What came out of the Nintendo Gigaleak?

You all acted like it was a big deal in 2020 but 3 years later, what did it acomplish?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >guy gets source code to beloved video game
    >guy is a redditor
    >proceeds to do a reddit and return it to blizzard
    why?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      His identity was already known. He would've been royally fricked over if he uploaded it.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Could he have sold it privately? I'd rather money over a trip to blizzcon and a bag of cheap blizzard junk

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          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".

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            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 moron, and then leak it anonymously while acting like a third party who happens to have another copy and saw the buzz about it.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          That's not an option for egotists

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Caus ehes a huge fricking homosexual

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        yeah bro nobody plays mods of games using original source code

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Name a single successful project based on leaked code, ever
            Doom

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Not a leak

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ragnarok Online.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Team Fortress 2 Classic
            Open Fortress
            Pre-Fortress 2

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Most of the OG Xbox homebrews

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            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 frick about the build made on stolen code

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              The current holders are actually Korean, and they apparently stole a fan patch and put it on the GOG release of Re-Volt.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                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

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Duke Nukem Forever Restoration, but neither Embrace or Gearbox are doin shit about it

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            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

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            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

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Since when this was being worked on?
              First time, i've heard of it

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >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.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >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.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              MS DOS

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The original Windows as well, I think.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        You must not realize asia doesnt give a shit

        all the bugs in sc2 could be fixed but the moron posted his full fricking name when saying he found it so was threatened with litigation

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >"How is piracy of intellectual properties possible if it's illegal?"
        Return the source to Blizzard, Mr. Reddit.

        His identity was already known. He would've been royally fricked over if he uploaded it.

        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.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          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!"

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            man, I remember that 3d chrono trigger port. Frick Square for shutting that down.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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)

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        lol no it goes to places that don't care about copyright and they release ports for everything

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The whole thing was a manufactured publicity stunt. You can stop being outraged over it.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is this true? I'd like to read about that if you have a link.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's true. I don't have a link, I just used my brain.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >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

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    We found out Super Donkey starred Mr. You.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    and some frickin starfox and castlevania bangers:

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wow, some of those songs sound just like Star Fox 2 music. That's neat.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Luigi.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    i used the leaked NOA mouse test program and source code as a reference to help with my romhack...

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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

        Holy shit that looks done.

        the core gameplay is done. it still needs a bit of polish. release will be soon... hopefully by June...

        Good work, but can't your hack be legally taken down for that?

        i didn't copy paste anything but it was helpful in checking what i wrote against what NOA did ...that is my Official Answer™

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit that looks done.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Good work, but can't your hack be legally taken down for that?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Please make a music selection screen. The music after 10k pop is bad and makes me drop the game.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        shit taste

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      These really good art style screenshot recreations always have the absolute ugliest, biggest, and most obnoxious artist watermarks on them. God.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Great, now find some source codes for various Sega Saturn vidya. Sega will be proud of you.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The guy that made the leak happened was an autistic pokemon gay 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 fricking 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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It kills me that the queer skimped over partnered depots....

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think he means Nintendo's going to try their damnedest to make sure this never happens again.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >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.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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?

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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 Pokegays considering the sort of official products they've had to put up with in recent years. The Zeldagays 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 fricking 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.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The Zeldagays 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.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Going to blizzcon for free
    I wouldn't even go if they paid me

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Toad smoking a blunt

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous
  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >2020
    Was that 3 years ago? Farrk

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The excitement was less about ‘what can we build’ and more about ‘what were they planning’

    Ocarina of Time loregayging took off like crazy.

    We also finally got to know what the metal mario reflection’s texture was.

    Felt like archeology. It was fun.

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  18. 10 months ago
    Dave

    The eternal kuck strikes again.

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