Rare’s unprecedented Dinosaur Planet for Nintendo 64 is now on the loose, and gameplay running on the console is available.
Forest of Illusion video game preservationists announced that they released a compilation of the game dated December 2000. Dinosaur Planet was released as Star Fox Adventures for the GameCube in 2002.
Today we released Dinosaur Planet by Rare for the Nintendo 64. Development was halted and moved to the GameCube, where it was released as Star Fox Adventures. To enjoy! (More information in this topic).
Link to the eviction: https: //t.co/gQGGcU4vJK pic.twitter.com/Orub7RU3fa
– Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion) February 20, 2021
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Digital Foundry’s John Linneman confirmed the construction’s validity and managed to get it running on a real Nintendo 64. The video below shows the gameplay he captured:
This construction of the game does not appear to originate from Nintendo’s gigaleak that recently helped fans restore the Super Mario World soundtrack. Instead, it appears that preservationists bought a disc with Dinosaur Planet’s work in progress code.
We bought this disc containing a compilation from a private game collector in Sweden. The file date lists the compilation as December 1, 2000. It appears to be a very late compilation of the game, which is great, but it will need some hacks to be fully playable until the end. pic.twitter.com/igtDSzeRzG
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Dinosaur Planet was a 3D adventure game along the lines of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, originally unrelated to the Star Fox series. not on the N64, but on the GameCube.