Every Cancelled Nintendo 64DD Game Part 2 ft.

[@hard4games]

Thanks again for having me on! The 64DD is a seemingly endless source of fascination!

[@L33PL4Y]

Just a heads-up, the town in Diablo is Tristram, not "Tristam"! You missed that second "r". Furthermore, the word "infallible" is not pronounced "infalliable". Nice narration, though!

[@benjo2492]

The thought that back then just the movement animation of Link alone would require loading screens on discs is crazy.

[@Ultimate_Charizard]

All these years I figured "Pokémon RPG 64" was just a misunderstanding and that it was actually Stadium. I didn't expect it to end up being Snap instead.

[@dynamon911nz]

when it comes to pitching an fully fledged 3d pokemon rpg game especialy knows they had dev kits or sorts should go pain in the butts to even run on back then, probaly ign themself kinda predicted pokemon collosseum way before was even in current plans even if was misunderstanding could gotten far fetched is the closest as we ever gotten to an pokemon rpg. but still during the ds era the no 3d rpg pokemon game was even been created but theyr competitors such spectrobes and fossil fighters did.

[@LewtwoYT]

thank you for spreading the fact that Pokemon 64 was all IGN misinformation for the last two decades ive been waiting eagerly for more people to say it

[@daniellegrand7242]

Holy shit lewtwo

[@jeremyrennerapp]

@@daniellegrand7242lewtwo is awful

[@SoyAntonioGaming]

my uncle worked on Nintendo he said Pokemon 64 was very tru

[@Mrnotpib]

You can’t spell ignorance without IGN.

[@markb5249]

to be fair I can't imagine how awful it must have been to attempt to verify any of this through timezone gaps and a language barrier. we're spoiled by the modern internet

[@coolpenguin1474]

11:06 That's the first time I've heard the sales strategy for the 64DD and I'm honestly left speechless, I have no idea how Nintendo thought that was going to succeed.

[@T-Dawg75]

I heard something somewhere that the Randnet service for 64DD could only support 4,000 or so people at a time in a given region, so they decided to do that so 30,000 people wouldn’t log on day one or something. Regardless, it’s dumb

[@dalekthal9569]

Particularly given they never bothered releasing it outside Japan. They called it a failure, yet never truly released the thing, moreso just provided it to a large-scale group of beta testers for a monthly fee.

[@Mimi.1001]

​@dalekthal9569 Given worldwide releases were a rarity back then, localisations usually taking some time, and with Japanese developers not really thinking about overseas markets as they do now, the thing would likely come out in the West when the Japanese DD was already discontinued. Not to mention they would have to secure a Internet provider for each region, which would probably cost more than it's worth.

[@SammEater]

@@dalekthal9569 A truly Sega moment, from Nintendo.

[@aclstudios]

They didn't. By the time they released it, they knew it was redundant. They were just trying to get rid of as many units as they could, knowing it was garbage. By this point, they already had 64 MB cartridges, and the Gamecube was around the corner. There was no need for this thing. It fizzled out for the same reason that the Famicom Disk System eventually did, but at least that had success temporarily.

[@Lakitu1134]

39:08 “But we’ve been told some NDAs are expiring soon and screenshots will make their way online probably later this year.” WOW that’s exciting!

[@ProtoMan0451]

@@trinitronjonatran "source: i said so"

[@DJIVision]

@@trinitronjonatranhey NGWB, I'm the guy who wrote this video. I was asked not to say who the source was (till the NDA expires of course, it'll obviously be public when the screenshots come out), but I will say your assessment includes some incorrect assumptions. Particularly, that the NDA's in question were signed ~20 years ago, or are covering info/images that were first disclosed ~20 years ago. EDIT: For folks seeing this later. I was responding to a paragraph-long comment saying that whoever told me (the guy who wrote this video) that some NDA's were expiring this year was lying to me. He deleted his comment after the above reply.

