Crash NST hidden characters and more!!

[@MatrixEvolution17]

Y'know I was never all that keen on the Skylanders model but after seeing it here, it's really starting to grow on me

[@ToastyMann]

Considering the Hockey, rabbit and warrior characters in the files, my guess is that Vicarious Visions was working on some random never-before-seen project in the Alchemy Engine, game wasn't progressing very well due to low budgets, and at some point, Activision gives them funding for a Crash Bandicoot Trilogy remake. They look at this project and the little work they've done aside from these characters, and just build The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy on top of it, and just left the existing work from the previous project in.

[@IIIIIACE]

that project was probably skylanders 7 💀

[@IIIIIACE]

@James-oc2yx ngl yes

[@ToastyMann]

@@IIIIIACE I forgot this video even existed ngl

[@dannydoodle35]

Fun fact, template legacy is a unused character in skylanders swap force. But, the one seen in not is called template template

[@skybricksgaming8392]

the air jet is actually a vehicle from Skylanders as well, the Jet Stream, attacks and all, it's just missing its wings... for some reason. The sea, sky, and land vehicles also most likely have something to do with Skylanders, as those are the three vehicle classifications in those games.

[@skybricksgaming8392]

Literally two seconds later you said that whoops lol

[@GOWBuuzer]

Thanks for these, man! I really appreciate these discoveries as a huuuuuge Crash & Skylanders fan!

[@adamgregory0343]

These three definitely make me think they were scrapped Skylanders. The gameplay they can do looks pretty much one-to-one though. This makes me wonder if N. Sane Trilogy started out as a new game before being completely reworked or something? Or if these were the only semi-finished models and they kept them in the code? Not sure what the green shield ability is about though. Maybe that would be the mechanic of the game?

[@imlaughing2death]

I definitely remember seeing footage online that showed NST started off as something else until it just got pitched into being the Crash remake we all know. Edit: LUL, right after I typed that, the video shows that exact footage.

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

I feel like Skylanders Crash was just used for prototyping or in the later alpha builds untill they designed something that was closer to the classic design.

[@greatsageclok-roo9013]

You went into the files for Imaginators...? Oh boy, if you started hacking that game... who knows WHAT you could uncover/create! (You probably won't be doing that, though, will you?) Great vid, mate! Awesome stuff!

[@Ali_Alhakeem]

22:27 Lol what was that xD

[@therunawaykid6523]

Ali Alhakeem taio cruz's dynamite song reference

[@MyLittleNinjaXD]

Woah this was really interesting, especially seeing what works and what doesn't work with the vehicles, also I never realised how many Crash levels have the same number of letters! Keep up the good work man :D

[@mann-nova9392]

Cool discovery! Interesting to see the bones that this game was built on top of.

[@hellfire3D]

They likely changed the gravity system which is why those characters don't work jumping. Wonder if it's a simple fix or not.

[@COGMONKEY]

yeah normally crash can jump miles higher than this

[@hellfire3D]

you

[@CogHoarder]

24:13 oh hey it's Jet stream from S:SC

[@Kalfuyama]

yeah, the jet stream

[@greatsageclok-roo9013]

I just noticed something... There seems to be a lot of empty space (dots) in some parts of the code. If you could move the code somewhat and give yourself extra room to work with, do you think it might be possible to add other characters to the character profile? I.e. Skylander Spyro like you were talking about?

[@K.A1126]

Are you ripper roo? ( I looked at your profile at least?)

[@NGB1122]

This is absolutely ASTOUNDING! You've really outdone yourself with this one mate! I imagine someone is probably going to rip these cool looking models, or I hope, because they are to good to not use! While I'm here, I wanted to maybe ask about the status of the impressive looking level editor you were working on. Is it still on break? I don't want to sound rude, but you have showed the power of your potential, and from having little coding experience, this is just beyond amazing stuff, and I don't want any of this to got to waste. Keep up the good work!

[@COGMONKEY]

Thanks! I haven't had much chance to do the Crash stuff for the last few months so the editor has been on the back burner for a while, I wrote an update about it here last week: thewarproom.com/showthread.php?tid=32&pid=143#pid143

[@NGB1122]

@@COGMONKEY Thank you for pointing that out to me! Also, love that your title is "Ardministrator".

[@K.A1126]

He is doing good

[@Kalfuyama]

24:13 jet stream go brrrr

[@harryhardwick3267]

some of these moves look familiar since playing Crash 4

[@enderking5220]

Interesting... As you see, template legacy is. Character originating from Skylanders swap force, better known as template template. However, it looks like the one you managed to plays as is the same as the one in Skylanders games, judging by that it uses same attacks. Mayhaps comparing their data could be handy?

[@IIIIIACE]

You probably know that now but TemplateLegacy is a leftover from skylanders imaginator which had a leftover from skylanders swap force where in the files was a hidden character named Template Template, it was a test character for the swap mechanic in swap force, @BoomBringer made a great video about it! :D

[@twoeyedmike3529]

one way to try and load longer character names in levels that don't have space to type it would maybe be to load a level you play as Crash in, use cheat engine, search for the text "Crash", and do the same in a Coco level and search "Coco". And then freeze it and set it to "BruiserUndead". That might work? That way you're changing the ingame RAM instead of the actual file.

