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Just some food for thought: if this hack is indeed 2TB, and contains stuff from the 3DS/WiiU era, what if the information regarding the eshop infrastructure from there was used to hack all those accounts earlier this year?
It would explains how the network was compromised, and give an extra weight on all this info being out
It would explains how the network was compromised, and give an extra weight on all this info being out
Reposting for new page cause I really believe it may be the case
Yeah, if we start getting stuff that would affect modern partnerships more directly, fun's over.
Again, all that stuff is shoved in Rare's vaults, not Nintendo's.
Nintendo clearly has plenty of third-party games shoved away in their vaults; wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that they have Rare's stuff tucked away too, considering they were a close partner and all.
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Those full sized renders of the OOT inventory icons are blowing my mind.
I never even considered that they were downscaled images from higher resolution source material. I just thought they drew those items in 240p and called it a day.
This leads me to assume that for other pre-rendered assets in games - I.e.Donkey Kong Country - there has to be some full resolution source material for all of the characters and objects somewhere out there. The in-game assets are clearly lossy versions of the originals.
I never even considered that they were downscaled images from higher resolution source material. I just thought they drew those items in 240p and called it a day.
This leads me to assume that for other pre-rendered assets in games - I.e.Donkey Kong Country - there has to be some full resolution source material for all of the characters and objects somewhere out there. The in-game assets are clearly lossy versions of the originals.
Depends entirely on what your interpretation is. Luigi is not present in the final compiled version of Mario 64 in any useable capacity, however he is present in beta versions of the source code/data. Does that make it real or not?
OMGGGGGMute City uncompressed. shiiiiiiiiit
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OMGGGGGG!!!!!!
Kinda crazy how much personality the compression added to the dialogue in hindsight.
This is the coolest thread.
I mean, we already knew this, right? That he used to be in the game and they had to cut him late in development? So I'm not sure how this changes anything. (Not directing this to you specifically, I've just seen a lot of people getting excited about this.)
Correct. Well we knew it from the devs mouths through various interviews. I guess people are excited to confirm what they were saying was true? In any case it doesn't excite me much either. Did people think they were lying or something?
I wonder if there is anything about that EarthBound 64 game I read about in EGM like 2 decades ago.
It seems pretty unlikely that they were storing user data on the same servers as they were archives for their games.
The hack was on Chinese servers, so it's also very unlikely that Nintendo was just storing international user account data there.
someone teased a spaceworld '99 dump which I think may have been the only time the game was playable to the public.
I would assume builds of whatever existed of the game was cross-referenced for the eventual mother 3 on GBA, given the scenario similarities, so anything is possible.
I think the idea is more like people were able to use this data to break in to the servers more than they have leaked user data. This hack is from four years ago and there's a lot of people who had this data since then. It's only recently that its been becoming public.
I would love to see the script for that game. Seems like the type of thing Nintendo would save, and I remember Itoi describing it as just a total behemoth. Way longer, darker, and more ambitious than the final game.
This would be undoubtedly the holy grail of Nintendo leaks IMO.
It's not that the data from users was in there, but information about the Nintendo online infrastructure (for example, AWS addresses and keys).
Oh boy. This feels like Christmas to me but it's got to be Christmas working retail for Broth. 😂😓
I feel redeemed. I've always heard "so long king bowser" but the Internet always makes me question it
In the face of leaks like this, it's really surprising to me to see someone like Tim Gettys focus on hype for announcements. Anyways, I love super Mario 64 so gimme dat
First thing I did when I heard about the leaks was check the blog. There's a ton of stuff to sift through, so I'm not surprised. Can't wait to see what they have to say about it, though.
Loving this Wiimote protoype!
This falls in line with what I remember about the Wii's development.
The first Wii controller they made was a GC Controller with an extra board attached. (Was trying to do the pointer IIRC.)
Not necessarily; they supposedly have a gold copy of KI2 that Rare shipped to them for certification.
Whether or not they still have it is up in the air.
I'm loving all of this so much! Feel like I'm 10 again finally discovering all these secrets. 😭
I wonder if this is a reference to the old Halo 2 ILOVEBEES thing?
SNES KI2? How did that get to gold before magazines could preview it? I've always wanted to know what that game looked like.
Beats me. Retro Gamer (Magazine) did some interviews a few years back with some guys that worked at Rare and they were talking about it in there.
Update: here's the article in question:
It was only 80% complete, but still pretty far along.
(The general consensus I've read/seen is that it was pretty much near completion or was complete, but got shelved because of the N64.)
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Like Smash Bros., those were developed by outside studios. That's likely why we haven't seen anything so far.
(So was Pokémon, but Nintendo appears to have been more tightly involved with that one.)
Yeah, just like we know from interviews how the Starfox voice recordings have only survived in the compressed state we know from the N64 version of the game!
They'd have to hack Square-Enix for that, and even if they did, Square probably tossed those assets in the dumpster decades ago like they did with all their PS1 era games.
Haven't we already gotten some 3rd party stuff, like the Castlevania IV thing, and all of the Argonaut stuff? Most of the games listed were just as closely developed with Nintendo as Star Fox and Star Fox 2 were, so I don't think they're out of the question.
Is there a Twitter that's compiling everything discovered so far? There are so many thread pages to go through on here
Surprised this hasn't been posted yet, but it looks like OoT's Castle Town has been found. It was repurposed to be a track in Mario Kart 64 but was was then still cut for being too big.
And every page is the same page for the third time because noone bothers to red the thread!
Nintendo undoubtedly would have owned the Spaceworld Rom itself.