> Clearly if it was able to be leaked it already was being preserved

Preserved by whom? Many leaks are done by old or ex-employees who quietly kept a shall we say 'backup' of their work. More than one 'official' re-release has been rumored to be an embarrassed company quietly filing the serial numbers off a rogue leak because they realized way too late that their archival practices were inadequate.

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0cf8612b2e1e 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Anti-emulation Nintendo was caught repacking a pirated ROM.

https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-...

	▲	unleaded 7 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What this article is about is that Nintendo used a format standard in the emulation community for the ROM, it's possible they downloaded it but it's not like there's some "downloaded from ROMZ-ZONE.RU" watermark in there. It has been revealed in leaks that Nintendo has an internal ROM vault of pretty much everything ever released on their systems.
	▲	Lammy 42 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Also how WarioWare: Smooth Moves shows their in-house developers using third-party emulators to source graphics for their first-party nostalgia bait: https://tcrf.net/WarioWare:_Smooth_Moves#Punch-Out (not said derisively; I love WarioWare!)
	▲	Andrex an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If someone breaks into a warehouse and makes off with a pallet of cartridges, and then those carts are recovered, would it be strange if Nintendo resold those carts? It's their property at the end of the day. Aside from that thought exercise, like many "internet facts" this one also might not be true, and repeating it doesn't really help either "side." https://medium.com/@AberrantWolf/mario-illegal-roms-and-medi...