• @[email protected]
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    194 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    155 hours ago

    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]OP
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      55 hours ago

      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?

  • Lvxferre
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    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.

    • @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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      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.

    • Cosmonaut_Collin
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      296 hours 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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        144 hours 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:

      • Lvxferre
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        126 hours 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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      55 hours 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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          45 hours 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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            35 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    64 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    65 hours ago

    source code for HG/SS and B2/W2, plus map editor for R/S/E were leaked

    Everything that old should be public-domain anyway. Might as well publish the behind-the-scenes stuff as well.