[@JT-xn9ei]

@@trinitronjonatran unrelated to the NDA discussion, but do you still stand by your username? I have nostagia for NG, but havent been to the site in years. what do you mean by that exactly? Its better than youtube, or its current iteration being worse than before?

[@Tothro]

"It's not just buying stocks and making money... it's in 3D!!!"

[@AshyMuted]

This reads like a Scott The Woz bit 😭

[@igortavarez2270]

You just summarized the 90' 😂

[@dreampillet]

It's almost unbelievable how ambitious and forward-looking many of these unrealized concepts were. Parts of this video honestly feel like one of those"BotW was originally planned for the NES but they couldn't make it due to the technical limitations" parodies. The concept of forums for each game where players could upload their own stuff was later implemented through Miiverse on the Wii U. I wouldn't have imagined the concept dated so far back... Just imagine how innovative it would've been back then, before the modern social media platforms Miiverse competed with. When looking at it all, it's hard not to feel the N64 was incomplete, if incredibly ahead of its time, and it was in big part due to the decision to use cartridges; as impressive as the DD's features were, they couldn't have relied on a costly add-on that required a subscription. I have to say, "Wall Street" has to be one of the most intriguing games on this whole list. Who knows if it actually was as good as they described, but I'm just fascinated with the idea of a game that may sound like a boring finance simulator on the surface but is actually a fantastic killer app.

[@TriforceWisdom64]

Given Nintendo's penchant for relentlessly overpromising in the 90s, I have to assume Wall Street was never anything actually exciting.

[@akiradkcn]

​@@TriforceWisdom64true

[@TheCartoonGamer8000]

What a monster of an edit this was. I hope you all enjoy it.

[@ZulaCrash]

I like the clips of each game before their sections.

[@TheCartoonGamer8000]

@@ZulaCrash Those were notes specified by Dr. Lava. I like them too.

[@kay_glo]

Thank you!

[@lunayoshi]

Half an hour in atm, and totally enjoying it so far. Thank you for your hard work!

[@tonyveron]

Thank you for your hard work. We truly appreciate you

[@evanmarcus5975]

This was such an incredible watch, not just as an anthology of canceled games, but as a genuinely TV quality documentary about the 64 DD. Y'all do not get enough credit.

[@ActingDuhMickey]

They are one of the few channels I keep up with

[@InvaderIceStrike]

I’ve always enjoyed DYKG, especially as a middle schooler hearing never before secrets… like Mario 2 was a game called Doki… you get it. With that said, seeing the glow up in recent years, with DYKG entering a entering investigative journalism at a level you don’t see in this space too often, has been low-key inspiring. Just shows you can continue growing even after you find a formula that works

[@snow_wood]

I should mention about the MOTHER 3 N64 thing. We in the EB64 server already had confirmation from a former NOA employee about a build coming to the west for review, but we heard that it was a build in 2000 coming in that had very early localization work (likely a pitch for a full localization). This is the first time we've heard about even more prototypes reaching America, and these sound like even earlier builds.

[@cakehoarder]

Yo snow

[@silentsneasel7965]

It's honestly tragic how these lost games, especially Project Dream, exist and are so close to being found but the people with them won't release them. I get it for former employees, but people who got it on auction have no excuse.

[@lonecom685]

If more people play it, their copy is less special and, thus, less valueable. This is what they think...

[@WretchedRedoran]

It makes me so mad...

[@WretchedRedoran]

@@lonecom685 It doesn't make sense from my perspective though. They still have the real, genuine physical article. If someone makes high-quality scans of paintings, are the real genuine paintings then devalued because the digital copy exists for anyone to see? I'd say no, because the real genuine paintings are still the _real genuine paintings._

[@lonecom685]

@@WretchedRedoran I think with lost midia is special. They want to be special and the only ones with acess to it

[@WretchedRedoran]

@@lonecom685 For me, it's not even about having and playing the game, it's about preserving the game.

