You all acted like it was a big deal in 2020 but 3 years later, what did it acomplish?
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What came out of the Nintendo Gigaleak?
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You all acted like it was a big deal in 2020 but 3 years later, what did it acomplish?
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>guy gets source code to beloved video game
>guy is a redditor
>proceeds to do a reddit and return it to blizzard
why?
His identity was already known. He would've been royally fucked over if he uploaded it.
Could he have sold it privately? I'd rather money over a trip to blizzcon and a bag of cheap blizzard junk
Good luck with that.
Anybody who uses it for their own projects will immediately get sued, so that rules pretty much all prospective buyers.
Unless there's some sort of super secret black market for stolen source code for people who collect leaks "just because".
A hoarder would've bought it just to have it. Then they would've bragged about it on reddit, and probably wound up sending it back to blizzard for a funko pop and some good boy points.
The best move would've been to make a backup, sell it to a hoarder retard, and then leak it anonymously while acting like a third party who happens to have another copy and saw the buzz about it.
You just do what THOUSANDS of people have done in the past.
Don't blurt out that you have it, rip it, upload it.
Simple as.
That's not an option for egotists
>rip contents on burner laptop
>back up contents on usb
>upload it on starbucks wifi
>HEY EVERYONE FREE SOURCE CODE
>trash laptop to cover tracks
Wow that was hard
Caus ehes a huge fucking gay
>Guy is a epik channer instead
>He releases it to the wild
>Blizzard is aware of it
>Nobody on github or elsewhere can do shit with the files without risking prison
>nothing happens anyway
Wow, what a great time to be a channer.
yeah bro nobody plays mods of games using original source code
Name a single successful project based on leaked code, ever. Remember all those amazing games we got out of the leaked Half-Life 2 beta code? Me neither.
>wojax
Ignored.
>Name a single successful project based on leaked code, ever
Doom
Not a leak
Ragnarok Online.
Team Fortress 2 Classic
Open Fortress
Pre-Fortress 2
Most of the OG Xbox homebrews
Re-Volt. There's currently a Windows/Mac?/Linux build with code changed to better support newer OSes and the installer comes with like 200 cars and 100+ new tracks and you have a choice of the original OST, Dreamcast OST? and a new OST
The current IP owners are Chinese or something so absolutely nobody gives a fuck about the build made on stolen code
The current holders are actually Korean, and they apparently stole a fan patch and put it on the GOG release of Re-Volt.
Yeah, they did. I remember I purchased it and it went down shortly after. But it's back now I think?
Also here's what I'm talking about
https://re-volt.io
Duke Nukem Forever Restoration, but neither Embrace or Gearbox are doin shit about it
Some of the various reverse engineering projects, as well as emulators, benefit from that code.
Then all the leaked beta stuff is used in fan games and romhacks, especially Nintendo shit.
Resident Evil 1.5 is a fan project that is entirely thanks to leaks. Yada yada
NewDark's a fan-made source port for the Dark Engine games based on the leaked Thief 2 source code that some guy found on a Dreamcast devkit. So that's how come Thief: The Dark Project, Thief: Gold, System Shock 2 and Thief 2 run on modern computers without too much fuss. Modern digital releases of System Shock 2 even come with it pre-installed
Since when this was being worked on?
First time, i've heard of it
>Since when this was being worked on?
2012
>First time, i've heard of it
If you've played Thief 1, 2 or System Shock 2 in the last decade you've used it.
>Name a single successful project based on leaked code, ever.
If I remember correctly, Star Ocean was built on Tales of Phantasia's code after it's original programmers left Namco to form Tri-Ace.
MS DOS
The original Windows as well, I think.
You must not realize asia doesnt give a shit
all the bugs in sc2 could be fixed but the retard posted his full fucking name when saying he found it so was threatened with litigation
>"How is piracy of intellectual properties possible if it's illegal?"
Return the source to Blizzard, Mr. Reddit.
More than one copy of this CD in question was likely produced. It wouldn't implicate the guy if he dumped it before virtue signaling his "good character" in defending corporate interests while everyone only looks down at him in shame.
The real issue here is that people want their e-cred. You see this with all the fan games that get shut down because of course they do when you're running your mouth about how awesome your 3D Chrono Trigger is turning out. People will find something unique and the first thing they think to do is jerk off on camera like "look at what I got!"
man, I remember that 3d chrono trigger port. Fuck Square for shutting that down.
>Nobody on github or elsewhere can do shit with the files without risking prison
anon actual corporations admit to training AI (including ChatGPT) on leaked (i.e. illegally obtained) datasets from Facebook (aka Meta)
lol no it goes to places that don't care about copyright and they release ports for everything
The whole thing was a manufactured publicity stunt. You can stop being outraged over it.
Is this true? I'd like to read about that if you have a link.
It's true. I don't have a link, I just used my brain.
