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| author | IIMarckus <iimarckus@gmail.com> | 2019-02-18 09:47:58 -0700 |
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| committer | IIMarckus <iimarckus@gmail.com> | 2019-02-18 09:47:58 -0700 |
| commit | 4ff650626d07036650a88a1b9fb4a68d7cb6a8a9 (patch) | |
| tree | b2c97dfd0088d64d4b45b31934530b1b9c0f942d | |
| parent | ff49b087b8e2cdce0aaaada1cabfbde5e76c7bd7 (diff) | |
Add Pre‐Red/Green assets leak timeline.
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@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Years ago I started the Happily, they have long since outgrown me, and taken a life of their own. <hr> The Space World ’97 demo <a href="spaceworld/">is real</a>. +<p> +The “pre‐Red/Green” assets +<a href="prergby-assets/">are probably real</a>. <hr> <p><a href="https://github.com/iimarckus/iimarckus.org/">iimarckus.org git</a> <hr> diff --git a/prergby-assets/index.html b/prergby-assets/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d2128b --- /dev/null +++ b/prergby-assets/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +<!doctype html> +<meta charset=utf-8> +<title>Storytime</title> +<style> +body { + max-width: 75em; +} +</style> + +<p>2019‐02‐18 + +<p> +I was browsing /vp/ yesterday and saw people talking about +“<a href="https://boards.4channel.org/vp/thread/37586490">something spaceworld +related coming tomorrow.</a>” +It was news to me, so I stopped by the usual haunts, asked what was up, +and got the zip of assets, a few hours before the stream started. +<p> +Apparently RacieB, a legit person in the Telefang scene, had planned to stream +the translated Space World ’97 demo, but the translation was clearly not getting +finished fast enough (there’s a shocker). +The streamers wanted something interesting to put on stream, +and Helix Chamber had been planning to publish the assets, +so someone in between made a Red/Blue hack that inserted the data—evolutions, +backpics, overworld sprites, and a title screen—alongside fanmade frontpics, +translated text, and made‐up text. +Immediately after the stream, they would publish the zip and a series of +articles about the content. + +<h2>Is it real?</h2> +<p> +My opinion? Most likely real. +I didn’t know the assets existed, +but I know where they came from and was expecting <em>something</em> +from that direction eventually. +The technical details behind the assets match what I expected. + +<h2>Care to share those technical details?</h2> +<p> +Not really, no. + +<h2>Why not?</h2> +<p> +Unlike <a href="/spaceworld/">the SW97 incident</a>, +people are sensitive about the details getting out. +I want to be clued in next time there’s an interesting leak, +and I don’t feel like giving that up to sate the curiosity of Internet randos. +Maybe if there were no other way for it to get out—but I actually expect the +source for this one to come out in time with an acceptable level of provenance, +even if it’s not going to be soon. + +<h2>So why should we believe you?</h2> +<p> +Beats me. Unlike last time, I haven’t seen the source directly myself: +I’m one layer removed. If you listen to me, you’ll be two layers removed. +I do assert that I, being both technical and skeptical, +am nevertheless reasonably satisfied it’s real, +and as far as I know there’s nothing of note left to leak besides provenance. + +<h2>Stream donations wargle bargle</h2> +<p> +Nothing to do with me. + +<h2>Where’s the ROM, you collectionist pig?</h2> +<p> +Sorry. The assets are real, but there is no ROM to leak. |