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@@omegarugal9283 Nintendo licensed their properties so Phillips could develop games for the CD-I, I don't see the point on having Nintendo's own first party studios working on that if thats the case.
@@ViktorKruger99 philips got the assests somewhere, maybe nintendo itself, the nintendo playstation project fell apart too early for the game to be intended for it...
Origonal Hexatendo I don’t have one of those yet but I’ve got the rom on pretty much everything else...GPI Case, plenty of raspberry pis, @atgames portable Genesis, & the Sega Genesis HD, pretty much you name it & the rom is on there. It’s a direct port minus with Sega style soundtrack
I wanna see early versions of Zelda 64. Medallions were magic items and there's even evidence to suggest Hyrule field was much larger among many other thins that are very interesting about it.
I, frankly, hope that this guy is covering his tracks like a g'damned guerilla. This stuff is only good for the future of preservation. I mean it's great that Nintendo is saving this stuff but that could change at any moment and it'd be lost forever. The internet won't let it die at least.
The guy who hacked into the iQue servers already got arrested two years ago, but he was set somewhat free because he was literally autistic. In addition, he's on house arrest with heavy monitoring of his computer use, but he did share the entire 2 terabytes of info with his friends on Discord. His friends are slowly putting the leaks out there in chunks. The leaks have always been released on a Friday if that's anything to go by
@@GoodlyPenguin Releasing leaks on a Friday is the best date because people have days off on Saturday and Sunday so you are giving the internet a 2 day headstart on nintendo suits.
The source code for Mario 64 leaked a month ago, they recompiled the spaceworld demo with it shortly after and that's how all of those wario apparition videos were made
Correction about the Star Fox 2 early build: It's not Star Fox 2, it's actually Star Fox 1. It's dated 1992. Somehow some rejected songs from the first game were rearranged for Star Fox 2.
Not stolen. Nintendo still have their original stash. This is more an illegal duplication, than theft of code. Unless someone actually went into the room and removed the storage device it is on.
@@brostenen If someone hacked into your computer remotely and copied your private photos and posted them online, would you not consider that stealing? I mean, since you still have all the photos and they didn't break into your house, would you just call it "illegal duplication?" How do you think law enforcement would classify the crime?
@@ZachAttackIsBack It is cyber crime or illegal obtained personal data. However I would only consider it theft if someone took both my backup drive and my computer.
@@ZachAttackIsBack I can now ask you this. If someone did a 1:1 and exact copy of a ferrari. Is that stealing or copy or replica? Compared to someone taking the car without permision.
The whole gigaleak is around 2tb worth of data, only 4gb has leaked so yeah it's fairmy possible that gamecube, wii and even wiiu games source code will be leaked.
I hope somebody gets inpired and create a remaster version of Star Fox, HD resolution and 60 FPS, same polygons. Something like virtua racing for swtich
@facelessninetytwo aka Man of the Rain you actually don't want to do that. Modern GPUs don't like pushing things faster than 1000 fps or so. I've noticed it can break down above 600 too for certain games.
I would love to see a leak of the old Satellaview content. For the SNES era that could be considered the holy grail of content that needs to be preserved.
I'm just a small dev but ever since Megaupload went down I keep EVERYTHING I make on three hard drives, my laptop, and 2 clouds. I can't imagine huge companies not doing the same thing.
@@wishusknight3009 Yeah, but the utilization isn't there. There should a injustice style game with Microsoft characters fighting across the multiverse. More banjo games, more fable, halo spinoffs with the first Spartans and their struggles. Gears games about the stranded and the beginning of the locust war for survival. So much potential.
Nintendo really have no right to try and have your video removed. You're covering public interest news and that is freedom of information. They really don't have a leg to stand on in terms of having videos removed. In terms of copyrighted material, obviously, but I doubt very much they'll try and get this removed
Probably, but it would take a lot of work just because the 3D on the SuperFX is completely different from modern 3D renderers. Huge parts of it would have to be rewritten. Even with that being the case though this means that it would be much less work to make it behave identically to the original game since they can just read the source code to figure that out.
no, it would be in assembly. and when its in assembly, its only good for that cpu/architecture. but it could be manually translated into another language.
As an engineer myself, I think it's interesting to mention that code itself is not such a big deal. It's more about everything around it. So how it's made, what is left behind etc. The reason why, is because it tells a lot about how certain companies operate and how capable they are (or the lack of) And mostly things they don't want others (mostly competitors) to know.
@@collin3012 Sometimes not even the comments, but just certain references, way of working or IP that is obtained fairly or not. This can in some cases even lead directly to having an insight in profit margins or claims (although that's mostly a little less straightforward with programming code, but it does exist)
@@p_mouse8676 source code itself is one thing, but this leak has argonaut's entire toolchain from back in the day, assembler, linker, custom tools, hell even 'make'. seems to even work properly using dosbox, but idk what format the file it generates are in and it does some weird bullshit with FTP, apparently sending the files... somewhere, so i can't recommend trying to build them just yet. there's probably even more toolchains hidden in there but i didn't really go farther than that
I guess what I hope for when source code leaks, is new variants on old games. Like ROM hacks, but on a deeper level. Sure you can edit levels in A Link to the Past, but you can't really add in new items with different behaviours. With the source code available, you could have new gameplay mechanics not possible with ROM hacks. Things like this is why I was overjoyed when I discovered Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons, because they were the same style as Link's Awakening, but with new ideas and maps and gameplay mechanics.
@@chickerinoradio6617 I always kinda forget that games like SM64 have been decompiled in a way that recompiling them produces a 1:1 ROM of the original, but you're right, with the source code half the work's done for you.
@@ZeroB4NG That's why you only make it available for download when it's completely finished. Wait for Nintendo to give you a letter and comply. If it's good enough, then dozens of people will have already downloaded it and it'll be circulating through the Internet forever. You can still easily find things like AM2R by just looking for them.
@MrFoxbody89 "I have never see a port perfect game from one cpu to another." We have that new Halo 3 port from PowerPC to x86/x64 architecture, and when I had both running simultaneously (with the 360 version being in Xenia) they seemed identical with the exception of graphical fidelity. Edit: Also, what about the Super Mario 64 PC port?
@MrFoxbody89 I can understand where you're coming from when it comes it a language's portability, but I mean, imho the Super Mario 64 PC port seems pretty legit overall. Even some of the original's graphical errors have been preserved, and while I haven't fully beaten it, the first half of the game I played seems super accurate to the original outside of HD resolutions and widescreen support. I'm not trying to sound rude, but if any of these SNES games get a PC port that's of similar quality to the Super Mario 64 PC port, I'd be content with personally calling it a proper PC port. I'd be curious to see anyone try and play the originals on native hardware versus a fan PC port to see if any significant desyncs arise.