[@masterofdoom5000]

Ex-Zodiac IS a killer title, the soundtrack absolutely rips as well. Good sponsor, finally some good taste around here :D

[@23Scadu]

I usually skip sponsors as quickly as I can, but I have to admit this one actually worked on me. Of course it helps that it wasn't trying to sell me nut-shaving equipment or mail order cereal or something dumb like that.

[@chad12345678]

Crazy how Nintendo had more ambitions and ideas for online gaming on N64 than they did on the Gamecube.

[@aclstudios]

Their failures on N64 made them give up when it came to Gamecube.

[@haydenetic]

God I'm so proud of Tony from H4G, going from beta-questing OOT to going in-depth into games preservation and historical documentation.

[@sweet_sukeban4022]

No one cares about your eceleb parasocial relationships

[@hard4games]

Aww, thank you so much! 😊

[@svenbtb]

Yeah, I just discovered him relatively recently but the work he does over on his channle is really cool!

[@donnyf88]

This is the best 64DD video there is, stunning editing, amazing info, Hard4games, you guys really done it. incredible work!

[@svenbtb]

This 2-part series on the history of the DD has been incredible! I LOVE hearing about the DD and Satellaview and everything related to preservation and the history of games, this was seriously such a treat. Thank you guys SO SO much for doing all the work to create these videos, for putting in what must be hundreds of hours of research, to bring us the most accurate and complete information possible. You all are incredible!

[@DJIVision]

Thank you Sven, you're too kind :) glad you liked it

[@G1sandG1rlsGaming]

"Man I sure wish the N64 DD had taken off and gotten the treatment it deserves". Superman 64 was planning a disk expansion. "Boy I'm sure glad The N64 DD fell off"

[@L33PL4Y]

The expansion was probably the game's only chance at gaining any semblence of quality. It's sad that the DD failed even for that game.

[@BR-jw7pm]

More N64DD games?! You’re spoiling us DYKG!

[@xJC4Rx]

Just a reminder I love that DYKG is willing to call itself out and accept when they make a mistake.

[@aortaplatinum]

64DD doesn't make a lot of sense outside of Japan, but when you realize that IN Japan the N64 was losing the console war for most of its life, you get it. Over here it was neck and neck with PlayStation for a long time, but in Japan, PS1 was in first, followed by SEGA Saturn, with N64 at the bottom of the three. So, since the the Famicom Disk System was a success in Japan, and since PS1 and Saturn both used CDs, the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive made sense as an idea to increase the N64's abilities and use the higher storage of floppy disks compared to proprietary cartridges, it was a way to compete with SEGA and Sony. Since it was so expensive, had no games, and released quite late in the console's life, it's obvious to see why it failed- that's exactly what happened with the SEGA 32X ~5 years prior. But even the fucking 32X could be bought in stores, I have no idea what Nintendo was thinking with the mail-order thing.

[@Arcona]

Over here? Did you just assume everyone watching is from the same place as you?

[@MrFoxInc]

@@Arcona No, he was probably referring to where he was at the time of writing this message, which is the US. Don't be a dick.

[@Arcona]

@@MrFoxInc And how do you know it's the US? Dick.

[@kabbusses]

If this adds any context, the Satellaview was also a mail-order thing (and even back then people were complaining it made the stuff needlessly difficult to obtain), so it seemed that for some reason this was a pattern of behavior Nintendo had.

[@lonecom685]

It's very sad that this add on failed. I think it might have been the platform that pushed for custom made content the most outside of PCs. So many great ideas. We are lucky that so many of them moved to the regular 64/GBA/GCN. But it's just not the same. It also really screwed Nintendo's software schedule during that generation. And yet they gave us so many legendary titles. Had it be its onw console, it would have been a sucess. Even if Nintendo only stuck with cartridges from the get go, that would have been better. As it stands, it's a failed sucessor to the Disk System only...

