If waiting four more days until October 8th is too much for you to handle, and you need your Metroid fix now, it might be of interest to know that Metroid Dread for Nintendo Switch has been dumped online. Both an XCI and NSP version of the game are floating about the internet, and it appears that Ryujinx Emulator can boot the game to some extent. According to the early leaked download, the game comes in at just a tick above 4GB. As always, it's important to remember that GBAtemp's ToS do NOT allow linking to warez or illegal content, so please be mindful!

 

[MORSHU8KRTXON]

Meh, get the leaked copy and install it in your Switches if you have a pre-order coming.
Doesn't hurt anyone, and that way you keep a mint copy of the game saved up for when it skyrockets in price lol

"Doesn't hurt anyone"... How pathetic. Owning a legal copy of a game doesn't give you the rights to get it illegally, it's the "But I have the cartridge" argument. Plus digital games don't skyrocket in price.

 

[Xzi]

i'm surprised so many are ok with pirating a game

Meh, it's a game I've already pre-ordered the Special Edition for. No intention to cancel it just because I get to play a little early now.

 

[paulttt]

i'm surprised so many are ok with pirating a game

You're assuming that people pirating the game aren't going to buy it.

I'd like to think I'm a Nintendo fanboy, and have preordered. Nintendo are getting my money, so get off your high horse.

 

[Little_Anonymous_Hacker]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[MORSHU8KRTXON]

You're assuming that people pirating the game aren't going to buy it.

Meh, it's a game I've already pre-ordered the Special Edition for. No intention to cancel it just because I get to play a little early now.

Owning a game legally doesn't give you the right to get it illegally

 

[paulttt]

"Doesn't hurt anyone"... How pathetic. Owning a legal copy of a game doesn't give you the rights to get it illegally, it's the "But I have the cartridge" argument. Plus digital games don't skyrocket in price.

Who gives a toss if the game sky rockets in price? I buy games to have, not to sell.

 

[MORSHU8KRTXON]

Thanks for the heads up!
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This is why this thread shouldn't exist

 

[DeadSkullzJr]

i'm surprised so many are ok with pirating a game

Nothing new in concept, been a thing for years, people just have big mouths about it now a days (totally smart by the way). The difference between back then and now, piracy has persisted for years, but it wasn't anything note worthy given back then there was that fine line of mutual respect, appreciation, and credit where credit was due with games, movies, etc. When many would pirate they 9/10 would buy whatever they liked and never really touched the things they didn't again. Now a days it's mostly people who expect everything on a silver platter as if it's owed to them (some people just don't deserve nice things in my opinion, way too spoiled and takes things way too much for granted), the end result being that a good chunk of the people don't ever actually buy what they pirate and just settle this way, but because the entire world is filled with billions of people, obviously a good amount of that at least buys the game, movie, etc., which doesn't hinder the sales for companies. I'm just waiting for the day when buying a game is considered a war crime in the community wherever just because a free solution exists, in some cases I think it already reached that crappy goal lol.

Towards anyone reading:
Case in point, this game seems pretty solid based on what I've seen, we were given enough trailers and teasers for it, I mean come on I think based on all that we were given enough to know if a game is good or not, so maybe stick aside the "I want it all FREEEEE!!!" mentality and just put money towards something genuine instead. Don't ruin it for yourself by playing the leaked copy, just wait out the four days. Also for flipping sakes stop treating games like this as a way to profit just because a leak exists, that's just greedy as hell and disgusting levels of a personality, it's degrading.

 

[Xzi]

Owning a game legally doesn't give you the right to get it illegally

It's functionally the same thing as backing up the cartridge I bought legally. You haven't disproved the notion that nobody's actually getting hurt in this scenario. All Nintendo cares about is that they get my money and that I don't host/distribute digital copies of the game.

 

[MORSHU8KRTXON]

It's functionally the same thing as backing up the cartridge I bought legally. You haven't disproved the notion that nobody's actually getting hurt in this scenario. All Nintendo cares about is that they get my money and that I don't host/distribute digital copies of the game.

Doesn't matter, you're getting the game illegally

 

[Kioku]

Yes! The thread is devolving!

 

[godreborn]

I've preordered the game, digitally, and I don't have an exploited system either. I have one that I could hack, but I choose not to for certain reasons. I posted this last Friday: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/metroid-dread.35284/#post-310830

 

[Mama Looigi]

Yes! The thread is devolving!

“How dare you sit here and not attack the people who are okay with pirating the game after buying it”


Well I mean I see this specific leak as either a big deal… or something that doesn’t really matter at all depending on where you stand. I personally don’t care- not a fan of 2D Metroid. I don’t see any problem either with pirating it for personal use if you already bought the game yourself. The only slightly immoral thing there might be here is that you’re getting the game a little bit before it officially releases.

 

[Xzi]

Doesn't matter, you're getting the game illegally

OK, and? You gonna try a citizen's arrest? Because the actual cops don't give a damn about civil matters like this one. The only entity that could initiate legal action against me is Nintendo, and we've already established that they don't care either.

 

[gohan123]

someone uploaded a video running yuzu.

 

[N10A]

Doesn't matter, you're getting the game illegally

And at the end of the day the only thing harmed are your morals. No one cares if you pirate the game, so similarily you shouldn't worry about others. If you don't want to pirate a game, that's fine. No one is forcing you to. But I fail to see the harm in someone doing so after they already bought it. Piracy=/=theft; Piracy == copying.

 

[Kioku]

“How dare you sit here and not attack the people who are okay with pirating the game after buying it”


Well I mean I see this specific leak as either a big deal… or something that doesn’t really matter at all depending on where you stand. I personally don’t care- not a fan of 2D Metroid. I don’t see any problem either with pirating it for personal use if you already bought the game yourself. The only slightly immoral thing there might be here is that you’re getting the game a little bit before it officially releases.

I mean.. I think leaking a game is a dick move. Whether through piracy, or breaking street date through retailers. Even moreso when it's a game like this. I couldn't care less about this style of Metroid games.. But the general consensus is that this format is more preferable to the FPS Prime titles. So, it's a pretty big release.

EVEN MORESO when it shares the name of a long canceled title thought to be lost in Nintendo's hell.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

At this point, is it even news-worthy to say that a Nintendo game to leaked early than usual?
Think we can like count on one hand how many Nintendo games don't get leaked compared to the opposite, at this point it's something as certain like the sky is blue, grass is green, people die when they're killed and stuff like that, ha.

Doesn't matter, you're getting the game illegally

Nintendrone and law-bootlicker spotted.
So many salty people in here about the game getting leaked, how about y'all don't just buy, play the game, consume and don't think much like Ninty wants of y'all?
Eh.

Personally I wouldn't be pirating it 'cus I don't really care about it, I'm waiting for Chocobo GP instead.

 

[ZeroFX]

well if you got it early and got a hacked switch, just dump and be smart when sharing, after that let the web do its thing...

 

[Ericthegreat]

Installing now, thank you for the update, I didn't check for a few hours and I missed it lol.