Back in 2016 I found an undocumented trick in Super Mario Kart even without the source code. At least, I couldn't find any mention of it online. If you only have a controller plugged into one controller port, the SNES can tell and games will often adapt. For example, Super Mario World and Super Mario All*Stars will let you play a 2P game by passing the controller back and forth. It will even prevent you from playing the 2P simultaneous Battle Game in Super Mario Bros 3. Anyway, I was playing around with this and wanted to see if Super Mario Kart would let me play a single player game with the 2P controller. When both controllers are plugged in it will let the 2P controller operate the menu selections too only it will not let that player pick a 1P mode. ...unless you hold L+R and press Start. That will let you play a 1P game using the 2P controller, only you will be playing on the bottom half of the screen with the map on top (reverse of the usual way). I posted an image gallery about it on Imgur.
Reminds me when I was a kid I pressed buttons spastically when I was playing Super Mario Kart, and I somehow unlocked panning the camera around while I was driving. Is this a known trick?
@@TheRealSinjinsmyth I know that there is a way to do this during replays but L & R are used during game play so if you unlocked it there then that it really cool! Before I owned any SNES games I renter Ren & Stimpy Veediots and would let the game demos loop on the title screen. After I pressed a bunch of stuff randomly I set I controller down and thought the demo had started showing the stage where Stimpy floats down an esophagus or something. It was a stage I had not managed to play up to yet and I was only aware of it through the demo. I soon realized that Stimpy was getting hurt and was not moving like he normally would during the demo. I grabbed the controller and, sure enough, I was playing the stage. Unfortunately, I realized this too late to avoid dying and I didn't get to do anything with it. :(
Anyway, the Super Mario Kart discovery was posted as "Did I just discover an undocumented Super Mario Kart trick?!" on IMGUR under "EmmettTurner" if anyone cares to look it up.
This has been known since the game came out almost, I saw it printed in Super Play magazine back in 1992 .. it's even on gamefaqs gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588738-super-mario-kart/cheats
@@Mugmoor No, they don't. Copyright is automatically given for any work of art. Trademark is what is at stake, and they can just say "we are okay with [insert rom site]" and they keep their trademark
@Boba Fett They seem to care more about preservation than other companies that lost the source for their games (Konami with Silent Hill 2 & 3 comes to mind), sure it's hidden away from the public in their servers, but with the leaks we now know it's there.
@@hackmiester1337 it's stupid to assume that nintendo of america would have access to source code of projects that nintendo of japan worked on/approved.
GreenSwede I would be surprised if things were so cleanly divided in the year 2020 when international companies’ branches are more interconnected than ever. But hey, it seems like we are all just speculating.
@@hackmiester1337 in the vast majority of cases, international companies are set up with the express purpose of managing the legal and regulatory overhead of marketing a game in a particular region. I would be surprised if Nintendo America had anything more than a translation/localization team. I would go out on a limb and assume all the actual game engineers are in Nintendo Japan.
lmao, "Sorry Nintendo, console generations are temporary" - wtf are you even trying to say? That's like saying "sorry Random House, Literary Eras are temporary but literature preservation is forever". Like those 2 things are so completely unrelated?
@@svenbtb Public domain is a thing, and happened pretty quickly in the past. But, you know. Last I checked my collection of books didn't require some proprietary device that's incompatible with any other to be able to read any given set of books... Game preservation has this very peculiar and awkward problem of having to deal with the fact that arguably the hardware and game are inter-related, an cannot easily be seperated from one another like they can in any other medium. My VHS copy of Back to the Future can be salvaged simply by copying the video stream to a different medium, and the copy will be as good as the tape I got it from and the method I used to copy it. The copy of Sim City 2000 rotting away on floppy disks won't work just because I transfer it to a new storage medium, a whole heap of other technical stuff would have to be altered as well to get it to keep working... Game preservation is in a uniquely vulnerable position, and it's all well and good to create laws that say it's legally protected for going on 2 centuries... But many of these games are on hardware and storage media that likely won't survive 50 years without major conservation efforts... So either we break the law to preserve this stuff, or it vanishes into the ether. Granted, a company like Nintendo that's still going strong and evidently does a decent job of internal preservation is less of a concern here, but the principle still stands that if we do not do something then this is a disaster waiting to happen, and we will lose a ton of gaming history forever...
The All-Stars code is amazing because it is infamous for having some physics changes in SMB and LL, and I'm assuming we can see the values responsible for that and fix them
@@SK91NO I know both were analyzed quite a bit, I can't speak for SM64 but OoT has quite a fair bit of thinks that are very tedious to adjust with the current rom tools that have been made.
I'd love to see if there was ever any real work done on Ura Zelda beyond just changing the dungeons. Evidence in the OoT code suggests that they only ever planned to make harder dungeons (like what we got with Master Quest), but that doesn't seem right to me.
@MultiTarded Crystal doesn't need to be leaked. We have pokecrystal on GitHub and the symbol files for that project. After looking at the gen 3 leaks I can say that the documentation on pokecrystal is likely better than the original source anyways as well as having better variable names.
It boggles my mind how aggressive Nintendo is with this while some other companies are really open or don't care about this. People are still modding DOOM & Quake, even making games to be sold with the engines. SEGA is letting fans not only make rom hacks, they encourage it by letting you install them in the Genesis PC emulator on steam and the fans doing an HD Remake of Sonic 2. Nevermind hiring fan-game makers. Then you have Nintendo...who get mad at the very idea someone might enjoy their games differently than they were designed.
Maybe it pays off somehow but just pissed me off and caused me to hate them. At least their IP is properly protected from youtube. Wouldnt want them to lose out on super mario world 27
@@madwlad799 Whats funny is MVG usually showcases their tired ass ports with real interest and dev knowledge, advertising for Nintendo. How do they return the favor? Yep copyright strike him lol
Ha, and some people genuinely believed that Nintendo threw all their old stuff away and had to download a ROM of SMB1 from the Internet for VC. Yet more proof of their extensive efforts to preserve all of their stuff, even with SNES prototype assets.
Nah, they probably just dumped the ROM in a similar fashion to those online. If there ROM has no header you'd hope they'd be identical. The "funny" part about what they did it they are using the .NES file format which was created for emulation and not by them. Granted they probably didn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel. If Nintendo has their source code lying and I'm sure they've got spare carts and ways to dump the ROMs sitting around too. (They would have ROM dumpers to investigate and find ways to thwart piracy)
@@shade221 Extensions are just part of the name of a file, the "funny part" of the SMB rom was an iNES header, which holds some meta-data for the emulator to use. I remember hearing that Nintendo hired an iNES dev way back, and that's how the header got there.
@@shade221 NES rom images don't have any kind of header because the cartridges are supposed to be just two rom chips (code and graphics), in practice this isn't necessarily the case because mappers exists, chips that could swap data from bigger ROM chips into something the NES could work with (or even add functionality!). These mappers were numerous and each acts differently from each other, so just having the raw data from the roms isn't enough to emulate the game as you'd need to know the mapper the game uses (if it uses any), whether or not it has a battery etc, this info is only available to you when you open the cart, thanks to this necessity the iNES format was born.
