It says why 1 min in the video. Climax development pipeline was made for the xbox at the time they've pitched it.
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Unreleased Diddy Kong Racing Adventure for the Xbox has leaked.
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It says why 1 min in the video. Climax development pipeline was made for the xbox at the time they've pitched it.
I guess Climax had the engine from their never completed Metallica game, and wanted to pitch Nintendo on a new Diddy Kong.
This doesn't come from the Nintendo leak, this comes from an old auction when Climax was liquidated.
Cool to see that the ROM itself is out there now, not just a video.
Climax's engine was only up and running on Xbox at the time. They used it to create this build and pitched the project to Nintendo via a video recording being sent to them.
Nintendo rejected the pitch.
Cool to see that the ROM itself is out there now, not just a video.
Climax's engine was only up and running on Xbox at the time. They used it to create this build and pitched the project to Nintendo via a video recording being sent to them.
Nintendo rejected the pitch.
Well of course Nintendo refused if it was running on Xbox. Literally neither Nintendo nor MS would accept it, at least as is.
I wish i was born in the timeline where this wasn't canned.
We could've had Halo on Nintendo DS and Diddy Kong Racing on Xbox. Think about it.
We could've had Halo on Nintendo DS and Diddy Kong Racing on Xbox. Think about it.
Isn't there other stories about Nintendo flipping their lid about that kind of stuff, like Samus and Link in Marvel Ultimate Alliance?
Although the video in the OP is old, this is my first time learning about this. Between this and Rare's Donkey Kong Racing/Saberman, It hurts seeing these pitches for a DKR (spiritual) sequel that got nowhere.
At least the GC build in the video is now technically available through this Xbox build I guess? :/
At least the GC build in the video is now technically available through this Xbox build I guess? :/
Cool Nintendo turning it down. Lame. Can't get any kind of DK Racing or adventure game because of Nintendo. Just stick with same ole Mario Kart over and over with garbage single player
If that's true, I hope some of the cancelled n64 games that had public demos (Resident Evil 0 N64 and Earthbound 64) come from this. I'd flip shit to get to play these two in particular, in addition to getting to learn about they're development from them being datamined.
The pitch/tech demo was released yesterday, the playable files.
That's the point. They likely told Nintendo something along the lines of "We can make this on GameCube we just only have an Xbox SDK setup for our needs at the moment and wanted to make the pitch before setting up a GameCube environment that we won't need at the moment if you decline"
That's not true. This was a pitch, the hardware the demo was running on doesn't matter. They rejected the concept.
Title should probably be edited too, people are coming in here with the wrong idea (that this was a game that was actually pitched for, or would have ever have been released on, the Xbox).
Edit - Case in point:
This is pretty interesting as presumably it comes from the GameCube days. Could Nintendo have been flirting with the idea of moving to third-party development as has been speculated throughout the last two decades?
Sabreman Stampede I believe was actually mentioned in Scribes before. Plus, in the Perfect Dark Zero credits, there's even a thank you for the Sabreman Stampede team.
EDIT: Nvm. At that particular time, no one would have known.
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Looking at their Wikipedia didn't enlighten me to the shmup, but it made be think of Blast Works, which was an interesting enough game that I wonder if people remember. I had a good time with that one, playing with my very young little brother at the time.
Climax didn't have access to Stampede as far as I can tell.
And the reporting on this is so bad, no this was never considered for Xbox. They made a video using technology they already had, which was for their Metallica game, which ran on PC (supposedly), PS2, and, you guessed it, Xbox. Notice how there are no button prompts, no anything that would show Xbox, that isn't an accident.
Just wait until you hear about their Castlevania pitch.
And the reporting on this is so bad, no this was never considered for Xbox. They made a video using technology they already had, which was for their Metallica game, which ran on PC (supposedly), PS2, and, you guessed it, Xbox. Notice how there are no button prompts, no anything that would show Xbox, that isn't an accident.
Just wait until you hear about their Castlevania pitch.
Used likely to pitch another game with a proof of concept running on Xbox. None of this is release quality mind you. Still interesting to see how much stuff gets constantly canned.