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Sheets and Leaks
With so much new content, it's going to be tough to highlight individuals but I suppose a good place to start is with the customs. There are a bunch of new Mario customs among a handful of others for a total of 41 new submissions to the section this week which is always awesome to see!
Outside of the custom section, there's obviously plenty more so let's get started. The DS / DSi gets 105 new submissions with a ton from Castlevania (thanks to rufaswan's continued efforts) and also a bunch from Mario & Luigi: Bowswer's Inside Story (courtesy of Greiga Master and our very own Ton), and a few more from Super Robot Wars W and Kingdom Hearts to round everything out. Kingdom Hearts also appears in our mobile section (mayphelion) alongside Professor Layton (Luna16) and lots more so there's plenty to see there as well! And to finish off this random selection, the Nintendo Switch sees submissions to four of its games this week - Cadence of Hyrule (brought to us by RTB and Dazz), Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Dakress), Paper Mario: The Origami King (courtesy of a variety of people), and one more submission to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for quite the showing this week as well! That's really just a small sampling of what this update has to offer though so be sure to check out what interests you and perhaps pass on a thank you to those who ripped it!
Before I go though, I do want to quickly cover one important event that just recently happened. As I'm sure many of you are already aware, a large amount of confidential and sensitive data from Nintendo was recently leaked. This may sound hypocritical coming from us given the nature of the content on this site but we can't support or participate in the large-scale theft of intellectual property so we will not be accepting any submissions from this leaked data. It wasn't just images that were released - the full source code of various games and a bunch of other internal-only data is now out there and that goes way beyond what we do here, especially since many of those games are still available for purchase in one form or another directly from Nintendo. So, out of respect for their works as well as our time and yours, please do not submit anything obtained from these files - it will be rejected on-sight.
On that note though, that does it for this week's update! Be sure to check in next week for updates on all four sites and in the meantime, enjoy your weekend!
Edit: Because this has apparently gone wildly off the rails, let me make one thing crystal clear. Not accepting content from these leaks is not a moral issue. Respect for the private information included in the leak may be a small component here but the reality is, this data was obtained through a targeted and overtly illegal attack on Nintendo's servers and there is nothing gray about it. When I said we can't participate in large-scale theft, that's what I was referring to - the incredibly illegal nature of how this data was obtained. Nintendo has already been removing the content from other sites which should be evidence enough that it was a good call, for legal reasons, to not upload it here. Morality was never my primary reason for refusing this content - it was just a bonus at that point.
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@The KKM ...Or go to another website that probably has those sprites and models if you want them that badly
@SpritZ (Last paragraph, first sentence): Same, I want to have a relaxed conversation here too
@SpritZ (Last paragraph, first sentence): Same, I want to have a relaxed conversation here too
@KKM please refer to my previous comments.
This isn't just getting the assets out of the cartridge this is hacking into corporate servers and obtaining the information through far more illicit means. Forget about stolen cartridges, forget about what company it is, and finally just forget about your understanding of the morality in this kind of thing.
Hacking into corporate emails is a different ball game than just ripping from a cartridge. Plain and simple.
This isn't just getting the assets out of the cartridge this is hacking into corporate servers and obtaining the information through far more illicit means. Forget about stolen cartridges, forget about what company it is, and finally just forget about your understanding of the morality in this kind of thing.
Hacking into corporate emails is a different ball game than just ripping from a cartridge. Plain and simple.
What would REALLY happen if Nintendo know site just now?
They'll probably forcing here to remove anything like Super Mario.
@The KKM
Dude, stop.
Don't forcing this site to remove rare gems like unused Gen 2 Pokemon sheet.
They'll probably forcing here to remove anything like Super Mario.
@The KKM
Dude, stop.
Don't forcing this site to remove rare gems like unused Gen 2 Pokemon sheet.
@The KKM Taking down everything that you've told us to remove is like renaming The Spriters Resource to The Legal Resource. There's no need to set the bar high my dude! If Nintendo (or any other company for that matter) have yet to take legal action against the site, then we're probably doing something right.
SEGA is quite relaxed when it comes to what people do with their IP, as far as I know they have yet to do anything serious to DRX for releasing the ROM. (And, they probably never will.)
Also.. Why are you here then if you want all of this stuff removed? Are you upset because the leaks aren't being uploaded to the site? Or are you just here to rant?
I want us to have a civilized and relaxed conversation here. I want to hear your side of the story but I also want you to hear ours. ...Please? (´･ω･`)?
SEGA is quite relaxed when it comes to what people do with their IP, as far as I know they have yet to do anything serious to DRX for releasing the ROM. (And, they probably never will.)
Also.. Why are you here then if you want all of this stuff removed? Are you upset because the leaks aren't being uploaded to the site? Or are you just here to rant?