@TurboCMinusMinus Nintendo quite literally hired one of the iNES devs, and they were responsible for the GB emulator in Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2, as well as the NES emulator in the GC version of Animal Crossing. NES ROMs straight up do not contain the information about the hardware of the cart that is stored in the iNES header, so the guy they hired who worked on iNES used the same format because it already existed, rather than wasting time to make a new format.
Thanks for the update! I agree that it doesn't really help emulation, but it's a good way to document Nintendo's history. I totally understand them protecting their IP, but I wish they would lighten up in some cases and work together with the community.
My child hood dream was to modify the source code of double dragon 2 and be able to play as the bosses and even add additional moves to the characters. When i grew up, C programming was confusing in college and life happened, and i never got to do it. Later in life, i went back to school to become an IT cybersecurity and AI specialist but seeing this makes me want to finish the pursuit of my childhood dream 😢 😊
I'll put my thin foil hat here: I think someone is blackmailing Nintendo and they are releasing these leaks as they're not getting what they're asking.
I remember the first leak back in April, people were rumoring about ~2TB of stuff that they were going to leak slowly over time. Unless this is something different, looks like they're telling the truth. Nindy will be pissed, though. We got betas, source code, BETA SOURCE CODE, and so many other goodies. Time to add this to my external drive with my collection of leaked goodies.
oh wow im actually here early enough to tell MVG that i love him and he might see it. your content is great to binge or to fall asleep to. your voice / accent is genuinely my favorite on youtube. thank you for the technically literate content as well as your more general stuff. youre just a great youtuber. thanks.
arturseguro I don’t think thats necessarily going to happen. SNES games were written in 65c816 assembly code that was only pertinent to the Super Nintendo’s CPU. Unlike say, Nintendo 64 games which were written in C, assembly code is not easily transferable and would have to be entirely rewritten. Besides, SNES emulation is already extremely accurate and accessible. There is really no point in porting these games.
There's not really a way to do that. The code is in ASM, so you can't just make it x86. Your best bet is a psuedo-emulator. Look at the Sonic 3 AIR project to see what I mean.
I'm very happy to see this stuff too. I mean think about it. There is a possibility that the source code for many Nintendo classic games can be used to do stuff like run in 16:9 native so that simply more level data can be shown on screen at once than the original 4:3 resolution offered. Or at the very least, this can help out rom hackers who remix retro games into new experiences.
2:41 I've been looking pictures of this world map for years (small parts of it here and there). I've never thought that it would come a day when I would be able to enjoy it at full glory!
"Super Donkey" is a strange beta that is like a very early version of Yoshi's Island. Theres also a very odd Mario "game"(?) that looks more like a bootleg
I am enjoying the heck out of these leaks. Behind the scenes info is something I always appreciated. I am one of the guys that loves when magicians reveal their tricks. It does not ruin the magic for me, it only makes it better!
"Full development repository for Ensata official DS emulator" out of everything here, I can see this being helpful for DS emulation. sure no one can directly copy the code (at least not legally) but you can study it and use what you learned from it.
Even that is illegal for an emulator. By law only clean room reverse engineering is allowed. So if an emulator used this and Nintendo found out you'd get sued to the ground. But I can imagine some chinese companies to use these "assets"
@@Caesim9 So one person interprets the code, describes it to another developer who doesn't know it, and that one replicates it. That's what ReactOS does, and to my knowledge that's legal.
I'm waiting for another 3DS leak. There is still some stuff missing that is interesting for the scene (e.g. home menu stuff; how to remove the 300 title limit)
I feel like that would be nowhere near as momentous as it seems, since file-loading code in OoT suggests that they only ever planned the harder dungeons we got in Master Quest. Here's to hoping, though!
I've been a strong proponent of open source almost as long as the SNES has been a thing and having this source code available is really quite cool. Of course, you could always decompile ROMs and run them through a debugger in an emulator, but this is different, this is the *official* (as far as we know) code, with comments as you've shown in your video. Granted, at least some of the comments are Japanese, but it shouldn't be a problem to get them translated. There are also some related artefacts, like bug reports for a Zelda game, that we've never seen before. That kind of thing might be useful for speedrunners, though I'm not sure if you're going to get your run into a GDQ or the like if you submit it with strats you got from reading leaked bug reports. :D Also, really nice callback to your previous video with ending this one with the Doom soundtrack. I see (or, rather, heard) what you did there, and I appreciate it.
Did they found prototypes ROMs of SUPER MARIO WORLD!, or they just early sprites? Because one of the things I want to do before death is to play at least one genuine prototype of Super Mario World and Sonic 1 (Especially the very first prototype of Sonic 1 from 1990).
If the source is separated into different versions representing the course of development, then theoretically different builds could be generated as roms in much the same way as we have the Sonic 2/3/CD prototypes. There were enough differences in the early prototypes of SMW that I would love to see what they had running when those original photos were in the magazines back in the day.
Some of the leaks are quite interesting from my experience, that one backup mail file not even included, with a bit of digging there seems to be a number of user folders which appear to contain code targeting SGI machines, which may prove interesting.
"Is this source code leak going to help emulation authors?" "ARE YOU INSANE?!! EMULATION AUTHORS WOULDN'T TOUCH THESE LEAKS WITH A 10,000 FOOT POLE!!!"
@@Minsc I don't understand how that works, Source code gets leaked, emulation authors look at it, see how the actual consoles do things, they change their code to better replicate the real thing, although not using any actual code from Nintendo, Nintendo shuts them down for...? For looking at leaked documents? As far as I know, looking at leaked information isn't illegal. I also don't think acting on leaked information is illegal. I'm not a lawyer, but I would think it would only be illegal if they took parts of Nintendo's source code and incorporated it into their program. For example: Let's say that an emulation author can't figure out how music data is stored in games. He looks at leaked source code to see how the real console does it. Then he writes a completely different music player (because the code is for completely different hardware) for his emulator based on that information. Has he committed a crime even though he didn't use any of their code?
Really interesting stuff. There has been some early Lttp sprites floating around, really hope we get to see more of that, or even possibly stuff related to Zelda 3 for NES, if that ever actually existed.
I hope they look at this, with their classic genius selves (notice i said classic), "o? Something fun happened for the players. Let's save ourselves some headache, time, energy, money, and heartache. Let's let it go. Nintendo is about fun. Let the players have fun. :D "
A part of me wonders if some game companies might consider "the making of" or "behind the scenes" content that showcases prototype assets, as in part being useful for getting out ahead of leaks, presenting things (and potentially monetizing them) on their own terms.
>Video title is about Nintendo leaks >Video thumbnail has a picture of a pipe from the Super Mario Bros franchise I see what you did there, and I approve.
This is a part of cultural heritage. In fact, companies should be mandated to release source and prototype material for all product, so that everything is preserved and nothing is lost. With proper archival, future generations can still enjoy this stuff in the year 10000.
That game at 4:45 I admit I have never played it (never had the chance to) but that "new" music in the clip was making me all hyped up to play! the! game!
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I really hope you don't get a copyright strike from Nintendo for showing the music.
