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Rare Founder Teases SNES "Project Dream" Footage/Info
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Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
googly eyes out here with a mission
SirUltimos
Member
Those eyes are just the cutest thing.
I really hope something cool comes from this.
I really hope something cool comes from this.
Martin5000
Member
I hope he also got Dinosaur Planet!
Please make rom dumps!!!!
Please make rom dumps!!!!
Here's one screenshot of the N64 version: http://web.archive.org/web/20071216162758/http://www.bthive.co.uk/media/retrogamer_low_4.JPG
Piston Hyundai
Member
that's cute and all, but for the love of christ get a retrode as soon as possible
evilromero
Member
I'll buy it. I still have my SNES hooked up.
Shogun_of_Truth
Member
A couple other labels I noticed in the pic
First one, not sure what type of cart this is, shame I can't make out the game title.
It looks like it reads:
<unreadable game title>
ROM1 V1.9
13-2-90 (ie, February 13, 1990)
Second Pic:
This is on a N64 dev cart. Whats interesting is the size listed.
"256+256" which seems to hint that this could be a 512mb cart. The only game that big that Rare released was CBFD. Dinosaur planet was planed to be on a 512mb cart as well. Could this be it? Or a Conker Beta?
A red lebel below the cart size seems to read NJCC or perhaps NJ66. Its blurry, hard to read, but it doesn't ring any bells either way.
First one, not sure what type of cart this is, shame I can't make out the game title.
It looks like it reads:
<unreadable game title>
ROM1 V1.9
13-2-90 (ie, February 13, 1990)
Second Pic:
This is on a N64 dev cart. Whats interesting is the size listed.
"256+256" which seems to hint that this could be a 512mb cart. The only game that big that Rare released was CBFD. Dinosaur planet was planed to be on a 512mb cart as well. Could this be it? Or a Conker Beta?
A red lebel below the cart size seems to read NJCC or perhaps NJ66. Its blurry, hard to read, but it doesn't ring any bells either way.
Superblatt
Member
I love this stuff. 25 years later and we are still learning of games that never came to be. So cool.
Maybe something for the 64DD?
ratcliffja
Member
Project Dream became Banjo-Kazooie, right?
chronic_archaic
Member
To my knowledge Rare never worked on the 64DD - nor am I aware of anyone owning dev tools for it in general. It definitely seems like a late era N64 game.
Doug Heffernan
Member
What are the Stamper brothers up to nowadays?
Chittagong
Gold Member
Didn't project Dream end up being Diddy Kong Racing? I remember the massive disappointment after the ambitious code name
EDIT: or Banjo-Kazooie
EDIT: or Banjo-Kazooie
Shogun_of_Truth
Member
I'm hoping its Dinosaur Planet. Especially since Playtonic's Gavin Price said that Tim might have a version.
Someone needs to send Tim some ROM dumping equipment.
Imagine if we got:
Dream (SNES)
Dream (N64)
Dinosaur Planet
Twelve Tales Conker 64
If I could play those games, Witcher 3 would be going right back on my self for a few weeks.
phone games
That image is horrifying.
Salty Hippo
Member
Oh man. Is he even legally allowed to dump the ROM? I guess not. Fuck.
A couple other labels I noticed in the pic
First one, not sure what type of cart this is, shame I can't make out the game title.
It looks like it reads:
<unreadable game title>
ROM1 V1.9
13-2-90 (ie, February 13, 1990)
Second Pic:
This is on a N64 dev cart. Whats interesting is the size listed.
"256+256" which seems to hint that this could be a 512mb cart. The only game that big that Rare released was CBFD. Dinosaur planet was planed to be on a 512mb cart as well. Could this be it? Or a Conker Beta?
A red lebel below the cart size seems to read NJCC or perhaps NJ66. Its blurry, hard to read, but it doesn't ring any bells either way.
I think it says 256M + 256K, as the amount of memory for the game and the amount for save files. But I'm not sure if that 256M just means 32MB (in the cartridge era Nintendo almost always used M, MB and Megas for Megabit, not Megabyte).
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Just saw your avatar and nwo im jealous.
Shogun_of_Truth
Member
I looked back at some of Tim's older tweets, sounds like he has a N64 Dream cart too.
Is it sad I am more excited about these betas, then I am for E3?
Is it sad I am more excited about these betas, then I am for E3?
SpinningBirdKick
Banned
It was probably a prototype of some collect-a-thon bullshit that's not worth bothering about.
HappehLemons
Member
Wonder if he'll actually post videos. I would be a pretty dick move teasing these and then going silent considering how many diehards follow proto/beta development.
Shogun_of_Truth
Member
Mr. Smiley
Member
conker twelve tales when
CalamityPixel
Member
Probably in the Rare vault. Maybe we can get Robin Beanland to infiltrate it and get the cart
$1000 prototype yet to preserved lying in a rubbish bin collecting dust and mold... oh boy.
Shogun_of_Truth
Member
That would go for far, far more then $1000.
Maybe that's why they are dusting them out. Rare having hard financial times?
Shogun_of_Truth
Member
The Stamper brothers left Rare in 2007, sounds like Tim just found some old stuff and is sharing it.
But who knows, maybe Rare asked him to dust it off to create hype for the Xbox One revival of Dream.(I'll laugh if that's what Rare's project turns out to be.)
superNESjoe
Member
Well this got my attention.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Microsoft should release old Rare prototypes (especially including Twelve Tales) using their N64 emulator they probably used for Banjo, I'd pay a good amount of money for that! I so hope that some day I'll get to play TTC64 :/. I'd also like to see footage of the Dream prototype.
Isn't Rare owned and operated in full by MS at this point? I doubt that's a worry for them as an entity now.
terrisus
Member
Man, I would pay all the money that I could for a version of Twelve Tales: Conker 64 as originally planned.
D
Diggeh
Unconfirmed Member
I want to live in a world where we can play beta Banjo levels like Giant's Lair and Mount Fire Eyes.
Pretty sure BK and BT are not being emulated on the 360.
yeah, they're ported afaik
Forsaken82
Member
A couple other labels I noticed in the pic
First one, not sure what type of cart this is, shame I can't make out the game title.
It looks like it reads:
<unreadable game title>
ROM1 V1.9
13-2-90 (ie, February 13, 1990)
Second Pic:
This is on a N64 dev cart. Whats interesting is the size listed.
"256+256" which seems to hint that this could be a 512mb cart. The only game that big that Rare released was CBFD. Dinosaur planet was planed to be on a 512mb cart as well. Could this be it? Or a Conker Beta?
A red lebel below the cart size seems to read NJCC or perhaps NJ66. Its blurry, hard to read, but it doesn't ring any bells either way.
Pretty sure it says NTSC.
KennyLinder
Member
A friend of mine was working at Rare on this project. From memory, Nintendo cancelled the Super Nintendo version because - believe it or not - they were concerned that it looked too good and would make N64 look weak. I can't remember the exact details. Also, the game evolved into Jet Force Gemini, not Banjo.
James Sawyer Ford
Gold Member
Interesting, the soundtrack for Project Dream turned into this masterpiece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eF82H5zfIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikne8j32f88
Such a beautiful song
I'm getting pretty hyped for what Rare may end up showing next week. It may force me to snag an XBO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eF82H5zfIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikne8j32f88
Such a beautiful song
I'm getting pretty hyped for what Rare may end up showing next week. It may force me to snag an XBO.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
That's strange, because all of Rare was saying Dream evolved to Banjo. There are even references to this in Banjo-Tooie. But maybe some ideas ended up in JFG? Afterall, it was an RPG, not a platformer, so a lot of ideas probably did not fit in there...