Unreleased SNES Remake Of Game Freak's Debut Quinty Leaks Online

I do not understand why people would go to such lengths as to hack developers and just throw their stuff on the street, basically.

It's not for you. It's scummy to do so. I guess it is sort of fun for us readers to read about unreleased stuff, but if we don't know, we don't know.

Hacking is a skill that can be used for good and bad. Please just use it for good.

This? This isn't very nice.

Honestly this is the best thing for me to come out of the new unknown info about past titles for me. Just the fact we got a whole new unknown game uncovered is so cool. Very glad now its preserved for everyone, even if the hack itself is a very bad situation

Yep I read this and am reminded of an article that I got into a comment war on a while back, where the author essentially blamed us the gaming public for the fact that hacks like these are getting done. Man nobody asked for or needs this information, it's truly just hackers showing off. Just because I clicked this headline doesn't make me complicit.

@Daniel36 Piracy is preservation

So many films are still around because somebody kept a film reel they weren't supposed to have.

Game publishers just see video games as disposable not something to be enjoyed years, even decades after the
fact. If Hackers aren't doing what the old guard did with film so many games will just go away.

Its one thing to leak out unreleased games.

But doxxing the developers is not okay. The leaker should've taken the time to scrub that information.

Sadly I'm not expecting we'll ever see a rerelease of Smart Ball or its mostly- if not fully- completed sequel (credits music crashing bug aside) that went unreleased almost certainly due to its proximity to the PlayStation launch.

While I suppose it's interesting on one hand to see stuff like this, I'm always of two minds about it. I'm into art, specifically photography, as a hobby (because I guess retro gaming isn't an expensive enough hobby already) and there are cases of photographers who have passed away having their slides and negatives released posthumously, which absolutely mortifies me. A person or company's portfolio is only as good as the worst piece in it, and so keeping things out of it is as important to a body of work as adding to it, if not more so. Taking away a creator's ability to curate their own portfolio is maybe helpful for pure preservation but could be incredibly violating if we're respecting game makers as artists.

@PopetheRev28 I cannot agree with you on that, in this instance.

Ripping a ROM off of a cartridge, especially from a game that will never see the light of day again, is one thing. Sure, those ROMs are preserved, and while not currently actively pursuing, I am glad I could still enjoy games like Terranigma, because of emulation. So sure, I could be part of THAT problem. I do not fully condone this type of behaviour, but I would be lying if I said I never perused ROMs.

I'd say, morally grey, erring on the lighter side.

This, however, was stealing from the company server. Stealing personal data. Stealing things that are still works in progress. Stealing things that were never meant to see the light of day for whatever reason. It could be that a game is cancelled because it is utter garbage. Stealing things that were not meant for the general public.

This instance has nothing to do with preservation. This was theft of personal items.