other.7z

other.7z was one of three archives leaked to /ppg/ during the "gigaleak" on July 24, 2020. This was one of the most important and most talked-about leaks. The archive contained six more archives inside, each with lots of very important data. It's files include Famicom_NES.7z, which includes an NES lotcheck, SFC.7z, which includes a Super Nintendo lotcheck, NEWS.7z, which includes source code of various Super Nintendo games, CGB.7z, which includes source code for GameBoy Color games, agb_bootrom.zip, which includes the bootrom source code for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, and dmg.7z, which includes a lotcheck for the original Game Boy.

Findings:

• SVN code repository for the GBA bootrom other\agb_bootrom\agb_bootrom
• SVN code repository for the GBC bootrom other\agb_bootrom\cgb_bootrom
• An entire master rom database for American and Japanese NES games other\Famicom_NES
• Super Mario RPG master rom other\SFC\ROM\SuperMarioRPG
• Star Fox 2 master rom other\SFC\ROM\StarFox2
• Star Fox source code other\SFC\SFC\ソースデータ\StarFox
• Star Fox 2 source code other\SFC\SFC\ソースデータ\StarFox2
• Yoshi's Island source code other\SFC\SFC\ソースデータ\ヨッシーアイランド
• Link's Awakening DX source code other\CGB\AZL__ゼルダの伝説 夢を見る島DX
• Super Mario Kart source code other\SFC\SFC\ソースデータ\MarioKart
• F-Zero source code other\SFC\SFC\ソースデータ\FZERO
• Super Mario All-Stars source code other\SFC\ソースデータ\srd13-SFCマリオコレクション\export\mario-z\linkp
• Multiple prototype builds of Yoshi's Island 2 other\SFC.7z\ソースデータ\ヨッシーアイランド (日本_Ver0, 日本_Ver1, 日本_Ver2)
• "super_donkey" (prototype) other\SFC\ソースデータ\ヨッシーアイランド\ツール\donkey_test
• "sleep_test" (prototype) other\SFC\ソースデータ\ヨッシーアイランド\ツール\sleep_test
• Hamtaro Ham-Hams Unite debug build other\CGB\B86__ハム太郎 2\Master\USA\ham2usa_020807
• Star Fox 2 prototype builds (several - extremely early, including the CES build) other\SFC\ソースデータ\StarFox2\KAWAGOE, other\SFC\ソースデータ\StarFox2\SF2, other\NEWS\StarFox2\KAWAGOE, other\NEWS\StarFox2\SF2
• Partial source code from the original NES Super Mario Bros other\SFC\ソースデータ\srd13-SFCマリオコレクション\export\mario-z\linkp\mario-n1\mn_hp_smenmy.asm

The other.7z archive also contained a directory named "NEWS". The NEWS folder contained source code for various SNES games. Inside NEWS, there was also a folder named テープリストア ("source data" in Japanese), containing seven tape drive backups from the Sony NEWS workstations used at Nintendo, with files dating back to the early 1990's.

The reason why there are only seven is because during when Nintendo originally tried to recover these, some time around 2016, the rest of the tape drive backups (around 30-40 of them) failed to read, and only seven of them were recoverable. These remaining backups contained original source code and developer files related to many SNES games, including titles like Star Fox 2 and Super Mario Kart. The contents of the folders outside of NEWS were most likely transferred over from these tape drive backups.

Findings in the contents of other\NEWS\テープリストア\:

• Super Mario World development assets NEWS_11\hino\z-mario-4
• Yoshi's Cookie development assets NEWS_11\hino\z-mario-cookie
• Many internal Nintendo email backups NEWS_02\usr01\uji\Mail (ROMs were found in the attachments)
• Conversion tools for SNES "OBJ" files NEWS_05\home\watanabe\INDY\CONVERT\OBJ-DATA
• "IRISGL" demo, meant to run on an SGI Indy NEWS_05\home\watanabe\INDY\GLTEST
• Several Super Mario Kart prototype builds NEWS_05\home\kimura (located in "mak.lzh", "kart", "util" folders, most builds date back to 1991-1992)
• Archive containing Super Mario Kart source code NEWS_05\home\kimura\kart\mak.lzh
• SuperFX test programs from 1991 NEWS_05\home\kimura\polygon.lzh\polygon\sample0\CHIPTEST.ROM, CHIPTEST15.ROM