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Dinosaur Planet for N64 (old version of Star Fox Adventures) build released
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Agreed. This build looks great for N64. And my word, I remember being blown away by SFA on GC. Seeing water for the first time (e.g. river) - it looked stunning.
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I think there's a good reason for that (the game wasn't very good and then Rare went to MS).
Can't see Nintendo so desperate to make a sequel to a bad game that they'd go and get a new developer for it.
Just seems like it was a very late addition. Like mentioned above a bunch of the references to Fox are still Sabre, even the character portrait is of them.
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I'm getting around 15-20 fps with it, maybe I need to touch something to get good performance? My pc is ok, but usually I can play any N64 game fine
Its this thing:
Brain Squid
Brain Squid are enemies found in Star Fox Adventures, native only to Krazoa Palace, the Ocean Force Point Temple and within some Krazoa Shrines on the Dinosaur Planet. Hence their name, these gleaming creatures are floating squid like brains that hover around, only harming Fox and Krystal if...starfox.fandom.com
Ooooook its been a long time.
This is how people are able to play them. Otherwise people would not be able to play them very easily. The barrier of entry would be too high.
Yeah this is the good shit. My friend who did some restoration work on it told me it should be the real DP just with a Sabre reskin to Fox. But it's still before they gutted DP entirely and turned it into SFA.
This is such a deep cut for me. I knew when I started reading X-Men last year that the name Krakoa rang familiar in some way. This was it!
That's just how the game would run on a real N64. It's accurate-ish emulation. The emulator isn't lagging, the game is, just as it would on the real console.
I have an old demo disc that has a video of the n64 version of Dinosaur Planet on it. It was clearly quite far along and was surprising they ditched it and shifted development to the GameCube.
Has anyone tried this on their actual N64 yet? I'm assuming the frame rate will be awful based on Rare's trajectory over the console's lifecycle.
Has anyone tried this on their actual N64 yet? I'm assuming the frame rate will be awful based on Rare's trajectory over the console's lifecycle.
Times like these make me glad to own an Everdrive and a real N64.
Now I have to pull the damn thing out of storage lol
Now I have to pull the damn thing out of storage lol
So it shouldn't be too hard down the line for someone to make a hack to replace Fox by Sabre, and we'd have something pretty close to what DP should have been.
Can't wait
Uh yeah. Def firing this up on the Everdrive after work today. Absolutely need to see this running on a real console.
Loving all the huge releases lately. Thankful that this has been preserved, upset that it took so long to see. Private collectors — can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. 💰
Loving all the huge releases lately. Thankful that this has been preserved, upset that it took so long to see. Private collectors — can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. 💰
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I have a oooollld ass video tape that was basically a Banjo-Kazooie guide , and at the end they show upcoming games like conker twelve tales. I was so excited to play that but obviously that never happened. :(
Couldn't find my original N64 expansion pack, so I had to resort to using Muppen64. Played for about an hour and got past WarlockMountain and Snohwhorn? Well, I got to Thorntail by accident randomly with no clue as to where to go next? The build is pretty buggy there and I ran into a few invisible walls and jump down a waterfall and then finally the game crashed. Will continue later on.
Overall so far this was incredibly fascinating and I had no idea there even existed a Dinosaur Planet build with a Fox character model and some dialogue recording. The story seems far more interesting here than what we eventually got in Star Fox Adventures. I get the impression that far more for this universe was planned before getting eventually scrapped. Seems like it could have been a franchise.
Really like the dual character concept and wish it was kept instead of relegating Krystal to being stuck inside a... crystal, for the entire game like in Adventures.
Overall so far this was incredibly fascinating and I had no idea there even existed a Dinosaur Planet build with a Fox character model and some dialogue recording. The story seems far more interesting here than what we eventually got in Star Fox Adventures. I get the impression that far more for this universe was planned before getting eventually scrapped. Seems like it could have been a franchise.
Really like the dual character concept and wish it was kept instead of relegating Krystal to being stuck inside a... crystal, for the entire game like in Adventures.
Rare showed emulated footage of it when they had those development interviews for Rare Replay. So it definitely still exists and hopefully it leaks some day.
On the contrary, it sold really well and most people who played it agree that it's a good game. Give us SFA2 Ninty! Let Retro develop after they finish MP4 in 2030!
This is a very cool release!
Complete conjecture here, but I wonder if it's some mixture of private collectors necessitating/being more willing to part with items of theirs along with a commensurate increase in price like other collectable/second hand markets due to Covid.
Complete conjecture here, but I wonder if it's some mixture of private collectors necessitating/being more willing to part with items of theirs along with a commensurate increase in price like other collectable/second hand markets due to Covid.
