an early retail delivery. But a YouTube video detailing that hacking method, , was by a earlier this week. Another stacksmashing video, entitled "Bringing homebrew to the Nintendo Game &amp; Watch," has also been taken down by an apparent copyright claim.Two other stacksmashing videos on Game &amp; Watch hacking remain up as of press time: one...

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