I think the grey on Mario's hat is supposed to be an attempt at specular highlighting, from certain angles you can see it on the kart too. You can also notice that it's always grey even when the ground is a different colour
@GiveBackWhatIO Жыл бұрын
Yep. A sheen attempt.
@lra1095 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it looks more like pallet limitations on the sprite making the shines grey.
@Oretal Жыл бұрын
Yeah I just assumed it was a gray highlight.
@Liam3072 Жыл бұрын
@@lra1095 Yep, even Mario's face is grey. I'm willing to bet they initially modeled it with way more colors, and didn't pay enough attention when converting it to the limited palette they had.
@arachnidplays6162 Жыл бұрын
@@lra1095 that's a 3D model, not sprite
@plazmasyt Жыл бұрын
I think the biggest reason as to why this demo never went anywhere was simply because of Mario Kart DS. It had been shown off at E3 that year iirc, not sure if it would have been before or after the showcase, but regardless I think Nintendo figured MKDS would *completely* overshadow MKXXL
@alext3811 Жыл бұрын
Why does Star Fox 2 come to mind? Is it me or does Nintendo have a habit of doing this with outgoing consoles?
@zachatck64 Жыл бұрын
@@alext3811 EarthBound Beginnings Star Fox 2 etc
@alext3811 Жыл бұрын
@@zachatck64 Heh, forgot about EarthBound zero/beginnings.
@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын
@@alext3811 What are you talking about? Nintendo has nothing to do with this.
@KiraSlith Жыл бұрын
To be fair, in this case it absolutely would, especially given that the NDS was backwards compatible with the GBA further incentivizing people to switch over quickly.
@Imgema Жыл бұрын
The "missing pixels" on the hat is probably just a glow effect.
@helloitismetomato Жыл бұрын
3:19 I like that the "splash" looks to be a repurposed fireworks asset rather than an actual water splash.
@MDHCleon1927 Жыл бұрын
X2
@RebelliousTreecko Жыл бұрын
Epic. Don't think the GBA needed another Mario Kart after Super Circuit, but I'm *very* curious as to what they could have done with that lower "layer" to give a bigger 3D effect...
@TFSned Жыл бұрын
I think the F-ZERO games on the GBA used two layers, so this effect wasn't unique to this developer. What would be impressive would be a way of getting actual 3D tracks without sacrificing 60fps. There were some polygonal racing games and the voxel-based prototype of Banjo Pilot, but none of them were that smooth.
@gjfkhvjzjsxbq Жыл бұрын
They could have made it 2.5d like classic doom that way it would play like mk64
@babbygremlin Жыл бұрын
Awww yeah! I always love seeing gba tech demos. They always have really weirdly neat visuals especially for a handheld.
@Larry Жыл бұрын
Manfred Trenz is interesting, the guy who made Turrican! Also could the R2D demo have been a pitch for a GBA Micro Machines game?
@MegaManNeo Жыл бұрын
Manfred Trenz has quite the history with Nintendo, let it be for The Great Giana Sisters alone. Love seeing this tech demo being picked up and archived albeit I still hope to see the E3 demo of Mario Kart Advance being recovered which had a character select screen and graphics more in line with Mario Kart 64.
@repeekyraidcero Жыл бұрын
I only care for him to inspire Winterworks to make Hurricane and.. most importantly TAKATIS. I love these. Shame they won't be taken to the eShop... I love em. sm.
@AngusBeer Жыл бұрын
It's a shame that the Crazy Frog game was the end result, sometimes that's how business goes. I can tell they had to cut the ground layers and camera angles in order to have all the characters on screen.
@kevboard Жыл бұрын
how to pronounce Moorhuhn: Moor is pronounced almost identically to the English "more" said in an English accent (soft R) Huhn is pronounced like Hoon in Hoonigan (that drift/racing organization) More-Hoon it translates to swamp chicken
@Imgema Жыл бұрын
Manfred Trenz of the Turrican fame? Of course he would be able to do something like this.
@ThePageofCups Жыл бұрын
Manfred Trenz is a savant of making hardware do what it really shouldn't do.
@RabbitEarsCh Жыл бұрын
Manfred Trenz is a legend, and this is just another show of it. This is a really complex thing running on the GBA with absolute smoothness. Fantastic work yet again.
