Merry Christmas, GBAtemp! Today may be a very Merry Christmas for those that like to dig into leaked data, as the latest files from the ongoing Gigaleak--part 8, to be exact--have made their way online, supposedly. According to those who have already gotten their hands on the illegally-obtained files, within the .zips lurks a beta build for Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee as well as a major bit of data: the source code for the Mariko BootRom, with classified files straight from NVIDIA. As always, sharing these files is against GBAtemp's ToS, but feel free to discuss them!

 

[ZoNtendo]

SciresM doesn't need to download these. He already had these leak files back in 2018 from Wack0 (he knows him very well).

I was more referring to him talking about these leaks

 

[Clydefrosch]

eh... the ones who could do something with it won't, so, I'm more interested in like, cut content and unreleased games stuff

 

[FAST6191]

GOSH Nintendo, can't you stop having leaks for 5 seconds? I just want to watch It's A Wonderful Life in peace!!!

Wonder if this is the security guy's "what if I did not exist" timeline?

 

[Valery0p]

Santa, can you leak the WiiU and/or the Dsi bottoms, so than we can finally unbrick them without an hardmod? Thanks and merry Christmas.

 

[ZoNtendo]

eh... the ones who could do something with it won't, so, I'm more interested in like, cut content and unreleased games stuff

Are you sure? Someone random could drop an exploit randomly just like when the original bootrom hack was released (even though it's probably not exploitable)

But I agree on the second part, source code/unreleased/cut content is much more unique than a simple exploit

 

[Deleted User]

... I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that with 1TB of leaked data there isn't a single video in there of something that would be viral and entertaining to watch, like the Nintendo HQ Office Cat. Or maybe a cute Mouse which has Platinum Blonde fur.

Or at least the Minutes for that Board Meeting where they decided that only one original Game & Watch title was going to cut it for the newest release.

 

[tech3475]

Out of curiosity, is the filename not being given to reduce liability? I’m asking because in the past it along with the checksum was.

Santa, can you leak the WiiU and/or the Dsi bottoms, so than we can finally unbrick them without an hardmod? Thanks and merry Christmas.

I don’t believe the source code alone will be enough, subject to any exploits, we’d also need the signing key.

 

[Valery0p]

Oh and my two cents about new exploits for Mariko:
Remember how basically everyone knew about the RCM bug? FailOverflow, Kate & ReSwitched, the HBL CoolKids I can't remember the name of, Gateway probably and even that rando that leaked it on pastebin in the end.
If this code is the same one that runs on hardware and there is some easy way to exploit it, at least one of these ""groups"" will take advantage of it (my personal bet is on TX or some other piracy cartel which wants to sell their own hardmod-free dongle).

I don’t believe the source code alone will be enough, we’d also need the signing key.

If someone finds a way to boot from there, before it gets locked (like NTRBoot does), you could also dump the keys from memory in theory.
(You would still need a nand dump to unbrick your console but hey. It would be better that what we have now)

 

[ZoNtendo]

you could also dump the keys from memory in theory.

you mean the signing key? those are not stored anywhere in the hardware

 

[Taleweaver]

Heh... "let's go beta" sounds as if Nintendo made a programming puzzle game.

 

[Deleted member 473940]

Merry Christmas!

 

[Valery0p]

you mean the signing key? those are not stored anywhere in the hardware

Yeah, you guys are right, I remembered after I posted it :facepalm:
Still, if we had the bootrom people could search for a bypass like on the 3ds or the switch for what matters :/

 

[NoNAND]

Over for Nintendo. Over before it even began

 

[PatrickD85]

Leaks just keep coming ... sigh

 

[Ampersound]

Just karma doing its job after Nintendo has done plentiful questionable things lately.

 

[Mollycule]

Lmao, ship's going down boys

 

[Deleted member 512337]

Its only a matter of time before we see switch pro leaks.

 

[raxadian]

Any of you waiting for new exploits from this don't get your hopes up. Scires won't touch this with a 50ft pole, no clean room reverse engineer would, cause the moment they did it wouldn't be clean room anymore

Yet some people had no problems selling modchips until they went to jail.

 

[Space_Goddess_Samus_Aran]

Perhaps, but even with a chip required, at the very least, the source code allows a full custom firmware on it. Like:

• Being able to tap the full hardware potential on homebrew
• Easier recovery mode.
• Completely eliminating the need for any keys whatsoever.
• Brick proof.
• Being able to spoof serials to get online.

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Using Lets Go games as a base for rom hacks would be insane lol

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it's likely they already gave schematics to the manufacturer, and it was already in production. any major revision would have to be cost justified, as the manufacturer is contracted to make the same exact thing as the schematics they're given at the beginning. they can't just come up with a revision after a month.

i know that but strange that these documents are dated in 2016...before the release of the switch

 

[64bitmodels]

I mean, if I wanted to give my hacked Switch more oomph in the battery department, I'd just use the Gulikit battery I got for the one I already have.

Sure, maybe Switch Lites can be hacked now, but those still aren't small enough to be pocketable.

*looks at my ginormous pockets that can fit a switch lite in them with ease*


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Now this is nice!
And you all can hate me for what I am about to say, but Nintendo just deserved all of this!
It's punishment for them for being such big assholes this and the past years, whit all the shut downs and take downs of so many fan projects.
I mean...they have the right and power to do so, but it doesn't mean that they NEED TO do it...
I hope, they get hacked even more.

i dont think anyones going to hate you for saying this
besides that though with how many leaks that have been going on wouldnt it be easy to just put a giant ransomware on all of nintendo's computers and servers so that we can convince them to stop being assholes for once? their security is shit after all