It appears another "gigaleak" has gone down, involving Nintendo. According to sources online, it appears that Game Freak has been hacked, resulting in internal data from the company being leaked to the public. Those involved in the hacking community or those within general Pokemon related groups are claiming that while they will not be discussing or dissecting the specifics within the leak, it initially is being claimed that there is a total of 1TB of data.

This allegedly includes the source code for Pokemon Platinum, source codes for Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver, beta builds of Pokemon Black and White 2, beta builds of Pokemon X and Y, and potential internal codenames for upcoming Pokemon projects. Within it are mentions of an online Pokemon game, a collaborative project between Game Freak and Studio ILCA, the potential code name of the Nintendo Switch 2 being "Ounce", and a project named Gaia, which may be the next generation of Pokemon titles.

Further details are slowly being posted on X, and as more becomes clear, we'll be sure to update this post with new information.

[Gigaleak]

I'm currently hearing that a significant amount of internal data from Game Freak is being leaked onto the Internet.

I don't intend on looking at this data so I can't confirm for myself, but I have heard it includes stuff like source code for HeartGold & SoulSilver.

— OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) October 12, 2024

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Source: X.com: CentroLeaks
Source: X.com: 3clipse_tt
Source: X.com: SwitchTools

[UPDATE]

• As some of the data from the gigaleak hints towards a "Gen 10" Pokemon game, industry insider NecroLipe claims that Pokemon Gaia will launch for both the Switch and its successor system.
• Users on ResetEra claim that a playable build of Legends Z-A is included in the leak.
• Ikkaku, Gaia-K, and Gaia-N are all codenames with Nintendo Switch product codes.
• Synapse appears to be an "online multiplayer" game. This is the collab project with ILCA, who worked on BD/SP. One claim states that it's similar to an MMO, while another says it's closer to Splatoon.
• Contrary to the claims of there being a version of Legends Z-A that is close to complete, the leaker has apparently said they don't wish to spoil the surprises of future unreleased games, so those will not be included in the leak.
• The hack is the result of a phishing attempt on a Nintendo Dev Portal user.
• Beta Gen 3 Pokemon sprites were leaked
• Internal design documents for Gen 4 and Gen 5 were leaked.
• An official map editor for Gen 4 is in the files.
• Logo and boxart design from Game Freak were included.

 

[MysticStarlight]

Look at the hot garbage they gave us in the latest Pokemon game my guy. This was as the game "went gold" and was still looking very much like a beta release of the game with all the issues it had at launch.

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Remember they charged $60 for this!! This is exactly why I said they deserved to be hacked. Not because they took down Ryujinx (that's a whole different topic), but because of this garbage.

 

[Jayro]

Remember they charged $60 for this!! This is exactly why I said they deserved to be hacked. Not because they took down Ryujinx (that's a whole different topic), but because of this garbage.

It's the first pokemon generation where I didn't buy the mainline game. But Arceus made up for it TBH.

 

[JustABadger]

Oh yeah, totally... "hard work", sure...

NOT!

Look at the hot garbage they gave us in the latest Pokemon game my guy. This was as the game "went gold" and was still looking very much like a beta release of the game with all the issues it had at launch.

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How many of these were due to people playing the leaked rom or through an emulator?

 

[SDA]

Literally every game that releases today is buggy as fuck, even EoW has some issues.

The Mystery Dungeon games were developed by Spike Chunsoft, not Game Freak themselves.

 

[LoggerMan]

A million nerds prayers were just answered.

 

[lordzeus]

Deleted

 

[stanleyopar2000]

I found an archive

SNIP

You should probably delete that before a mod does...owners here are more friendly with brands and developers now and do not want any hint that we had anything to do with this. It's why linking or directing to piracy is banned....and why the frontpage "release" tracker was culled a decade ago. It scared brands away

We can't link or hint anywhere for warez, pirated content...and especially something like this

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

The Mystery Dungeon games were developed by Spike Chunsoft, not Game Freak themselves.

Echoes of Wisdom was not made by Spike Chunsoft...and there were no MD games that had Explorers of W , so I fail to see your point.

 

[SDA]

Echoes of Wisdom was not made by Spike Chunsoft...and there were no MD games that had Explorers of W , so I fail to see your point.

Wait, we're talking about Zelda now?

 

[SeventhSon7]

I found an archive

DELETE THIS

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

Before this leak i wished to nintendo suffer another gigaleak because someone needs to slap them for doing evil things(they have lawyers sued everyone to protect their ips even if you do a local tournament smash brothers)

That post was in the Ryujinx Github Debacle with nintendont. Lol my wish come su true xD

 

[kuro0628neko]

It's the first pokemon generation where I didn't buy the mainline game. But Arceus made up for it TBH.

Arceus did not make up for this. Arceus was good because our standards were so low. It's honestly a mid game at best.

 

[Noctosphere]

woah woah woah, better not pissing that little boy off, his brother works for steam

He's a janitor

 

[BlueFox gui]

so... is anyone going to talk about octillery? i've seen some weird shit online but never in my life i physically recoiled from reading something

 

[HarveyHouston]

AWESOME!!!

I am not sad at all.

 

[linuxares]

You should probably delete that before a mod does...owners here are more friendly with brands and developers now and do not want any hint that we had anything to do with this. It's why linking or directing to piracy is banned....and why the frontpage "release" tracker was culled a decade ago. It scared brands away

We can't link or hint anywhere for warez, pirated content...and especially something like this

And that aint even the proper place

 

[EthanB]

so... is anyone going to talk about octillery? i've seen some weird shit online but never in my life i physically recoiled from reading something

Yeah that shit was fucked up. And the Slakoth thing.

 

[Nakamichi]

Stuff like this really comes off like advertising than it does news. Some things shouldn't be in the news for the sake of sensitive legality and keeping the cancer away in the communities.

Also, for the record for some people making fun of the development portal user falling for the attack, you do realize that not all phishing attacks are based on the standard and low quality shit you see in your emails and such right? The user in question was probably tricked using a much more refined phishing attempt of sorts, likely a scarily convincing lookalike site for the Nintendo development portal. You act like you are impervious to such things occurring on your end, and I am willing to bet a good amount of you have been dealt the same dirty hand and have fallen for at least one of these things in the past with other platforms and what not, so don't walk around acting all pompous and snooty. If you really want to bark up a tree, we can talk about the special kind of intelligence one has to have to flaunt their open support for things like this happening to begin with (let alone your own screw ups falling for stuff), so if you really want to make fun of someone's intelligence, well, consider talking about your own first. This situation does and can happen, even to the best of us, stop being assholes about it.

DeadSkullz is absolutely right. They had this coming really.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

DeadSkullz is absolutely right. They had this coming really.

For releasing a game that isn't for you? For protecting their IP? For offending your candy rear? How in the world did they "have this coming".

You guys need to just move on and accept that Pokémon isn't for you anymore, stop acting so toxic and whiny about a dang vidya gaem. Embarrassing.

 

[Noctosphere]

For releasing a game that isn't for you? For protecting their IP? For offending your candy rear? How in the world did they "have this coming".

I totally agree with you. Defending your IP is just normal.
However, I would say that Nintendo is overdoing it when it comes to that.
Also, "having it coming" has another meaning to me in this case, which would be if they were targeted by hackers in order to get these leaks. Some kind of revenge for what Nintendo is doing to the game industry. However, from what I've read in OP article (please correct me if I'm wrong), it's rather one of their employee who fell for a phishing trap, which could happen to anyone.