Echoes of Wisdom repeats the unfortunate TOTK leak scenario

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  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom ROM went online on September 21st.
  • Therefore, pirates started playing the game through Switch emulators five days before its official release.
  • Tears of the Kingdom was also leaked in a similar fashion in 2023, prompting a strong response from Nintendo that ended with two popular emulators being quickly shut down.



The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom was leaked online, with a playable ROM of the game appearing on several torrent aggregator sites in late September 2024. Pirates thus got their hands on Echoes of wisdom almost a week before its official market debut.

Echoes of wisdom is scheduled to be released on September 26. The game itself is expected to be the last Switch-exclusive entry in the The Legend of Zelda series.

Pirates are already playing Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

And while many fans continue to wait for its release, some pirates have already started playing Echoes of wisdom after its ROM appeared on various torrent aggregator websites. The playable dump of the game's files appeared online on Saturday, September 21, five days before its official release. This happened just a week after an individual already boasted that he was playing Echoes of wisdom early and draining some of his game in the process.


Echoes of Wisdom ROM Leak Reflects United Kingdom's Tears

History repeated itself with Echoes of wisdomas the previous installment of the long-running franchise also ended up in the hands of pirates before hitting store shelves. In this particular case, the first copies of Tears of the Kingdom appeared in the wild in late April 2023, with one of them eventually being purchased by a person who proceeded to dump their files online on May 2, ten days before the game's release.


The Tears of the Kingdom the leak did not go unanswered as it resulted in Nintendo shutting down two popular emulators, Yuzu and Citra. The former was forced to halt development after Nintendo accused it of facilitating piracy, claiming that the emulator was used to play more than a million illegal copies of Tears of the Kingdom. Meanwhile, the death of the 3DS emulator Citra was collateral damage, which happened because it was founded by the same developers behind Yuzu. The fact that Yuzu's Patreon donations skyrocketed after Tears of the Kingdom The leaks were another aggravating circumstance that probably didn't help its creators claim that they didn't benefit from piracy. Yuzu developer Tropic Haze agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million in damages to settle the case in March 2024.

Although Tropic Haze ended all Yuzu development long before the settlement was finalized, another group forked its open-source code to release the Switch emulator Suyu, pronounced “sued,” in an obscure nod to the fate of his predecessor. Suyu is one of the emulators that pirates use to play their new copy Echoes of wisdomalong with Ryujinx. Whether this leak will prompt another emulator and an attempt to crack down on piracy by Nintendo remains to be seen.


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