[@skyninjactly]

OH boy MY FAVORITE skylander names oh man. Fire Wrangler? Blaster Tech? Heck yeah.

[@ZoltroMAX]

TBF i kinda feel like SKYLANDERS Crash looks kinda better than N Sane Trilogy's model tho, Skylanders was based on Crash's OG design, and If crash was created nowadays I got a feeling that Skylanders Crash would be it. Not saying the NST is bad tho, it resembles Crash 2 and 3 model, but tbh Skld Crash looks more... "Cartoony"

[@therunawaykid6523]

I wonder if these other characters are going to feature in a new crash game made by activision they did say they had a five year plan to make crash games 🤔

[@bionichuteagain2583]

we were this fuckin close to getting a rabbit skylander. darn that crash bandicoot!

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

Hack I posted this somewhere else and quickly realised it's better to ask here. Can you explain more about those PVP files? If there anything more to them? Does it look like they mention vehicle or racing stuff? PVP did exist in Skylanders, but besides racing, PVP was cut by the fourth game. (Even then, racing was cut from the Switch version of Imaginators.) It could be REAAALLLLY old leftovers from SWAP Force (which used the same engine and was the last game that had PVP... besides racing...). TemplateLegacy was also used since SWAP Force. Where he was called Template Template ingame (no idea about his files; but he would've been like a placeholder for a swappable character, he was called "Template Template" because Template would be the name for both his halves). And fun fact you can actually see him without hacking in one very short moment of one cutscene there. encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQgAteol0POlFC-xS-lvUtBq8lygzuBJG5TKftSzs26PDsaNZUF I love Skylanders, finding this stuff kinda makes me sad but it's better than just... getting nothing more. I guess. :/ Kinda wanna draw fanart of these guys; hockey man is my favorite but I'm not skilled enough to do him. And yeah with you mentioning PVP, I'm totally of the idea now that Sky7 was gonna be a sports game. I don't know if I'm the first person who pointed out that idea but I did do a long post about it, and at this point I'd be surprised if it was anything else.

[@ewfafsafefadfwfasf6960]

GOOD THING I'M NOT WEARING TIGHT PANTS

[@WedgeyPage]

i am pretty sure bandicoots are extinct

[@Zenlore6499]

Says NST Crash is ugly, but Skylanders Crash is good Me: *TRIGGERED* (just kidding, man. We’ve all got opinions)

[@NeoKesha]

Great stuff! but tfw ARG uses HxD to show list of characters in IGZ and you try to remember, did you released alpha of IGZ editor or not

[@Keeby219]

7:23 "Which Reminds of something from Crash of the Titans which is unfortunate" Am I like the only person that Thinks Crash of the Titans was actually a pretty good game?

[@timel_ss]

0:15 - Big Head Mode: Activated

[@damienradymskylanders3421]

Do you know any way to extract The Skylanders model code for Imaginator‘s and how

[@unfathomablyunfathomable]

There are leaked unreleased figures for some of the unused skylanders you showcased :P

[@wonjaeyi9013]

They look cool I guess, but I don’t know if they’re fit to be Skylanders.

[@BaNNDoG25]

That bunny and the 2 After him where supossed to be skylander

[@k-leb4671]

I'm actually quite surprised you like the Skylanders design of Crash so much. I don't like the N. Sane Trilogy model either, but damn that Skylanders model is just too goofy. I mean I guess Crash is meant to be goofy but not in that way.

[@superhenrybrother7359]

I believe the wolf rider is the new gimmick for skylanders seven skylanders beast tamers

[@Xengard]

holy moly was that a lot of work

[@trevorkidd9515]

The white one looks like Daxter

[@AresanBandicoot]

Dude, will you make more mods of this game? I'm talking about a mod level not skins. Thanks

[@superhenrybrother7359]

Hope skylanders seven finally comes this year

[@vasquezd7632]

It's not likely, they probably would've announced it by now and Activision has produced at least 1 kid friendly per year for a while now, and it seems that Ctr nitro fueled is the only kid friendly game for this year

[@arturoayala1004]

Soo... what was the level of the road again?

[@Fladfiski]

Okay, maybe they are VERY early Wumpa League characters??

[@NolanTEPM]

This would have been made almost 10 years ago, I can't imagine that the game was even thought of let alone was in development at that time. The N Sane Trilogy was not even revealed yet let alone all the other Crash games that have come out since.

[@App-Tips]

That was interesting

[@roqui.]

Skylanders 7 :')

[@WitchOfTheGartenkraeuter]

HOW ABOUT YOU MAKE ALL OF YOUR MODS DOWNLOADABLE??

[@K.A1126]

YEAH

[@superhenrybrother7359]

Don't we already have a fire wolf skylander flarewolf should've ride on a fire boar instead of a wolf

[@devollo98]

Please can you do Crash Wrath of Cortex remake on NST as a mod?

26:41

[@WitchOfTheGartenkraeuter]

It doesn't work