/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7156527]

It's been some months, how much did the gigaleak benefit N64 emulation and SM64/OoT hacking?

[Anonymous No.7156604]

None at all. Anyone with a brain in the emulation community knows to avoid this stuff at all costs because if it's found that their once legal emulator incorporates what is essentially stolen property in the form of Gigaleak code, then Nintendo has grounds to shut it down. Right now emulating other hardware is entirely legal. You just can't provide ROMs/ISOs or BIOS files along with it. That way the only people responsible for piracy is the user and not the emulator's creator.

[Anonymous No.7156720]

>>7156604
I'm not familiar with the leaked material but say someone from a third world shithole and lots of time to spare decided to code something based off it.
is it similar to the psp? like how ppsspp got off the ground so quickly because of the extensive documentation and leaked SDKs?

[Anonymous No.7158271]

>>7156604
That would be the case if you just copypasted code like a pajeet.
Instead people are supossed to read the source or official docs, understand it and then write their own

[Anonymous No.7158343]

>>7156604
You only answered half of his question, you know.

[Anonymous No.7158359]

>>7156604
They said the same thing after the Omar leaks, but then a year later the emulated RDP portion just had some mysterious strangers make huge strides.

[Anonymous No.7158378]

Friendly reminder not to engage with anyone implying Shigesato Ito had any involvement in the development of a Zelda game. This ham-fisted false narrative is being pushed by an individual who wants to create “lore” where there is none. This is absurd for the following reasons:

1. In this interview https://www.glitterberri.com/developer-interviews/miyamoto-horii-discussion Shigeru Miyamoto mentions that he’s worked with Shigesato Itoi on the story of “games”. Note that Japanese has no plural and he’s likely just referring to Mother, as this interview took place in 1989. He goes on to state that “The stories of Mario and Zelda titles have always been supplemental to the actual gameplay.” Does this also imply that Itoi worked on the story of a Mario game? Of course not. Miyamoto is essentially name-dropping his friendship with a prolific writer and pop culture figure to another industry friend. It is not explicitly stated what the two collaborared on. (But it’s obviously Mother)

2. Shigesato Itoi was an incredibly successful writer of several best selling books. The notion that he would not only write the very minimal story and dialog of a Zelda game, but that it would be scrapped and no credit or acknowledgement of his involvement would be made, is an utterly moronic idea. Someone of Itoi’s notability would clearly be used in the marketing of the game, and his ideas used in every aspect of the game design, as in the case of Mother. He would certainly be credited for his work, whether used or unsused as well.

3. Zelda A Link to the Past already has a script credit: Kensuke Tanabe. At the time, a member of R&D4 who had worked on several Mario games, he would be the likely choice to produce the script for a Zelda game, not a best selling author and copywriter.

Thank you for your time and I hope this puts that nonsense to bed. Please don’t spread gay cancer any further.

[Anonymous No.7158404]

So was that "town" ultimately a lost Mario Kart 64 track or some more Zelda shit?

[Anonymous No.7158450]

>>7158404
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opcKFtSQmUo
Makes way more sense as a Mario Kart track then a Zelda map.
And no, none of these textures line up with any known Zelda 64 beta screenshots as people once thought.

[Anonymous No.7158706]

>>7156604
This is stupid, nintendo isn't going to have an expert witness forensically analyze an emulator's source code to determine that it could only have been produced from knowing the contents of leaked materials. These are the sophisticated people that sell roms downloaded from the internet. Even if this did happen, you would just stop distributing the emulator and revert back to a branch that doesn't use the leaks. Even successfully suing an emulator author would just mean one emulator out of the haystack would no longer be maintained by them. I don't even think they could torpedo an emulator entirely that's open source. Litigation only makes sense to nintendo if they can severely cripple or almost stop emulation entirely.

[Anonymous No.7159156]

why is there a reddit thread on vr?

[Anonymous No.7159159]

>>7159156
Always has been. Funny meme.

[Anonymous No.7160265]

>>7158450
Did anyone ever port this back into Mario Kart 64?

[Anonymous No.7160324]

>>7158378
I thought the "rumor" was that he worked on Kirby?

[Anonymous No.7160551]

>>7156527
none, nintendo didn't even share most of that with iQue (they used VBA for testing netcard)