Quote: "pirates ugh "
he never said anything about stealing...
Maybe it was for a fan game or something else.
Personally i dont see any reason why he cannot import models for his own "game" as long as he doesnt upload his game on the internet..
Or giving away his game by CD/USB stick or whatever..
Or sell/claiming/giving away/ the imported models.
If you look over the internet there are many fan-games...which contains models from the original game.
Or remakes of the models which look almost the same.
Airslide made a Doom fan game (tried it and it was certainly good!) nobody ever said anything about it...why? Dont know.
Anywho i didnt try to make anyone upset or angry or anything else..
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Also i dont know if anyone sometimes looks at the RPG maker forums etc..
You can see that you can download lots of SNES RPG sprites.
From Zelda to Seiken Densetsu to even Pokemon.