Official Prism requires you to sign in with a Microsoft account at least once. But since Prism is open source, you can also download unofficial builds with no Microsoft anything whatsoever.

You can download both and see which one tickles your fancy more, but I prefer Mineclonia. There WILL be differences as Luanti is a fundamentally different engine from Minecraft, but generally you’ll feel right at home.

Currently the biggest differences for me are that lapis lazuli is stupidly rare compared to Minecraft, and there are no unique stepping sounds for other mobs so it’s like Alpha and Beta where a creeper’s footsteps can blend in with chickens, cows, and pigs. Dual wielding is also currently primitive, and Nether portals tend to put you in the middle of lava seas. Caves are stupidly dark but that might get improved on.

But I did manage to build myself a nice big house with an inner courtyard, and get myself to the End and come back with an elytra and shulker boxes.

The unofficial Minecraft Pocket Edition Launcher you seem to have alluded to in your edit is pretty nice, and feels almost as if it’s a native port of Bedrock to Linux. All the Google and Android stuff is abstracted away.

Minecraft already has too much big tech influence on it with Microsoft, let’s not add Valve’s grubby fingers into the pie now, shall we?

And yet the Microsoft account migration which can be easily defeated by a JSON file according to you has attracted a class action lawsuit. Curious. Almost as if circumventing it is not my point.

Microsoft account DRM isn’t enough for you?

I mean, there are no ads, but I only made it deep into the first level. This can absolutely change with updates for the better or worse - whether Konami will do it or not is doubtful IMO. This seems to me like a quiet, lazy promotion.

The activities in case you use something like App Manager are few, and there are no trackers or permissions it requests or anything, fairly benign. The activity labeled Check Data is to reload a previous state if you previously quit the game prematurely? And the activities labeled Kiyaku are for the terms and conditions (that’s the Japanese word for them). It doesn’t have DRM or license verification.

The manual just explains the controls and is an overlay on top of the gameplay screen, it’s not the original NES manual.

I couldn’t figure out how to pull the NES ROM out, I think it’s part of the .so library they’re using.

I wouldn’t play this with just touch controls, but you may try. It has a single save-state system so you can brute force actions even with touch controls if you want.

We don’t hear this enough. Google doesn’t hear this enough.

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