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> Clearly if it was able to be leaked it already was being preserved Preserved by whom? Many leaks are done by old or ex-employees who quietly kept a shall we

by gwern 5mo ago

> Clearly if it was able to be leaked it already was being preserved Preserved by whom? Many leaks are done by old or ex-employees who quietly kept a shall we say 'backup' of their work. More than one 'official' re-release has been rumored to be an embarrassed company quietly filing the serial numbers off a rogue leak because they realized way too late that their archival practices were inadequate.

0cf8612b2e1e 5mo ago
Anti-emulation Nintendo was caught repacking a pirated ROM. https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-...
- charcircuit 5mo ago
  They were only "caught" using the .NES header which is a public standard that many NES emulators implement. There is no evidence that they used a pirated ROM.
- Andrex 5mo ago
  If someone breaks into a warehouse and makes off with a pallet of cartridges, and then those carts are recovered, would it be strange if Nintendo resold those carts? It's their property at the end of the day. Aside from that thought exercise, like many "internet facts" this one also might not be true, and repeating it doesn't really help either "side." https://medium.com/@AberrantWolf/mario-illegal-roms-and-media-sensationalism-2300a46c655a https://medium.com/@AberrantWolf/mario-illegal-roms-and-medi...
- Lammy 5mo ago
  Also how WarioWare: Smooth Moves shows their in-house developers using third-party emulators to source graphics for their first-party nostalgia bait: https://tcrf.net/WarioWare:_Smooth_Moves#Punch-Out https://tcrf.net/WarioWare:_Smooth_Moves#Punch-Out (not said derisively; I love WarioWare!)
- unleaded 5mo ago
  What this article is about is that Nintendo used a format standard in the emulation community for the ROM, it's possible they downloaded it but it's not like there's some "downloaded from ROMZ-ZONE.RU" watermark in there. It has been revealed in leaks that Nintendo has an internal ROM vault of pretty much everything ever released on their systems.
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- bunbun69 5mo ago
  There’s still no proof they pirated the ROM
- Dwedit 5mo ago
  A correct ROM packaged using the emulation community's standard file format will exactly match a pirated copy. There is no story here. After the article came out, Nintendo even created their own incompatible ROM packaging format just to spite that article.
  - matheusmoreira 5mo ago
    > Nintendo even created their own incompatible ROM packaging format just to spite that article Leave it to Nintendo to innovate entirely new reasons for people to hate them. It's like they have an entire department dedicated to it.
- LocalH 5mo ago
  Never ever did Nintendo distribute an iNES-format ROM with a "DiskDude!" header

by gwern 5mo ago

0cf8612b2e1e 5mo ago

Anti-emulation Nintendo was caught repacking a pirated ROM. https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-...

charcircuit 5mo ago
They were only "caught" using the .NES header which is a public standard that many NES emulators implement. There is no evidence that they used a pirated ROM.
Andrex 5mo ago
If someone breaks into a warehouse and makes off with a pallet of cartridges, and then those carts are recovered, would it be strange if Nintendo resold those carts? It's their property at the end of the day. Aside from that thought exercise, like many "internet facts" this one also might not be true, and repeating it doesn't really help either "side." https://medium.com/@AberrantWolf/mario-illegal-roms-and-media-sensationalism-2300a46c655a https://medium.com/@AberrantWolf/mario-illegal-roms-and-medi...
Lammy 5mo ago
Also how WarioWare: Smooth Moves shows their in-house developers using third-party emulators to source graphics for their first-party nostalgia bait: https://tcrf.net/WarioWare:_Smooth_Moves#Punch-Out https://tcrf.net/WarioWare:_Smooth_Moves#Punch-Out (not said derisively; I love WarioWare!)
unleaded 5mo ago
What this article is about is that Nintendo used a format standard in the emulation community for the ROM, it's possible they downloaded it but it's not like there's some "downloaded from ROMZ-ZONE.RU" watermark in there. It has been revealed in leaks that Nintendo has an internal ROM vault of pretty much everything ever released on their systems.
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bunbun69 5mo ago
There’s still no proof they pirated the ROM
Dwedit 5mo ago
A correct ROM packaged using the emulation community's standard file format will exactly match a pirated copy. There is no story here. After the article came out, Nintendo even created their own incompatible ROM packaging format just to spite that article.
- matheusmoreira 5mo ago
  > Nintendo even created their own incompatible ROM packaging format just to spite that article Leave it to Nintendo to innovate entirely new reasons for people to hate them. It's like they have an entire department dedicated to it.
LocalH 5mo ago
Never ever did Nintendo distribute an iNES-format ROM with a "DiskDude!" header