i never noticed before but WOW that generic difference cloud photoshop filter texture on the cork box
A lot of these were in the official strategy guide as well!Figured out how uncorrupt the image/render files and have been trying my hand at gigapixeling for the first time! These renders are very tiny so I couldn't enlarge/enhance them by too much but I think they turned out ok. I'm assuming these were used in the manual? Otherwise I don't really recognize some of them.
Animal Forest Beta
Catty looks like an absolute prick and I want them in my town!Animal Forest beta stuff is starting to come in:
Scrapped Villager?
I'd give my right arm to see some Diamond and Pearl stuff from before the delay. Given how rough a state it was in six months before launch, the mind boggles to think how different a pre-delay version would have been- it's conceivable that there's basically a whole other scrapped game in there.
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Super Mario 64 Beta Yoshi model found...
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Beta Yoshi has been assembled!
Here's a comparison to the final model:Beta Yoshi has been assembled!
Out of everything from this leak, this is the one thing that surprised the fuck out of me.
All work and no play makes Nook a dull boy
There was going to be a closed down/night version of Nook's Shop.
That was actually in the final Japanese version FYI. Not cut content.
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Corocoro in 2005, don't have the page on me at the moment. I believe IGN also reported on it.
Ultimately I don't think it was too different other than maybe some progression changes (it seems the Battle Island was a later addition, too). Most of the changes were probably on paper more than in any build that was ever made.
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Dōbutsu no Mori e+
Dōbutsu no Mori e+ (どうぶつの森ｅ＋[1]), often called Animal Forest e+ by English-speaking fans, is a Japan exclusive update of the GameCube port. When Nintendo decided to port Animal Forest+ to the GameCube, the American version, Animal Crossing, had much more content than the Japanese version...
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Yup, you were able to bang a shovel on Nook's door multiple times at night to go in and buy stuff (marked up, with a limited selection)
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Yes.
Dōbutsu no Mori e+
Dōbutsu no Mori e+ (どうぶつの森ｅ＋[1]), often called Animal Forest e+ by English-speaking fans, is a Japan exclusive update of the GameCube port. When Nintendo decided to port Animal Forest+ to the GameCube, the American version, Animal Crossing, had much more content than the Japanese version...
Ah yea now I totally remember watching a video about the differences Animal Forest+ had. :P
They were announced in October 2004 for a 2005 release (https://www.serebii.net/archive/October-2004.shtml), before being officially pushed back to 2006 in July 2005 (https://www.serebii.net/archive/July-2005.shtml).
It had all sorts of knock-on effects for the wider franchise- most notably, it was why the anime had a year-long Battle Frontier filler saga, and is why they revealed the first Diamond and Pearl Pokémon (Munchlax) in May 2004, nearly two and a half years before the game came out.
Ah, neat. Crazy that even with the year delay it still came out feeling sluggish and missing content. They needed one more go around to make Platinum, which ended up being one of the franchise's all-time great games, so... third time's the charm?
I was thinking the same thing. "I think I know why that cat was scrapped."
Seeing these blew my mind. I'm surprised at how much extra detail they included outside the areas shown on screen in-game.
What's the last one? I don't remember that from the game. Is it cut content, or am I just forgetting an area from the released OoT?
Last one is an early version of the Temple of Time main hall.
Never in my life did I ever think I would see thar dungeon. Amazing. I feel almost like when I first saw it.
I really want to see that strange sky level from Zelda that was only ever shown for a few frames of animation.
It can be seen at the end of this video, and only here. I've never seen more of this clip.
Holy smokes.
This is like entering the Sistine Chapel while they were painting it. Amazing.
Fuck yeah with all the OoT videos.
It's so interesting to see how they made Ganon's Tower. It's basic textures but the construction of the spiraling tower, and the tension leading up to the finale. I can totally hear someone in the team going "we need those textures, it has to look like this, based on the level."
It's so interesting to see how they made Ganon's Tower. It's basic textures but the construction of the spiraling tower, and the tension leading up to the finale. I can totally hear someone in the team going "we need those textures, it has to look like this, based on the level."
Just tried to download them and it's not true. They are still up on anonfiles, where they were originally uploaded.
They are now claiming the links to the downloads are removed.
It's inevitable I guess.
I got goosebumps watching this video, it's like looking through a window to the past, or an alternate reality. I still can't believe my eyes.
