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Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Has Reportedly Leaked Online In Full (www.nintendolife.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone actually found the NSP/XCI somewhere?

I've found an update file but the base game doesn't seem to be anywhere I have access to.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

nsw2u?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That's it, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

Now all the emulator devs just need to please not brag about being able to emulate it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Oh boy, someone's getting sacked hard

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 months ago (4 children)

On which website, so I can avoid it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Taodung com has the update but not the base.

My friend wants me to ask what site you're avoiding

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is a torrent floating around but availability is 20.9% at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

PM me a link?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

ThAt iS ZeLdA /s

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

You play as Zelda in this game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

unrelated but we both have a south park reference as username lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do either of you know of a great warrior by the name of loves2spooge?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

He fought with my father, DildoShwaggins.

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[+] [email protected] -64 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And if you are wondering why Sony is killing physical games...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Because you can't easily borrow it your friend or bring it with you to a game night?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

lol Nintendo are the only ones who get their games pirated, because they use antique hardware.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

A quick look at TPB's top 100 games tells me that was a lie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not the "antiquity" of the hardware. It's that the chipset was known and they forgot to lock the bootloader.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's what happens when your core manufacturing philosophy is "withered technology". You get old tech people have figured out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not a nintendo fan boy, but i will say i love that they focus more on good gameplay than having the flashiest graphics

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I loved that the Gameboy was designed to survive a fall from the average shirt pocket. I love that the Wii controllers pushed gyroscopic technology so far that it allowed the explosion of quadcopters. I loved the idea of 3d through rapid aspect switching.

I loved when Nintendo pushed boundaries, not just through hardware but through gameplay. I enjoy and appreciate the Nintendo polish

I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly - good gameplay is much more important than flashy graphics. But the polish was nice - pushing boundaries is what made the difference

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, I feel like they kinda deserve it for being global vexatious litigants and squashing free fan projects at every opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yep. This is for fucking PalWorld assholes patent trolls

You get what you fucking deserve

[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We'll keep wondering cause the shift to digital clearly isn't stopping piracy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Like almost everything, it isn't about stopping piracy entirely.

Physical copies get sold early by stores/cashiers that don't care. Or they get outright pocketed/copied at the factories and warehouses. Which lead to the constant "This nintendo game leaked a week or a month or whatever early". Which... less so after the lawsuits but it means emulators can be updated to support the games before they even hit shelves.

Digital only doesn't entirely stop that. But it tends to lead more toward "an unknown fake influencer posted all the cutscenes of this game online a week early".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

These fuckers should just release digital first, and physical comes when it's done being printed and distributed. This anxiety over "oh no a finished game got leaked early" is manufactured drama. If the game is done, then it doesn't matter when it gets released, except for artificial marketing angst. Make a good game that players want, and it'll be purchased. Eventually. It doesn't have to all happen at exactly the predicted moment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah i agree. Ffxvi just came out on pc and square is whining about not hitting sales goals. Like visions of mana just came out and im still playing that. Give me a couple months to buy the game, dorks

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is saving the game from an early leak worth getting rid of physical games? I hope not.

I might be unique in this but I'll never "buy" a digital game. They're impossible to resell and I can't lend it to friends or my kids, they'd need my account or console. Plus I'll have the physical game forever, digital games are only good as long as the servers are up.

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this, so if companies stop offering physical games then I'm not going to buy them. (I'll just pirate). I've preordered Zelda from GameStop. I support the content I want more of, like Zelda games, and I'll continue to buy each one. If I don't, then they might not make more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have no interest in physical games. I'm not willing to carry around 300 cartridges or only have access to a small portion of my library. But Nintendo has to know that physical game collectors are a big portion of their audience (with probably more than any other platform in either raw number or proportion). They can't abandon physical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not willing to carry around 300 cartridges

Where would you be carrying them?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The switch is a handheld. So most places I go?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But surely you don't need to constantly access all your games on every trip, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I always imagine people who die on this hill just admiring the title screen of every game in their library for 5 seconds and calling it a gaming session lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I absolutely want to be able to play any game I own on that platform at any time. That's the entire reason I bought the game. Being restricted to the library on one platform is already a massive concession.

"You can only play this game if you preemptively lug it around with you in case you want to play it today" is not an acceptable condition of a purchase to me.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Did ygu mod your switch to have several TB of data? What if you don't have Wifi?

"You can only play this game if you preemptively lug it around with you in case you want to play it today" is not an acceptable condition of a purchase to me.

Well, I don't really believe that you don't have any games that you haven't touched for a year on your switch account. But even if you're right: You're an extreme edge case.

I highly prefer being able to access my games until the hardware gives out. Not until Nintendo shuts down the services. That is unacceptable IMHO.

Edit: Oh. And also not being able to resell or lend out my property is also bad. It isn't even property, but rather a license that you buy when you buy digital games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Most games aren't that big. Especially switch games. Yes, I have a large micro SD to hold them all. I didn't say I'm not an edge case; I made it clear that silly collector shit is half the reason Nintendo has a market.

I have plenty of games I haven't played recently. That doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that if I want to play it tomorrow, I can play it without hassle wherever I am. Anything short of that is not owning the game.

I'll have access long after the hardware gives out, with no need for the obnoxious process of ripping hundreds of cartridges. Digital is forever; DRM isn't.

I have no interest in selling a game or hardware. I never have and never will. You choose between getting half of what they'll sell it for or spending a bunch of time and trusting some random stranger not to screw you. Both options are worse than just keeping your stuff.

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