Image : NintendoWhat appears to be an unprecedented trove of information related to several past Nintendo consoles was leaked to the internet starting last Friday.
Many of the thousands of leaked files concern Nintendo’s 2006 Wii console, including detailed design documents and even seemingly its source code.
Such information would be of great interest to emulation enthusiasts, data miners, and anyone curious about the Japanese gaming giant’s notoriously secretive past.
It’s unclear who was responsible for leaking them or their original source, but they appear to include the Wii source code and detailed schematics for its hardware, as well as hardware test demos for 1996’s Nintendo 64 console and information about the internal workings of the company’s 2001 GameCube platform.
The leak also includes functioning ROMs for various N64 hardware / test demos, created to test or show off the 1996 console’s capabilities.