There is some emails in the leak too, talking about someone sharing porn in the office. lol
my sincere apologies for a certain spam. there's already a larger copy of Nintendo stuff.
and also xbox
I need to learn coding and this is a miracle. Studying source code is fun and educational.
Where can I get my hands on this stuff?
Mario All-Stars is indeed part of this, with the internal codename "Super Mario CD" suggesting it was intended for the Nintendo Playstation.
no, it was meant for the CD-I
@@omegarugal9283 Nintendo licensed their properties so Phillips could develop games for the CD-I, I don't see the point on having Nintendo's own first party studios working on that if thats the case.
m Bluett dam I remember my mom ordered that game out a magazine
@@ViktorKruger99 philips got the assests somewhere, maybe nintendo itself, the nintendo playstation project fell apart too early for the game to be intended for it...
Probably meant to be CDi. Because All-Stars didn't come out til 93 and the Nintendo Playstation was long dead.
POV: Your Uncle who worked for Nintendo tells you about the secret Marios
underrated comment lmao
My fantasy
Nintendo's trying to hide the third Mario Brother from us
ItsMamaLuigi technically aren’t Wario and Waluigi their extended brothers?
Like ray-mario the star of "mario 5" the mario that never marioed
Source code is cool and all, but that sprite of Luigi giving the middle finger is the greatest part of this leak.
timestamp pleaseeee
There also a Mario givig a middle finger
The stuff Nintendo didn’t want you to see...
@@Flandz420 mistakes were made?
What?!
The folks at The Cutting Room Floor are going to have a field day with another Nintendo leak, it's like giving candy to a kid.
More like giving data to hackers
@@corporalcorporal43 It's an analogy, stupid.
As if. Forest of Illusion had to lock his account because of their goons, those poor corporations.
More like winning the Golden Ticket to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory
*SMW source code leaks*
Its a me Mario on the Sega Genesis!
Oddly enough I have the original super Mario Bros on my Sega Genesis already lol
The Q n K Show Everdrive PRO?
Origonal Hexatendo I don’t have one of those yet but I’ve got the rom on pretty much everything else...GPI Case, plenty of raspberry pis, @atgames portable Genesis, & the Sega Genesis HD, pretty much you name it & the rom is on there. It’s a direct port minus with Sega style soundtrack
SOMARI INTENSIFIES
This but unironically
Prototypes are so fascinating. The most mind-blowing thing that can happen is if some early Mario 64 prototypes could be found.
I'd say mario cart 64. Just to see how the call functions are handled on that one track with the jumbotron.
I wanna see early versions of Zelda 64. Medallions were magic items and there's even evidence to suggest Hyrule field was much larger among many other thins that are very interesting about it.
You're forgetting Mother 64
@@DrumEagle or better yet Conker's 12 Tales
@@The1uptriforce Right!
I, frankly, hope that this guy is covering his tracks like a g'damned guerilla. This stuff is only good for the future of preservation.
I mean it's great that Nintendo is saving this stuff but that could change at any moment and it'd be lost forever.
The internet won't let it die at least.
The guy who hacked into the iQue servers already got arrested two years ago, but he was set somewhat free because he was literally autistic. In addition, he's on house arrest with heavy monitoring of his computer use, but he did share the entire 2 terabytes of info with his friends on Discord. His friends are slowly putting the leaks out there in chunks. The leaks have always been released on a Friday if that's anything to go by
Blubber Nubber Yep! Thank you Wack0!
@@yyflandre Once it's leaked, Nintendo can't do shit. They take down one download link, we upload two more. That's how we win.
Chillnyte zammis
@@GoodlyPenguin Releasing leaks on a Friday is the best date because people have days off on Saturday and Sunday so you are giving the internet a 2 day headstart on nintendo suits.
People’s heads are going to explode when we did through the code and learn that Waluigi was originally playable in Mario Kart
I know you're joking and all, but The Wah was created by Camelot to be Wario's partner for Mario Tennis, he wasn't a thing during the SNES's run.
@@Vee_Astra ...Nice try Nintendo! But slowly but surely we're uncovering your tricks!
@@numericalman That's what Wario wants you to think. Waahh.
I hope we get to see a Super Mario 64 prototype build from one of these leaks, it's my dream to one day play the Space World 95 demo!
wario apparition will become real
The source code for Mario 64 leaked a month ago, they recompiled the spaceworld demo with it shortly after and that's how all of those wario apparition videos were made
@@thecianinator Wario apparition videos were made either with modding, video edits or screenshots from Nintendo's own presentations.
@@TheMinecraftNerd2014 the beta build of sm64 is just a rabbithole of experienced editors.
The sm64 on GitHub is pretty much like OpenRW
It's mine to play the SMS space world trailer build
Correction about the Star Fox 2 early build: It's not Star Fox 2, it's actually Star Fox 1. It's dated 1992.
Somehow some rejected songs from the first game were rearranged for Star Fox 2.
Major kudos to Nintendo for saving all the old source code so it could be stolen decades later and released online.
Cry harder
Not stolen. Nintendo still have their original stash. This is more an illegal duplication, than theft of code. Unless someone actually went into the room and removed the storage device it is on.
@@brostenen If someone hacked into your computer remotely and copied your private photos and posted them online, would you not consider that stealing? I mean, since you still have all the photos and they didn't break into your house, would you just call it "illegal duplication?" How do you think law enforcement would classify the crime?
@@ZachAttackIsBack It is cyber crime or illegal obtained personal data. However I would only consider it theft if someone took both my backup drive and my computer.
@@ZachAttackIsBack I can now ask you this. If someone did a 1:1 and exact copy of a ferrari. Is that stealing or copy or replica? Compared to someone taking the car without permision.
These leaks are getting so out of hand, it's caused full beard mode for MVG.
nice one
Upside down hair activated
I wish the beta prototypes of super mario sunshine will ever leak
Galaxy also 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I would love to have access to the Super Mario 128 tech demo from SpaceWorld 2000...just for the fun of it.
Luigi's Mansion tho.
The whole gigaleak is around 2tb worth of data, only 4gb has leaked so yeah it's fairmy possible that gamecube, wii and even wiiu games source code will be leaked.
I hope somebody gets inpired and create a remaster version of Star Fox, HD resolution and 60 FPS, same polygons. Something like virtua racing for swtich
We really hope that happens.
In before a C&D from Nintendo to the talented dev who undertakes such a project.
My hopes are that any of these get higher fps when ported to faster systems
@facelessninetytwo aka Man of the Rain you actually don't want to do that. Modern GPUs don't like pushing things faster than 1000 fps or so. I've noticed it can break down above 600 too for certain games.
I hope ANYTHING is done with Starfox, its my fav snes game , even messing with the randomizer is really fun
I would love to see a leak of the old Satellaview content. For the SNES era that could be considered the holy grail of content that needs to be preserved.
Yes! Radical Dreamers (Chrono Trigger/Cross series) was on that!
Yeah, absolutely
For sure. I would REALLY love to see that, and I would love for it to be playable somehow in a similar way to how it was intended.