@the1ucidone Жыл бұрын
It's so impressive that it's pretty close to an early Playstation One game graphically, at least for the character model. What an awesome treasure!
@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын
The character model is a 2D sprite animated from a crude 3D render. Think Donkey Kong Country, not PlayStation.
@DaveDoc1984 Жыл бұрын
@@emmettturner9452 Agreed its Mode 7 FX mixed with that. Nothing like PS1.
@playtime_is_over Жыл бұрын
@@DaveDoc1984 To be fair the PS1 had some 2.5D kind of racing stuff like Street Racer. However that GBA tech demo of the Metal Gear Solid level is comparable to 3D PS1 graphics.
@MariokidYT Жыл бұрын
Dawg what did Manfred do to my boi Mario that is not him💀😭
@RetroPlus Жыл бұрын
That is nuts, they were really working on some impressive stuff for the GBA
@PhirePhlame Жыл бұрын
I love the fact that the R3D demo uses the song from Panic, by demoscene legends Future Crew
@itsasecrettoeverybody Жыл бұрын
I think the engine capabilities would fit nice with a micro machines game.
@Lumzilla Жыл бұрын
R3D Demo uses Second Reality as it's music, amazing
@khoroshen Жыл бұрын
Came here to see if somebody else noticed!
@SuperTrainStationH Жыл бұрын
This game needed to come out by 2003 at the latest and it would have been impressive for the GBA. January 04 saw the announcement of DS, and when the first DS game they showed at E3 that May was a new Mario Kart game with 3D graphics more ambitious than Mario Kart 64, it was clear that XXL had no possible future.
@TutorialNerdzzz Жыл бұрын
The menu music was also from Moorhuhn kart XXL I instantly recognized it
@faceheadman Жыл бұрын
really dig the multiple layers in this version
@novelezra Жыл бұрын
We miss you Manfred Trenz. Please come back.
@SpinThwomp Жыл бұрын
Wow! I never thought this would ever see the light of day online! i must say this is a very technically impressive demo, thanks for sharing!
@Mikau888 Жыл бұрын
the crazy frog-mario connection is real. this is an important frontier we have reached
@nullbyt Жыл бұрын
8:15 "contract with the crazy frog people.."
@ReynLynxPSI Жыл бұрын
i never doubted it
@alextirrellRI Жыл бұрын
The tilt of the camera is driving me nuts. Did they think you wouldn't want to see what's ahead of you?
@VSDeluxe Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: In the early 2000s Moorhuhn was installed on more PCs than Windows here in Germany.
@Journey_to_who_knows Жыл бұрын
Man looks so dead inside lol “I’ve been driving around in laps for 20 years”
Crazy Frog made a sort of remix of Axel F and it was super popular throughout the 2000s
@eukara Жыл бұрын
6:39 right there is Apoptygma Berzerk - Starsign for anyone wondering.
@BlueMSX. Жыл бұрын
I think it would have been very interesting to see what this company could have pulled off with the proper amount of time, budget, and grace from Nintendo to make a Mario Kart game. Looking at the demo graphics wise, there's no denying what they achieved on a technical level with that kind of scaling and rotation. Would have been neat to see.
@Night-Jester Жыл бұрын
The only thing I remember about crazy frog was commercials if you texted the number then they sent you annoying ring tones way back in the day. Straight to your cellular device!
@smb99thx Жыл бұрын
Whoa! Someone from Forest of Illusion just recovered this ROM after MANY years.
@teh_supar_hackr Жыл бұрын
Been waiting for this demo's release for like 8 years
@typical4219 Жыл бұрын
Same, hope the same happens with Panel de Pon 64
@RetraCarteR Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that nobody's pointed out that Crazy Frog Racer still uses the same font for the numbers in its timer as Mario Kart XXL, which itself reused the font from Super Circuit. Let that sink in: an art asset created by Nintendo (or Intelligent Systems, whatever) for an official Mario Kart game was essentially stolen for use in a tech demo for a possible sequel... and in the process of transforming that tech demo into an actual retail game for someone else, NO ONE thought to change it, and the game released that way. And Nintendo didn't even notice.
@AGwolf20978 күн бұрын
5:20 ayyyy what is the replacement music? I'm digging it
@melley420 Жыл бұрын
Wow i never heard of this, it looks so unique,
@cabbusses Жыл бұрын
Is there a way to hack the Mario model and course into the CrazyFrog racer to give a sort of idea of what the "complete" Mario XXL might have looked like?
