Nintendo Accidentally Released a PC Game...

Pikmin 4 releases soon on Nintendo Switch, so we're taking a look at Nintendo's OFFICIAL secret PC port of Pikmin, for Windows PCs!
Nintendo left this version on EVERY GameCube disk copy of the game. This isn't in the Pikmin 1 Nintendo Switch release as that uses the Pikmin Wii version's data.
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In this TCCO video, we take a look at the PC version of Pikmin for the Nintendo GameCube, because Pikmin 3 Deluxe releases for Nintendo Switch very soon. A cut glass bottle was even referenced in some Pikmin 3 Deluxe short movies. Also, we're looking at the early versions of Olimar, beta levels, cut areas, and the rest of the cut content of Pikmin! This game started development at Nintendo in 2001. Shigeru Miyamoto said at GDC 2007 that the Super Mario 128 demo turned into Pikmin.
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[@tallestflash]

Nintendo when making Pikmin: *haha debug go bbrrrr*

[@limeart1662]

Yup it go bbrrrr

[@Shiro_Zark]

69 likes lmao

[@renakunisaki]

This was actually a common thing Nintendo started doing in the N64 era. Development kits were expensive, and sometimes you need to start developing a game before the console was even finished being designed. But most of the game logic doesn't actually care what machine it's running on. So they'd compile games to run on PC, with a wrapper to convert the N64/GC hardware functions to Windows functions. These PC versions were never meant to be available to the public; they're just a way to quickly test changes to the game without having an actual dev unit, and with the ability to easily edit files and debug the game. Lots of things like saving and loading just won't work, but it's enough to quickly test some tweaks. I don't know for sure, but they probably still do this with modern games.

[@bluein_]

With modern titles, stuff like IL2CPP are just way too easy to use that nobody really produces content "specific" to a platform anymore. like you said, most engine code just runs regardless of hardware, so it's just a matter of kernel/console specific functions that take a week or so of changing. Very rarely do things ever get "ported" in the old fashioned sense anymore, unless if it's some high-performance, high-optimisation AAA title. Most indie games (including some of mine on various engines) are built once and modified in minor ways to port. Most commercial engines don't even require the end users or developers to do anything specific even.

[@lpfan4491]

Iirc, Xenoblade 3 has a PC-shader leftover in its data, so that's sure a thing. Even when the console is already available, developing it on PC is still a thing teams are going to do.

[@widget_pls]

Modern Xboxes literally run a more restrictive version of regular Windows. The "desktop" is different, and it will just decline to run a lot of code that regular Windows will, but there's not really anything besides DRM and a reasonable UI to launch Windows programs that stops the programs from running on it.

[@ohajohaha]

On a different note, you're a real KZbin OG.

[@Agret]

​@@ohajohahawho is a real KZbin og? You didn't tag a name.

[@dstinnettmusic]

Always happens. Find a channel with a neat concept and good content and they stopped posting over a year ago

[@plogiii]

It’s been 2 years now

[@ZphyZphyer]

​@@plogiiiyea

[@alexleo-wolf4339]

Well, fiddlesticks.

[@Zorgot.]

@@plogiiiwell they posted shorts recently and saying that they’re back

[@juanrodriguez9971]

2 damn years ago, I'm sad

[@BryceDixonDev]

That glass bottle can be found in The Forest Naval (at least in the Wii version). I distinctly remember calling it out when I played through the game again last Saturday.

[@valegory]

it's in GC as well, i played it last week.

[@TheGoblinsWithin]

@@valegory was about to say the same thing

[@bobipineman]

if I remmeber well the bottle model is different but maybe is just the lighting

[@Zaygh]

its just a bottle of ramune....

[@bigj7864]

its so annoying that this channel was left in the dust, it was a highly underated gem.

[@LiquidORE]

he has a new channel called block facts

[@Shaku_SSB]

@@LiquidORE Minecraft? 😔

[@minix07]

@@LiquidORE wait tcco is BLOCK FACTS???

[@LiquidORE]

@@minix07 ya obviously 🙄

[@minix07]

@@LiquidORE this channel was good until he left...

