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So... if someone who isn’t me wanted to download this, where would they look?



Actually I am gonna remove this google "download nintendo leak routefree" and you'll find what you need somewhere in the results.


> However I MUST say this is from 4chan so BE CAREFUL about what you download and how you play with stuff.

The only danger in downloading something leaked on 4chan is that you run the risk of learning a little more about dolphins than you might have liked.


Nah, Dolphin is 100% open source and above board, they're going to avoid this stuff like the plague.


True I don't think they would take the risk, it's just not worth it.

Through I'm wondering if Nintendo will try to use that as a excuse just claiming they used that material.


Nintendo is a conservative company with strong, well known brands (Mario, Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, etc.). I'd be surprised if they rolled over and let this slide.

I'd be doubly surprised if they ever open sourced anything.


Or Having a virus sneaked in.

Through it's very unlikely.

But you always have that risk when downloading anything (from anywhere).

4chan is a very special place, it has many "good" people but it also has "bad" people.

(Note that both "good" and "bad" are very opinionated, which is why they are quoted).


I've always viewed 4chan as hardcore chaotic neutral. They're quite happy to find novel solutions to mathematical problems, DDoS people they don't like, openly work with leaked source code, create a new chat system (tox), troll celebrities... they don't care about good/bad, they care about whatever strikes them as interesting or fun. Which is... a very mixed bag:)


> I've always viewed 4chan as hardcore chaotic neutral.

Chaotic? Yes.

Neutral. Possibly by averaging, but I suspect that the Chaotic Evil side is better represented than the Chaotic Good.


>but I suspect that the Chaotic Evil side is better represented than the Chaotic Good

It certainly is now that certain boards have become the very thing they used to ridicule.


Kinda amoral rather than immoral


Yes, exactly


The Pokemon source code link is still up, but the "mgnet.xyz" link that presumably contains the N64 source no longer works :(

I'm a huge N64 enthusiast and wanted to see the Verilog source.


Be wary of doing this if you ever intend to contribute to projects related to Nintendo and the N64. Viewing this material will make you radioactive to projects that care about legal risk.


Eh, the community has already had leaks of similar consequences for 20 years. At the time, it devastated the community, but pretty much all emulators since have been based upon it in some way. The open secret behind emulator development is that it is often built on the backs of stolen material. The first popular N64 PC emulator, Ultra64, was a hacked up copy of Nintendo's PC emulator core.


From TFA: "was allegedly leaked onto the anonymous forum 4chan"


Ok, in which thread on which board? I can't find anything on /t/ or /v/.





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