No. It was the prerogative of "the owner" to start a career based off of stealing Namco's IP, hacking it up illegally and then tricking a confused court system into dragging things out long enough for the real IP owners to throw their hands up in the air and buy them out so they could leave the pain in the ass and go back to Japan. Decades later when the anniversary editions came out they had the retard nuts to sue Namco again based off of the previous lawsuit agreement. I guess today they are kinda paranoid about releasing a rom set that only they have since even they can't come up with a distorted way of arguing that they "own" it in court since it was bought by the company who already owned it in the 80's lawsuit. It would be funny to watch the same thing try to play out today. It would be like some guy hacking World of Warcraft to make it run faster and change some of the face graphics and title screen to look unprofessional, and then try to sell it. You wouldn't know this because you ignore pertinent information that comes up on the forum if it doesn't plug directly into your agenda and also you suffer from Ass Burgers Syndrome making you a socially inept.