Hopefully we'll get a video exploring the beta city soon.
Yeah, it's crazy. However both Platinum (DP_NEXT) and GS remakes were already planned during DP development, as they reserved some IDs for them.
I'm getting download quota exceeded for one of the google drive links rather than it being gone or whatever. The gigaleak readme doc seems to be gone from google drive though for me...
The GDrive files were reuploads by Discord users, they change constantly.
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I know -- I'm saying we got deeply private SNES files but only just some comparatively surface-level iQue stuff when it came to N64. If there was more important N64 files, similar to the SNES ones, then you'd think those would have been included, but they weren't. This is why there's only really been a few scraps to dig through when it comes to Ocarina, when there should have been way more.
And Gamecube discs held, what, 1.5gb? If there are Gamecube games in here, and we get the full source, one game could be 20-50gb of data, or more. That claim of "2 terabytes" could get eaten up pretty quickly by only a small number of games, especially if we start getting in to Wii and Wii U.
Plus, how do you distribute that? The original 4chan links were HTTP files on a server somewhere. Even a 10gb zip file containing one game is going to max out whatever hamster wheel personal server it's being stored on. If torrents were on the table, they would've already been used to distribute the previous leaks.
I'm skeptical about future releases, but I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.
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Someone mentioned on of the folders containing advertising materials/commercials - can anyone PM me a link to that folder?
Wow, you're reminding me how Gen 4 felt like the most hyped up generation ever at the time. I guess the dripfeed of new pokemon explains that.
Incredible, seriously it's just truly amazing to see these old assets come to life like this.
Definitely seeing some Ganon's Tower here. The room with a door on a balcony is reminiscent of a silver rupee room in Shadow Temple.
But aren't these leaks from the N64 version?Yes.
Dōbutsu no Mori e+
Dōbutsu no Mori e+ (どうぶつの森ｅ＋[1]), often called Animal Forest e+ by English-speaking fans, is a Japan exclusive update of the GameCube port. When Nintendo decided to port Animal Forest+ to the GameCube, the American version, Animal Crossing, had much more content than the Japanese version...
Random aside, but virtually all N64-era prerelease material getting constantly referred to as "beta" stuff will never not be weird to me. Beta versions/beta testing is a specific part of development, and for the most part, it seems most other games (at least outside of this thread, in here everything's getting called beta) with publicly known development material just gets called development/prototype/prerelease versions, which is more general/correct. It reads especially weird when people start putting "the" in front of it (i.e. the Ocarina of Time beta), as it carries the implication that there's some build out there that has all known prerelease stuff, and is a somewhat complete game - both of which are likely to be false.
Is it just a generational thing, from people who grew up pouring over N64 development shots? I know OoT "Beta" has been a term thrown around for decades, and that most of you saying beta in here have a decent grasp on how game development actually works; it just strikes me as odd that I see that term a disproportionate number of times for N64 stuff.
Is it just a generational thing, from people who grew up pouring over N64 development shots? I know OoT "Beta" has been a term thrown around for decades, and that most of you saying beta in here have a decent grasp on how game development actually works; it just strikes me as odd that I see that term a disproportionate number of times for N64 stuff.
Yeah over the years it just became a shorthand to refer to the pre-release screenshots and videos assets.
That's because it is, the game originally was going to be set entirely inside of Ganon's Castle and Link would travel around Super Mario 64 style. Some of the textures you see are actually in the final build of the game, used in Ganon's Castle. I grabbed a screen off of YouTube where you can see the room with the textures as used in the final game:
Most of these areas in OOT that the prerelease screenshots had were all test areas likely and not a whole completely different game that is interconnected, that just happened to be scrapped.
These were taken years before the project was complete and much of the game was barely functional at that phase of the development. Don't except anything close to a cut and fully playable dungeon to get leaked. Similarly the town is likely not this huge thing that has a ton of things to find. Just a mostly empty and static test area.
Yeah i agree with someone here who said that it is likely just a vision and a end goal of what they wanted the final game to resemble years down the line.
These were taken years before the project was complete and much of the game was barely functional at that phase of the development. Don't except anything close to a cut and fully playable dungeon to get leaked. Similarly the town is likely not this huge thing that has a ton of things to find. Just a mostly empty and static test area.
Yeah i agree with someone here who said that it is likely just a vision and a end goal of what they wanted the final game to resemble years down the line.