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Dinosaur Planet for N64 (old version of Star Fox Adventures) build released
- Thread starter Shaoran Hyku
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Tested it on Retroarch with Vulkan video driver and Mupen64PlusNext - Parallel RDP+RSP, pretty good.
I'm pretty excited to try this out, even though Star Fox Adventures sucked I'm still somewhat fascinated by the game that wasn't, not that I think it would've been some kind of revelation, but it always seemed like Rare's original vision was somewhat compromised by Nintendo's meddling. And even though the game design is blandness defined, I still admire many aspects of Rare's craft, like the graphics (obviously).
One thing that was clearly better in the N64 version was the music:
One thing that was clearly better in the N64 version was the music:
Not sure if these two tracks are in the game from what I heard? Most of the areas sound very much like what we eventually got with SFA. They just added even more tracks and refined existing ones.
Does this require the expansion pack? It looks quite good for an n64 game.
I don't think the game was far enough along for anything more to come from it. Kind of like the early footage of oot the mother 3 locations are just test locations.
I don't think the game was far enough along for anything more to come from it. Kind of like the early footage of oot the mother 3 locations are just test locations.
No, there is nothing. Go to the left and use the dig commandAm I supposed to be able to make this jump?
No idea, but the way forward is to the left. Your dinosaur buddy can dig a tunnel behind the tree.Am I supposed to be able to make this jump?
Tried playing earlier but it seems the sound effect for when you place a rock down on a pedestal button near the start crashes the emulator. Does anyone know how to get around that?
Other than that and the camera being kind of funky it's pretty interesting to play. I hope its able to be played through most of it. I wish I remembered Starfox Adventures more so I could better tell what is different.
Other than that and the camera being kind of funky it's pretty interesting to play. I hope its able to be played through most of it. I wish I remembered Starfox Adventures more so I could better tell what is different.
Thanks!
use this emulator instead of whatever you're using
Yeah, I think our only hope is the Mother 3 spaceworld demo. I don't think the "full" game ever had an enough realized version to be playable
There's a Conkers in Swad too!Man, I'm so nostalgic for this. Seeing Conker 64 in magazine back then.
Conker fact - if you drive anywhere near where Rare is actually situated (in Twycross, UK), you'll see roadsigns for Conkers adventure park (an outdoor adventure playground thing for families).
Always wondered if it was coincidence. It's literally 10 miles away from Rare's front door.
And with Lara Croft Way, the East Midlands truly is the county of 90s gaming nostalgia.
A reimagining would indeed make sense as well. It's either that or a spiritual successor for me.
Am I supposed to be able to make this jump?
As others have said, you don't have to, but you can get there by going left, and then running along the shore and hugging the wall.
It looks like you are intended to make the jump, but the collision for the ledge is messed up, and the last foot or so isn't solid.
I haven't actually watched videos of this yet but does it actually look better than Banjo-Tooie? That game is unreal, I made this thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/is...ve-well-textured-game-of-the-n64-picz.317473/
Good stuff. I wasn't able to get in but there is a discord being setup to decompile the game.
I hope we get the game stable for the first few hours but I don't think we'll be able to finish it. Seems to unstable
There was a 20-hour stream of some people getting pretty far and basically seeing most of the areas, but the game is ridiculously unfinished. They had to do a ton of out-of-bounds glitches to get to some of the areas and most sequences are completely broken. The game tends to crash randomly in some areas pretty much constantly. Brute forcing with save states through some of those is the only option and even then it can take hours.
I wouldn't get my hopes up of seeing any concrete ending for this because the game is barely playable past a certain point early on. Still really cool that it is playable at all but this was never going to be ready for the N64. The game needed probably another year of full development. This is seemingly a pretty late build of the game too and yet it still needs so much work.
The most stable areas were the ones that were shown off at E3. So the beginning of the game.
Atm, no. People are theorizing that you have to turn on certain in game flags, progress sequentially, to move on without crashes. People are currently scripting to enable cheats. With cheats on, you can get tricky's fire breath, get the cogwheel, and get to the mine dungeon. Someone did make it to the galdon boss but the cutscene didn't trigger.
There's a discord where people are sharing findings and gameshark codes so I suggest it if you want to get the latest news.
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Absolutely crazy ! I still remember playing SF:Adventures on the Nintendo Gamecube and wondering
how it even came about only to learn some years later that this existed in some form somewhere out
there in the world.
