>>56098881In my opinion, another point in OP's credibility is that the build is just one month before release, so realistically there cannot be /that/ much of a difference especially when it comes to things that appear in the gameplay and aren't just buried in hidden data.
If OP wanted to make a fake build, then why don't pretend it's the February or May ones, which have many more data to go by? Why not pretend it's the Festa Demo, which would have little to no gameplay and therefore much less editing to do to come across as credible?
Sure, someone may argue he claims it's a build close to release because it would still save him a lot of work since there cannot be many differences, but I highly doubt a person who put this much detail into this "hoax" would pass the chance to fill it with more sensationalistic stuff.
Why not add stuff that we know many people would go crazy over, like Latiken or beta Torchic? Isn't this basically what the fake leaker did months ago?
This one feels legit enough to me, because it doesn't go out of its way to blow things out of proportion, differences compared to the final version seem very proportionate for a build made in early September when the game released im early October.
Surely, only time will tell and I really hope we can get our hands on the ROM itself eventually, but so far everything seems to line-up well enough for it to be real.