I'm more impressed at Nintendo's ability to keep backups of 30+ year old source code than anything else.
Nintendo's thought process: Let's keep it, we might make money off it later.
@@Minsc and thats very smart
The Legend of Zelda: A Leak to the Past
lol
how about Legend of Zelda Leak's Awakening
and The Legend of Zelda: A Leap Foward
the wind leaker.
The Legend of Zelda: A Leak of Time
Nintendo is king of IP in the industry. Keeping all source is just proves it
Truth. Can't think of any company who comes close besides sony, somewhat.
@@YouVSMeTV M$
Imagine throwing away the source code of Final Fantasy 8
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I'm just a small dev but ever since Megaupload went down I keep EVERYTHING I make on three hard drives, my laptop, and 2 clouds. I can't imagine huge companies not doing the same thing.
@@wishusknight3009 Yeah, but the utilization isn't there. There should a injustice style game with Microsoft characters fighting across the multiverse. More banjo games, more fable, halo spinoffs with the first Spartans and their struggles. Gears games about the stranded and the beginning of the locust war for survival. So much potential.
Nintendo really have no right to try and have your video removed. You're covering public interest news and that is freedom of information. They really don't have a leg to stand on in terms of having videos removed. In terms of copyrighted material, obviously, but I doubt very much they'll try and get this removed
Star Fox source code?
Does this mean we could make a source port and get Star Fox in 4k at 60 fps?
I hope so!
Probably, but it would take a lot of work just because the 3D on the SuperFX is completely different from modern 3D renderers. Huge parts of it would have to be rewritten. Even with that being the case though this means that it would be much less work to make it behave identically to the original game since they can just read the source code to figure that out.
Yeah but it probably wouldn't be easy
no, it would be in assembly. and when its in assembly, its only good for that cpu/architecture. but it could be manually translated into another language.
And with better textures
Nintendo has to be PISSED.
They're probably finna' DMCA every single person that leaked this, lol
I hope they don't target people making video talking about leaks
@@EpicTyphlosionTV I will seed the shit outta it. They can't do anything
They definitely know about it. They sent a company-wide memo regarding it.
>They sent a company-wide memo regarding it.
How do you know that?
Credit to that one guy simplifying the whole thing for the Normies holidaying on the chan for leakes. You're a real bro!
Its raining source codes, hallelujah!
2 things:
1. I hope Super Metroid is in there.
2. Does this mean we can get these 2D games to he true wide screen now? 😍
Until that day comes, I've been making "Atlas Videos" to show how widescreen Nintendo games could look!
@@NESAtlas I didnt know you were back at it again! I loved your stuff years ago, and I'm glad to see your putting out new videos 👌
As an engineer myself, I think it's interesting to mention that code itself is not such a big deal.
It's more about everything around it. So how it's made, what is left behind etc.
The reason why, is because it tells a lot about how certain companies operate and how capable they are (or the lack of)
And mostly things they don't want others (mostly competitors) to know.
Exactly. It's not the code, it's the comments within the code that are really telling.
@@collin3012 Sometimes not even the comments, but just certain references, way of working or IP that is obtained fairly or not.
This can in some cases even lead directly to having an insight in profit margins or claims
(although that's mostly a little less straightforward with programming code, but it does exist)
@@p_mouse8676 source code itself is one thing, but this leak has argonaut's entire toolchain from back in the day, assembler, linker, custom tools, hell even 'make'. seems to even work properly using dosbox, but idk what format the file it generates are in and it does some weird bullshit with FTP, apparently sending the files... somewhere, so i can't recommend trying to build them just yet.
there's probably even more toolchains hidden in there but i didn't really go farther than that
I guess what I hope for when source code leaks, is new variants on old games. Like ROM hacks, but on a deeper level. Sure you can edit levels in A Link to the Past, but you can't really add in new items with different behaviours. With the source code available, you could have new gameplay mechanics not possible with ROM hacks.
Things like this is why I was overjoyed when I discovered Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons, because they were the same style as Link's Awakening, but with new ideas and maps and gameplay mechanics.
technically through decompiling you can still add new gameplay elements, but of course with the source code itself its a lot easier
I'd be surprised if a game as big as Zelda hasn't yet been disassembled and commented.
@@chickerinoradio6617 I always kinda forget that games like SM64 have been decompiled in a way that recompiling them produces a 1:1 ROM of the original, but you're right, with the source code half the work's done for you.
There's also game engine projects for making alttp style fangames if adding new behaviors is what you're after: solarus-games.org/
That beard though. It suits you, MVG man.
He does look better with a beard!
MultiTarded bald dudes have beards
Has he lost weight too? He's looking great.
@MultiTarded Men who are insecure about their masculinity have beards.
Would be better without a beard. 😅
Some of these prototype sprites could result in some really interesting ROM hacks.
Yep. This happened with Pokemon a while ago and there's a guy I know working on a hack with the recent Spaceworld '99 demo assets.
Any link? I'm interested.
That no one would be willing to host because that is just inviting a DMCA strike.
@@ZeroB4NG That's why you only make it available for download when it's completely finished. Wait for Nintendo to give you a letter and comply. If it's good enough, then dozens of people will have already downloaded it and it'll be circulating through the Internet forever. You can still easily find things like AM2R by just looking for them.
@@ZeroB4NG LOL! As if that ever stopped anyone.
This is insane. I can't wait for all the ports and crazy mods coming out of this, I'm really hyped up
@MrFoxbody89
"I have never see a port perfect game from one cpu to another."
We have that new Halo 3 port from PowerPC to x86/x64 architecture, and when I had both running simultaneously (with the 360 version being in Xenia) they seemed identical with the exception of graphical fidelity.
Edit: Also, what about the Super Mario 64 PC port?
@MrFoxbody89
I can understand where you're coming from when it comes it a language's portability, but I mean, imho the Super Mario 64 PC port seems pretty legit overall. Even some of the original's graphical errors have been preserved, and while I haven't fully beaten it, the first half of the game I played seems super accurate to the original outside of HD resolutions and widescreen support.
I'm not trying to sound rude, but if any of these SNES games get a PC port that's of similar quality to the Super Mario 64 PC port, I'd be content with personally calling it a proper PC port. I'd be curious to see anyone try and play the originals on native hardware versus a fan PC port to see if any significant desyncs arise.
Back in 2016 I found an undocumented trick in Super Mario Kart even without the source code. At least, I couldn't find any mention of it online.
If you only have a controller plugged into one controller port, the SNES can tell and games will often adapt. For example, Super Mario World and Super Mario All*Stars will let you play a 2P game by passing the controller back and forth. It will even prevent you from playing the 2P simultaneous Battle Game in Super Mario Bros 3. Anyway, I was playing around with this and wanted to see if Super Mario Kart would let me play a single player game with the 2P controller. When both controllers are plugged in it will let the 2P controller operate the menu selections too only it will not let that player pick a 1P mode.
...unless you hold L+R and press Start. That will let you play a 1P game using the 2P controller, only you will be playing on the bottom half of the screen with the map on top (reverse of the usual way). I posted an image gallery about it on Imgur.