[@turingsghost]

The Gamecube era was wild for just how much unused content was being left intact in games. Usually it's just a dev texture or some legacy files, not a completely functional dev-build. Might've been symptomatic of the rush-jobs the lackluster sales numbers were prompting, in retrospect.

[@redemurrdagoat]

I remember that the ps2 version of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, is actually just a modified pc game. It's the pc version of the game with the exe and everything on the disk. When you put it in a pc that has windows 7, you can play the entire game it even has button prompts for the Xbox controller, and has an Easter egg from the second ps1 tomb raider hidden in its audio files.

[@trustytrest]

Like how F-Zero GX has the entirety of F-Zero AX in its files. Even accessible with an action replay code.

[@redemurrdagoat]

@xianxia2949 I had a cousin that did that. Made his own AX cabinet useing the Gx rom.

[@dizzydaisy909]

@@redemurrdagoat how do you do it? I have the game's files extracted and don't see anything of the sort. I've also looked up your claim with nothing at all showing up.

[@marblyso703]

Not even a whole minute in and I'm already enjoying this. That "bbrrrrr" got me.

[@hedwig7s]

Haha rumble go bbrrrrr

[@I_SEE_RED]

That’s specifically a rumble of a controller not being held, sitting on a hard surface like a desk

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrin]

​@@I_SEE_REDand if it's an xbox one or ps4 controller then it sounds kinda close to gunshots lmao

[@JustTHOMAS787]

​@@I_SEE_REDa

[@valegory]

I don't think the glass bottle is unused. There's a giant ramune bottle in The Forest Naval in the final release.

[@thefabulouskitten7204]

Ye it isn't unused.

[@kargaroc386]

It's worth noting that the test map shown here has alot of the same content as the Ocarina of Time test map.

[@nullset2]

They reuse the same tech over time. It's like ID software with the quake engine or valve with source

[@LogogoFromKeron]

That hidden PC port looks really cool!

[@soundspark]

The file isn't actually from Windows 98 but instead from Visual Studio 6.0.

[@dav154]

Nintendo: Releases a PC Port. Nintendo: Takes down a PC Port. Fans: *Interesting*

[@TheZombiesAreComing]

Technically not a pc port, it's the developer console they somehow mixed in with the actual game files

[@UJustGotGamed]

@@TheZombiesAreComing it's a full version compiled for windows

[@JollyGiant19]

@@TurtleTrademark Not with the right attitude!

[@BulborbStan]

@@TurtleTrademark Pikmin single playthrough speed run any %

[@sneakyevil]

@@TurtleTrademark Someone could literally write patches around the game and produce playable experience like other modders do to other games to fix bugs. So it literally doesn't even matter if it was build as "development tool" because there is still engine behind it that does same thing as the original game.

[@BananaSackboy]

*Since this dude post this video, he has never ever waked up for 2 years from now*

[@titanderp]

I wish Nintendo accidently left a Windows Executable for every game. :(

[@dynamon911nz]

This One was probaly rushed out so quickly that they even didnt relized was left intact in the disc.

[@CatOnVenus183]

@@dynamon911nz pikmin is incredibly polished and I doubt it was rushed

[@SkyKidShyKid]

Imagine an actual Animal Crossing PC port omg

[@koledone]

"Although nintendo never release a pc game" [cries in super mario special]

[@the-NightStar]

They actually didn't. That was released by Hudson.

[@koledone]

@@the-NightStar i remember nintendo releasing pc games during the dos era idk, i might be misremembering

[@Atlas_Redux]

@@koledone We have a saying in Norway: "Believe, you can do in church. The rest of us checks facts before we open our mouths."

[@user-ko8kp6mz2u]

The debug mode is written in English, probably because it is far easier to display the alphabet than to display Japanese characters. The debug menus of many Japanese games are written in English. (SSBM, for example, does this.)

[@azzzertyy]

and also because game developers still code in english 99% of the time

[@HavingFunTimes]

Whoa I wouldn’t expect Nintendo to do that!

[@ActionGamerAaron]

You're saying it like they did it intentionally. They did not. This was a debug executable accidentally included in the retail copy.

[@FooFooANIMATIONS]

It's like nintendo's gameboy emulator for developers that got leaked

[@jevils_]

Bro did you really just comment on ur own video?

