Last week, Pokemon developer Game Freak was attacked by hackers. The hackers who got into Game Freak’s servers obtained unreleased PC builds of two Pokemon games. And, from the looks of it, these PC builds have already been cracked and they are playable on PCs.
Now for those who are wondering, each and every studio creates a PC dev build for their games. Devs use these PC builds to test various things. However, the existence of those PC builds does not mean that the games will come out on PC. That’s not how things work. So no. Nintendo was never planning to bring its Pokemon games on PC.
So, with this out of the way, let’s now continue our article. During the cyber attack, hackers got their hands on the PC builds of Pokemon Project Arceus, as well as Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl. And, not only did they leak those PC builds online, but people have already cracked them.
What this means is that you can now play these Pokemon games on PC. And get this. These are native PC versions. Also, similar to the Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 leaked PC dev build, it should be possible to play them from start to finish.
Now for obvious reasons, we won’t share any links to the PC builds of these two Pokemon games. So, don’t bother sharing any links in the Comment section. Like always, it should be easy to find them. All you have to do is a simple Google search. Just be careful with what you’ll be downloading though.
Right now, there is no gameplay footage of the PC builds on YouTube. And if they ever pop up, Nintendo will immediately take them down. That’s a bummer really. It would be cool to compare the PC dev build with the final Nintendo Switch version. Alas, this won’t ever happen.
Nintendo has already released these two Pokemon games on Nintendo Switch. And, both of them are already playable on PC via Ryujinx. Well, that is if you can find the emulator as the Big N has already taken it down.
And that is that. It really sucks to what has happened to Game Freak. However, these leaked PC dev builds are, in a way, interesting. This of course will not force Nintendo to ever release its first-party games on PC. Still, it’s kind of cool to see a native PC version of a Nintendo game.
Stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Pokémon: Gotta crack 'em all!
Hahahahaha! Dude you never cease to bring a good laugh! Just brilliant
Dumb Nintendo just leaves huge pile of money. There is demand for they games, and they would get a lot of sales and money from PC market alone.
But they are dumb, stubborn Japanese folks who still are living in the past and they cappy "comfort zone"
It's because the release exclusivity drives the sale of consoles. The games ARE going to be sold, regardless of the platform. For example, if Nintendo's games also released for PC, I would literally NOT own a Switch. I'm not exactly a Nintendo superfan, and I imagine there's an entire segment of consumers like me who would prefer to keep it all on a single device (because I very rarely can justify buying a new console, whereas I need my PC for various uses anyways)
"All you have to do is a simple Google search. Just be careful with what you’ll be downloading though."
John doesn't care if his reader get's a virus in his PC, can't even direct us to a safe website, shame.
He doesnt want to be implicated in anything possibly illegal or that would draw attention to the hosts and ruin the fun for people interested. I'd hope anyone who read the article would understand some of these implications of this very grey area.
He should not however recommend people to go on Google, 90% of the links there are fake and malware when looking for cracked Software (incl. Games).
Which is what he is implying.
He should not however recommend people to go on Google, 90% of the links there are fake and malware when looking for cracked Software (incl. Games).
Which is what he is implying.
Imagine the audacity to make a PC version, not releasing it for players willing to buy it, suing players playing it on emulators & having some fun time and then Taking Down emulator developers just to loud mouth their bullishness.
This is Nintendo! Making fun games for Kids and everyo…my aaaarse
How could the emulation community do this? Nintendo is within their legal right to sue Microsoft and Valve and have Windows and Steam taken down or Nintendo will go bankrupt within the hour.
Microsoft could buy Nintendo and Sony with pocket change.
Sue MS and Valve? For what? LOL.
They don't take responsibility for what people will do with their software/hardware.
Some people uses Windows for office, another for gaming, and yet another person for making movies or music.
You can't immediately make a criminal out of every PC or Steamdeck owner.
Such thinking is sick and shows how disconnected such a person is from reality. Such a thing should be treated.
It was sarcasm bro.
Was hoping the part about Nintendo going bankrupt in a hour due this leak will tip them off that it's a joke but it didn't lol
I've honestly seen a bunch of people making that sort of arguments non-ironically. The line between reality and parody is getting thinner everyday.
Sure, let's sue MS because people can write harmful code on notepad.
the fact they use emulators in their museum was hilarious to me.
they own the ip for those games I don't the see problem.
that they are full of sht.
Elitist scums of the earth Jewtendo suffered a cyber attack where hackers "stole" from these thieves their properties? Oh no, how sad! I'm gonna burst in tears because of how heartbreaking these news were!
And most importantly the attack was directly against Game Freak, the studio behind these cringe Pokemon gaymes, so that's even better.
Hopefully the studio behind these faggy (((Fire Emblem))) gaymes is next, I just can't stand how much of a pure cringe and dogshit that weeb cancer series is.
Antisemitic homophobia is a great look for you…
WTF is "Antisemitic homophobia"?! Is there a "Satanophobic pedophobia" too?