[@slimebuck]

when I was a kid all I wanted was a 64DD. I was convinced in Zelda 64 you needed a DD in order to access the triforce lol

[@PunctualGuy]

The Pokemon Snap dev history was hilarious. Miyamoto and the gang thought they were doing these devs such a great favor and were going to get an amazing game out of it, and in the end, all they got was eleven terrified developers, a photo taking app, and a fridge.

[@DJIVision]

don't forget the cabinets !!

[@hellicus]

Perfect timing, just finished watching part 1 this morning. Thanks for the hard work!

[@EPS5000]

6:58 -- I wish he had put this in. I was so annoyed the first time I beat Ganondorf and then was like "that's it? Nothing changed."

[@zynux8252]

And it's become a staple for the series ever since, after you beat the game they never have a post-period when things are at peace

[@EPS5000]

@@zynux8252 A bad staple, I'd prefer to have a peaceful Hyrule after you beat the game. It would be nice to continue the game in that state.

[@zynux8252]

@@EPS5000 Agreed

[@yeezusseason]

Earthbound 64 needs its own dedicated video. It’s long overdue

[@ltcaphide]

honestly what is there to say about it that hasn't already been said or touched on in their videos so far? Itoi tried making the entry on 64, didn't like how it was going, and shifted development to produce it on gba. A lot of the beta content that's been made public in one way or another about Mother 64 has already been picked pretty dry by dykg

[@yeezusseason]

@@ltcaphide there’s still tons of information we don’t know anything about. DYKG is really good for translating interviews and articles that haven’t been that reveal new/important information. That and they would be the biggest platform giving this game attention, leading to more interest and more things being found out.

[@Julian-mc3tc]

I second this, many videos already exist for Eb64 but none can compare to the quality of DYKG

[@someusername1872]

All I really care about is specifically how the plot was different from the Mother 3 we ended up getting considering it was supposed to be a much darker game. At this point I highly doubt we're going to see anymore screenshots or footage of the game and the prototype is probably never getting leaked, so I'd be more than happy with additional plot details getting divulged

[@yeezusseason]

@@someusername1872exactly we know such surface level facts and tidbits about the story and mechanics. Feel like so much of that information is blocked by a language barrier. That mixed with the fact that the Mother IP is half owned by Itoi makes me think they would care less about developers talking compared to something like URA Zelda. That game has had so many videos on this channel despite it having no real information to it. EB64 is so different in my opinion

[@DJCube1701]

The original Japanese Pokémon Stadium does actually contain models for all 151 Pokémon, so you can at least see them all in 3D. It's just that you can't use most in battles.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Ocarina of Time is actually just under 26MB in size. 32 is the theoretical maximum size the cartridge can handle, not necessarily the size of the game. It was too big to fit on the 16MB cartridge so they had to use the 32. Also, the largest N64 cartridge ever made was 64MB (that one was used for RE2).

[@cakehoarder]

An hour + long DYK gaming video voiced by Mr. Hard4? Yeah... this is awesome

[@thankyou329]

great vid! i'd love to see a compilation of all the unsolved gaming mysteries that DYKG has encountered so far

[@Sykxezn]

I swear if the N64dd and features of the ique player (specifically it's feature to save games off kiosks) Nintendo would of never had competition except maybe Sega with the Dreamcast, Nintendo had some wild innovative stuff and never gave it a chance

[@itsmikl]

Imagine an universe that 64dd goes right, so many games that will be awesome to see, mario 64 2, mother 3, dream

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Frrrr! I would love that.

[@cakeisamadeupdrug6134]

I love how often Nintendo are like "you can't buy this anywhere, but a very small selection of people in Japan have The Hour of Celestial Alignment to perform The Secret Blood Ritual and then they have a small probability of being bestowed this hardware addon" to later make future hardware decisions based on its lack of sales.

[@58jharris]

I still think Nintendo not going with CD's for the N64 was a BIG mistake but barring that the 64DD would have been the next best thing. That at least was what the console should have been from the start. It would have made the N64 more competitive with the PS1.

