One Strike Removed For Copyright Infringement

QubicGames’s fighting game One Strike has been removed from the Nintendo Switch eShop in Japan (worldwide to follow). The webpage gives the user the error code 9001-1670 with the message “This software is currently not available.” The removal was by the publisher’s request, due to music copyright issues, with the soundtrack plagiarising the Famicom game Mouryou Senki MADARA.

QubicGames said that “the developer of the game paid a composer for the music. Both the developer and we, the publisher, were convinced that this track is an original work”, and that they are “preparing and releasing a new version of the game with another track as soon as possible”. Many thanks to naruki for his help in writing this. Both music tracks added below…

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