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It would be amazing to see the Gameboy/N64 emulator hacker community expand, and NEW games begin to be developed based on these docs. Maybe Nintendo could double-down on this and turn it into good publicity

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The article mentions that this would be unwise due to these documents being released illegally. Reverse engineering some existing system for the purpose of interoperability (as is common among homebrew enthusiasts) is legal; hacking into a Nintendo subcontractor's IT and leaking internal documentation obviously isn't.

A developer can use the leak as a reference without being the one responsible for the leak. It sounds like it would be hugely beneficial.

If Nintendo can prove they used it as a reference, that's evidence for a nasty lawsuit.

There's a reason why people go to these lengths:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

Many people already do make new games for Gameboy (and NES/Famicom) without these documents.

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