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The impact of the Zammis Clark Breach has been massive, releasing development files for a number of Nintendo products and exposing internal documents which were never meant to be seen by the public. Nintendo estimated damages of USD$1.8 million as a result of the breach, and as new items from the breach continue to be released, it remains to be seen what Nintendo properties will be affected and how Nintendo will respond to the situation.
The impact of the Zammis Clark Breach has been massive, releasing development files for a number of Nintendo products and exposing internal documents which were never meant to be seen by the public. Nintendo estimated damages of USD$1.8 million as a result of the breach, and as new items from the breach continue to be released, it remains to be seen what Nintendo properties will be affected and how Nintendo will respond to the situation.
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==== '''Ganix''' ====
After Zammis released the Spaceworld 97 ROMs to the pret discord server, with a limit of only 20 downloads, Team Spaceworld (TSW) was founded, made up of people who got the rom. TSW's goals were to write documentation as well as create a translation for the Spaceworld ROMs. Zammis talks with them about the stuff he had, sends it to several people for archival, and also shared screenshots.
Soon after the Spaceworld ROM was shared in pret, screenshots of the build were slowly posted to 4chan's /vp/ board. The hype ramped up and was at a maximum when the ROM got leaked. The translation was never finished (files for an unfinished translation were released on 2020, Apr 22 - this was presumed to have been from TSW) and TSW becomes quiet.
Ganix was one of the people whom Zammis entrusted his data with. He anonymously shared the Blue/Yellow assets with helix chamber and helped create the pokethon ROM (using the Blue/Yellow source code).
In June 2019, Ganix shared a Japanese Diamond Debug ROM with TCRF, claiming to have dumped it from a cartridge. He also supplemented it with pictures of the cartridge. Ganix claimed to have modified a few strings in the ROM due to him wanting to protect the safety of the developers. This was later believed by many to be a lie as the ROM was most probably compiled from the Diamond/Pearl source code.
In December 2019, when Ganix uploaded the Diamond/Pearl beta sprites, a friend of his leaked the URL and doxxed him on 4chan. Ganix then admitted to doing that as well as his other actions on the Glitch City Laboratories Forums, claiming he had deleted everything he had.<ref>https://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php?PHPSESSID=knva2v2ceht1om131adnj9vk35bf0ib2&topic=8950.0</ref>
In March 2020, everything else TSW still had (given to them by Ganix) were released to 4chan (refer to the 2020, March 19 leak below). Ganix got furious and made a long statement on discord, saying how TSW could not be trusted. He also referred to Zammis's content as "bad data", resulting in that phrase has become synonymous with him as a result.
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==Timeline of Releases==
'''2018, May 26'''
Zammis posts Pokemon Spaceworld 97 ROMs to the pret discord server, through a Firefox Send link with only 20 downloads.<ref>https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/705829278851268649/736921633515896872/post.jpg</ref>
'''2018, May 31'''
Pokemon Spaceworld 97 Gold ROM leaks to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/UsGGX4x.png</ref>
Pokemon Spaceworld 97 Silver ROM leaks to 8chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/y31FWhm.png</ref>
'''2019, Feb 18'''
Helix Chamber releases the Pokemon Red/Green/Blue prototype assets they received from Ganix.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/wHIQ1CJ.png</ref> This was later found in the Gold/Silver/Crystal source code leak.
'''2019, December 19'''
Ganix uploads Diamond/Pearl beta sprites, a friend of his leaks the site URL to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/wL3L1rv.png</ref> This was later found in the full Diamond/Pearl source code leak.
'''2020, March 19'''
A debug build of Pokemon Blue and Yellow was released to 4chan. The release also included a file named <code>CRYSTAL_BY_NUM.SYM</code> as well as screenshots of: an internal Game Boy manual, official Game Boy emulator, debug menu of Pokemon Gold, and Pokemon Diamond/Pearl prototype. <ref>https://i.imgur.com/OQ50o2a.png</ref>
Said file, the official Game Boy emulator, and the debug build of Pokemon Gold was later found in the Gold/Silver/Crystal source code leak. The internal Game Boy manual was also found in the ''Gigaleak'' and the Pokemon Diamond/Pearl prototype was able to be compiled from the ''Gigaleak'' as well.
'''2020, April 12'''
Pokemon Red/Blue's localization source code was released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/yTFaP4j.png</ref> On the same day, debug builds of Pokemon Gold and Silver were also released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/us6TyAH.png</ref>
'''2020, April 25'''
Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal's source code was released to 4chan, which included Spaceworld 99 Gold and Silver.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/jMc7Pp1.png</ref>
'''2020, April 28'''
Titlekeys for DSiWare and WiiWare titles were released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/DoxjTNE.png</ref> These was generated using the titlekey generation algorithm, which was later released. 3DS .cia files of the following titles were also released:
* Mew Trading App(E)
* NinoTool
* O-Power ROM
* Mew Trading App(J)
* CTR-N-NAGA
* CTR-N-AJZA
* CTR-N-AXDA
* Pokémon Anti-Cheat
* Don't touch this title (This is NDO Production Test Title)
* CTR-N-AJ7A
'''2020, April 29'''
3DS .cia files of the following titles were released:
* 000400000001A8A00.1040
* 000400000001A8A00.2080
* 000400000001A8A00.3120
'''2020, May 2'''
Big leak of source code and documentation to Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64DD, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii and iQue systems were released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/COFLHEo.png</ref>
'''2020, May 3'''
Flipnote Studio 3D's signing keys were released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/3gw9Fh6.png</ref>
'''2020, May 7'''
Header files of the 3DS OS "Horizon" was released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/B40eALm.png</ref>
'''2020, May 9'''
"Factory firmware setup cartridge for EUR n2DSXL" was released to 4chan. Shortly after, the full factory files (including the previous firmware setup cartridge) was released. <ref>https://i.imgur.com/sogDewS.png</ref>
'''2020, May 19'''
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/FireRed/LeafGreen's Japanese source code was released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/c5XUZiZ.png</ref>
'''2020, May 21'''
Pokemon X/Y "distribution rom for debug" was released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/duSgmWe.png</ref>
'''2020, May 23'''
Source code and documentation for the Nintendo 3DS was released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/MwWazSn.png</ref>. On the same day, source code to the Nintendo 3DS's Virtual Console was released to 4chan<ref>https://i.imgur.com/GJ327LN.png</ref>, as well as source code to Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (Japanese).<ref>https://i.imgur.com/aLAD9Km.png</ref>
'''2020, May 24'''
More source code for the Nintendo 3DS was released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/tUUyyud.png</ref>
'''2020, May 29'''
Nintendo's titlekey generation script was released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/0EcgYcz.png</ref>
'''2020, July 24'''
Big leak of source code and prototypes of multiple Super Nintendo Entertainment System games, full source code to Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (including all commits since 2006, March 8), an unreleased GBA peripheral "netcard", as well as lotcheck master ROMs of Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom were released to 4chan. This was termed the ''gigaleak''.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/LnRJsOz.png</ref>
'''2020, July 26'''
iQue/BroadOn localization source code for multiple Nintendo 64 games were released to 4chan.<ref>https://i.imgur.com/x9ovGMK.png</ref>
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