If Nintendo thought there was infringement already, and wanted to prove it in court, there are means to securely prove it with redactions and NDA's and so forth as it would be considered trade secret.

[–] Wolfram@lemmy.world 81 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Good. Couldn't have happened to a worse company other than Nintendo.

Now people can verify if Gamefreak's excuses for not including all Pokemon in each game since the Switch games are real. And verify how low effort their games are.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nintendo aren't the worst company. Not even the worst gaming company. Not when they have competition like Ubisoft and Warner Brothers and EA and Activision.

Of course, if it weren't for the presence of the aforementioned companies, Nintendo would be the worst.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I mean they take like 33% of that guy named bowser’s life earnings. Which are severely reduced because they also got him thrown in jail for a felony.

That’s pretty uniquely evil

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

That’s hardly unique when damages exceed what a person can pay, wage garnishing is actually relatively common.

Nintendo also gave Gary Bowser a warning and he signed an agreement saying he would stop his illegal activities… and then he continued anyway.

They gave him an out at no cost and instead he landed himself in prison because he fucked around and found out.

[–] DesolateMood@lemm.ee 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Source code is only for HG/SS and B2W2, so we still can't verify anything about the newer genes

[–] Wolfram@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Damn. Too bad. But those are both interesting games to have the source code of.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Now people can verify if Gamefreak’s excuses for not including all Pokemon in each game since the Switch games are real. And verify how low effort their games are.

Wasn't it true, but due to time not technical issues. Basically they keep redoing/remaking from scratch sprites instead of re-using them.

[–] Charzard4261@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

Nope. The models have stayed the same from X&Y to Sword and Shield. Only in Scarlet and Violet have they been given an upgrade.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 1 hour ago

Nah, some folks got a hold of the wire frames for the sprites from the that version and the previous version and showed most were identical. Of those that weren't, many were only slightly modified, and clearly not generated from scratch.

[–] Wolfram@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Evidence wouldn't be as concrete as source code, but there was plenty of evidence from data miners. Gamefreak kept moving goal posts when it came to why it wasn't feasible for Sword and Shield to have all the Pokémon which is my frustration with that situation. I think they complained about the capacity of the cartridge the games were stored on was one, which was readily proven wrong. Dont quote me on that. But I do think the situation with the models was ultimately the case.

[–] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 137 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Next headline "Hackers disappointed that the hacked source code is apparently just the same as the last 16 games"

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 61 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Somebody had to find out whether there really was a Mew under the truck in Red and Blue after all.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Someone here recently blew my mind with this video, time for me to pay it forward.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So the glitch never existed but he programmed it in ? Do I understand this right ?

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, from what I can tell, this is basically just what we would now refer to as a "mod".

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It’s also a virus, because it can spread from game to game

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

thank you

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

HA HA

[–] parpol@programming.dev 86 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Patent the code and sue Nintendo when they release the game.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 41 points 9 hours ago

You can't patent code, and it's automatically copyright protected. Nintendo just needs to prove they wrote the code originally, which should be easy.

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