And now it's been released ! Way cool ! Now I need to get my hands on an N64 and an ever drive.
how it even came about only to learn some years later that this existed in some form somewhere out
there in the world.
And now it's been released ! Way cool ! Now I need to get my hands on an N64 and an ever drive.
That is debatable at the moment, buggy sure, but unfinished maybe not, a lot of content that people are claiming is missing could just be the flags to load them in are not working properly, we will see with datamining.
I'm very hopeful that fans will get this into a more playable state. At the very least I'd love to see a compilation of all the cutscenes in the game so we can see the original story.
Haven't been able to think of much else since this dropped. It's still wild to think this build has been sitting around somewhere for over two decades.
Haven't been able to think of much else since this dropped. It's still wild to think this build has been sitting around somewhere for over two decades.
I got up to Cape Claw, saved the Dino and found a log you can push off a cliff and the ride. Found two golden nuggets, was hoping the guard that was after something shiny took it, but didnt work.
Game crashed when going into an opening in the cliffside while riding the log.
Seems theres not much you can do once switching back to Krystal. There was a timed running section in the area too, but its pointless as only that first part seems to trigger.
I guess this is as far as i can go on a real 64.
Game crashed when going into an opening in the cliffside while riding the log.
Seems theres not much you can do once switching back to Krystal. There was a timed running section in the area too, but its pointless as only that first part seems to trigger.
I guess this is as far as i can go on a real 64.
It's like we've traveled back in time to an alternate version of the year 2000 or something
Just a heads up, but I think in order for the poster to get a notification, I think you have to type @ and then their username. I didn't get any notifications when VDenter posted my name.
Both are incredibly impressive given the hardware. The same can be said about the original Conker and the Xbox Remake Live&Reloaded. Kind of a similar case there and it is interesting to compare both versions.
I was a lead on Dinosaur Planet and this week’s leak brought back great memories | VGC
The newly-uncovered N64 ROM offers a glimpse at what we had planned before Star Fox Adventures…
www.videogameschronicle.com
Turns out the original lead character wasn't even supposed to be Sabre or Wolf but Timber from Diddy Kong Racing!
Haha there's been side by sides forever, I watched some when I was like idk 13
Strange, I think that is what I typed. I think when you type @ and the name, it shows up linked a that means it worked. Testing: daTRUballin let me know if this notified you.
I know we're applauding how good this N64 lost treasure is but holy fuck the GCN version is still stunning too. Wish I could play it on Switch.
It only notified me that you quoted my post. Maybe try doing it again without quoting me? I think it should tell me that you tagged me specifically.
I was a lead on Dinosaur Planet and this week’s leak brought back great memories | VGC
The newly-uncovered N64 ROM offers a glimpse at what we had planned before Star Fox Adventures…
Turns out the original lead character wasn't even supposed to be Sabre or Wolf but Timber from Diddy Kong Racing!
I literally never knew this. Does this have anything to do with the legendary "Timber 64"?
It's wild just how close these versions are in so many scenes. So much of the game was done by the time they started the GCN version.
Biggest takeaway from this video is how they ruined a lot of the animations and cut-scenes in the Xbox remake. Conker is way more expressive on the N64 and the angles used in the cut-scenes are more varied and dynamic. Even the N64 throne room looks better with the atmospheric lighting going on.
Oh wow, this is incredible...
As someone who's never played Starfox Adventures, Dinosaur Planet looks like a really good Zelda-like N64 game that I would have probably been soooo into, and Starfox Adventures looks rather boring. I have no idea what it is about the footage that's making me feel that way, but I'm now incredibly sad we didn't get the game as intended on N64.
(That said, SFA still has really nice graphics in some spots, but something about the the way it looks just doesn't appeal to me. I'll have to think it over...)
While it's super impressive visually on the N64, I really don't think there's much you could do to save the game regardless of Dinosaur Planet vs. Star Fox Adventures. The game was a just a very generic Zelda title. Doesn't make it worthless, but it kind of sits in the same realm as Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy.
Yes, it worked this time!
Idk why it didn't work before. I guess something must've been up with the alert system.
Kevin Bayliss, one of the lead artists on Dinosaur Planet/Star Fox Adventures, wrote for VideoGamesChronicle to reflect on the game as well as share some never-before-shared development details. You'll never guess who the original protagonist was!