The third time's the charm, as the third major Nintendo release in the past month has been leaked onto the internet a good few days prior to the official launch date. Following Metroid Dread and Mario Party Superstars, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond is floating about online, both in .NSP and .XCI form, and it looks like the game is able to be booted and playable in some form through Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx as well. While the leaked version of Brilliant Diamond comes in at around 4.30GB, there is a scheduled 8GB day-one update that won't be available until the launch date, November 19th.

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[FAST6191]

[how do they get things ahead of street date]
Its the world we live in now

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It has been the world we have lived in for decades now, and likely will be as long we have hacked devices and retailers selling premade copies.

no its playable but the ost isnt complete ....instead of the game soundtrack it sounds like someone plays the sounds on a trumphet

To be fair if they had actually committed to that and gone full doot...

 

[Purple_Heart]

for this they charge 60 Euros? seriously Nintendo?

 

[smf]

Its the world we live in now, I Just hope my theory is right about the day one update overhaling the whole game, Its the best way I can come up with on how they can fight things like this.

It's been happening since the 1980's

Release groups used to buy games from distributors & they would receive it before the official date as it's impossible to ship the games to everyone at midnight.

Within a few hours it would have been cracked and uploaded onto BBS.

The only difference is that now even lamers can get hold of them.

 

[FAST6191]

It's been happening since the 1980's

Release groups used to buy games from distributors & they would receive it before the official date as it's impossible to ship the games to everyone at midnight.

Within a few hours it would have been cracked and uploaded onto BBS.

The only difference is that now even lamers can get hold of them.

Plenty of dodgy market stalls and computer fayres loaded with whatever for Amiga games, PC games, tape games and whatever else, carrying on way into the PS1 era while that was all current.

 

[the_randomizer]

Still better than Sword and Shield. Probably. Still, I wasn't gonna buy it anyway, I feel no sympathy for nintendo given how they treated their customers with their shitty NSO.

 

[pedro702]

Its the world we live in now, I Just hope my theory is right about the day one update overhaling the whole game, Its the best way I can come up with on how they can fight things like this.

it wont be lol if they were doing stuff like this they would advertise it as such, this was probably a bad revision they sent out to make the cartridges and only realized latter that it wasnt the correct build, nintendo will reprint this games in the future with the patch added but im guessing they sent a beta to make cartridges by mistake, it wasnt the first time something like this happened in videogames. the 8gb probably will address ost and several files/ textures that were improved from the wrong revision, they wont add anything for sure.

this was a mess the moment they said it wasnt even GF doing it, and handled to a studio that ususaly is a support studio that doesnt do most of the games but rather parts of games, it had to end up in a mess.

it would be fun if only one version used a bad build and the other is fine lol, i will wait and see, and if nintendo reprints the game with newer patch latter i will get that instead.

 

[Deleted member 514389]

Seems they got their pokeymans.

I'm still torn.
Get this one, or wait for the new one...
I only want the mons till Gen2 to be there..

60 is far too much for this...

I had seen GBA rom hack with more effort than this. No wonder they avoid advertise this game.

You should save that post for January...

It'll make this game look good by comparison

 

[ZeroFX]

Nice lets download, not even buying this one tbh even if it's good, maybe physical used to be able to play online I'm tired of game freak.

 

[chrisrlink]

oh hell no -cringes at trainer battle music-

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Mixed feelings. On one hand I dont' care, on the other I'm glad N got hurt.

Lmao. As if N are suffering some huge loss that will "hurt" them. The number of people pirating the games is an EXTREMELY insignificant number in comparison to those who will purchase them.

 

[SAIYAN48]

How is it that small groups of people can make better Pokemon games in the form of ROM hacks and the highest grossing company in the world can't?

 

[awin59]

I played for about an hour this afternoon and didn't even notice anything strange with the music (I haven't really paid attention to it to be honest). I noticed one possible bug in the pokedex but, so far, it seems far from being "unplayable".

 

[Seriel]

did anyone test yuzu yet? I don't have my hacked switch on me but i'm pretty sure my gaming laptop can handle it

It works perfectly fine in Yuzu. I had to stop myself before I got too far in the emulator because I have it preordered @_@

 

[godreborn]

I plan to buy one of these games at least at some point, but after last month, I need to recoup some moneys. is it worth getting both or not? Nintendo had a special gift for people who got shield and sword, which I did.

 

[DuoForce]

Playing through the game right now. I wonder what the day one patch will offer?

 

[awin59]

Playing through the game right now. I wonder what the day one patch will offer?

Really hope they will offer different battle speed because they feel SO SLOW right now it almost prevents me to enjoy the game.

 

[DuoForce]

Really hope they will offer different battle speed because they feel SO SLOW right now it almost prevents me to enjoy the game.

You must not have played the originals. The battles are pretty fast IMO

 

[awin59]

You must not have played the originals. The battles are pretty fast IMO

I did but only when it came out. Surely the most recent pokemon games are way faster than this right ?

 

[SonyUSA]

So anyone 20 years from now reliving their childhood won't be able to play this properly because the physical cart only has the beta build, essentially?

 

[MrVtR]

Let the Mods and Translations begins, I'm already translating the game to Brazilian Portuguese here, game is made on Unity, piece of cake to make mods on it