>Blizz already knows his identity
>guy leaks it
>Blizzard and their team of ex-deep state lawyers pounce
>make it legal to melt him and his entire family into biofuel
Personally I'd have at least copied the disc for myself for a leak many many years later. After five to ten years you have perfect cover because it's not like you can guarantee that the disc wasn't in someone else's possession before or after you found it or that it was the only one in existence.
We found out Super Donkey starred Mr. You.
and some fuckin starfox and castlevania bangers:
Wow, some of those songs sound just like Star Fox 2 music. That's neat.
Luigi.
i used the leaked NOA mouse test program and source code as a reference to help with my romhack...
Neat, that is cool that it gave you a starting point. I thought you just rammed it in and started going without a jacket on.
it was pretty helpful, the source code as well as the program itself because it printed the mouse registers on screen every frame giving a good understanding of how the peripheral behaves in action
https://snescentral.com/article.php?id=1240
the core gameplay is done. it still needs a bit of polish. release will be soon... hopefully by June...
i didn't copy paste anything but it was helpful in checking what i wrote against what NOA did ...that is my Official Answer™
Holy shit that looks done.
Good work, but can't your hack be legally taken down for that?
Please make a music selection screen. The music after 10k pop is bad and makes me drop the game.
shit taste
Few good noteworthy things, but mostlt just high quality renders and assets of OoT, early maps, and L is real, outside of that, some early builds and betas of Yoshi's Island and Pokemon Gold and Silver.
There were some other really random thing in there, like a late prototype of SNES Street Fighter II, and an early-mid build of Super Castlevania IV.
These really good art style screenshot recreations always have the absolute ugliest, biggest, and most obnoxious artist watermarks on them. God.
Great, now find some source codes for various Sega Saturn vidya. Sega will be proud of you.
The guy that made the leak happened was an autistic pokemon fag who only took mostly early dev shit for Pokemon with internal Nintendo shit/EADslop as second. Even got off from getting into legal trouble thanks to his autism and all.
We didn't even get any other stuff from other second party development like HAL, IntSys, Ape Inc. and fucking Retro and Rare.
I'm sadden that this shit's done and over with and there isn't gonna be another autist to pull this off again.
It kills me that the queer skimped over partnered depots....
I mean i dont see why it wouldnt happen again, especially if you can just use the autism card to get away with stuff. Either way it'd be something to talk about for a while
Pretty sure Nintendo encased their archives with tungsten after the GigaLeak,
and made damn sure to put it somewhere remote like an Intranet-only network on top of plastering kanji spell seals on their affiliates.
I think he means Nintendo's going to try their damnedest to make sure this never happens again.
What were you expecting, the Switch 2? Some lost-to-time gameboy? The assets and demos and everything else were amazing--it was a huge pile of shit from Nintendo that nobody had ever seen before. What was the legacy of it supposed to be in your eyes?
>Some lost-to-time gameboy?
There was quite a bit of materials relating to scrapped console/handheld designs. But they're not retro so I won't bring them up.
How hard is it to not be able to figure out that the absolute best course of action would have been to make backups without telling anyone, then send the original to Blizzard, collecting your free mousepad and good boy points, then immediately leaking it anonymously on the internet?
What's the big deal? It's really easy making a game like StarCraft nowadays with modern engines. Could pay a dozen pakistanis to make a 1:1 clone with gaydot. What modern games are missing are the soulful art directions of the old ones, and no source code can fix that.
The Pokemon G&S prototypes were cool, all those earlier conceptual designs and seeing people come together and make fanart when they were first released and relevant. I was happy for the Pokefags considering the sort of official products they've had to put up with in recent years. The Zeldafags also had a great time combing through all those early OoT maps.
Star Fox 2 is my favorite Star Fox game, so personally it was pretty fucking rad getting to play those earlier builds people had only ever known through scant footage or magazine screenshots, as well as discovering all those never-before-seen early/unused character designs.
>The Zeldafags also had a great time combing through all those early OoT maps.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6353/
Not only that but they recreated the Space world 97 Beta and the same thing happened with Pokemon as well.
>Going to blizzcon for free
I wouldn't even go if they paid me
Toad smoking a blunt
>2020
Was that 3 years ago? Farrk
The excitement was less about ‘what can we build’ and more about ‘what were they planning’
Ocarina of Time lorefagging took off like crazy.
We also finally got to know what the metal mario reflection’s texture was.
Felt like archeology. It was fun.
Most of what it actually *did* was only important for autists. The source code for various different games/systems is useful in picking apart quirks of their programing that can be utilized variably for modding/glitching purposes (also very easily enables reverse engineering, which further enables both)
This is actually the biggest reason why the Glitch Cities Laboratory's forums closed. They didn't want people mining the Pokemon source code for obvious programming oversights and "tainting" their empirical glitch studies.
That and it's somewhat useful for investigating development processes of different games--unreleased demos and design docs which provide insights into how everything was made and put together.
And, of course, showing the general public the truth of various different gaming rumors. Quite literally confirmed L IS real in SM64.
The eternal kuck strikes again.