Back when we first noticed developer Botond Kopacz using an unlicensed Yoshi model in his Android game Era's Adventure, we predicted the game would come off the Google Play store quickly after going through the normal post-release copyright complaint process. Instead, the game lives on, now with slight modifications to the Yoshi character model made at Nintendo's request.

Speaking to Kotaku recently, Kopacz confirmed that he was working with Nintendo to make sufficient changes to make his game's main character distinct from the famous dinosaur. "[Nintendo] did with rightly since the original Era was Yoshi's character [sic]." Kopacz told Kotaku. "The new Era is also similar to Yoshi but we are cooperating with Nintendo about the changes required by them, but till that time the only thing that we could do is to re-color it, remove the carapace and some other parts and make some changes in 'Eras' head shape."

A new trailer for the game shows the new Era looking a bit like a Yoshi that has gone a few rounds with TV network executives that wanted to make him look "hipper" for the kids. The proportions have been micro-sized, Yoshi's saddle has been replaced with some colorful tail spikes, and Era is now wearing a backwards baseball cap, as if to say "Yoshi wouldn't wear a baseball cap like this, would he?"

Last month, Kopacz told Ars that his use of Yoshi's copyrighted model was inadvertent. "I purchased a cute character from TurboSquid, one of the biggest 3D asset stores, without knowing the background story of the character Yoshi, since I'm not a Super Mario fan," he said at the time. Regardless of the motivations, it's nice to see Nintendo working with a developer to fix the issue rather than simply throwing its legal weight towards obliterating all traces of the game.

The updated game is up on the Google Play store for $1.79, and it's also available as a free trial.