[@mr.jowankin3161]

こういう裏要素的なの好きなのでありがとうございます！

[@BabzaiWWP]

freddy

[@ChristopherMoom]

Pikmin 4 happens to be a part of Real Life's Cut Content because right now it doesn't even seem like the game actually exists anymore

[@Agent-iq3sz]

Oh it’s you

[@TGJMTheGamingJMaster]

Wait I thought you only commented on undertale related content.

[@freedomtheplayer4235]

@@TGJMTheGamingJMaster they comment on everything

[@Princy_K]

Hello moon

[@dacool1og]

This guy collecting hearts & likes as if they were in-game currency

[@Minty_Meeo]

Haha yes, you didn't spell my name wrong like GameXplain did. Glad I could be of any help!

[@armaansingh7452]

Wait when did usuba get working?

[@Minty_Meeo]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKDXZ59uftSBibM Usuba itself wasn't really fixed, instead I hotwired the Giant Egg enemy to use any of Usuba's existing code. I then replaced the model and animations. It was more of an experiment to see what Uduba was supposed to do.

[@armaansingh7452]

@@Minty_Meeo Neat, Now you should see how it's spawning code works. Even if it wasn't meant to spawn smokey proggs originally it would still be pretty funny to see.

[@gba_music_and_stuff]

No one said it was using Dolphin Emu, Dolphin is the codename for the GCN.

[@Atlas_Redux]

Tons of people are saying it uses the Dolphin emulator, read the comments.

[@official-obama]

@@Atlas_Redux as a person who has personally experienced the building process, i'd say that it makes way more sense for it to be a build for pc, especially since dolphin was released 2 years after pikmin 1 unless you're being sarcastic

[@Atlas_Redux]

@@official-obamaAnd you should learn to read context. People are SAYING it uses the Dolphin emu. They're incorrect, but they're SAYING it.

[@official-obama]

@@Atlas_Redux no one said it uses dolphin emulator, but people think it does

[@Atlas_Redux]

@@official-obama I quote, directly from comments: " used Dolphin as an integral part of their development process. Sometimes I just wanna punch Nintendo in the face." - "is this why the dolphin emulator.." - "dolphin is the name of a free emulator that runs wii and gamecube roms on pc, and apparently nintendo used it accidentally when compiling the game." - so did anyone clock that its not actually a PC Port and its just a console version running in a dolphin emulator wrapper? " - "-/ dolphin ??? so it runs the emulator ?" - "Nintendo then: releases an official game running on Dolphin debugger" - "Wait, if nintendo hates dolphin. Why it the official game itself uses dolphin on the pc?" - "Bullshit and clickbait: it's NOT a PC game, they just put the emulator (Dolphin) capable of emulating this game on PC, "big deal"

[@TheBreadPirate]

This was super interesting! Pikmin has a lot more history than I realized.

[@FoxerTails]

Even as someone who isn't a fan of Pikmin, this was still quite entertaining and insightful.

[@NathanDarkson984]

4:24 The glass bottle is actually used in game in the level "The Forest Navel", so, had to fix you there.

[@xian2themax]

It’s not the same one

[@EmanueleX]

it's so sad he left to do block facts, this channel was so good

[@naoko_gameing9]

You know... I think this is the best game Block Facts has ever made

[@LazyGyro]

4:24 um ACTUALLY it was used in the forest navel stage - in the middle of the water. for real though, good video. The bottle always stuck out to me because it's pretty much the only unique thing in Pikmin 1 that is man-made (besides the recurring tin cans and all those)

[@RodH-pj1py]

Haha thank you! I went to the comment section as soon as that was said. Back in the day, I thought the bottle was hiding a grandiose secret and literally spent a lot of time around it.

[@stefanspelt3578]

That's a RAMUNE bottle!

[@elijahthomas4231]

I'm guessing most people think it's scrapped because the water area is dark and full of Wollywogs, plus that area only exists to give a challenge for collecting a part.

[@tmntphan]

Great Video TCCO! :D

[@armaansingh7452]

I wonder if the debug mode can be reverse engineered into a proper pc port of the game like what they did with mario 64.

