Hello,I hope everyone has had a nice 2nd day of 2026. Happy belated new years!Today, I am releasing a corrupt NCA build of the title, "NieR: Automata" recovered from a Nintendo Switch Development Unit.The build itself was in the deleted cache and has taken some damage.(the build in question): https://gofile.io/d/LH6TP3I am hoping some talented "NieR" & or Nintendo Switch fan('s) step in to dig into the build and recover some details, or manage to repair the build!Please discuss and share details about this newly discovered build within this thread. I would love to hear more about it!
>>729914826What's different from this compared to the full release? The SW version came years later, so I dunno how different it'd be.
>>729914826Cool.
>>729914956Unknown. This was discovered today by me and a few other people. I am not sure of its contents or differences. Just a brief picture of its origins. That is why I am releasing it, to gather more details on its history and contents.
>>729914826Fuck yeah dude 13GBs of dolphin porn
>>729914826.How'd you get a hold of a dev unit? Just curious.
>>729915641They get listed for sale every once in a while.
Nier bros we are so back
>>729914826https://gofile.io/d/zjRuTYI forgot to attach this but here is some save data that was on the unit for NieR's Prototype build if this helps.
>>729914826This has to be Diddyblud shit
Speaking of Nintendo has any npdp carts popped up lately? this lot was teased a long time ago but maybe 1 or 2 of these were shared
>>729915950This shit was so stupid. The mystery wasn't even good, but when you start hearing an "Anonymous" person go>If this is a fake, then whoever did it must be a fucking geniusyou know you're in for some stupid shit.
Hey OP, is this the build that had debug screenshots posted on TCRF a while back?https://tcrf.net/Proto:NieR:_AutomataThose came from a switch debug build, but idk if it was this one.Really hoping some build shows up with debug symbols, but haven't seen any yet..
>>729918137This is unkown.They got reached out to by someone. The person who made those photos said"I returned it to the owner a while ago, so I haven’t been involved with it at all since then.Please don’t ask me about it."Regardless, wherever it came from, the build has been deleted and was found corrupted and recovered as is.
>>729914826Cool
>>729918604Ah I see, pretty odd, I remember seeing the guy post those pics on tcrf discord and nobody replied for some reason, then they added that info on wiki and deleted their discord right after :/Hope they might consider releasing it, debug symbols would help modding a lot, one of worst parts of NA is the awful draw distance, I tried adding things in LodMod to increase it but couldn't get it working that well, symbols would help figure out what else needed fixing.Have you been able to extract anything from the nca btw? I tried with nstool and it complained about hashes being bad, hoping we can at least get the main executable to see if there's symbols there.
>>729918839Their name is agent3playerThey no longer have the unit with the build as just stated. Even then they were hoarding it because they didn't want to dump it because it would "Decrease its value"what value does it serve now that its not in their hands after they were probably forced to return it? I don't know. Anyone who got their hands on that thing but them would have dumped that build in a heartbeat. It is unfortunate that it's gone. If this IS in fact from the same unit (which we will never know)then something probably happened behind the scenes.all i want is for the development history of this game to be known lol
>>729919514>Anyone who got their hands on that thing but them would have dumped that build in a heartbeatYeah sucks when a build ends up with the completely wrong person, eg. there's a guy holding a bunch of RE4 builds hostage who just posts up videos of bad gameplay with them.If you ask them about a build they have they ignore you and just respond with a new video of the build you asked about, weird fuck. (that guy also has a huge nazi memorabilia collection too, fucking collectors man)Tried a few things with these NCAs but haven't had any luck yet, if you didn't already it might be worth asking RGD discord about it, those guys know switch stuff inside and out: https://wiki.raregamingdump.ca/index.php/Main_Page
>>729917718>dolphin symbol>the logo is at the groinlmaono ty sir
>>729920160lol nvm I see it's already brought up there, hope someone gets somewhere with it.
