A canceled game from Rare for Nintendo 64 -apkrig has appeared on the Internet

Rare fans have been harvesting lately. And the reason is not new games, but old ones. After the remaster of the GoldenEye 007 event, originally from 1997 in an improved version for Xbox 360, leaked to the Internet, the canceled game has now started to spread through cyberspace. Dinosaur Planet for Nintendo 64. There is a playable build of an action adventure that later turned into Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube. Very nice game by the way.

The band came to play through a disc from a private collector in Sweden, and the advanced build appears to date from December 2000.

The title was released online by Forest of Illusion, which recently released a beta version of the hit The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. He points out that the game does not currently run perfectly on any emulator and players may encounter many graphic errors in shadows and lighting. The band came to play through a disc from a private collector in Sweden, and the advanced build appears to date from December 2000. Star Fox Adventures was finally released in the fall of 2002.

Forest of Illusion want to try to customize the game to work best. It is reportedly the first time that anyone outside the Rare studio can try it in this form, not counting the fairs from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

It was originally supposed to be one of the last big games for the Nintendo 64. But Shigera Miyamoto persuaded the Rare studio to rework the title for the GameCube and turn it into a new Star Fox. Dinosaur Planet was announced in 1999 and was supposed to be a big farewell to Rare and N64. The authors planned large environments and dubbed dialogues for it, which would require cartridges with the largest possible capacity.

However, the development took longer than the authors expected. So it was decided that the game would be aimed at the new console from Nintendo and, as it was said, as part of the Star Fox series. The whole team was reportedly not enthusiastic about this change, because it meant rewriting the finished story and making major changes in the design of the game. Rare was naturally disappointed that they had to discard some Dinosaur Planet ideas, but on the other hand, they saw great potential in the connection to Star Fox, especially in terms of marketing.

We purchased this disc containing the build from a private game collector in Sweden. The file date lists the build as being from December 1st 2000. It seems to be quite a late build of the game which is great, but it will need some hacking to be fully playable to the end. pic.twitter.com/igtDSzeRzG

— Forest of Illusion (@forestillusion) February 20, 2021

Remarkably, the leaked version for N64 already includes Fox, indicating that the developers began making some changes to the game before the project moved to the newer GameCube. In other places and in dialogues, however, the original character of Saber is still mentioned. The supporting heroine Krystal was to play a larger role in the version for N64 as a playable character. With Star Fox, space levels have also been added to the GameCube that were not initially anticipated.

The game was supposed to be called Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet after the rebranding, but in the end it completely got rid of the subtitle. In terms of graphics, it has made tremendous progress, and Nintendo has been more involved in design when the authors were invited to Japan to consult with the console manufacturer’s management about their ideas. Soon after the release of Star Fox Adventures, the Rare studio was bought by Microsoft, although it still worked on games for Nintendo for some time.