[@sparklingwaters4034]

I've been thinking about this fairly recently, like, think of the possibilities...

[@RegalPixelKing]

It could certainly help, but no the debug mode can't be completed and made to work on PC. The only reason why games likes Mario 64, Jak and Daxter, Zelda OoT, and so on are allowed to be made is because they use none of the official code. The debug version still uses Nintendo's code so it can't be used to port the game to PC. It could help find out various aspects of how to game functions though which could help in a PC port.

[@nbhjbhyvgbhyuvbhuynnjbhu]

This is like release mode with tools enabled and not a debug mode

[@jacobschweiger5897]

​@@RegalPixelKingthat's not how the law works. A decompilation uses the assembly from the original program. It still counts as piracy. If it didn't then Nintendo could decompile Stardew valley or something and sell it as their own game.

[@RegalPixelKing]

@@jacobschweiger5897 No selling it is what would make it illegal. It's more like a legal grey almost akin to a fan project using characters and assets from another intellectual property.

[@BasVoet]

Ah nice, a new TCCO video! Thanks!

[@theducksarecoming]

;-;

[@samuelturner6076]

Huh, this is quite interesting. Thanks for the vid.

[@pyrasaur.ablaze]

cool trivia, thanks for this!

[@Oddsfeline]

Discoveries like this are so cool. Like the pilot episode of South Park found on a game. I wonder what else will be discovered in games from decades ago

[@rotty646]

R.I.P. The Cut Content Of 10 months without video

[@smiley256alt]

11 now D:

[@EmeraldVoidz]

Because he have a new channel called Block Fact

[@rotty646]

@@EmeraldVoidz I know that

[@harryhack91]

It's so sad when the algorithm blesses a video of a channel that's not active anymore.

[@jesuscantu428]

The ramune bottle was used in the final game, you can see it in The forest navel level, inside the pool that contains three wollywogs.

[@betonaruto6763]

Very high quality videos !!! I love it

[@Buck_Bentley]

The Nintendo PC game successor to Mario Teaches Typing that we have all been waiting for!!

[@sandwich_bubbles47]

4:23 that’s in the game, it’s in the water in the Forest Navel, with some Wollywogs around it

[@tech34756]

If that was compiled as a debug build, I wonder if someone could use it to reverse engineer the game?

[@Manic_Panic]

If debug symbols are included, then yes. It's how the 3D GTA Trilogy was reverse engineered before being taken down. Many games came with them included but it takes a dedicated, a passionate team to reverse the whole process and give us a PC port. Or you can do it OpenGOAL style like the Jak & Daxter PC port team but that's even more work.

[@RJH755]

Nintendo should honestly considor releasing PC versions of their older games

[@SoliderBoy]

they won't Preying on nostalgia is their marketing strategy

[@pikachu1019]

Actually, I don't think that the bottle at 4:24 is being referenced! Rather, the bottle itself is a reference. It's a bottle of Ramune, a Japanese soft drink!

[@gregomyeggo4639]

Can’t believe Nintendo would release such an unpolished buggy mess. I’d expect better from the same company that brought us gems like Metal Gear and Portal 2. Smh my head.

[@Someguyiguess69420]

bruh valve creating portal and portal 2 and this is a demo and pikmin was made in 2001

[@thelolfaceguy]

​​​@@Someguyiguess69420what do you mean. Nintendo is a pc game company, VaLVE is a console game company

[@benjaminhyer]

5:03 Those stick sprites were used in the onion menu

[@derpduck6274]

I even forgot I was subscribed to this guy

[@sosasees]

this is similar to how i make phone games: installing the game on my phone every time i make a tiny change would take forever, so most of the time i test the changes on my desktop because that way i can start the game instantly: i don't have to click Export, i just press Play and it always opens the bleeding-edge version of the game. the major difference for me is that i make games for devices that i don't get money from when they sell, so if the phone version _and_ the desktop version are public i don't lose money from selling less phones: i _want_ to publish the desktop version too because the only difference is more people playing my game.