I want us to have a civilized and relaxed conversation here. I want to hear your side of the story but I also want you to hear ours. ...Please? (´･ω･`)?
@Tsukiyomaru0 idk with most of those emails being from the 90s, most of them are probably dead. doubt AOL is Nintendo's go-to for internet lol.
I'm just gonna stop commenting here in fear of me just adding more fuel to the fire. At this point I just want things to calm down.
OR, instead of taking a "we can't support or participate in the large-scale theft of intellectual property" stance that just makes you total hypocrites, take the much more honest "we're afraid of their lawyers" stance and people'll actually understand.
"are generally less shady and damaging" ACTUAL LITERAL PHYSICALLY STOLEN CARTRIDGE FROM AN EXPO
Also, look at what you're saying. They say "we can't support or participate in the large-scale theft of intellectual property", you say "it's ok when it's Sega".
ALSO, how about all those old MFZ sprite sheets that said ONLY HOST ON MFZ? Was each individual author asked about having it hosted here?
Petie has asked "what's the point, pushing that there's a double standard will only result in taking down the other pages, not hosting Gigaleak". Yes, that's the point. You want to make this a moral standard, have a moral standard. Take down all protos, take down all hack rips, take down all custom sheets you uploaded without permission.
Also, look at what you're saying. They say "we can't support or participate in the large-scale theft of intellectual property", you say "it's ok when it's Sega".
ALSO, how about all those old MFZ sprite sheets that said ONLY HOST ON MFZ? Was each individual author asked about having it hosted here?
Petie has asked "what's the point, pushing that there's a double standard will only result in taking down the other pages, not hosting Gigaleak". Yes, that's the point. You want to make this a moral standard, have a moral standard. Take down all protos, take down all hack rips, take down all custom sheets you uploaded without permission.
...Spoke too soon.
The difference with the Sonic protos is that 1. it's Sega, who are generally more relaxed in terms of what fans do, and 2. the ways that the roms were acquired are generally less shady and damaging. At least in terms of the Simon Wai proto, it's cartridge and rom were literally the only things stolen.
The difference with the Sonic protos is that 1. it's Sega, who are generally more relaxed in terms of what fans do, and 2. the ways that the roms were acquired are generally less shady and damaging. At least in terms of the Simon Wai proto, it's cartridge and rom were literally the only things stolen.
Hey, hey, I found uploaded content that's from the same leak by Wack0 that you're now refusing to upload! Guys, can't be having that! This better be taken down fast, it's theft, after all. https://www.spriters-resource.com/game_boy_gbc/pokemongoldsilverspaceworld1997prototype
Will you also be removing any content uploaded that's from the Sonic 2 or Sonic 3 Betas which were similarly leaked, in cases physically stolen, and not intended for the public eye? Can we expect you to start taking down rips from romhacks where people didn't give permission to have their characters suddenly uploaded here? Can we expect most of the site to be taken down since there was no permission given to rip assets from the vast majority of these games?
Glad to see that things seem to be calming down here at least.
TheGmodNugget: Harmful would be the personal data (email, probably orphaned by now) included in the documents and the source code itself. That aside, it would be most beneficial to preserve the non-personal data.
@Pete Ooh, interesting! Thanks!
Unless Nintendo themselves decide to make those contents publicly available, but don't count on it.
@SuperMario123311: I repeat for the third time now -- the amount of time passed isn't going to suddenly make things from the Gigaleak "okay" to upload.
Is there a chance like, maybe a few years down the line - We may see sprites from the on this site? I understand why you aren't allowing them at the moment, and I won't advocate to try and change your minds at all. I'm just curious.
It’s not a glitch - that number includes deleted sheets as well. I originally planned on filtering them out but doing so made the page load painfully slow so I ignored it as it still gets the point across.
@MisterMike Maybe it's a glitch. Try contacting the staff and ask if there's something wrong with the system
The reason we cannot host these leaks as opposed to the others is not a "morality" thing. It's a LEGAL thing. I can't go into details because that's confidential information (I'll get in trouble if I make it public), but simply put, we won't get in trouble for hosting those.
We WILL get in trouble if we host the new ones because of all the sensitive documents that got leaked with it, especially given Nintendo's been taking down links to said content, probably for said reasons. So yes, we'd like to not dig ourselves a grave.
And no, we are not removing what we currently have because we KNOW WHY we CAN keep them. Don't worry, nobody dictates what we host except the companies whose assets we host so we are not removing them unless we get an actual DMCA. And NO, we are not hosting these new assets or else it's bye-bye TSR. Do you want that to happen? And finally, NO, we do not have double standards OR are we hypocrites, for not hosting these for the reasons explained above. End of story. So stop asking. And stop insulting us. I am quite certain that all of us know what we are doing, given the fact that we actually run a website like this. I'm sorry you people don't understand that.