Tell that to all the people who downloaded 256MB of trolling. This thing has probably traveled a bit too, via sources that don't confirm beforehand. Hell, I bet desperate people will be finding this on accident when the actual games come out.I thank the fact that I'm smarter than the average bear.
It wasn't hard to tell it was fake, I think the average bear could've known before downloading.
In fact, this may be the best, long term trolling ever.
256MB is hard to believe for a beta DS game, unless it was a reviewer copy where they play through the game for their review, but even then it would be sort of hard to believe. (I'd imagine IF this did exist currently in reviewer hands, it would be watched very carefully by TPC)
I guess it's possible one of the developers could leak it, but I haven't seen (or I don't remember seeing) a legit Pokemon leak sooner than 2 days before the release so 2 months is kinda out of my radar.
Whatever the case, there were other problems (prior to downloading) that gave away it was fake.
I guess this will probably find its way around to those desperate people, you're probably right with that.