I agree, I actually got my answer in one way or another, so I have to thank you for all the input. It's not like I am going to ignore what you guys said, I will keep that all in mind, and try it, at the very least. If not, well, I will release it without. Easy peasy.

From that list, only ones that are relevant for this discussion would be in terms of reverse-engineering the game, NOT if the source code was provided by the devs, NOT if the source code was leaked, NOT if the source code was somehow recreated. ONLY if reverse engineered and from that subset, those ...

According to you, tell me games that are popular and good, have potential appeal, etc and have source code available?

I will be waiting.

I am very confident I can manage to protect it with all that I have learned from this topic and other sources. Like I said, I will try, doesn't hurt trying. Back to creating? I am already creating basically, this protection will just be after on top, like a layer added. When you say never release to...

Well hard to say without trying right? So at the very least, I will try, and if not... well I will not consider the DRM scheme as you call it.

I could in that case make it like what PokeMMO is doing, so basically, the assets are not coming from them, you the user have to provide the assets and the game will just use them, but the game itself has nothing to do with Nintendo. PokeMMO is still going on even after all these years using that me...

I am not stealing anything, not sure what you mean. This will not be for sale. It will be for free. The concept of stealing makes sense only if you are going to make money out of it. And as far as I know, I am making my own code in Lua, Nintendo never did anything in Lua, or at least not for Zelda.

Considering it is based on Legend of Zelda, it will get many players interested, so the numbers are most likely guaranteed.

But I totally understand what you are saying, I will take that into consideration and still think about it of course.

Maybe I will just make the game like a client-server thing. So client (what players have access to) is just going to be display and input (player movement), everything else is going to be handled by the server (for example on my PC or some other host) by UDP networking. There is no way for them to g...

For me, it's not about the money, it's about someone else claiming they did what I did and I don't want that.

I want to be "known" as the only person who managed to implement that, you feel me?