We recently reported that Game Freak suffered a security breach which led to a huge amount of confidential data being leaked such as game source codes and internal design documents.

During the cyber attack, the hackers also obtained native PC builds of Pokémon Legends Arceus as well as builds of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl.

Now these official PC versions of the games have been cracked and are available to find online meaning they can be played on PC without the need for emulation though it seems compatibility may be an isuse with specific Nvidia cards and drivers being required.

The builds of Pokémon BDSP appear to be close to final debug builds, and Pokémon Legends Arceus is an early prototype build. These PC editions, made during internal testing and development of the games were most likely never intended to be publically released on PC and their releases are sure to further infuriate Nintendo and Game Freak who have already seen so much data leak.

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[BlusterBong]

Yet it brings in possibly new people. So it's a double edge sword.

Meanwhile a good amount, if not most of the users of this website are basically suffering from Nintendo Derangement Syndrome because of them letting recent things like the Yuzu lawsuit and things as far back as the AM2R DMCA live rent free in their heads. What new people could be brought in compared to nuanced discussion about the implications of the leak and what they could have had on the franchise?

Even if the inital translations wern't that good, something like the reactions to the Typlosion story and many of the other things that did come from the leak like just how much wasted potential has been laid to bare is absolutely IP ruining in a way that not even a bad and poorly coded game like S/V or even other notoriously bad games like Sonic '06 could ever dream of doing. And instead of discussing that, people are putting the blame on an unrelated lawsuit and takedown and "poor security" when they probably didn't even get phished by a fake email that has even half of the effort that was put in by the guy behind the leak and giving themselves a false sense of superiority.

 

[Noctosphere]

If GBAtemp hosted ROMs on their site, then Nintendo will go ballistic and shut them down. It's not about censorship, as this has an entirely different meaning. The definition of 'censorship' is to hide and block what other people say; copyright does not apply to that. Considering the recent lawsuits on emulation and the Palworld situation, Nintendo is a company you don't want to mess with.

Btw, hosting roms and sharing roms website is the same thing when it comes to copyright infringement. That's why such matter is moderated here. Also, Nintendo would have a much easier job to come after GBAtemp and shut it down for sharing illegal links than to shutdown said website.
Rom website are usually hosted in countries where it's harder for them to apply their laws (i.e: china), while GBAtemp is hosted in USA. If they left GBAtemp unmoderated, it would be shut down in no time

 

[chrisrlink]

If GBAtemp hosted ROMs on their site, then Nintendo will go ballistic and shut them down. It's not about censorship, as this has an entirely different meaning. The definition of 'censorship' is to hide and block what other people say; copyright does not apply to that. Considering the recent lawsuits on emulation and the Palworld situation, Nintendo is a company you don't want to mess with.

they honestly did in the distant past

 

[Noctosphere]

they honestly did in the distant past

Yea, in like 2002-2003?

 

[chrisrlink]

Btw, hosting roms and sharing roms website is the same thing when it comes to copyright infringement. That's why such matter is moderated here. Also, Nintendo would have a much easier job to come after GBAtemp and shut it down for sharing illegal links than to shutdown said website.
Rom website are usually hosted in countries where it's harder for them to apply their laws (i.e: china), while GBAtemp is hosted in USA. If they left GBAtemp unmoderated, it would be shut down in no time

tbh UK not USA

 

[Noctosphere]

tbh UK not USA

My bad, I checked three "host checker" and they all said it was hosted in "Chantilly, Virginia, US"

 

[codezer0]

would pay to see the live reaction of nintendo execs as they see this news

Imagine Mister Rogers during the Ultimate showdown music video... except it's Miyamoto's head on the body. Kinda like that.

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Nintendo really really f*cked up with their war on the emulators.
Are most switch games just made with unity and unreal these days. Is that why they are so easy to emu ?

Even at launch, the Switch's hardware was a glorified nvidia shield able to accept the proprietary cart designs. reasonably confident even high end pc's at launch were able to emulate the unit near perfectly. And most of the emulator developers had the WiiU library basically solved in Cemu, so they were probably ready to tackle that adventure.

 

[AndorfRequissa]

It's nothing about censorship. If you want to post roms website (even through PM), it's the best way for GBAtemp to be censored by Nintendo. And by censored, I mean shut down. Don't think only about what YOU want to do, think about all other users who are very fine about not asking or sharing roms sites.
This website is not the place for such matter. If you are not happy about that, go whine somewhere else.

I was just expressing my point of view. doesnt mean gbatemp has to bow to it. having seen this site evolve throughout the years and the world evolve it is censorship. as someone who believes in free speech people should be allowed to speak freely. u can not like a law and talk shit about it but still obey the laws. ive never once in the years ive been here shared a link in PM but am happy to complain about it. and no im not going anywhere else so u just gotta deal with my point of view.

