Someone clearly left the faucet on, because we've got even more leaks. Yesterday's "Gigaleak", which contained in-development betas and source codes for Super Nintendo games has been added upon in a "Gigaleak II". Supposedly, a new file being distributed contains source codes for Nintendo 64 titles, including Super Mario 64, a corrupted version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Animal Forest, and much more, which is yet to be fully discovered.

A direct source/download link to the contents of this leak cannot be shared, as they are warez.

 

[the_randomizer]

Of course they have something to lose! People could stop buying their games!

Based off the leaked source code for older games no longer being produced or sold? Not a chance in hell.

 

[Deleted member 512337]

Of course they have something to lose! People could stop buying their games!

I dont think emulation of 20 year old games on pc isnt taking much out of nintendo revenue from nso

 

[IC_]

Of course they have something to lose! People could stop buying their games!

You can't buy most of the games anymore except used copies and as I said in my previous post you don't have to release all of the assets with it, look at the doom source code release for example

 

[Deleted member 512337]

You can't buy most of the games anymore except used copies and as I said in my previous post you don't have to release all of the assets with it, look at the doom source code release for example

Or almost every id game prior to when carmack left.

 

[Kwyjor]

Based off the leaked source code for older games no longer being produced or sold? Not a chance in hell.

Maybe not directly, but someone could conceivably use that leaked source code to make something even better than what they produced in the first place. Or someone could use that source code to make something much, much worse that ends up making Nintendo look bad. Yes, these are unlikely scenarios, but the point is, there is no reason for them to take any chances by deliberately giving their code away when they have nothing to gain.

You can't buy most of the games anymore except used copies

And if they give the games away for free, there's increasingly little chance they'll ever make nearly as much money off of them ever again. Just look at what Sega is trying to do on mobile with the old Sonic games.

 

[the_randomizer]

Maybe not directly, but someone could conceivably use that leaked source code to make something even better than what they produced in the first place. Or someone could use that source code to make something much, much worse that ends up making Nintendo look bad. Yes, these are unlikely scenarios, but the point is, there is no reason for them to take any chances by deliberately giving their code away when they have nothing to gain.


And if they give the games away for free, there's increasingly little chance they'll make nearly as much money off of them ever again. Just look at what Sega is trying to do on mobile with the old Sonic games.

Nintendo owes us nothing, at all, nothing's going to happen. People need to stop being paranoid.

 

[Deleted member 512337]

Maybe not directly, but someone could conceivably use that leaked source code to make something even better than what they produced in the first place. Or someone could use that source code to make something much, much worse that ends up making Nintendo look bad. Yes, these are unlikely scenarios, but the point is, there is no reason for them to take any chances by deliberately giving their code away when they have nothing to gain.


And if they give the games away for free, there's increasingly little chance they'll ever make nearly as much money off of them ever again. Just look at what Sega is trying to do on mobile with the old Sonic games.

Id like to see you provide an example of a sc release negatively affecting a company/ip.

 

[Kwyjor]

Id like to see you provide an example of a sc release negatively affecting a company/ip.

That's just it: people don't just go ahead and give away their source code unless they're sure it isn't going to affect them negatively.

How about Netscape?

 

[Asia81]

The decompilation is not illegal but this is

Lets be honest, nobody care

 

[IC_]

Lets be honest, nobody care

You can't just not care, the decompilation is legal and it's hosted on github and other places but if you did that with these source code leaks nintendo would take you down

 

[MeAndHax]

Crying Nintendo will now try to sue everyone and everybody cuz that’s all they can do

 

[EthanObi]

You can't just not care, the decompilation is legal and it's hosted on github and other places but if you did that with these source code leaks nintendo would take you down

Really? I seem to manage to not care just fine, despite your protests to the contrary!
This is very exciting for various reasons, untold history, development quirks, and "what if's" are just the tip of the iceberg

the Legality of these dumps are the last thing anyone who is interested in this cares about, you're really just blowing hot air on a forum which itself fits in a legal gray area in some countries.

 

[IC_]

Really? I seem to manage to not care just fine, despite your protests to the contrary!
This is very exciting for various reasons, untold history, development quirks, and "what if's" are just the tip of the iceberg

the Legality of these dumps are the last thing anyone who is interested in this cares about, you're really just blowing hot air on a forum which itself fits in a legal gray area in some countries.

For those reasons and for whatever personal use of this you can just not care, but if you wanted to use this information and data for things like porting the source code of the games in this leak to other platforms or improving an emulator, and publicly shared those things then you would probably get in trouble
With the SM64 decompilation project and the PC port of it I have not heard about anyone/anything getting in trouble or taken down unless they shared builds/roms of it which had all the assets from the game

 

[Xzi]

This is definitely cool and all, a part of gaming history, but it's ridiculous to pretend Nintendo is losing their minds over it. Even if they were planning on releasing N64 games as a part of Switch Online, they weren't going to make any more money off them individually.

Their reaction is probably more along the lines of:

 

[OkazakiTheOtaku]

I NEED EARTHBOUND 64 ALREADY

 

[Rioluwott]

It just keeps happening folks. Hope we get pokemon gen 6 soon


No they didnt

i mean the original guy who hacked the ique servers
there are a lot of people with the files already but the guy who started it all was already caught by nintendo and put under house arrest

 

[Ender3Guy]

I'm waiting for the Switch Pro's hardware to be leaked

 

[huma_dawii]

Niceee! Dreams come true.

 

[Raylight]

Nintendo is going to be pissed!

Take a seat and watch the fire

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Oh boy, oh boy, please, tell me there's gonna be more leaks and maybe we'll finally get our hands on some cancelled or unreleased games!

And this is all karma biting them back in the ass after all the bullcrap they had people go throught with videos, fangames and whatnot!