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Nintendo games have the tendency to get leaked days, if not weeks, ahead from the proper release date, and as usual, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is no exception, more so given the anticipation of the sequel to the highly acclaimed Breath of the Wild, released 6 years ago.

The game seems to have been dumped today, May 1st, and shared online already in the familiar NSP and XCI formats, with many already playing it through Ryujinx and Yuzu, though how good compatibility is there with the title is not known yet, but some have cited good performance compared to Switch, which seems to still share the same shuggy gameplay and performance drops that its predecessor had as well in real hardware.

As usual, remember that we don't allow sharing links to ROM sites of any kind, so please avoid posting them.

 

[SylverReZ]

Yo-ho-ho! A pirate's life for me.

 

[Noctosphere]

 

[Kioku]

Okay

How badly do I want to play this..

 

[Thardus]

Hmm, I know what I'll be doing today.... driving to GameStop to purchase my reserve so I can get my wooden placard. haha

 

[Axmand]

Man WTF with Nintendo and his "digital security"? I mean Nintendo fight against piracy but more tries to get out of the sand more sink it...

 

[SylverReZ]

Man WTF with Nintendo and his "digital security"? I mean Nintendo fight against piracy but more tries to get out of the sand more sink it...

Seems like Nintendo isn't good at preventing leaks from ever happening.

 

[DKB]

Geeeez 2 weeks lol

 

[Kioku]

Man WTF with Nintendo and his "digital security"? I mean Nintendo fight against piracy but more tries to get out of the sand more sink it...

Sending copies out early to stores, reviewers, etc.

Then there’s those who have access to Nintendo’s download servers.

Security isn’t necessarily the issue here.

 

[Nincompoopdo]

It's using the same engine as BotW, so emulators should have no problem running it. Nintendo is going to be mad.

 

[IRUZZ]

TIme to sail the seven seas

 

[ShadowOne333]

TIme to sail the seven seas

Arrrrrgggghhhhh matey

 

[SodaSoba]

Congratulations big N on dropping the ball.

 

[cherryduck]

It's not real, both the 1 link download and the 4 link download are trolls. First reported by me and confirmed by linuxares in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/when-do-you-think-zelda-totk-will-leak.632030/page-6#post-10143329

 

[Synthials]

Man WTF with Nintendo and his "digital security"? I mean Nintendo fight against piracy but more tries to get out of the sand more sink it...

Nothing to do with "digital security" like always the leak is most likely from a retail shop Nintendo can hardly protect each and every copy shipped. Saw pictures from someone who already has the collectors edition few days ago.

 

[Lazyt]

i did not expect that

edit: also surprised no DLC announcement for this game has been made,

 

[CoolMe]

Leaking 2 weeks before release is a new record. Keep up the good work Nintendont!

 

[TheStonedModder]

People on reddit are saying it was a troll upload as of 20ish min before this comment..can anyone shed any light on that? Im a bit confused now ha

 

[Hayato213]

Leaking 2 weeks before release is a new record. Keep up the good work Nintendont!

Think Xenoblade 3 leaked 9 days before release, so if it did leak it is normal.

 

[isoboy]

Somebody keeping a wall of shame list of all the youtubers who jumped on the LEEK upload button only to delete their video? lol