[@Globalastral5]

I’m in the US and I remember being in the car with my older brother and us talking about getting the DD and OOT for it. I was probably 7 or 8 YO. Just goes to show how far this was a promised console for the US which then never happened.

[@nols8244]

N64+64DD probably had almost as many cancelled/rumored/visionary games as actual released N64+64DD games. N64 games were a nightmare to develop for smaller studios, since you had to have actual SGI-computers then, which were unreal expensive for that time.

[@M1XART]

At 1998 Nintendo offered plugins to use regular Windows PC for creating N64 games via programs like 3D Studio Max.

[@MarbleThumbs]

15 years ago I started watching Hard4Games and it's still going strong, they need more love for all the incredible and hilarious stuff they've done and continue to do.

[@hard4games]

Thank you!!!!

[@NamelessGamer29]

Nintendo: “We want to wait till we have a solid lineup of games to release the 64DD.” Also Nintendo: Launches the N64 with 2 games

[@DJIVision]

We don't like fake news, do we folks? [Audience boos]. I said -- it's actually very smart what I said -- I said in Japan they also had Shogi as a launch title. People were saying it was the most perfect launch line-up they'd ever seen.

[@BloodbornePC1279]

Yeah they were probably trying to not do that again

[@Zeldaschampion]

10:35 I love how Joe's face from Game Sack has become the definitive representation of N64 DD's avatar.

[@pabloescobar9370]

Best way to end the weekend with a video from DYKG! Thank you !

[@davidp5784]

I know it was expensive but gee mail order only in the 90s? No wonder it sold so bad

[@RoboticEdward]

"Square already had their hands full with FFVII" more like Hiroshi Yamauchi was a straight up jerk and told Square to F off

[@ArcRay20]

cant fault you guys on the old Poemon info, especially since "supposedly" was thrown around in case it ended up not being true info. and back then this channel was a bit more about gathering all publicly KNOWN info in to one spot since things are so spread out as they are. also this channel wasnt even in the mindset of digging up and translating old untranslated JP interviews yet. the important thing is how often you cite yourselves as incorrect in the past. after acquiring more accurate info later.👍

[@eduardopazhurtado3882]

Thank you, Tony, this two videos, alongside your own in your channel, have given me the full insight of the 64 DD. I remember we wanted one with my brothers, and we would always discuss what amazing games could come out on it. As it turns out, it was a turd, but a very interesting one, nonetheless.

[@nohs8776]

"Miyamoto, Iwata, and Itoi were talking about how rough devs had it at other companies, getting overworked just to crank out crap games." the more things change, the more they stay the same....

[@bewearstar9462]

Sound like they are talking about sega at the time

[@HandlebarOrionX]

50:04 The red guy is the legendary Jushin Thunder Liger! A pioneer of the IWGP Jr Heavyweight division in New Japan, a pioneer in the WCW Cruiserweight division and junior heavyweights around the world, the co founder of the Super J Cup, a pioneer in the J Crown, a WWE Hall Of Famer and his gimmivk is based on a Go Nagai anime, Jushin Liger

[@DJIVision]

Thanks for that :) When I was writing this video and recording that gameplay, I could tell the red guy must've had some huge backstory and seemed like kinda the main character of NJPW. But I didn't need to know much about him specifically, so I didn't look into him. So cheers for that :)

[@HandlebarOrionX]

@@DJIVision He wasn't quite the main character of NJPW per se, he was only the ace of the Jr Heavyweight division for almost all of his career besides a brief try at the Heavyweight division. Back in the 90's New Japan had 3 aces (top guys) they nick named The Three Musketeers in the press. Masahiro Chono, (who by then was the top heel) Keiji Muto (AKA The Great Muta, his demonic alter ego he brought from his time in WCCW and WCW after a very long US excursion) and the late Shinya Hashimoto, who was the top ace of the musketeers

[@DJIVision]

@@HandlebarOrionX Sorry, I should've said the main character of the game. I don't know if he actually is (I only played a little bit), but he's pretty prominently featured in the opening cutscene, and iirc he's the only one whose outfit really stands out from the rest. All the other characters wore black or gray outfits that didn't look all that unusual, but then Liger's like... lol well, you know. He stands out. And for me at least, who knows very little about NJPW, he was the most memorable character, and the obvious choice to play as right off the bat.

