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Undertale Yellow

Undertale Yellow

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About

Undertale Yellow is a fan-made prequel to Undertale that was made by Team Undertale Yellow. The fan-game stars a cowboy character named Clover, who was the child who fell into Mount Ebott before Frisk, and quickly became a favorite for fans of the original Undertale game. Shortly after it's release, a controversy brewed involving the game's soundtrack and usage of music found in Undertale, which gathered a lot of attention for it.

History

The game was first revealed as an early alpha on April 30th, 2016, on the YouTube channel MasterSwordRemix[1]. In the reveal trailer, the lore of the game is explained as taking place before the established story in Undertale, showing familiar faces and not breaking from the original canon (shown below, left). Other progress videos would be posted to the same YouTube channel until the game's official release[2] on December 9th, 2023, in which a launch trailer of the completed game was posted and received over 1 million views in over one week (shown below, right).



Audio Controversy

On December 20th, 2023, the @UndertaleYellow official X[3] account posted that their corporate office told them to remove 100 songs from the OST, and that 35 tracks would be streamable on various platforms. This was then QRT'd by @SebastianWolff[4] the CEO of MateriaMusic, the video game producer that handles Undertale's music, giving an explanation that quickly went viral when a challenge was issued to prove that Toby Fox gave Undertale Yellow the rights to use the music for a bounty of $10,000 (shown below, left and right).


Undertale Yellow @UndertaleYellow Corporate said we had to eradicate 100 tracks off our OST but on the bright side, you can now stream UTY music! UNDERTALE YELLOW SELECTS 5:17 PM Dec 20, 2023 647.2K Views . 35 TRACKS NOW STREAMING ♫ music Sebastian Wolff @SebastianWolff - Dec 21, 2023 Let's unpack the music of Undertale Yellow! I don't speak for Toby/Royal Sciences, who hold multiple trademarks and copyrights. I'm not an attorney, this is not legal advice; this is general insight into the graces by which fangames of non-litigious rightsholders get to exist Undertale Yellow @UndertaleYellow - Dec 20, 2023 Corporate said we had to eradicate 100 tracks off our OST but on the bright side, you can now stream UTY music! UNDERTALE YELLOW SELECTS 634 Sebastian Wolff @SebastianWolff 1766 35 TRACKS NOW STREAMING 183 music ill 2.6M : ⠀ How about this: show me "clearly defined permission" that Toby granted 7 years ago, which covers all of these uses, and I'll personally donate $10k to Undertale Yellow's dev team and retract this whole thread. 6:07 PM - Dec 21, 2023 869.5K Views

This controversy continued to build over the following weeks, with Undertale Yellow[5] releasing further word on January 2nd, 2024, in which they explain that they had been in talks with Toby Fox behind the scenes to make it so any issues resulting from the audio and musical rights for YouTube videos can be safely resolved. This later created further arguing which resulted in Toby Fox having a statement be released by Undertale Yellow[6] in which he says that he is donating $20,000 to the charity of Undertale Yellow's choice, AbleGamers (shown below, left and right).


Undertale Yellow @UndertaleYellow Jan 2 An update on the music situation: Howdy! As you may know, recently, Undertale Yellow was at the forefront of a discussion around music copyright. This was an unexpected event, but we wanted to clear things up as soon as possible, do right by the rules, and put an end to copyright claims on UTY-related content. Since then, we have been in talks behind the scenes to resolve these issues. Thanks to the cooperation and hard work of Toby Fox and Materia Collective, any YouTube claim that occurs can now be disputed and released - much like how UNDERTALE's music works. We thank you all for being so passionate for UTY and its music, and hope this situation paves a better path for fanworks of the future. Much love ALT 231 3.5K 29K ılı 2.6M 口企 Sebastian Wolff @SebastianWolff • Jan 4 hey @KaiserNeko clearly defined permission for all of these uses (trademarks, copyrights, derivatives) 7 years ago Yes popularist hottake funny, but feel free to, er, unabridge, the full thread Sebastian Wolff @SebastianWolff Dec 21, 2023 Replying to @ozionian How about this: show me "clearly defined permission" that Toby granted 7 years ago, which covers all of these uses, and I'll personally donate $10k to Undertale Yellow's dev team and retract this whole thread. 374 244 130 ₁970K Undertale Yellow @UndertaleYellow Toby Fox has asked us to relay this message on his behalf "Sebastian is right. The UNDERTALE Yellow team did not receive explicit permission from me to publish any music until recently. However, even if Sebastian is technically correct, the way that he handled this situation was wrong. Making a bet against a creator of a fanwork is extremely unprofessional in a way I shouldn't even have to explain. As I have explained to Sebastian in private -- if well-meaning fans have made a mistake, it should be our job to figure out how to help them make it right. More than anything, we should be supporting the love and passion of our fans at every opportunity. As a token of apology, I have donated $20,000 to the charity of UNDERTALE Yellow Team's choice - AbleGamers. You can consider it as $10k for Sebastian, and $10k from myself. Moving forward, I'd like to create a more clear set of guidelines for the usage of UNDERTALE's audio, as well as provide better information on how to license the music properly. Thanks everyone for being understanding." ... - Toby

Fan Content

@harpicgold { #undertaleyellow } They make me cry 2.0 #undertaleyellowclover #undertaleyellowcloveredit #undertale #undertaleau #undertaleedit #undertaleyellowedit #undertaleyellowpacifist #undertalepacifist #angst #characterdeath #undertalejustice #justice #undertalejusticesoul #edit #edits #harpicgold #fy #fyp ♬ Bohemian Rhapsody – Remastered 2011 – Queen

@tobsterlobsterr CEROBA 😨 . . . #undertale #yellow #undertaleyellow #ceroba #cerobaketsukane #undertaleyellowgenocide #undertalegenocide #viral #famous #rpg #meme #fight #death #fup #foryoupage #fyp #xybca ♬ original sound – dr pupper 💕
@ilfrisk687 #undertale #yellow #реки #рек #fyp #on #fyr #bro #9december #2023 ♬ original sound – ilfrisk

@finnworld007 Em 2023… #undertale #UT #undertaleyellow #undertalefangame #undertaleau #undertalebrasil #undertalebr ♬ som original – Finn_World

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External References

[1] YouTube – MasterSwordRemix

[2] YouTube – MasterSwordRemix

[3] X – Undertale Yellow

[4] X – SebastianWolff

[5] X – Undertale Yellow

[6] X – Undertale Yellow

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I plan to play it later today.

Since we play as the Yellow soul child I can already imagine how this is gonna end, but I gotta be strong and apreciate the work these fan devs put into a labor of love. Even if it's gonna hurt.

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