 

[Bladexdsl]

The number of people claiming the Ryujinx shutdown has anything to do with this leak just goes to show how stupid the mindless "burn Nintendo" people are.

keep thinking that nintenSHEEP this is war and this IS retaliation! you would have to be both blind and stupid to not see what is really going on

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

keep thinking that nintenSHEEP this is war and this IS retaliation! you would have to be both blind and stupid to not see what is really going on

Like a million people have said this already. Saying it again wont help anything

 

[deinonychus71]

I think Nintendo deserves every bit of misfortune coming to them, and I say that as someone who loves their games.

If "loving their games" means supporting the piracy, streaming, spoiling and bragging days before their official released then I don't think that's very much love at all.
Nintendo is pretty ruthless but no dev "deserves" this type of shit. None deserve their private info stolen. Heck not even Ubisoft would and they're far worse than Nintendo.

None of that is gonna get the community win legal battles where it matters.

 

[Noctosphere]

I was just expressing my point of view. doesnt mean gbatemp has to bow to it. having seen this site evolve throughout the years and the world evolve it is censorship. as someone who believes in free speech people should be allowed to speak freely. u can not like a law and talk shit about it but still obey the laws. ive never once in the years ive been here shared a link in PM but am happy to complain about it. and no im not going anywhere else so u just gotta deal with my point of view.

You can complain about this RULE (not law), but at least, call it what it is (in this case, it's not censorship, it's just respecting laws. It's the same reason they won't allow you to share link to some shady website to hire a hitman to take care of someone you don't like)

 

[MayorBryce]

keep thinking that nintenSHEEP this is war and this IS retaliation! you would have to be both blind and stupid to not see what is really going on

You're gonna find this crazy: it's people like you who get Ryujinx shut down. Your signature literally says, "Now If you'll excuse me...I have to go pirate something." You're not even trying to hide the fact you're pirating Nintendo games, which is exactly the reason Nintendo hates emulators: because people like you won't shut up about using them! If you have to pirate, be quiet about it.

 

[BlusterBong]

keep thinking that nintenSHEEP this is war and this IS retaliation! you would have to be both blind and stupid to not see what is really going on

All you're really doing here is giving people ammo to mock and bully you while you continue to be the posterchild of Nintendo Derangement Syndrome. People have already told you that the GameFreak leaks have nothing to do with the Ryujinx takedown and the Palworld Lawsuit several times yet you still insist that it does have something to do with it. Don't make me pull up a definition of N.D.S just so you can continue to seethe about something that happened a month ago at most or even earlier than that.

 

[MayorBryce]

better yet, you should also adopt a "If you have nothing to say, don't post" mentality when it comes to the front page news posts, it'll help curb a lot of the "Palworld Lawsuit/Ryujinx shutdown made the leaks happen!" posts that add absolutely nothing to the conversation and if anything just stifles any actual conversation.

This gets my vote.

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

All you're really doing here is giving people ammo to mock and bully you while you continue to be the posterchild of Nintendo Derangement Syndrome. People have already told you that the GameFreak leaks have nothing to do with the Ryujinx takedown and the Palworld Lawsuit several times yet you still insist that it does have something to do with it. Don't make me pull up a definition of N.D.S just so you can continue to seethe about something that happened a month ago at most or even earlier than that.

I may pirate a few (ps1) games but I'm not stupid enough to put it in my signature.

 

[Noctosphere]

keep thinking that nintenSHEEP this is war and this IS retaliation! you would have to be both blind and stupid to not see what is really going on

This leak has nothing to do about "retaliation". It was a "high ranked" employee who fell for a phishing trap (the nature of the trap is unknown), which gave to hackers acces to Gamefreak database.
Nobody is safe from doing such mistake (I'm talking about the Gamefreak employee).
If this was really a "retaliation", like you said, then it would have been a direct hacking attack toward either Nintendo or Gamefreak servers, not "waiting for an employee to click on our fraudulous link" or whatever was the phishing trap.
If the leak occured before ryujinx shutdown or anything like that, would it still be a "retaliation"

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

FYI: the PLA x86 build is an extremely early pre alpha proof of concept. You're not going to get anything of actual game or substance besides "huh. Well that was neat."

It's not worth seeking out and spending considerable time troubleshooting getting it to launch IMO

 

[MissingN0pe]

Looked absolutely everywhere and I can't find it.

 

[Xzi]

Love it. Nintendo keeping their games exclusive to underpowered hardware has done nothing but limit their sales and revenue, and not only are the games playable on PC via emulation anyway, but we're now also getting more native releases than ever. Rub their noses in it.