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Pokémon developer Game Freak reels from unprecedented "gigaleak" of "significant internal data" (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Summary:

  • Gen10 is on the works
  • Switch 2's internal codename is Ounces
  • GF and ILCA are co-producing a MP battle-focused game, codenamed Synapse
  • source code for HG/SS and B2/W2, plus map editor for R/S/E were leaked

Conjecture: I wouldn't be surprised if the TeraLeak in question wasn't planned out by Nintendo and Game Freak, to distract people from the fact that Nintendo is trying to harass a competitor out of the market and suing emulators back and right.

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Source code was leaked? This will be a great time for modders if they can get their hands on it.

[–] voracitude 33 points 1 month ago

Source code was leaked?

TFW it's just Pokemon Red copied and pasted 35 times, in Word 2003, with mail merge tokens to replace character, location, and skill names:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Hoping this gives the DS romhacking side a good kick in the pants. It's amazing what the community has done with R/S/E, but I'd love to see what they can get up to with fewer hardware limitations (while not going the full PC fangame route)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Conjecture: I wouldn't be surprised if the TeraLeak in question wasn't planned out by Nintendo and Game Freak, to distract people from the fact that Nintendo is trying to harass a competitor out of the market and suing emulators back and right.

Sorry, but at its worst, Nintendo is lawful evil. There's no way this is intentional.

[–] Kelly 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Map editor sounds interesting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

It does! And it would be damn great fuel for the ROMHacks that Nintendo has a burning hate against.

[–] AlexanderTheDead 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd have to see the mapeditor and confirm it's any good to care. We've had pretty capable (gen 3) map editing tools for years already. Considering what existing romhacking tools are already out there, I'm pretty skeptical that this will provide anything of value.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Leaking news is one thing, leaking actual source code another. Maybe someone who's salty with Nintendo.

[–] snekerpimp 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

30TB of the same game, rendered in different colors.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

No, the game data itself is 1 TB, but 29TB is their code to change colors

[–] TheTechnician27 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone get out your tiny violins.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

After mega evolution, z moves, protomorphosis (or however it is called), dynamax, ..., now finally: Gigaleaking

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd be cautious about running any "leaked" software directly, great way to identify the modding community if it dials home, maybe run it in a vm, behind a vpn? Unless it's just source code in which case carry on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t run it on original hardware but are there any known attack vectors where malware infects you via a ROM that runs in a trusted emulator?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was a vulnerability in Project64 so a malicious ROM could escape outside of the emulator. So while unlikely, it's certainly possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I knew someone would have thought of this. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Just talking about the map editor if it's an executable

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Nintendo gets what they fucking deserve.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Skyla was designed after latinas with big boobs in mind, kinda based.

[–] glimse 6 points 1 month ago

They found the files from a 2003 alpha build of Palworld with a text document listing all the Pal designs to steal