Pokémon developer Game Freak reels from unprecedented "gigaleak" of "significant internal data"
Update 11.44am: Game Freak has acknowledged the leak in a Japanese-language statement posted to its website on 10th Oct…
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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.
Source code was leaked? This will be a great time for modders if they can get their hands on it.
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:
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)
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.
Map editor sounds interesting.
It does! And it would be damn great fuel for the ROMHacks that Nintendo has a burning hate against.
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.
Right, because a hacker getting vengeance for those abuses totally isn't the narrative people would prefer.
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:
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.
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.
But are they competent enough for that?
Fuck - you're right, they aren't.
Nevermind my conjecture then, it's probably as you said.
Leaking news is one thing, leaking actual source code another. Maybe someone who's salty with Nintendo.