List of findings in leaked Nintendo data
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This is an incomplete list of the compressed archives, their contents, and other files that were obtained in the Zammis Clark Breach and leaked online. Most of these were leaked on a 4chan board called /ppg/, usually in the format of a post with the text "moar" and then one or more Anonfiles download links.
Contents
eevee.zip
eevee.zip was leaked on Christmas Eve, 2020, alongside t210_t214_brom.7z, which was leaked on the same day. This archive contained an NSP file called beluga.nsp, which was a prototype build of "Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!" for the Nintendo Switch. The build was dated May 12th, 2018, meaning this was from six months before the game's official release. This prototype contained a debug menu, unused sprites, unused music, test maps, and placeholder text.[1]
The size of the build totaled 8.7 GB when decompressed, which is more than twice the size of the game's release build.
t210_t214_brom.7z
t210_t214_brom.7z was leaked on Christmas Eve, 2020, alongside eevee.zip, which was leaked on the same day. This archive contained two ZIP files, "erista-bootrom-master@96df02fd1a1.zip" dated 2/6/2018, and "mariko-bootrom.zip" dated 5/23/2018. These were two versions of NVIDIA's source code for the Nintendo Switch's bootrom.
The size of the 7-zip archive totaled 4.7 MB, which is small enough to send over Discord without hitting the 8 MB file size limit.
emeralds.7z
emeralds.7z was leaked on September 2, 2020. Included in the archive was Pokémon Emerald's full localization source code, and the Wii Startup Disc's partition data, as well as an archive named "tako_main" containing ATI's Wii source tree. Included in the full Pokémon Emerald localization source code was a map editor which had been circulating 4chan prior to the leak in the form of a screenshot that was proved genuine by the leak.
Findings:
- Wii Startup Disc partition data emeralds\RVL-RAAE\v0\RVL-RAAE-v0.prod_part
- Pokémon Emerald source code emeralds\pm_eme_ose
- MIDI files for sound effects and music in Pokémon Emerald emeralds\pm_eme_ose\snd_file
- ATI's development repository for "Tako", with Wii and GameCube related files from April 2003 to May 2006 emeralds\tako_main_052306
- "NNGC Portable Model", a block diagram from July 2004 for a version of the GameCube with a handheld mode and a TV mode, just like the Nintendo Switch
- Verilog files for the NDEV, the Broadway Evaluation Board, and the Hollywood GPU
- Pre-release versions of boot0 and boot1
bbgames.7z
bbgames.7z was leaked on July 25th, 2020, right after another leak had just happened. This leak was major, containing source code for many Nintendo 64 games and Game Boy Advance games, including Super Mario 64. This archive seems to contain a dump of the "bbgames" tree from RouteFree's servers. The data was most likely downloaded by Zammis Clark from a part of Nintendo's servers containing an archive of all of RouteFree's development trees, for example, "bb" and "ng", which were leaked as part of unsorted.7z.
Inside the archive was partial source code for Super Mario 64. Inside, there were files relating to Luigi, supposedly his character model. This was huge news in the Super Mario 64 community, drawing a connection to the "L is Real 2401" conspiracy theory, which claimed that Luigi was supposed to be part of, or used to be part of Super Mario 64, before he was removed.
Contents:
sm64= Super Mario 64 (partial, english shindou version with no rumble support)sf64= Star Fox 64f0x= F-ZERO Xmk64= Mario Kart 64forest= Animal Crossingdm64= Dr. Mario 64majora= Majora's Maskocarina,ocarina2= Ocarina of Time
netcard.7z
netcard.7z was another one of the three archives leaked to /ppg/ during the "gigaleak" on July 24, 2020. The root directory of the archive contained three tarfiles, next to some internal iQue/Nintendo documents. It can be assumed that this archive was put together by the leaker, and is not directly dumped from Nintendo or iQue.
Findings:
- Source code for a p2p/voice chat lib, likely for voice chat on the Wii
netcard\gba\depot-offline\sw\common\sdks\p2p - Wii IOS ARM toolchain patches
netcard\gba\depot-offline\sw\devroot\tools - "Online Store Demo", a Wii Shop Channel related tool
netcard\gba\depot-offline\sw\bw\build\tests\wiishop\resources
20100713cvs_backup.tar.7z
20100713cvs_backup.tar.7z was another one of the three archives leaked to /ppg/ during the "gigaleak" on July 24, 2020. Looking at the filename, it's easy to tell this archive contains a backup of a CVS repository from July 13, 2010. This CVS repository contained 6 folders, including one named "pokemon", which contained the source code for Pokemon Diamond & Pearl.
Findings in the contents of 20100713cvs_backup\usr\local\:
- Diamond/Pearl source code
cvsrepo\pokemon\pm_dp_ose - Different D/P source code repo, ending in March of 2006
cvsrepo\pokemon\pokemon_dp - Source code for a Korean font conversion tool for Diamond/Pearl
cvsrepo\pokemon\yama_work - Source code for a tool used to upload VC titles to the Wii Shop Channel
cvsrepo\noriproj\vc - Source code for some obscure tool made by a Nintendo dev
cvsrepo\noriproj\WallPaperPasswordMaker
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
unsorted.7z
Main page: unsorted.7z
unsorted.7z was leaked on May 2, 2020. It was the first of these leaks to gain widespread attention, including a video made about it by Modern Vintage Gamer, which gave it lots of attention, but also led to many misunderstandings, due to false claims made in the video. This leak contained a CVS repository with the source code for the Wii's input output system, source code for Wii factory software, the source code for boot0, boot1, and boot2, internal documents and PowerPoint presentations related to BroadOn and Nintendo and the development of the Wii, and much more.
