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So a bunch of 90's Nintendo stuff just got leaked.
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ROMhack
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Tarin02543
Member
I want details on project Atlantis, the never released game boy successor.
JSoup
Banned
Yep. I've been following the Pokemon Proto discords progress for the last handful of hours. Someone took the lions share of the information, archived it and then dumped the archive to them without a password saying "here it is, haha fuck you". They've been trying to break into it since sometime early yesterday.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Bullet Club
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EightBit Man
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Geki-D
Banned
Not just Nintendo:
www.windowscentral.com
Original Xbox source code reportedly leaked
Two different compilations of source code are now out in the wild
www.windowscentral.com
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Nice to the emulation community
Geki-D
Banned
Any emulator that uses it will be breaking the law because the source code is still copyrighted.
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Doesn't have to be the original code, but a translation to port
Tarin02543
Member
put an extra comma in the code, problem solved.
JSoup
Banned
We also have the source codes for gen 1, 2 and 3. Having those is aiding in reconstructing Pokemon Pink from what little there was.
Perhaps someday, but it's very likely not going to be in this batch. The leak in OP is from way before the gamecube was even a dream.
Perhaps someday, but it's very likely not going to be in this batch. The leak in OP is from way before the gamecube was even a dream.
Shadowstar39
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I was in jr high during this time period. It was actually pretty awesome for movies, games, culture, everything except the fashion attire that sucked. I don't think that was just jock wear. I wasn't a jock and had those mc hammer/skidz parachute pants and even a mullet at one point.
Remember this was the time NES was king, we had SMB3, Zelda 2, FF1,FF4, TG-16/Genesis launch, great pc games like ultima underworld, ultima 7, MM4, Gold box d&D, Wolf3d, Sierra games, etc.. Also St: tng was still being made at this time point, as well as great movies.
Also I don't think they had to get up too early. Remember they used a crap ton of hair spray. It probably stayed in their sleep. Perms tend to do that.
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Geki-D
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It isn't that simple. For them not to be sued they have to make it look like a "clean room design". Any signs of the code can be reasons for a lawsuit and with the source code being leaked, you can bet anything that gets released will be looked at with massive scrutiny.
JSoup
Banned
Them who?
When it's finished, it's going to be cold released.
No one place, it's just out there and people can find it.
Unless they plan on suing the whole internet, the legality means nothing.
This has worked in the past as well.
theclaw135
Banned
it's not nintendo, but will radio allergy finally leak? the gamecube localization was canned.
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deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
That's why I said "port". The dev see the original code, translate the cycles to C or whatever, there you go
Square2015
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Waiting for someone to dive into NCL’s alleged master database of NPD sales data from the ‘80s and early ‘90s. It has been confirmed that it exists and I’m surprised in this day and age US sales data is still so kept in lockdown, even data from decades ago....when is 4chan finally gonna find that?
JSoup
Banned
The information has likely already been 'found'. The more rare or specific a type of errata is, the more likely it is to be horded by a particular class of collector to be used as trading fodder for other type of errata from other collectors. This is how piles of data and long lost PC games are 'found'.
Knightime_X
Member
I just want a competent well made N64 emulator.
That's all I ask.
That's all I ask.
JSoup
Banned
Already exists, here you go: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/para...d-accurate-n64-emulation-is-now-here.1522626/
Geki-D
Banned
The people who make emulators. You never found it odd that emulators are perfectly legal but BIOS & ROMS aren't? It's because emulators are made from the ground up as original. Once one uses anything from copyrighted source code, it becomes as illegal as the ROMS, and nearly all of these emulator makers are well known teams.
Sorry but you're showing you have like a child level understanding of copyright law. If you think a company can just outright steal code, change a few lines and get away with it then I don't know what to tell you.
JSoup
Banned
Wait, stop, right there. You missed my point. The first line is part of the second line. The idea is the thing will be made, then dumped straight to an image board or passed around on discord. There will be no 'who' to sue, as the product will just suddenly appear online one day with no signing. That's why it's called a 'cold release' and it's worked many, many times before.
zeomax
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The emulators are open source. So who or what is stopping someone to make a fork and add the leaked Nintendo code in to it?
Geki-D
Banned
It seems you missed mine. From the start I've been talking about any emulators that would incorporate the source code as a part of their build without making it look like a prefect clean room design. I guess you're talking about shady versions? See below.
Nothing, so long as they don't intend to mass distribute it like most other emulators. What emulator do you think people actually get? Project 64 made by Zilmar which has an official site or bootleg, passed around shady forums Project 64 off shot with illegal source code in it? Now which do you think is more likely to use the illegal source code? Known team built official Project 64 build off their official download page, or dodgy sourced, unofficial Project 64?
Ultimately nothing is stopping the source code from being used, but don't expect any of the actual major emulation teams currently working on emulators to use it.
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JSoup
Banned
I didn't miss it, I was just confused as to why you thought it was relevant. What you're describing as a 'not gonna happen' scenario is happening. It's happened before, countless times, from the earliest days of game emulation. Crowing on about how they'll never make it look legal means nothing. It's meant nothing before this point, it'll mean nothing after it.
Actually, four have already confirmed over their discord channels that the leaked code is being used to make improvements. If they can use it as a learning tool, it'll improve what already exists. If they find it's simpler to just use the source as is, they'll do what I said and just straight dump a user friendly version out there with no signing. This is nothing new.
Grinchy
Banned
Oh wow, now anyone can access the same assets the developers used on the brand new Switch version!
wvnative
Member
Thought it was everything up until the early Wii days, my mistake