>>39995683>Picture and video evidence emerges later that matches up with the ROM>Japanese players who attended the event say it's legit>It wasn't even ripped from a cartridge, but was from an old computer in 1997>Programming nuances matches a description of what would be between Gen I and II>Kotora is later realized to be partially seen in the Capsule Monsters document from the Game Center CX episode related to FRLG>There is so much in this ROM that can be examined and learned from that you can see how it shaped the future of Pokémon >Sugimori retweeted fan art of it as it was happening before stopping and removing the retweets>An autistic hacker got jail time around the time all of this came out after he hacked into both Microsoft's and Nintendo's servers and downloaded all sorts of development assetshttps://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18286027/microsoft-nintendo-vtech-security-hack-breach-researcher-guiltyBut no, it's more likely that someone made this entire ROM from scratch over several years and found every last obscure image and video of the demo and understood the internals of the Gen I and II games so perfectly that you can't find fault in it. He was also also able to perfectly recreate the pixel art styles of people like Sugumori and looked into assets of Japanese Blue and the Game Boy Camera. And not only that, but he never took any sort of credit for it.
Just because it isn't officially confirmed doesn't mean it's fake. It's really disappointing that so many people are ignoring one of the Holy Grails of beta games (MOTHER 3 on the 64DD would be another along with N64 early Zelda builds) and of Pokémon.
