• Lvxferre
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    1 month ago

    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
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      421 month ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        321 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]
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        91 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)

    • @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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      391 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.

      • Lvxferre
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        171 month ago

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

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        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]
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      71 month ago

      Right, because a hacker getting vengeance for those abuses totally isn’t the narrative people would prefer.

      • Lvxferre
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        Right, because a hacker getting vengeance for those abuses totally isn’t the narrative people would prefer.

        Maybe, in the short term. But as people feel like the vengeance was successful, the topic gets its emotional conclusion. Then the focus shifts from how that leak popped up to the contents of the leak:

        • code and map editors for really old (more than a decade old) games
        • tidbits of info that might excite people about new games

        Of course, I might be 100% wrong, and the leak might be actually the result of someone getting undue access to that content, or some insider getting pissed and leaking the info that they had at hand. I just think that Nintendo+GF+TPC are scummy enough to forge being leaked for their own benefit.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          Scummy, yes. But are they competent enough for that? At underhanded public relations specifically? I feel like, if they ever listened to the sort of manipulator who’d suggest this, they’d stop strangling fan projects in the first place. Yuzu and maybe Palworld might plausibly have impacted their immense revenue, but there’s a pattern of hyperactive iron-fisted legal horseshit that’s gone on for decades.

          • Lvxferre
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            41 month ago

            But are they competent enough for that?

            Fuck - you’re right, they aren’t.

            Nevermind my conjecture then, it’s probably as you said.

    • DarkThoughts
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      11 month ago

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