Live the dream deliciously online

It's only four days until the next big Nintendo Switch release on consoles, but it looks like the game has already leaked online. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, the third entry in the larger Tomodachi series and the first since 2013's Tomodachi Life, doesn't come out until April 16, but those with Nintendo Switch emulators seem to be playing the game already.

As first spotted on Reddit's r/GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is available online, and those with the Ryubing emulator, a fork of the now-discontinued Switch emulator, Ryujinx, are playing it.

The ROM is available online, for those savvy enough to find it, and others have attested to its authenticity. Right now, it's unclear how the game managed to leak online a full four days before its release.

There are sellers on eBay offering the game, albeit at a high price, so it could be the result of some pre-release copies leaking into the wild and then a ROM dump after.

Catra in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.

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Tomodachi Life: Living the dream wouldn't be the same with a profanity filter

Nintendo has not included any kind of profanity filter in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream.

Nintendo First-Party titles have been leaked online before their previous release

In July, copies of Donkey Kong Bananza managed to be out in the wild several days before its scheduled release on the Nintendo Switch 2. In that case, it doesn't look like spoilers or a ROM were shared online.

Instead, people with early copies tried to cash in on the pre-release hype by offloading their copies on eBay for prices as high as $109.99, even though there were no guarantees the game would get there before release.

Then, in October, before the expected release of Pokemon Legends: ZA, the game was cracked and dumped online. It came about three days before its scheduled October release, and as is the case with Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, those savvy and brave enough to find a ROM online played long before those with legitimate purchases.

It seems we have encountered another similar situation, and there will probably be more in the future.

Nintendo will almost certainly not be happy with the latest development, and if recent history is any indication, whoever leaked the ROM needs to watch out. The company came after Yuzu back in 2024, claiming that the emulator's presence led to 1 million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom being downloaded before the game's official release.