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Absolutely nothing about this says "BS zelda 2" especially since we haven't seen any other BS images or source that I'm aware of.
at this point, i'm inclined to agree with you. that is a VERY well animated charge-up sprite. I want to believe that this was a Zelda CD game.
L is Real
So we have 2-player Super Mario 64?
Have we actually travelled into some parallel universe?
This is really cool stuff, I remember has a kid first seeing Mario 64 at a toysrus and imagining 2 player mode with Luigi! L is real!!!
Is there anything actually linking the cut town track from MK64 to Zelda?
It's from a build of OoT so old that it has no real basis in the current game.
It's from a build of OoT so old that it has no real basis in the current game.
Is L really real when he was cut and is nowhere to be found in the final game? It isn't like we didn't know that he was in the game in the early stages. It is cool that his cut model was found but it doesn't REALLY mean that he is in Mario 64.
This is getting murky. AFIAK the Luigi model was found/reassembled but what we're looking at are existing fan mods that people are dropping him into.
I've always wanted to see what this one looked like, seeing how the only screenshot of it seems to be a very low quality one. Can't wait to explore this soon!
Looks like some pretty major changes were made fairly late into development. This beta version of Kokiri Forest still existed in a build that had the final Link model and HUD.
this is him being dropped into mario 64-- someone got it running on real hardware.
the game was originally designed to have a split-screen mode. i think this is from a hack though because nothing i've seen has indicated the split-screen engine is anywhere in these (incomplete) source files.
Oh I know this, I still have my original cartridge even! I was just saying I would love to play a "complete" version of Yoshi's Island with the beta HUD, beta levels and all the beta-assets including the map :P
Some of these leaks are genuinely insane. Shout outs to Luigi in SM64, that "Super Donkey" prototype for Yoshi's Island and how its stomp (with the clouds with faces shooting out the sides) being used decades later for the shoe powerups in Mario Maker 2, and the scrapped Star Fox 2 portraits.
in the newer "other.zip," there's a curious collection of tightly zoomed photos of bicycles and cherries. these are dumped into the same folder as promotional Nintendo images/videos (only for released products) and one apparent prototype GBA-shaped cartridge with a glowing LED board sticking out, code-named "ntr-apc-led-x2."
the bike/cherry photos are undated, so it's unclear when they were taken, or if they were used to test general camera compression or something else. I'm tempted to believe they were art-reference images, but the rest of the archive revolves around engineering and marketing, so that doesn't seem likely.
the bike/cherry photos are undated, so it's unclear when they were taken, or if they were used to test general camera compression or something else. I'm tempted to believe they were art-reference images, but the rest of the archive revolves around engineering and marketing, so that doesn't seem likely.
It's just strange. Also the video with throwing frisbee to a dog.
If I were Nintendo, I would release some sort of Beta/Museum app for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. It could feature:
What's stopping them? The money is on the table.
- Unreleased artwork
- Unreleased 3D models
- Uncompressed music
- Manuals, box-arts, promotional material
- Developer notes
- Playable incomplete games
What's stopping them? The money is on the table.
That made me realize the dog in that video is dead right now. I now see this as a memory relic one of the developers wanted to keep.
Oh, to be clear I was specifically referencing the split-screen shots above. Sorry to add to the confusion.
A 3D mario demo was made running on the superFX chip for the snes. It got turned down to focus on the n64.
Trademark infringement (because it was a IP hell/mess back then) and risk of Intellectual Property theft.
Ah.
What's BS?
So much cool stuff here. I would pay a decent amount of money for an "SGI Workstation" version of N64 games.
So much cool stuff here. I would pay a decent amount of money for an "SGI Workstation" version of N64 games.
We can't even get GB games on the Switch, and you want them to actually add a museum of some sorts to NSO? Nice to dream I guess.
I know we didn't need high resolution photos to figure this out, but I'm only now realizing the Stone of Agony is the shape of the Rumble Pak haha.
Honestly, I'd love if Nintendo were to do a Hyrule Historia-esque series of books that went in depth on the development history for their big titles. That seems like the closest way we'd legitimately get some of this information, lol.
Or even just a series like this, where they show off footage of old builds interspersed into interviews, and reveal that the Giant's Lair wasn't anywhere near as cool as you dreamt it was:
Or even just a series like this, where they show off footage of old builds interspersed into interviews, and reveal that the Giant's Lair wasn't anywhere near as cool as you dreamt it was:
Yeah, was about to say...we're lucky to get a couple NES and SNES games every month or so at this point haha. Let alone something that cool.
Seeing as people are salvaging busted up data, curating what's actually good or of interest would be hard and Nintendo doesn't want to spend their time with thrown away concepts. Music and sound effects are one thing, incomplete games are unplayable in the state they are and need more than a little work to be playable and much more importantly to Nintendo presentable. Star Fox 2 was mostly done so that didn't need work to the extend these leaks would require.
Apparently this doesn't exist. Dylan Cultburt have said many years ago "Super Mario FX" was just a codename for the Super FX chip (named the MARIO chip on the board even) and nothing more.
Has this beta environment from Ocarina of Time been found? I remember staring at these screenshots in Nintendo Power or EGM back in the day, and this forest looked so mysterious and amazing.
that's what I though too. it's cool that there is likely remnants of the Zelda FX test (the chanbara style one) in this stuff though.