Reminds me when I was a kid I pressed buttons spastically when I was playing Super Mario Kart, and I somehow unlocked panning the camera around while I was driving. Is this a known trick?
@@TheRealSinjinsmyth I know that there is a way to do this during replays but L & R are used during game play so if you unlocked it there then that it really cool!
Before I owned any SNES games I renter Ren & Stimpy Veediots and would let the game demos loop on the title screen. After I pressed a bunch of stuff randomly I set I controller down and thought the demo had started showing the stage where Stimpy floats down an esophagus or something. It was a stage I had not managed to play up to yet and I was only aware of it through the demo. I soon realized that Stimpy was getting hurt and was not moving like he normally would during the demo. I grabbed the controller and, sure enough, I was playing the stage. Unfortunately, I realized this too late to avoid dying and I didn't get to do anything with it. :(
Anyway, the Super Mario Kart discovery was posted as "Did I just discover an undocumented Super Mario Kart trick?!" on IMGUR under "EmmettTurner" if anyone cares to look it up.
This has been known since the game came out almost, I saw it printed in Super Play magazine back in 1992 .. it's even on gamefaqs gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588738-super-mario-kart/cheats
It was printed in some magazines and on some websites back in the 1990s, actually.
I feel like this is what Nintendo deserves for always taking down rom sites.
Yes and no. Like it sucks they did take down Rom sites but at the same time... It's their property.
Not all ROM sites.
Even if they didn't want to, they have a legal obligation to or they lose the copyright to those titles.
@@Mugmoor No, they don't. Copyright is automatically given for any work of art. Trademark is what is at stake, and they can just say "we are okay with [insert rom site]" and they keep their trademark
@Boba Fett They seem to care more about preservation than other companies that lost the source for their games (Konami with Silent Hill 2 & 3 comes to mind), sure it's hidden away from the public in their servers, but with the leaks we now know it's there.
Somebody who had super high level access starts leaking soon after Reggie leaves Nintendo. Hmmmm
Bill Cook Reggie had no access to these
Sanse Azo 1) The comment was pretty obviously in jest. 2) Care to share where you got your information?
@@hackmiester1337 it's stupid to assume that nintendo of america would have access to source code of projects that nintendo of japan worked on/approved.
GreenSwede I would be surprised if things were so cleanly divided in the year 2020 when international companies’ branches are more interconnected than ever. But hey, it seems like we are all just speculating.
@@hackmiester1337 in the vast majority of cases, international companies are set up with the express purpose of managing the legal and regulatory overhead of marketing a game in a particular region. I would be surprised if Nintendo America had anything more than a translation/localization team. I would go out on a limb and assume all the actual game engineers are in Nintendo Japan.
I want a SEGA leak, that would be so great to have Daytona USA and Virtua Fighter source code.
2:45 Kinda looks like the concept art that Miyamoto had for a couple of years
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yoshi-concept.png
@Umbreon 2014 I CLICKED ON IT TOO FAST
yeah.
Sorry Nintendo, console generations are temporary
But game preservation is forever
lmao, "Sorry Nintendo, console generations are temporary" - wtf are you even trying to say? That's like saying "sorry Random House, Literary Eras are temporary but literature preservation is forever". Like those 2 things are so completely unrelated?
Stupid butthead
@@svenbtb Public domain is a thing, and happened pretty quickly in the past.
But, you know. Last I checked my collection of books didn't require some proprietary device that's incompatible with any other to be able to read any given set of books...
Game preservation has this very peculiar and awkward problem of having to deal with the fact that arguably the hardware and game are inter-related, an cannot easily be seperated from one another like they can in any other medium.
My VHS copy of Back to the Future can be salvaged simply by copying the video stream to a different medium, and the copy will be as good as the tape I got it from and the method I used to copy it.
The copy of Sim City 2000 rotting away on floppy disks won't work just because I transfer it to a new storage medium, a whole heap of other technical stuff would have to be altered as well to get it to keep working...
Game preservation is in a uniquely vulnerable position, and it's all well and good to create laws that say it's legally protected for going on 2 centuries...
But many of these games are on hardware and storage media that likely won't survive 50 years without major conservation efforts...
So either we break the law to preserve this stuff, or it vanishes into the ether.
Granted, a company like Nintendo that's still going strong and evidently does a decent job of internal preservation is less of a concern here, but the principle still stands that if we do not do something then this is a disaster waiting to happen, and we will lose a ton of gaming history forever...
@@KuraIthys Yup. Just look at a good chunk of the state of BBS Door games right now.
The All-Stars code is amazing because it is infamous for having some physics changes in SMB and LL, and I'm assuming we can see the values responsible for that and fix them
A sourcecode leak of OoT would be really cool. I'd love to see a romhack with a fully working customized dungeon map.
What's the point? I thought it got reverse engineered a short while after SM64 as well
Or a hack where the 20 fps limit is removed.
@@SK91NO I know both were analyzed quite a bit, I can't speak for SM64 but OoT has quite a fair bit of thinks that are very tedious to adjust with the current rom tools that have been made.
@@SK91NO I think that's still a work in progress but is a very active project.
I'd love to see if there was ever any real work done on Ura Zelda beyond just changing the dungeons. Evidence in the OoT code suggests that they only ever planned to make harder dungeons (like what we got with Master Quest), but that doesn't seem right to me.
Here’s hoping for a StarFox PC port running on real 60 FPS
Exactly what I want!! Also a resolution bump!
Also stereo 3D would be cool.
Just use bsnes.
I hope the rest of the Pokemon Gen 4, 5 and heck even 6 source code gets leaked. I would also love if Dream World makes a come back too.
@MultiTarded Crystal doesn't need to be leaked. We have pokecrystal on GitHub and the symbol files for that project. After looking at the gen 3 leaks I can say that the documentation on pokecrystal is likely better than the original source anyways as well as having better variable names.
Hoarders are keeping the betas of those games to themselves
@MultiTarded Prototypes of Crystal's different localizations have been leaked, but not the actual source code.
I really want to see N64 game source code.
Imagine if Goldeneye 007 source code was leaked!
Turok is available
At this rate, you will.
@Morahman7vnNo2 Yeah... So what? I mean, I hope so. C is kinda easier to read than Assembly, you know...
@Morahman7vnNo2 Can you poke me in a direction where I find documentation/sources? I don't have too much time these days but wanna take a look anyway
It boggles my mind how aggressive Nintendo is with this while some other companies are really open or don't care about this.
People are still modding DOOM & Quake, even making games to be sold with the engines. SEGA is letting fans not only make rom hacks, they encourage it by letting you install them in the Genesis PC emulator on steam and the fans doing an HD Remake of Sonic 2.
Nevermind hiring fan-game makers.
Then you have Nintendo...who get mad at the very idea someone might enjoy their games differently than they were designed.
That's one of the reasons why I love when these leaks happen! LOL
It feels like the community does this like a revenge and it feels so good! Hahaha
how else are they going to sell you the same games over and over again with ervy new console?
