• GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Hobbyists have made Pokemon clones in their basement for decades. They never needed the source code.

    If I’m not mistaken, there’s an entire online RPG ran by hobbyists.

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      2 months ago

      Maybe this was an intentional leak. Now the Nintendo lawyers can claim they’ve used stolen proprietary code?

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        2 months ago

        Copyright of code doesn’t work that way. Now if some idiot goes and uses that code in a game, yeah, they’d have a rough time in court.

        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.

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      2 months ago

      They literally never introduce any new concepts to their games I think the last new innovation in the pokemon game is supposed to allow you to have two vs two. That was about 10 years ago I think

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        2 months ago

        I’m so so sorry to do this to you. Double battles were introduced with Ruby and Sapphire… 22 years ago…