[@HandlebarOrionX]

@@DJIVision It was certainly a good era for Jushin Liger so that's why he was so prominently shown lol. A merch machine even now that he's retired and doing color commentary for the Japanese broadcast team at NJPW. In his wrestling mask, and sometimes his whole ourfit

[@DJIVision]

@@HandlebarOrionX haha well that's good to hear, good for him. He was my favorite character for the 30 minutes I played it.

[@silversonic1]

Huh. So Fire Emblem 64 had a bunch of character names that would be used later in other Fire Emblem games... Interesting.

[@Poyostar]

Dang, wasn't expecting the second part to be over an hour long... All in all, both parts put together are such an interesting deep dive into what games were really meant for the N64DD and which ones weren't!

[@DJIVision]

Thanks Poyostar :)

[@lrgogo1517]

"I can't move my Link on the 64DD" sounds like an innuendo

[@CRiTiNUM]

Thank you for making me aware of Ex-Zodiac! What a fun game and if you like the OG Star Fox or Space Harrier PLAY THIS GAME

[@KusholaCam]

Brooo I just finished the first one then PART 2 Hell yeah. SUBBED

[@DJIVision]

Thanks Kush :)

[@DoctorWhosThat]

I do like to think randomizers, particularly multiworlds became the spiritual successor to what “ura Zelda” could have likely been at least unofficially.

[@nintendogejpeg]

Love N64 videos! Excellent and informative! Thanks for all your research! ❤️

[@charlesplante]

I love GameSack! Thanks for shouting them out!

[@EcclesZero]

These videos were fantastic :)

[@GitsuneG]

1:08:15 They hardly talked about any Tales of Series in this channel outside of Symphonia. Glad the timing was right.

[@nortonman5238]

I was just looking for a dykg rewatch. Good timing fellas 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Dekkuden]

Let’s Go Mother 3

[@Dac_vak]

Nice shoutout to Game Sack. I love that channel.

[@pokemonduck]

Thanks for debunking yourself, the new DYKG is so much better :D

[@CanaanMoment]

45:08 So Mother 3 would finally get an English localization, and there would be a fan Japanese translation

[@AllTimeScary]

YES! Part 2 let’s gooo!!

[@kokorikopi]

Master Quest being made by a skeleton crew makes so much sense; those dungeons are *aaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssss*. So many cows... so many Song of Time blocks...

[@SantaFeSuperChief1]

If Dragon Quest VII came out on N64, I might've fallen in love with the series 25 years ago instead of earlier this year

[@GabePuratekuta]

What about if Final Fantasy VII came out on N64?

[@dynamon911nz]

just a mere of irony dragon quest 7 actualy came back on a nintendo console after several years even gotten as remeake threatment for nintendo 3ds.

[@SantaFeSuperChief1]

@@GabePuratekuta I might've actually given a crap about it instead of still not giving a crap about it to this day.

[@BillNWI]

I'd like to see a Mario 64 romhack that starts like if it's Mario 64 2 but something goes wrong and Mario has to explore the worlds of forgotten and cancelled N64/64DD games to set things right. Basically Mario 64 meets Epic Mickey.

[@GabePuratekuta]

Better call Kaze Emanuar!

[@SammEater]

As I said in the previous video, it is kinda funny that Nintendo really wanted to make a "every copy is personalized" game for real on the Nintendo 64. I wonder if they would have actually made it had the N64 had more power than the actual console released for everyone.

