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[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't nobody want that trash codebase.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 44 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Hobbyists have made Pokemon clones in their basement for decades. They never needed the source code.

If I'm not mistaken, there's an entire online RPG ran by hobbyists.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

It's not about the code. It's about sending a message.

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this was an intentional leak. Now the Nintendo lawyers can claim they've used stolen proprietary code?

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Copyright of code doesn't work that way. Now if some idiot goes and uses that code in a game, yeah, they'd have a rough time in court.

If Nintendo thought there was infringement already, and wanted to prove it in court, there are means to securely prove it with redactions and NDA's and so forth as it would be considered trade secret.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think they may be making a joke about how flimsy Nintendo's patent case is, since the alleged patent was filed this past July

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They literally never introduce any new concepts to their games I think the last new innovation in the pokemon game is supposed to allow you to have two vs two. That was about 10 years ago I think

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm so so sorry to do this to you. Double battles were introduced with Ruby and Sapphire... 22 years ago...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Vicious rumor spreading will not be tolerated. The '90s were 15 years ago

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Already 15? Wow time flies

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like to shit on Pokemon and Nintendo as much as the rest of them but this isn't really true. Legends: Arceus, while not a great pokemon game overall, introduced several new mechanics, some of which then made their way into Scarlet/Violet. The biggest and best of which, in my opinion, is the ability to catch wild pokemon without battling them.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You have always been able to throw a ball at an unharmed Pokémon to capture it. Just had a very low chance of success unless it was either very low level or it was a great ball or one of the other ones they introduced later. But even back in red and blue you could always try it and it might work.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

but you still had to initiate a battle. Unless you're just playing stupid, you should go watch some Arceus gameplay to see what I mean.

[–] Brutticus@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I think there are triple battles now. Those might be 10 years old