@napkin8920 Жыл бұрын
mario's model looks like something straight out of supra mayro kart...
@goodkid457 Жыл бұрын
holy shit the r3d-demo uses demoscene music, i cant remember from which demo but it DOES and its so cool to hear that out in the wild
@T3KNUG3T5 Жыл бұрын
Panic - Purple Motion Second Reality - Purple Motion
@naphta2630 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: at 7:08, the music composer Xavier Dang is now a famous french streamer: MisterMV
@MMWProductions1 Жыл бұрын
I love how one of the music tracks in the R3D-Demo V1 is from Second Reality, by Future Crew. lol
@johanneshaukanes4531 Жыл бұрын
Dude, at 1:10 I was low key expecting this to be a horror ARG game.
@marktubes3419 Жыл бұрын
I like how in they ripped the uniracers menu arrow in that mario cart demo.
@sameerswagin2953 Жыл бұрын
It's finally here!!!! After so many years
@kip258 Жыл бұрын
There aren't pixels missing in mario's hat, it's just a lighting detail that is either paletted wrong or the palette is glitched.
@MrMegaManFan Жыл бұрын
No quest-ion. I nevah doubted eet.
@ABlueyFan Жыл бұрын
It’s crazy how the SpongeBob got milk and XXL were found very close to each other
@cameolynn32 Жыл бұрын
i wish there was an archive of ALL your dumps.
@tidepoolclipper8657 Жыл бұрын
I'm reminded of GP Legend and Climax when looking at the camera perspective and graphical tricks of the race track. Honestly, though, I doubt the camera would have been THAT adjustable had this gone beyond tech demo. Likely is only this way in the tech demo to show that the game wouldn't start chugging no matter what distance the camera was.
@karinadelma Жыл бұрын
I noticed the music of mario kart xxl was actual taken from Moorhuhn Kart XXL from 2002. I would love to see a Moorhuhn Kart on GBA but ended replaced with mario. Kinda like the moorhuhn kart game.
@AmyraCarter Жыл бұрын
Well, this is neat. Shame it never got more than a bare bones tech demo. This had potential...
@elmuchos3309 Жыл бұрын
almost right, you have to make a little pause even if its one word, moor-huhn, great video btw
@LandonEmma Жыл бұрын
FINALY!
@Caolan114 Жыл бұрын
Actually this Is really impressive when you remember this was on the GBA
@SONGOKU02 Жыл бұрын
Yes and no. On gta we had driv3r in glorias 3d and also the need for speed games. Those where grafically much more advanced. I am still surprised, what they have done with that. This feels like, the snes could have done it in a way, atleast with the fx chip.
@jeltemreal Жыл бұрын
HOORAY! I can't wait to play this game!
@theincrediblegeneral5135 Жыл бұрын
Finally! It's public now!
@mink03 Жыл бұрын
R3D demo would have been perfect for a micro machines game
@lakojake4215 Жыл бұрын
0:39 That arrow is from Uniracers.
@KuWota2k Жыл бұрын
vinesauce mayro kratt but real
@Renardeau Жыл бұрын
the only thing i can say about crazy frog racer is that one of the most famous french streamer did the music in that game
@mcasias33 Жыл бұрын
This got me through my first serious job aka (not retail/fastfood) right out of highschool.
@hard4games Жыл бұрын
Oh? Details?
@clementpruvost8670 Жыл бұрын
Congratulations!
@AgsmaJustAgsma Жыл бұрын
6:16 I can recognize the music from Second Reality, here.
@Gluurak Жыл бұрын
i dont think this is transparancy on the head. More a reflection of the light or a simulated shiny effect :)
@RaposaCadela Жыл бұрын
Omg all this work and all the work they got was Crazy Frog Racer
@MrBlitzardo21 Жыл бұрын
I just realised that the arrow on the menu is the same arrow from uniracers
@imselfaware419 Жыл бұрын
YES, I KNEW I WASN'T GOING INSANE WENT I NOTICED THAT.
@nickiebanchou Жыл бұрын
this engine would have been neat for F-Zero
@tulpenbambus Жыл бұрын
2:02 it's pronounced like "more-hoon"
@Xeraser2 Жыл бұрын
Manfred? The Turrican Manfred? Holy sh*t.