[@kabbusses]

I recall seeing some other interesting videos that go back to the subject of Fire Emblem 64. You may want to look up the development history of Kaga's notable post-Nintendo project, which became known as Tear Ring Saga. I recall hearing that during Nintendo's first lawsuit against Kaga, they had accused him of taking assets from Fire Emblem 64 to make Tear Ring Saga, which would have been the impetus to completely scrap that project in the first place. I don't know if there's any actual evidence of this, and it's always possible Nintendo may have pumped up the allegation to make their case, but it's probably the best explanation for why a project that Miyamoto thought was significantly far along, going on schedule, and could had easily been moved to cart, would suddenly get scrapped.

[@TheOneHamster]

Great video with some stellar research!

[@ARDIZsq]

1:02:44 Ah yes, my favorite anime... Neon Genesis "Evan-jelly-on"

[@GabePuratekuta]

Everyone loves angst robots!

[@JaidynReiman]

"the NPC Aria" That's because she was reworked into _Saria_ by the final game. Its pretty obvious that had nothing to do with the DD shift, just that when the story shifted they changed Aria's name to Saria and redesigned her. Admittedly, though, looking at "Aria", they probably split her into Malon and Saria. She resembles Malon more than Saria, while the name is obviously one letter short of Saria.

[@DJIVision]

5:15 "those were mostly typical development cuts [and changes], same as any other game"

[@ArcRay20]

13:45 ...wait really??? they just straight up called it Ura Zelda??? how i never heard of this til now, i have no idea. im suddenly reminded of some few years ago when i saw some people in a forum discussing about Master Quest post-Nintendo-gigaleak and they came to the conclusion that "yeah, so Master Quest IS the Ura Zelda we've been looking for. its been right there the whole time, we just didnt want to believe it", meanwhile it was literally called Ura Zelda and nobody commented on that...😅 also a friggin indie game sponsor? and its EX-Zodiac??? nice.

[@dwiggzmasterflex]

these episodes might release in the middle of the day, but i always find myself watching them deep in the night

[@DeathInTheSnow]

I've seen quite a lot of fan art where people draw N64s with DDs.

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Wow, I don't think I've ever heard anybody besides me mention Tonic Trouble before now.

[@FaelianTheMighty]

There's nothing better than watching one of these while working.

[@FarekWad]

You guys gotta make the "Jack & Beans" segment it's own vid or short. That story is wild!

[@hippophlebotamus]

16:11 that's an aileron roll, notice how the plane rotates on its axis, for a barrel roll the plane flies in circles like it rotating around a barrel

[@GabePuratekuta]

"Do an aileron roll" sounds weird, though.

[@SorexAttius]

Damn stuff like this reminds me of how ahead of the times developers where back then to bad it seems like when the tech finally caught out Nintendo devs aren't there to innovate

[@chrizzgalmz]

The rotating thumbnail is really cool

[@hmmkaythen]

Lmao I was wondering if anyone else had noticed the thumbnail changed from Mother to Pokemon. What other games have been on the thumbnail?

[@chrizzgalmz]

@@hmmkaythen Pokemon DD and Super Mario 64-2 have been mine.

[@safebox36]

Nice to see youse got a sponsor that the comments didn't totally hate for once 😂.

[@OSIRIZ91]

Dude lot of good titles that would’ve been awesome to have the Pokémon snap that was free roaming would be awesome !

[@jriver226]

Was happy to get the master quest disk with my windwaker preorder. Didnt realize I helped make a it the best selling preorder though lol

[@MarioPfhorG]

5:18 I had never considered the load time issue restricting what games were possible on N64DD. It makes so much more sense now why they stuck with the read speed of cartridges.

[@ChuckEldon]

I have such fond memories of M.I. lol The face changer was so cool

[@MatrixEvolution17]

DD get out of my laboratory!!

