 Hey everyone, how's it doing? Welcome back to Nintendo Prime and we have some news for you today because remember those leaked Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color emulators and games that came out from 4chan a week ago. If you don't know the story, essentially there are a bunch of emulators for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and the Game Boy Advance one seems to be the most curious one because the other, the Game Boy, Game Boy Color one seemed to be individual game like each game is running its own version of the emulator and it's really hard to really dig into each individual game there. So the Game Boy Advance one called Sloop has been getting a ton of attention from the modding community and others wondering you know is this real because leaks like this from 4chan can often be faked and it turns out that Modern Vintage Gamer did a video on this five days ago but even after his video other things have come out about this emulator because Modern Vintage Gamer was very public in stating that hey this seems really really suspicious and the reasons it felt suspicious were due to certain things inside the actual emulation including things like some homebrew applications being there which you know why would homebrew applications be inside an official Nintendo made emulator that doesn't make any sense and obviously the use of Easy Flash which Nintendo considered the use of the Easy Flash cards in the past to actually be considered piracy so again why would Nintendo be using them these are obviously very valid points and you should watch this full video if you want the full background on why those are a problem but ultimately at the end of his video he determined that this emulator actually was made by Nintendo of Europe made by Nerd and is a Nintendo official emulator that has been edited you know as recently as 2020 obviously we can only look at what the files go up to in terms of the last time that this emulator was edited so and he was one of the biggest critics of this and has called out multiple of these fake leaks over the years and he's even leading sort of being true but again I mentioned there's new evidence so before I dive into that thank you guys so much for being here I am Nathaniel Ruffeljantz and drop a like hit that subscribe button and let's get into the actual meat and potatoes here so first up I want to show you guys a clip from Modern Vintage Gamer's video talking about why he ultimately determined that this was you know real and then we'll get into the new evidence emulator by Nintendo Europe R&D Division known as Nerd the smoking gun if you will is what's known as the commit history one crucial part of this leak that came bundled with the game is the commit history this contains a running list of all changes that were done to the emulations code when the changes were made and by whom while a git commit log could be faked if it was to be faked it would have just been easier to remove this folder before leaking it out so what did the logs actually tell us well the emulator was updated in 2020 and of course we have no visibility as to what has progressed since then but it indeed shows us that the users that were committing code to slope were indeed nerd employees the emulator itself has also been reverse engineered and there is no trace of a community based emulator such as MGBA or VBA again something that would be fairly difficult to conceal and with these two pieces I do believe that this work was internally developed at Nintendo at least all the signs points of that as for the easy flash I can only assume that this was internal work that nerd was developing that would never get beyond their studio now obviously this is some pretty credible evidence that this emulator is real and obviously gives credence to the fact that this is going to be coming to Nintendo switch online but more than that more than that we have additional evidence that just cropped up what like two three days ago on something that Nintendo actually did officially that's within the files that seems to be lining up and this is pointed out by Twitter user MondoMega so MondoMega looked at this the status from back in 2021 of last year early last year and says so this maintenance here is a year ago and actually was for salute so again the the Gameboy Advance emulator the leaked GBA emulator has the same title ID proof that they naturally continued to work on it past the august 2020 build date of the leak at least so essentially this uh this title ID was in this leak that you know last was worked out in 2020 and now we saw that there was maintenance actually on that title ID in 2021 so that's very very obvious evidence that this is being worked on by Nintendo so when we sit here and we think about this leak and what it all means essentially this basically confirms you know almost beyond any shadow of a doubt that this 4chan leak and again 4chan leak was real and that these are actually Gameboy Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance emulators and games worked on by the Nerd Development Studio and Nintendo European Research and Development team out of well Nintendo of Europe and as such they are the ones that actually worked on guess what all the rest of these stuff on Nintendo Switch online so this makes this actually extremely likely that these games are going to be and emulators are going to be coming to Nintendo Switch online in the future now we got N64 first Genesis first hey is the big update for this September going to be Gameboy Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance I think it's looking highly likely at this point the one thing we know for sure right now is that these emulators and the games that are associated with them were in the works on the back end were in the works on the back end here for the Nintendo Switch so now the question is will they come out for Nintendo Switch and when and that has yet to be determined so now that's the news that's my thoughts on it I'm really excited I think these are going to be great additions to Nintendo Switch online I think this is obviously massive additions over anything that has happened at what do they call that virtual console obviously we're starting to get platforms and games that haven't been on it and yeah that's that's really it so thank you guys for watching now I will note that last video I said that how would be on my news set there's one last item for my new set that I'm waiting for I actually just got someone working on it for me here yesterday they said they should be done by May 1st or Monday maybe so what we're just going to sit here and wait and and see if that's done I want to make sure when I bring this set to our new standard news format that you guys are seeing it in this full glory we'll be going back to 4k 60 fps as our standard we'll still maybe do a rushed video here and there with this camera but a lot of videos I'll be able to do from there I'll be able to have my laptop right in front of me and still show you guys everything going on and it's good it's going to be a lot of fun if you guys remember the sit down set for before it's basically an evolution of the sit down set so I'm looking forward to showing that to you guys and we did all the work around the studio yesterday actually as well so you guys might know we did the podcast yesterday we will not be live streaming tonight or did we do the podcast yesterday yesterday was the walkie-box playoff game so no podcast was the day before we are not actually going to be doing any live streams probably the rest of this week I know it feels a little a little rough saying that but yeah it's just the way that the end of this month is working out but one thing that's interesting when I'm looking around at all the craziness happening here is Eric and I actually got a lot of work done in the studio last night you see a bunch of junk laying out over here and even over here we had to rerun some cable runs to fix some issues we were having with our podcast set we needed to get powered usb extended ones in there so for those who don't know what powered usb extenders are basically at the end of the run you plug in a power cord what that power cord does is enhance the signal running through the run by basically slapping some electricity into it because obviously it's all communicated over electricity so slapping more electricity and just boost the signal and gives you a better connection to the good old computer that's right here behind the camera so there is that and my dog is winding up a beast I think he needs to go potty you need to go potty buddy um all right link yes that's right my dog's name is link uh let's go on an adventure together to the backyard and I'll catch you guys in the next video