@@madwlad799 by downloading the rom and bundling on their own emulators like they did on the Wiishop
Maybe it pays off somehow but just pissed me off and caused me to hate them. At least their IP is properly protected from youtube. Wouldnt want them to lose out on super mario world 27
@@madwlad799 Whats funny is MVG usually showcases their tired ass ports with real interest and dev knowledge, advertising for Nintendo. How do they return the favor? Yep copyright strike him lol
Ha, and some people genuinely believed that Nintendo threw all their old stuff away and had to download a ROM of SMB1 from the Internet for VC. Yet more proof of their extensive efforts to preserve all of their stuff, even with SNES prototype assets.
Nah, they probably just dumped the ROM in a similar fashion to those online. If there ROM has no header you'd hope they'd be identical. The "funny" part about what they did it they are using the .NES file format which was created for emulation and not by them. Granted they probably didn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel. If Nintendo has their source code lying and I'm sure they've got spare carts and ways to dump the ROMs sitting around too. (They would have ROM dumpers to investigate and find ways to thwart piracy)
@@shade221 Extensions are just part of the name of a file, the "funny part" of the SMB rom was an iNES header, which holds some meta-data for the emulator to use.
I remember hearing that Nintendo hired an iNES dev way back, and that's how the header got there.
@@shade221 NES rom images don't have any kind of header because the cartridges are supposed to be just two rom chips (code and graphics), in practice this isn't necessarily the case because mappers exists, chips that could swap data from bigger ROM chips into something the NES could work with (or even add functionality!).
These mappers were numerous and each acts differently from each other, so just having the raw data from the roms isn't enough to emulate the game as you'd need to know the mapper the game uses (if it uses any), whether or not it has a battery etc, this info is only available to you when you open the cart, thanks to this necessity the iNES format was born.
Who thinks they throw it away?? Theyve been rereleasing this shit for the last 20 years.
@TurboCMinusMinus Nintendo quite literally hired one of the iNES devs, and they were responsible for the GB emulator in Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2, as well as the NES emulator in the GC version of Animal Crossing. NES ROMs straight up do not contain the information about the hardware of the cart that is stored in the iNES header, so the guy they hired who worked on iNES used the same format because it already existed, rather than wasting time to make a new format.
Thanks for the update! I agree that it doesn't really help emulation, but it's a good way to document Nintendo's history. I totally understand them protecting their IP, but I wish they would lighten up in some cases and work together with the community.
Oh man fzero source code? It would be so fun to tinker around with acceleration and speed values, maybe make custom vehicles or maps or mechanics!
sirgallium people do that with ROM hacks already, don't need the source for that
yeah you can just alter the rom, or even use a game-genie haha
Pc port + texture ai + online integration, Dreams become real
@@garybourbier yeah those are good examples for the kinda things u would actually need the source code for ^^
@@garybourbier Heck yeah. Where do we get our hands on this source code?
My child hood dream was to modify the source code of double dragon 2 and be able to play as the bosses and even add additional moves to the characters. When i grew up, C programming was confusing in college and life happened, and i never got to do it. Later in life, i went back to school to become an IT cybersecurity and AI specialist but seeing this makes me want to finish the pursuit of my childhood dream 😢 😊
Anyone got the music he was referring to “super castlevania 4 alternative soundtrack”? I can’t find any of it
The sample he played was from Simon's theme.
ua-cam.com/video/IkEGBAQsK-Q/v-deo.html
@@GreenSwedeHearing any upbeat music in Castlevania 4 is just a big breath of fresh air.
That hidden Castlevania music is amazing!
not really.
It is a bit basic, and not nearly as technical as what went into the game... but it is catchy, I will give it that.
@@jong2359 wow, I was trying to be a troll here but your response was rational and very composed. Well done. +1 skill point for you.
Nah
I'll put my thin foil hat here: I think someone is blackmailing Nintendo and they are releasing these leaks as they're not getting what they're asking.
nintendo about to lawsuit
anyway
"eticket signing keys for an unknown system"
HmMMMMMmmmm?
I remember the first leak back in April, people were rumoring about ~2TB of stuff that they were going to leak slowly over time. Unless this is something different, looks like they're telling the truth.
Nindy will be pissed, though. We got betas, source code, BETA SOURCE CODE, and so many other goodies. Time to add this to my external drive with my collection of leaked goodies.
Your comment is funny.
'We got betas,
Source code,
BETA SOURCE CODE'
@@neptune3569 Lasers, sharks, LASER SHARKS!
Crazy to finally see the full mushroom shaped island from early SMW screenshots.
Came for the vid, stayed for the beard. Keep it going dude, I dig it
I second this motion!
beard
He really rocks it.
oh wow im actually here early enough to tell MVG that i love him and he might see it.
your content is great to binge or to fall asleep to. your voice / accent is genuinely my favorite on youtube.
thank you for the technically literate content as well as your more general stuff.
youre just a great youtuber. thanks.
Looking forward to the n64 leaks 🙏. Mother 3, conker, dinosaur planet are what I’m hoping for comes out.
Dinosaur planet 😍 Ura Zelda 😍
On that note. The OG Conker 😍
Assuming they still have Conker on file. The code is wholly owned by Microsoft.
Dinosaur Planet would be the greatest thing.
I wouldn't mind the initial builds of Golden Sun for N64, before it was ported to GBA.
Thanks for reporting on this MVG 👍
I look forward to lanky Yoshi being put into SMW
Someone already made that a while back, actually! Lol!
Man imagine the possibilities, i hope there's a No Mercy 64 beta
Also Thrill Kill
@@SullySadface Didn't know Thrill Kill was going to be on 64, yeah be cool to have the 64 version. PSX version has been out years
I want the source code leaked for the aki wcw/WWF games.
@@Sterling20073 I assume he meant the source code. 🤷♀️ be neat if one of the old paradox devs said f-it one day and puts it out. Here's to hoping!
Hopefully people can make pc ports of these, specially star fox 1 and 2
I would love to see a Sega Genesis port using the svp chip
arturseguro I don’t think thats necessarily going to happen. SNES games were written in 65c816 assembly code that was only pertinent to the Super Nintendo’s CPU. Unlike say, Nintendo 64 games which were written in C, assembly code is not easily transferable and would have to be entirely rewritten. Besides, SNES emulation is already extremely accurate and accessible. There is really no point in porting these games.
and go to jail? lol
There's not really a way to do that. The code is in ASM, so you can't just make it x86. Your best bet is a psuedo-emulator. Look at the Sonic 3 AIR project to see what I mean.
I really appreciate that you always pull out the effort of reading all the comments =)
Nintendo Switch advert before this video! I'm sure they'll be delighted.
I'm very happy to see this stuff too. I mean think about it. There is a possibility that the source code for many Nintendo classic games can be used to do stuff like run in 16:9 native so that simply more level data can be shown on screen at once than the original 4:3 resolution offered.
Or at the very least, this can help out rom hackers who remix retro games into new experiences.
Lol Nintendo can't get rid of it now.
