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by gwern 39 days ago
> Clearly if it was able to be leaked it already was being preserved

Preserved by whom? Many leaks are done by old or ex-employees who quietly kept a shall we say 'backup' of their work. More than one 'official' re-release has been rumored to be an embarrassed company quietly filing the serial numbers off a rogue leak because they realized way too late that their archival practices were inadequate.
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0cf8612b2e1e 39 days ago
Anti-emulation Nintendo was caught repacking a pirated ROM.

https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-...

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unleaded 39 days ago
What this article is about is that Nintendo used a format standard in the emulation community for the ROM, it's possible they downloaded it but it's not like there's some "downloaded from ROMZ-ZONE.RU" watermark in there. It has been revealed in leaks that Nintendo has an internal ROM vault of pretty much everything ever released on their systems.
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Lammy 39 days ago
Also how WarioWare: Smooth Moves shows their in-house developers using third-party emulators to source graphics for their first-party nostalgia bait: https://tcrf.net/WarioWare:_Smooth_Moves#Punch-Out (not said derisively; I love WarioWare!)
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Dwedit 39 days ago
A correct ROM packaged using the emulation community's standard file format will exactly match a pirated copy. There is no story here. After the article came out, Nintendo even created their own incompatible ROM packaging format just to spite that article.
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matheusmoreira 39 days ago
> Nintendo even created their own incompatible ROM packaging format just to spite that article

Leave it to Nintendo to innovate entirely new reasons for people to hate them. It's like they have an entire department dedicated to it.

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charcircuit 39 days ago
They were only "caught" using the .NES header which is a public standard that many NES emulators implement. There is no evidence that they used a pirated ROM.
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LocalH 38 days ago
Never ever did Nintendo distribute an iNES-format ROM with a "DiskDude!" header
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Andrex 39 days ago
If someone breaks into a warehouse and makes off with a pallet of cartridges, and then those carts are recovered, would it be strange if Nintendo resold those carts? It's their property at the end of the day.

Aside from that thought exercise, like many "internet facts" this one also might not be true, and repeating it doesn't really help either "side."

https://medium.com/@AberrantWolf/mario-illegal-roms-and-medi...

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bunbun69 39 days ago
There’s still no proof they pirated the ROM
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