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Recently some s of 4Chan discovered and released a series of files with the source codes of games from Nintendo, and it didn't take long for fans of the brand to find several peculiarities and secrets about established franchises, such as The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Super Mario e Star Fox. 6h3v19
When we talk about leaks, there is always the possibility that we are reporting invented facts, or often out of context. However, the information revealed seems to be 100% legitimate, since a former Nintendo developer, responsible for the Star Fox franchise, commented on the matter and practically confirmed the veracity, since he had developed one of the leaked mechanics.
“WTF — I haven't seen this tool I made for StarFox 2 in almost 30 years. I wrote in C++ to learn the language more than anything. How the hell did these hackers get this shady data?”
Dylan Cuthbert, developer of four games in the Star Fox saga
In addition, other persons connected with Nintendo, such as data miners Famous (data explorers) reiterated that it would be virtually impossible to create or invent such a leak from scratch. So it's time to know the Big N's hidden secrets over the years.
Luigi's middle finger o6d4k
One of the most famous and charismatic characters in Nintendo's history, Luigi has always had a history of being scared, especially considering the franchise. Luigi's Mansion, but of innocent he had nothing. files from Super Mario World, from 1989, revealed sprites of the character giving the middle finger.
Other s have also discovered a character folder in the cheat codes. Super Mario 64, which was confirmation that Nintendo always had plans to include him in the project, but never came to materialize this initiative.
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The super cute and charismatic Yoshi couldn't be left out. A version of the dinosaur with a white beard and mustache was found, as well as a prototype of Yoshi's Island with a different graphics engine, and a trailer for Super Mario with a completely different soundtrack.
One of the great mysteries in Nintendo's history was whether Mario really hit Yoshi to make him spit fire and yes, it really did. When accessing old game sprites, a managed to capture the perfect frames that prove it.
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Pokémon has always been a big flagship for Nintendo, and the developers created several models of the little monsters that never took official form, but were discovered in secret files.
The leak revealed this beta version of Garchomp, and an evolution of Giratina, number 487, which you can check out below.
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Data explorers also found some testing phases of Super Mario 64, set in a castle, not to mention a prototype of the protagonist Link, from The Legend of Zelda.
High-quality images were also revealed, and showed a standard definition that had not been released before.
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Super Mario 64 had never-before-seen leaked high-quality footage -
In addition, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time also had some leaked models, which are impressive for the level of detail.
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The quality of the files impresses by the standard of development -
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Unfortunately the bad part of the leaks were the mentions of pornography, particularly during the development of the Star Fox series, from jokes to actual lines of erotic content.
Kaitlyn Molinas, who found this information peculiar, said that “the real reason why Star Fox 2 was canceled is because the developers were too busy focusing on porn.”
On the other hand, the same franchise developer who gave credibility to the leak countered the criticism of the game's development.
“There seems to have been a massive leak of Star Fox source code and people are more interested in finding the word “f#der” in the comments than the fact that we have one of the first multithreaded tokenized scripting languages in a game” .
Dylan Cuthbert, developer of four games in the Star Fox saga
These were just some of the leaks found and listed, but it is possible that it requires a much larger amount of hidden information that is circulating on the internet. Nintendo has yet to officially comment on the incident.
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Source: Polygon