He's saying you're both, because you obviously are
Who even uses the F gay slur in 2024 lmao
“Who even uses the F gay slur in 2024 lmao”? Wake up snowflake, if simple, harmless and factual anti-pedophile “slurs” offend you, then the internet is simply not for you, Sweet Baby™️
OK then, if your are so offended by these simple and harmless words, isn’t it about time you suck your zero-year-old infant’s blood out of his peepee and brainwash him to turn him into a pedo h*mo like yourself who molests children like what you and your likes always do?
wow ok you are very much deranged lol
good job on the schizo buzzwords vomit
All I have to do is open up SANE news sites not controlled by Jews like (((CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC))) and others and see what these “homosexual” (mentally ill) pedophiles are doing to children like forcibly abducting them and chopping their peepees that the aforementioned “news” sites and the likes *intentionally* won’t headline that.
If you are so deluded that you seriously think that pedophilia isn’t ***rooted*** in your so-called “homosexuality” (a codeword to disguise that it actually means “mental illness”), then that’s your problem. Pedophilia and “homosexuality,” two sides of the same coin, you just can’t have one without the other.
Not to mention the utter ridiculousness of confusing the Japanese with Jews. Not the brightest light on the marquee that's for sure.
The Japanese are going through a Talmudick JuDIEzation process though. Wokespoken? Final F*ggotry 16? Censored cancer to appease the rainbow cult subhumans like Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth?
It's a real crying shame this happened. This is especially sad that it happened while Nintendo is busy trying to financially damage a competitor with a lawsuit using a patent for a game mechanic that was used by the original Megami Tensei 10 years earlier. I find myself swallowed by a deeper melancholy as I look back on all the times that Nintendo shut down fan games & even rom hacks & emulators that would've had zero impact on their sales. This is truly a day in gaming history that will live in infamy.
Google's worldwide monopoly on video is disgusting.
This has to stop.
You can not have a US tech company deciding for the rest of the world what they are allowed to watch online.
…make a better version of YouTube then? There's nothing stopping you… the notion of Google being a monopoly is laughable to me. Take search, for instance : Bing exists, DuckDuckGo exists, Yahoo exists (powered by Bing lol). People tend to prefer using Google, even when the EU forced android phones to present options. How many times have you consciously chosen to use Samsung's search engine?
that's not what a monopoly is.
Legally you wrong, and there even talks to cripple Google in USA, due to being an anti-competitive monopoly.
What does DuckDuckGo and Yahoo have to do with Youtube's monopoly?
The fact the best you could come up with is "Yahoo", another US company, which is not even a video platform, says a lot about Youtube's monopoly.
The rest of the world will no longer accept US digital colonialism. China doesn't accept it, nor should anyone else.
It is time there are alternatives to US tech monopolies. The US should not dictate what I am allowed to watch online.
His point (and a fair one) was that something being overwhelmingly popular is not the same as being a monopoly. A monopoly means you simply have no other choice, the end. But you can always use Vimeo or Odysee for example. Or if your problem is with the USA you can use ok.ru or one of the many chinese video websites.
Well said! F*ck the Jewnited Snakes! "Freedom of speech" my a$$!
If you're going to complain about 'digital colonization' you shouldn't mention China in a positive light. Any Chinese-based video platform is guaranteed to be owned by a state-sanctioned monopoly, and wouldn't be caught dead allowing anything on its platform that the Chinese government doesn't like. There are similar sites to YouTube in other countries, but they rarely have a large international user base.
Every once in a while someone tries to make a competitor to YouTube (remember Daily Motion? No one does.) but they usually fumble along the way. The current attempts at YT competitors have shown promise but have major issues that hold them back, especially with regards to content monetization. Something might come along & manage to unseat YT from their throne. it'll probably still be owned by another US based megacorp because the US will probably still be the most influential country in the world.
It has nothing to do with YouTube and Google and everything to do with US law and the Viacom pr*cks that reinforced it by deliberately uploading south park videos back in the day so they could present evidence that Google was doing nothing. On a side note, there's still been no challenge as to if basic gameplay footage counts as fair use, as it stands all gameplay footage (non-transformative) is considered a breach that virtually no company bothers to chase since it does nothing but provide bad PR and a Streisand effect.
Why exactly should YouTube be forced to put videos on their Private Property (servers) that would only get them sued by the owners of that Intellectual Property?
"All you have to do is a simple Google search. Just be careful with what you’ll be downloading though."
BUT I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE , Google doesn't show any results regarding that and there's not a single site provide that as far as i know .. so what is it then John .. where did you get those ports ?
I searched for hours feeding google a bunch of different wordings, plowing through reddit and a bunch of torrent and repack sites. It's nowhere to be found.
It took me about 10 minutes using Yahoo to find it, but I didn't download it, and honestly it's not even worth bothering to find:
1. Downloading programs from people you don't trust is an immensely terrible idea, unless you don't care if Ransomeware bricks your computer, and,
2. The PC version apparently requires the Switch custom Nvidia driver and appropriate hardware, so honestly, it's not going to be useful except to maybe a handful of people.
Karma
Where can I find more information on the Pokemon Arceus etc. PC builds? DSOGaming is the only place I've seen it reported. No mentions on Russian websites, no mentions on Reddit, nothing on Twitter. Obviously links can't be shared, but there's no hint of this being real news anywhere else.