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.
Has the leak actually been, you know, leaked somewhere? I keep seeing the same handful of snippets but no giant torrents.
My favorite highlights:
The gen 3 starters we dodged a bullet on
Original smol Zigzagoon
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gen 3 dev map tools! if you’ve ever played around with making a romhack, this is particularly cool to see.
there’s also a creation myth and more lore around humans fucking pokemon which is really cool stuff
Did the original, official tilesets get leaked? It would be freaking awesome
Torchic looks better here
I think the gen 4 map editor got leak as well, great day for romhack nerds i think
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GAMEFREAK INVENTED A TOILET POKEMON AND WE GOT ROBBED
Here is some of the pokemon/human lore that got leaked
i feel like the hackers just added some shitposting to the pile just to fuck with them even more
Lol maybe, but the lore about the creation of the universe does seem legit
I want to believe this is real if only because this makes palworld look extremely tame by comparison which is hilarious
I doubt this is real - why would it have been written in English? Did the hackers say they translated it? Seems odd.
Oh no what about the heckin Nintendo copyright bullying and legal torment of people modding their precious IPs?
The funniest result of this would be if scarlet/violet is part of the leak and an enterprising group of coders fixed up the code to not be such a buggy, low-res mess.
Truly the modern, non-authorized version of Satoru Iwata fixing up Gen 2’s code so well, they could fit the entire Kanto region in the game.
Fucking please I’d love to play a version of that game that worked
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guys
This just made my day OMG I love Pokemon so much