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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[Ligeia]

Even through PMs ? lol

 

[shaunj66]

Even through PMs ? lol

Yes.

 

[WhoIAm]

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

 

[LightBeam]

If this is true : https://x.com/CentroLeaks/status/1846951578722328771

Then I don't know how it didn't happen sooner.
I mean, we knew that GameFreak were just blatantly incompetent when it comes to making functional games, but idk why I didn't even expect something like that to ever happen ... I don't think we realize the sheer amount of pure incompetence that runs rampant is so many companies. You would think that they would keep their secrets locked behind at least decent security.
But a chmod 777 ? One of the first rules you learn when studying IT is giving the smallest privilege required, and nothing requires full access.

Even when building a home lab or building ephemeral stuff on my VPS, I cringe and can't feel satisfied when using root or 777. And they're using that on their servers ?????? That's just crazy


Idk, sometimes I struggle a bit with impostor syndrome, feeling like I must absolutely master things in order to feel at least competent and confident about what I'm doing, would probably be so much worse if it involved such important data. But after that, and even the crowdstrike incident for that matter .... makes me think that some people should feel that syndrome and maybe revise their stuff before working again.

 

[Bladexdsl]

oh i'm fucking loving the ramifications from taking down RYU keep them fucking coming!

 

[VinsCool]

This is actually badass, so they have all the tools needed to port Switch games to PC but it would never happen for as long as Nintendo have success in the game consoles market.

 

[AdenTheThird]

This is like Terry Benedict watching his casino get robbed in Ocean's 11.
Delicious.

 

[Plazorn]

Would probably be great on the Steam Deck this way.

 

[SDA]

What about non-Pokémon games? Is there something for, let's say, Drill Dozer or Pulseman (yes, the one in my profile picture)?

 

[AdenTheThird]

What about non-Pokémon games? Is there something for, let's say, Drill Dozer or Pulseman (yes, the one in my profile picture)?

The gigaleak was from Game Freak, so I'd wager probably not unless Game Freak also had a hand in producing those games.
Even if they did, Pokemon will undoubtedly remain front and center in discussions and news.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

If this is true : https://x.com/CentroLeaks/status/1846951578722328771

Then I don't know how it didn't happen sooner.
I mean, we knew that GameFreak were just blatantly incompetent when it comes to making functional games, but idk why I didn't even expect something like that to ever happen ... I don't think we realize the sheer amount of pure incompetence that runs rampant is so many companies. You would think that they would keep their secrets locked behind at least decent security.
But a chmod 777 ? One of the first rules you learn when studying IT is giving the smallest privilege required, and nothing requires full access.

Even when building a home lab or building ephemeral stuff on my VPS, I cringe and can't feel satisfied when using root or 777. And they're using that on their servers ?????? That's just crazy


Idk, sometimes I struggle a bit with impostor syndrome, feeling like I must absolutely master things in order to feel at least competent and confident about what I'm doing, would probably be so much worse if it involved such important data. But after that, and even the crowdstrike incident for that matter .... makes me think that some people should feel that syndrome and maybe revise their stuff before working again.

Sounds plausible enough, but doesn't explain how that gitlab config file ended up in the hands of an unauthorized person. Only someone who already has some level of access to internal servers would have access to that. So it would still have to be an inside job.

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The gigaleak was from Game Freak, so I'd wager probably not unless Game Freak also had a hand in producing those games.
Even if they did, Pokemon will undoubtedly remain front and center in discussions and news.

Little Town Hero then

 

[SDA]

The gigaleak was from Game Freak, so I'd wager probably not unless Game Freak also had a hand in producing those games.
Even if they did, Pokemon will undoubtedly remain front and center in discussions and news.

These two games WERE made by Game Freak, yes. Pulseman was on the Sega Genesis.

 

[AdenTheThird]

These two games WERE made by Game Freak, yes. Pulseman was on the Sega Genesis.

Oh, my apologies then. I didn't realize.

 

[SDA]

Oh, my apologies then. I didn't realize.

No worries.

Game Freak did make some good games before Pokémon. The most notable example is the Yoshi puzzle game on the NES.

 

[Captain-Z]

oh i'm fucking loving the ramifications from taking down RYU keep them fucking coming!

I doubt this has anything to do with that. No one is at war with Nintendo.

 

[Kwyjor]

So, did this game use a well-established engine? What language was it written in? Were all the build tools included in the leak as well?

oh i'm fucking loving the ramifications from taking down RYU keep them fucking coming!

You can't seriously believe that none of this would have happened if they'd just left "RYU" alone

 

[SylverReZ]

This looks and possibly plays better than on an actual Switch, gotta hate those terrible frame rates.

 

[Captain-Z]

So, did this game use a well-established engine? What language was it written in? Were all the build tools included in the leak as well?

BDSP are made in unity. Not sure about LA though.

 

[GengarsGhostlyGiggles]

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 ?