[@nikolasclark4199]

Fucckkk 😂😂

[@friedpancakes266]

The N64DD has always been the one console to keep my fascination. There's just so much mystery surrounding it, blocked from release by NDA's and the sands of time

[@KenBladehart]

Anyone else got their eardrums blown off by that Dragon Quest clip? I was listening through speakers at low volume and that still hurt my ears

[@spcooper94]

54:06 for Pokémon RPG

[@milliondollarmistake]

I wonder what the point is to to keep a nearly 30 year old cancelled project secret. I'm not talking about Goddard, I'm sure he has perfectly valid and legal reasons why he can't talk about it. I mean from Nintendo's POV, what could they have been doing 30 years ago that would warrant "network zelda" to be so secretive? I think the only logical answer is that during their tests they accidentally tapped into communications between aliens so the gubnet had to shut em down.

[@GabePuratekuta]

Because telling people about it is game preservation and that's bad for games.

[@risa1467]

Nintendo's years of tech & libraries are very important to them, and for any reason they can choose to revisit them on a dime. Will we get a ai generated Zelda game where every game copy is personalized anytime soon? Probably not. However, whatever they cooked for all that tech is in their pockets, and not in the grasps of Nintendo's competitors. They're probably not going want to share them to aspiring developers either. Either that, or Nintendo is bluffing about this tech because they are egotistical on what they claim to have done. It's like that claim that Miyamoto said that Minecraft resembles what they've done for the N64, yet refuses to elaborate it on what he actually means. Possibly Miyamoto is just jealous of Minecraft's success that Nintendo couldn't do it before western developers did. lol

[@Zaktot-ho8fe]

My only guess is that since the ideas in earlier prototypes are still 'unknown' to the public, it allows nintendo to iterate on those ideas without losing the suprise and novelty of the idea being 'new' or groundbreaking for the series.

[@kamikazilucas]

1:39 i dont get this this is clearly running on base n64 hardware not dd so why did they say it was made for dd

[@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames]

"killer app" is a phrase that stops me in my tracks and makes me turn off whatever I'm watching.

[@smashblaster1-up190]

In retrospect, Nintendo could of bite the metaphorical bullet and released the 64DD earlier, I mean it wasn't like they were in trouble of going bankrupt since they still had that Universal money, they could've took the risk

[@tager2.022]

Why the smooth filter over SF3?

[@LampHatScott]

The 64DD was too ambitious to work. If someone says it can do something that just can't be done with tech at the time, raise an eyebrow at the very least.

[@904funny]

Once again, if this was mail order only, how was the DD ever going to sell well? Seems like it was destined to fail by method of distribution alone!

[@GabePuratekuta]

That's what I was thinking as well.

[@904funny]

@@GabePuratekuta unless they planned on selling it the usual way if it wasn’t delayed

[@BensyBens]

About Namco They actually help sony with the making of the PS1 so it’s was very rare to see namco titles on the N64 and only published games on the console. There only 4 n64 namco games (ridge racer 64, ms pac man, Namco museum and the baseball game) and only one game they develop (the baseball game) i don’t think they make a DD game because they worked with sony so close around this time.

[@solunaqua3475]

Wahoo Hard4Games!!!

[@benjamingesinski9170]

I like to imagine that if the 64DD was a success, then Super Smash Bros 64 could've gotten a DD disk expansion that included new characters and stages, maybe online play, or maybe even a stage builder with the ability to share created stages online.

[@chad12345678]

I always wanted this on the DS surprised we never got it.

[@benjamingesinski9170]

@@chad12345678 Maybe the hardware was too limited of Sakurai. But a KZbinr named Retromesh is creating models based on what a Smash Bros on the DS might've looked like.

[@sssyruppp]

so weird that videogame history is actively risking being lost to time and developers just can't reveal stuff

[@risa1467]

It's more than developers not risking their careers or reputations. It could be the matter of collectors who have these things may be out there, but they refuse to leak them to keep them valuable. Dinosaur Planet coming out of nowhere is a example of this.