• PunchingWood@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 month ago

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

    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 month ago

      Sort of. The same game, over and over, each time in a different colour, each time with a higher pixel density, each time a little bit worse.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      Which is exactly why I stopped playing after Gen 2, which was the peak of the series IMO. If you want to see everything the series has to offer, just play Gold/Silver (or their remakes on the DS). No reason to waste time and money on any other Pokémon game.

      • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 month ago

        Radical Red and Polished Crystal are peak, in my opinion. I can’t go back to the lack of special/physical split, it’s just awful.

          • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 month ago

            I have! It was great as well. I think it’s my favorite original romhack so far. I’m planning on playing Insurgence next, although that’s a fan-game as opposed to real romhack.

            • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 month ago

              I’ve got Insurgence, and Reborn ready to go as soon as I get through Unbound! I’m glad you’ve been able to enjoy these so much! As soon as Did You Know Gaming released a video about Nintendo taking down fan games and rom hacks, I immediately went and got as many of the more polished and lauded ones as soon as I possibly could! :)

  • misk@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 month ago

    In my head this is a retribution for financing hackers that attacked Internet Archive and nobody can convince me otherwise

      • misk@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        It’s like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… And, uh… You know, you’ll, uh… You know what I mean.

        The Dude

        „Who benefits the most” from attacking Internet Archive? Big copyright holders whose content was distributed via Internet Archive. The reason given by the group claiming responsibility is so silly I don’t believe it.

        [edit] I’ll add to this comment so that I don’t have to reply to everyone specifically.

        I don’t believe that if you wanted to attack USA (as people claiming responsibility did) you’d attack it in a way that benefits big corporations most. It sounds like a flimsy distraction from true perpetrators.

  • Wolfram@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 month ago

      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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 month ago

        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

        • Sebastrion@leminal.space
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 month ago

          I don’t know why people defend Gary Bowser like he is an innocent dude. He was part of a Hacker Group that hacked Nintendo Switch, 3DS, GameCube, NES Classic, Xbox and Xbox 360, PlayStation. They SOLD the hacked device’s. He wasn’t your Neighbor that hacked your Switch for a beer. They made Business with it for 10 years. Besides that, Nintendo wasn’t the Person who decided the sentence. It was a Judge. What do you think Nintendo should do? The Judge ruled him for Prison and 14.5 Million and Nintendo says publicly: “No thanks.” Yeah the sentence is way to hard, but the problem is the law and the Judge.

          • Pieisawesome@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 month ago

            As I mentioned in other comments, I have no illusions that Gary Bowser is innocent or didn’t bring this all on himself. It’s his own fault he kept doing what he was doing.

            However, the court doesn’t follow Gary from job to job initiating the process to garnish his wages.

            It’s nintendo who is continuing to persecute Gary at this point, not the courts. Garnishing someone’s minimum wage job as a billion dollar corporation is uniquely evil.

            I could be wrong, but I have not seen anything remotely close from EA, activision, blizzard, Microsoft, Sony, etc. and my original point was this is uniquely evil to Nintendo.

            • Sebastrion@leminal.space
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 month ago

              Sony in the early 2000 was going crazy for Modchips for PS2. They had multiple Cord cases in Europe, in multiple countries and many People needed to pay money in different Country’s.

              Later in 2011 George Hotz hacked the PS3, Sony warned him and he stopped. So we don’t know how it would have ended if Sony and George ended up in Cord.

              Nintendo also warned Team Xecuter multiple times but the Team wasn’t interested in stopping. There isn’t much difference between PlayStation and Nintendo.

        • Cypher@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 month 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.

          • Pieisawesome@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            1 month ago

            I agree that bowser brought the final outcome on himself, however, that does not expunge Nintendo of guilt.

            They continue to collect their 30% or however much it is.

              • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                1 month ago

                If you read the above thread and don’t see it, it’s because they’re overly vindictive. Garnishing someone’s wages is obscene when they’re so incredibly rich. They don’t even need it

      • yamanii@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        As bad as they are, EA isn’t sending lawyers to every fan project that revives their old games, they are just regular greedy, not petty greedy. Ubisoft to this day ignores Rayman Redemption too.

  • excral@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    I’m waiting in for the headline in a couple days or so:

    Another hack at Gamefreak: Hackers upload fixed source codes

    Unknown hackers have fixed the frame rate issues while upgrading the graphics quality to the level of the earliest Switch titles like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

    • dch82@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 month ago

      Lol, but Game Freak’s code is spaghetti, to the point where decomps are easier to read than the actual source files.

  • yamanii@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 month ago

    Also design documents like the dude that mated with an octillery lol. The concept of people and pokemon breeding was still referenced in sinoh, but in a way tamer way.