Terms

These terms cover the Tessellate app, this website and the Tessellate Discord application. They are the same as the licence that ships with the app. Tessellate is free to download and use; by installing or using it you agree to them. If you don't agree, don't install or use it.

1. What you may do

You may download Tessellate from tessellate.games (or another place ms1748 publishes it), install it on your own computers, and use it, for free, for yourself and the people playing with you.

2. What you may not do

• Share, re-upload, sell or rent copies of Tessellate, or bundle it with anything else.
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where the law says you may.
• Change it, or make or share modified versions of it.

3. Your games and accounts

Tessellate starts games you already have installed. You are responsible for following the rules of each game and of the services you use it with (for example Steam, Discord and SteamGridDB). In particular:

• Use it only with games you own, and only as the game's own terms allow.
• Don't use it in online games that forbid split-screen tools, to cheat, or to get around anti-cheat.
• Your accounts and keys (such as a Steam Web API key) stay yours; you agree to those services' terms when you get them.

Tessellate is not made, endorsed or supported by Valve, Steam, Discord, SteamGridDB, Nintendo, or any game's publisher. Their names and marks belong to them.

4. Things Tessellate downloads for you

When you ask, Tessellate downloads tools made by other people from their own release pages: the Goldberg Steam emulator (gbe_fork) and emulators such as RetroArch and its cores, Dolphin, melonDS and mGBA. They are not part of Tessellate, keep their own licences, and some of those licences allow personal, non-commercial use only. Tessellate never downloads games, ROMs, BIOS files or keys, and you must not use it with copies you aren't allowed to have.

5. Updates

Tessellate checks for updates and tells you when one is ready; you choose when to install it. You can turn the check off in Settings. These terms apply to updates too.

6. Privacy

Tessellate has no account and no telemetry; crash reports are off unless you turn them on, and a problem report is sent only when you press Send. What it keeps on your PC and what it sends, and to whom, is in the privacy note.

7. No warranty

Tessellate is provided as is, without any warranty. It changes game files and settings temporarily and works with games it doesn't control, so back up what matters to you. ms1748 is not liable for any damage or loss from using it (such as lost saves or game bans), as far as the law allows.

8. Your rights under local law

Nothing in these terms takes away rights that the law where you live gives you and that can't be waived by agreement.

9. Ending

If you break these terms, your right to use Tessellate ends, and you must delete your copies. ms1748 may stop offering Tessellate at any time.

10. Changes

These terms may change in a later version; the version that ships with an update applies from when you install it. The date above shows the latest.

11. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States, without taking away the protection of section 8.

The Discord application

The Discord application only shows your current game and player count as Rich Presence, and only when you turn it on in the app. It reads nothing from your Discord account or servers.

Third-party software and contact

Tessellate includes software by other people under their own licences (for example ProtoInput, under the MIT licence). They are listed, with their licences, in the app's Credits (Settings › Updates & about) and on the credits page. Nothing here limits the rights those licences give you.

Questions: legal@tessellate.games.