Some Questions About SoM?

[GeminiContractor]

Hello and ‎  let me be the first to welcome you to the forum for SoM... ‎  I am ‎  Madison Lastrega, I think you will find this forum a lot of fun and helpful if you wish to start a SoM project....... ‎ 

We are a close knit group for the most part.... Some of us including myself disapear for a spell but when were on.... Were on, so to speak.

Now the Questions ‎  ‎  1 Som is a japanese abandonware game maker from 1999 copywrite 2000.... Translated by the brilliant John Osborne ‎  a little over 5 years ago... it is out of print, but still avaiable on ebay from time to time.... So yeah sorta free... There is a copy on the home of SoM swordofmoonlight.com ‎  And translation patch.

2 ‎  Well Legal for abandonware I guess no one here has ever gotten a cease and disist if that answers your question

3 If you use your own assest ( models ect)and don't violate anyone elses copywrites, then Yes.

4. Thats a touchy subject for many years and still in debate by some , but for myself and a few others I would no.... A freeware title I don't think From would lose any sleep over and so far with over 5 complete SoM titles out there no one has had problems for making a freeware game with SoM.... Charger at your risk I say.

5 SoM has come along way thatks to a few clever folks , namly JDO and Holy Diver.... But the program is the SDK, it's a simple 1st person RPG maker :) ‎  that is hily customizable.......

and lastly Download the SoM demo Rathmore by Verdite, and see what you can do with some of holy divers extensions........ ‎  Good luck and hope to see you, others can clarify things better............................ML

Thanks for the welcome and information.

I was just wondering if what this website(link below) said was still true and hoping for clarification on its legality(whether you have to search all over the web for it, or just download it from here, but from what you say, I'm assuming it's in a gray area, perhaps either way)

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Also, I probably won't be here too often(I might even be gone for years), as I'm a very flaky person unfortunately.

Anyway, is there a full list of the games released that were made using SoM?
Lastly, is there anyway to play these games with a controller(Xbox 360) and controller mapping software?
Because, it would seem that the native controller support is a bit lacking and interferes with the controller software.