@MarichiChip Жыл бұрын
I used to love Moorhuhn Kart as a kid, it's interesting to see the people who helped make it pitched a Mario Kart game to Nintendo
@pacomatic9833 Жыл бұрын
Seems like you're German!
@MrBrax Жыл бұрын
Great dos tracker music for that demo
@Redhotsmasher Жыл бұрын
6:11 So did Second Reality cause a copyright issue somehow or is that also replacement music?
@user-zo9dc1lu3q Жыл бұрын
My EZ-Flash IV Omega is ready !! Great video ! 😄👍
@toadette2097 Жыл бұрын
what is the song at 5:20 called?
@DryPaperHammerBro Жыл бұрын
3:49 I've put the rom on my ez flash omega and the grey pixels are there on real hardware
@enderjed2523 Жыл бұрын
Huh, the music at 6:06 sounds like a simplified version of Second Reality by Future Crew (Demoscene)
@NytroDesigns Жыл бұрын
First thing I notice 40 seconds in. That arrow? That's from Uniracers. It's a ripped sprite, lmao
@TeamMicrohard Жыл бұрын
The soundtrack is from moorhuhn kart xxl /extra
@onvy___ Жыл бұрын
Mario kart XXL can be a stage of mario kart ds as it was made in the year of dsvrelease so Mario kart D's was going to be on gameboy
@JomasterTheSecond Жыл бұрын
Impressive - most impressive.
@MysticSun777 Жыл бұрын
Dude this game looks insane
@SONGOKU02 Жыл бұрын
It's not really a game. More a proof of concept. XD
@Oretal Жыл бұрын
Crazy frog is one hell of a meme on the internet.
@industriastroll3177 Жыл бұрын
Second Reality by Future Crew. Talk about placeholder music.
@PieceofCraft Жыл бұрын
this is really impressive
@gabrielwoj Жыл бұрын
Never thought I would see this to see the light of day. Absolute legendary.
@mrjab6313 Жыл бұрын
How great if this came out to the public there is still faith that the unreleased Katakis 3d for gbc will also do it really thank you guys for taking the hard task of looking for this type of material and making it available to the public you are true heroes. Pd sorry if my english is not good
@Vamptonius Жыл бұрын
As a native speaker, your English is very good.
@AMDRADEONRUBY Жыл бұрын
Nice a Mario kart related Video just in time for making my day better
@emarleau Жыл бұрын
Anyone noticed the blue arrow in the title screen is the same as the one on Uniracers on Super Nintendo?
@nonzz3ro Жыл бұрын
This has strong early era PC port vibes
@JetWolfEX Жыл бұрын
So... I have no idea how I immediately noticed this, Several of the textures from the R3D demo are taken directly from a snes game Ranger R2 directed by the the same Manfred Trenz mentioned here. Just as an example those metal track features at 6:47 are from the 2nd level of that game, this floating metal link thing? at 6:35 also shows up as a background layer in the 4th stage, there's several more examples I could find for reused textures here but you get the idea.
@siarhian10 Жыл бұрын
Tried it on original hardware w/ a flashcart and it does still do it. I think it's intentional
@ariel78_ Жыл бұрын
This feels like a dream
@zilchfox Жыл бұрын
Interesting that the main menu cursor is ripped from the SNES game Uniracers.
@mathew3267 Жыл бұрын
They should have done Mario Kart XXX, I'm sure Nintendo would have liked that.
@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын
There’s that Uniracers arrow animation right on the title screen. :)
@vennril Жыл бұрын
I KNEW I've seen that before somewhere, just couldn't put my finger on it. Thanks!
@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын
@@vennril Well, I’ve also been seeing it as an animated GIF online since before SNES emulation was a thing so I’ve always wondered if the game was really the original. I don’t see why the devs would need to use a 3D animation from something else when they were obviously rendering their own for the rest of the game so I still assume they were the original.
@IkesDaddelbox Жыл бұрын
Also, Asterix and Obelix XXL is a full 3D game on the GBA. I just find that funny. Moorhuhn (which basically means swamp chicken) is pronounced "more hoon" by the way.
@RicardoRamosRetrocomputacao Жыл бұрын
I was in doubt if this were several well programmed sprites, or voxel. Anyway, it was a great job.