Yeah just read about the child porn too, not much of a life left to ruin I guess.
Just makes you wonder how a person gets to that point.
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The Nintendo leak saga continues: biggest Nintendo leak in history, full source code / design files for Wii released online
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Yeah just read about the child porn too, not much of a life left to ruin I guess.
Just makes you wonder how a person gets to that point.
Seriously, my god, this is nuts, it sucks for Nintendo, but for preservationists, it is really good at least.
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I think this most recent leak from BroadOn comes from a separate hack, as the files are specific for that company.
But all the other things yeah, as that employee had full access to Nintendo internal network.
What? It's old stuff that has to do with Nintendo's highest highs and lowest lows and the creative process that went into them. How is this not interesting? Especially since it was the era transitioning from old Nintendo to Iwata era Nintendo
The person was already arrested:
California man who hacked into Nintendo servers to steal video games and other proprietary information pleads guilty
Seattle – A 21-year-old Palmdale, California, man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to federal crimes related to his computer hacking scheme and his possession of child pornography found on his digital devices, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran.www.justice.gov
Basically, he used phishing to get the credentials of one NoA employee and dumped everything he could. He then shared the file with other people before being arrested. Now, those other persons are finally sharing the files online.
" A 21-year-old Palmdale, California, man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to federal crimes related to his computer hacking scheme and his possession of child pornography found on his digital devices "
If we get any Pokemon from beyond Generation 2 leaked, I will absolutely ascend. The Gen 7 debug has got me excited. Earthbound 64 is also greatly exciting. Also, I wonder if we'll see any cancelled and unannounced games arise from this?
Emulation and homebrew are likely to improve dramatically, no? This is actually pretty big, as far as leaks go.
edit: will probably cause some legal issues though
edit: will probably cause some legal issues though
Right after someone said the server hack was probably bullshit in the Diddy Kong Racing thread since nothing substantial came if it lol
I can't speak to other emulators, but Dolphin has rejected offers of assistance from people who have access to the official SDK in the past, and has even gone as far as scrubbing contributions from outsiders if it became clear they used copyrighted information IIRC. I don't think they'll change their stance now.
This dude had no sense of self-preservation, why would he become a Nintendo leaker while also owning child pornography, he must have known the massive risk that Nintendo would come after him and seize his electronic devices. Glad he's caught and hopefully will be safely put away from kids.The person was already arrested:
California man who hacked into Nintendo servers to steal video games and other proprietary information pleads guilty
Seattle – A 21-year-old Palmdale, California, man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to federal crimes related to his computer hacking scheme and his possession of child pornography found on his digital devices, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran.
Basically, he used phishing to get the credentials of one NoA employee and dumped everything he could. He then shared the file with other people before being arrested. Now, those other persons are finally sharing the files online.
I wouldn't be surprised if they limit that access from now on for NOA.
It's interesting but I wouldn't call it the biggest leak in Nintendo history. The leak about the June Nintendo Direct id consider bigger as it actually is about upcoming, unknown information opposed to a system that is like 15 years old
Yep. Because it's illegal to use source code of hardware and would get Dolphin shutdown. It would be the same for any other emulator out there. Emulator makers are protected from companies by using reverse engineering and using their own code.
This doesn't really have much to do with preservation, since Nintendo is the one company that actually is consistently already good about preservation, but it's a cool find none-the-less.
See my above post. They've actively rejected help from people who have access to copyrighted info in the past, even if it was obtained legally. There's no reason to suspect a change.
The only way this improves compatibility is if people outside the core dev team use it to make commits that the main team doesn't catch.
That leak will mean nothing in a year. This leak will still mean something in a year.
Ehhh compare what people learn off of a direct leak vs a internal development leak like this. Everyone eventually finds out what the upcoming releases are going to be. This stuff would likely never have seen the light of day.
Just scanned the Nintendo/任天堂 titles and couldn't find anything super interesting that stood out (aside from the data itself!). AFAIK Nintendo usually uses obscure project names for popular series titles, likely for this exact reason.
If I had to guess the poster means the no June direct stuff but I'm not sure.
Would be really interesting if there's something left from Dinosaur Planet.
Super Smash Bros. too, but I don't know if they'd have betas for HAL games.
Then the Cemu team will take it!
But seriously though, if not the Dolphin team, I'm sure there's plenty of emulator teams that will. Maybe this gives rise to another Wii emulator in a few years.
Isn't Nintendo the company shutting down their stores and making it so you can't even re-download stuff you've bought before? Not sure where the preservation angle comes into play. No snark, it's not something I know a ton about so I'm curious what you mean
One day we'll get the Triforce of N64 betas (Shoshinkai '95 Mario 64, Spaceworld '99 Mother 3 and anything for Zelda 64); one day.
I have my doubts. This is all copyrighted material, and if any of that copyrighted material appears in your code, it will lead to legal action and shutdown. That's why some like Dolphin will actively reject such assistance.
The person was already arrested:
California man who hacked into Nintendo servers to steal video games and other proprietary information pleads guilty
Seattle – A 21-year-old Palmdale, California, man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to federal crimes related to his computer hacking scheme and his possession of child pornography found on his digital devices, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran.
Basically, he used phishing to get the credentials of one NoA employee and dumped everything he could. He then shared the file with other people before being arrested. Now, those other persons are finally sharing the files online.
Whaaaaaaaaat
If Dolphin was in the state it was even 5 years ago, I could see it. But I think it's mature to the point that there isn't really demand for another one. Barely any of the stuff Dolphin can't emulate is actually interesting.
That man was arrested back in January. But I'm not sure if the most recent leak (happened sometime late April/early May) is part of the leak that man has.
Preservation isn't the same as being publically accessible. Sure, it kind of sucks to not have legal access to something, but at least you know the source code hasn't been lost and that no one will definitely ever play it again.
It's harder to catch closed-source projects, admittedly - which is a large part of why people are skeptical of CEMU. But I agree.
They're shutting down the Wii U/3DS eShop in regions that had extremely limited implementations of the shop; it was pretty much exclusively used for download codes. If you wanted to actually buy something, you used a different region - which is still open.
Think these are multiple different leaks happening within the same time span. There were two hackers that managed to breach their servers at different times: the Californian pedophile and the former Malwarebytes employee from the UK who leaked the Spaceworld 97 Pokemon Demo to the internet in 2018. The older Pokemon stuff appears to be from the latter (and matches the converted Gen 1 assets we were given + screenshots given to Team Spaceworld), the former seemed focused on newer stuff and leaked a few pieces of info throughout the past few years through proxies.
I have no idea what's happening beyond that, that was way above anything we wanted to get involved in when the news broke back in March 2019.
I have no idea what's happening beyond that, that was way above anything we wanted to get involved in when the news broke back in March 2019.
I don't know why people keep saying this, if anything Nintendo is the best for preservation as shown by the the whole deal of Collection of Mana being exclusive because Nintendo had a copy of the source code because Square literally lost it
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I hope it at least help with better understanding of the Wii stuff so we can turn the Wii into an EVEN BETTER emulation machine
The eShops they're shutting down only store game demos and a code redemption functions. Nothing else. Most of the people in those regions use US account anyways.