Everyone has already downloaded it.
well.. i didn't download it.... yet
4:54 I can just see Dracula on the keyboard jamming those fingers to this beat and having a rave party
Hope they dont strike down your video, they're known for doing that
Also i love your shirt!
2:41 I've been looking pictures of this world map for years (small parts of it here and there). I've never thought that it would come a day when I would be able to enjoy it at full glory!
"Super Donkey" is a strange beta that is like a very early version of Yoshi's Island. Theres also a very odd Mario "game"(?) that looks more like a bootleg
I am enjoying the heck out of these leaks. Behind the scenes info is something I always appreciated. I am one of the guys that loves when magicians reveal their tricks. It does not ruin the magic for me, it only makes it better!
"I don't know if Nintendo will try to shut down this video"
They would learn a valuable lesson related to the Streisand effect...
With the Star Fox source code you could add a green head that says "where did you learn to fly?" 😲
Damn, I thought you were Dave from GameSack for a bit there...
Yeah, this is what happens when you look away for a few seconds and suddenly you have a full beard. Happens to me too 8)
"Full development repository for Ensata official DS emulator" out of everything here, I can see this being helpful for DS emulation. sure no one can directly copy the code (at least not legally) but you can study it and use what you learned from it.
Even that is illegal for an emulator. By law only clean room reverse engineering is allowed.
So if an emulator used this and Nintendo found out you'd get sued to the ground.
But I can imagine some chinese companies to use these "assets"
@@Caesim9 So one person interprets the code, describes it to another developer who doesn't know it, and that one replicates it. That's what ReactOS does, and to my knowledge that's legal.
For some reason I kept expected you to Rick Rolled everyone with one of these music clips, lol!! 😁
I'm waiting for another 3DS leak. There is still some stuff missing that is interesting for the scene (e.g. home menu stuff; how to remove the 300 title limit)
This is an amazing find but I'm sure the Nintendo Gestapo is in full recovery mode trying to find who dumped all this.
If they try and censor it we can just spam it everywhere lol.
That is exactly what will happen, and Nintendo can't stop anyone because that's how the internet works!
We can save Marin from being trapped as a seagull forever with this !
something about a netcard for gba was in the leak
also the wii shop backend
cool they need to show us all of the prototypes man this is epic! Kinda like bloopers from shows you never got to see.
Wow! Source code to Star Fox SNES! That means we can recompile it with a faster FX chip overclocked to 30MHz!
please let me know if you do this :P
At first I thought there was a beer bottle in the thumbnail
Am I the only one just waiting for "URA ZELDA" OR "ZELDA 64 DD" to appear on one of these lists?
I feel like that would be nowhere near as momentous as it seems, since file-loading code in OoT suggests that they only ever planned the harder dungeons we got in Master Quest. Here's to hoping, though!
@@LonelySpaceDetective I disagree, miyamoto has already mentioned before that ura zelda had been completed for some time
@@BonScottForever1 How do you know that means there was more to Ura Zelda than just the dungeons, though?
I've been a strong proponent of open source almost as long as the SNES has been a thing and having this source code available is really quite cool. Of course, you could always decompile ROMs and run them through a debugger in an emulator, but this is different, this is the *official* (as far as we know) code, with comments as you've shown in your video. Granted, at least some of the comments are Japanese, but it shouldn't be a problem to get them translated. There are also some related artefacts, like bug reports for a Zelda game, that we've never seen before. That kind of thing might be useful for speedrunners, though I'm not sure if you're going to get your run into a GDQ or the like if you submit it with strats you got from reading leaked bug reports. :D
Also, really nice callback to your previous video with ending this one with the Doom soundtrack. I see (or, rather, heard) what you did there, and I appreciate it.
Did they found prototypes ROMs of SUPER MARIO WORLD!, or they just early sprites?
Because one of the things I want to do before death is to play at least one genuine prototype of Super Mario World and Sonic 1 (Especially the very first prototype of Sonic 1 from 1990).
If the source is separated into different versions representing the course of development, then theoretically different builds could be generated as roms in much the same way as we have the Sonic 2/3/CD prototypes. There were enough differences in the early prototypes of SMW that I would love to see what they had running when those original photos were in the magazines back in the day.
New desk layout? Looking good! Keep up the great content
Next MVG video : I ported (something from this leak) to ( xbox or switch)
Some of the leaks are quite interesting from my experience, that one backup mail file not even included, with a bit of digging there seems to be a number of user folders which appear to contain code targeting SGI machines, which may prove interesting.
"Is this source code leak going to help emulation authors?"
"ARE YOU INSANE?!! EMULATION AUTHORS WOULDN'T TOUCH THESE LEAKS WITH A 10,000 FOOT POLE!!!"
I'm assuming Nintendo would love for emulation authors to make use of these. Then it would give Nintendo good grounds to shut them down.
@@Minsc I don't understand how that works, Source code gets leaked, emulation authors look at it, see how the actual consoles do things, they change their code to better replicate the real thing, although not using any actual code from Nintendo, Nintendo shuts them down for...?
For looking at leaked documents? As far as I know, looking at leaked information isn't illegal. I also don't think acting on leaked information is illegal. I'm not a lawyer, but I would think it would only be illegal if they took parts of Nintendo's source code and incorporated it into their program.
For example: Let's say that an emulation author can't figure out how music data is stored in games. He looks at leaked source code to see how the real console does it. Then he writes a completely different music player (because the code is for completely different hardware) for his emulator based on that information. Has he committed a crime even though he didn't use any of their code?
@@lurkerrekrul " I also don't think acting on leaked information is illegal" It is illegal in some places. Google for "clean room reverse engineering"
Really interesting stuff. There has been some early Lttp sprites floating around, really hope we get to see more of that, or even possibly stuff related to Zelda 3 for NES, if that ever actually existed.
That is called karma for f-ing with fangames.
The Cutting Room Floor decided to wait a while before documenting all of that on the wiki
I hope they look at this, with their classic genius selves (notice i said classic), "o? Something fun happened for the players. Let's save ourselves some headache, time, energy, money, and heartache. Let's let it go. Nintendo is about fun. Let the players have fun. :D "
@fartwhif I'm just dreaming
A part of me wonders if some game companies might consider "the making of" or "behind the scenes" content that showcases prototype assets, as in part being useful for getting out ahead of leaks, presenting things (and potentially monetizing them) on their own terms.
I wish we had Starfox ported to others platform or running on higher frame rate.
>Video title is about Nintendo leaks
>Video thumbnail has a picture of a pipe from the Super Mario Bros franchise
I see what you did there, and I approve.
Where can we download these prototypes? I dont see them on hidden palace.
This is a part of cultural heritage. In fact, companies should be mandated to release source and prototype material for all product, so that everything is preserved and nothing is lost. With proper archival, future generations can still enjoy this stuff in the year 10000.
Dang those hackers really have time on their hands thanks to covid.
That game at 4:45 I admit I have never played it (never had the chance to) but that "new" music in the clip was making me all hyped up to play! the! game!