[@LewisWoody]

Woah nice ! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@LetsPlayKeldeo]

Wow I put notifications on for thos channel and only randomly just figured out it uploaded ;-;

[@Daniel15au]

MSVCRTD isn't a Windows 98 DLL, lol. It's the debug version of Microsoft's Visual C++ runtime. An older version than what the executable expects will work fine as long as it doesn't use any newer runtime features.

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Awesome Video

[@smalls1485]

That’s... really cool!

[@0AThijs]

2 years ago 😫 Great video dude!

[@casualuser6859]

Brrrr, so formal

[@zodywoolsey]

4:23 the glass bottle is used in the level with the poison mushroom boss

[@xian2themax]

It’s not the same one

[@cactuslordgaming]

I think block facts is a great channel, but I'm still really sad he just had to abandon this one.

[@seeibe]

Considering how nicely a lot of Pikmin 1's graphics scale to higher resolutions (a lot of it is basically vector graphics in 3D), I always thought they intended to release it on a system with higher possible resolutions than what the GameCube supported.

[@retrohero64]

3:40 probably from when Pikmin was still "Adam & Eve"

[@groidcel]

Did Nintendo ever release an SDK for production grade PowerMac's or Power PC clones? I figure it would be a lot easier to debug a game on its native architecture.

[@VistaPhoenix]

Hearing that "bbrrrrr" and you saying "zed" with a short E and a d at the end instead of "zee" with a long E made me laugh so much!! 🤣

[@VistaPhoenix]

OpenGL/Dolphin System, go bbrrrrr! 🤣

[@holzwurm_hd7029]

Damn, just found this channel... I wish hed come back and do some more Videos.

[@Astro0328]

you should make a video of the cut content of Sunset Overdrive :)

[@adamkampen]

I was not expecting to hear more about Kug the Sunshine oddity in a Pikmin video

[@Malory-Malicious]

YOUR BACK!?

[@spawnnumber2126]

I wonder if this “Dev build” of Pikmin would work with a GameCube controller plugged in…

[@joeosnato7200]

Will you look at the creation of Sly Cooper, TCCO?

[@bakkominator4308]

The bottle is a marble soda bottle. Very popular in Japan. It also appears in the background of a level in Sector 2 of Hey! PIKMIN.

[@StudioKelpie1993]

Imagine if someone managed to make a full HD Remake using this as a base and just working from there

[@Praecantetia]

olimar doing a massive jump is so funny

[@Kamexe]

Vibration: bmrrr I love it

[@johnclydeceniaberdigay3825]

Can you make "The Cut Content Of Super Mario 3D World"? This is going to be interesting!

[@andreworders7305]

That was…efficient, lol. You don’t waste any time.

[@JinjoJinjoJinjo]

I wonder if it's possible to create a perfect pikmin pc port with this

[@Atlas_Redux]

No. You would need the source code.

[@folicious6654]

that bottle is a ramune bottle, its a popular drink in Japan

[@cactuslordgaming]

Its been a year come back TCCO!

[@LiquidORE]

he has a new channel called block facts

[@cruzeforce]

This is the main reason why I bought a gamecube keyboard controller for my gamecube that has japanese pikmin 1

[@lily_skye]

that red arrow model looks a lot like the player model from the gamecube tech demo "Peach's Castle"... though it probably isn't it

[@DylanStr]

This channel is so underrated and I don’t get it. The content is similar to Tetra’s but there are just not many people watching! KZbin algorithms are harsh!

[@Gr33do]

Was just about to comment the same thing, love channels that feature cut content

[@Yppekshi]

He has a minecraft channel callled block facts with over 1 million subscribers I think he just gave this channel up

[@Roggie249]

That glass bottle is definitely in The Forest Navel.

[@isleling5191]

I glad I have a Wii u so I can buy this without hunting a down a game cube (but I still have to for wario world) I wish I know that the first two games were available on the eshop I didn't notice for some reason despite wishing I meaning to buy a pikmin game for years now

[@chrisbrochu3663]

Hey block facts. Congrats on speedrunning youtube

[@phoenixdening6434]

imagine not knowing what a gamecube is but you somehow decompiled pikmin and found this as a kid

[@kostya8764]

you needed to have a gamecube, a specific dvd drive and knowledge, so probably not

[@drantigon]

@@kostya8764 how hard is it to operate a gamecube

[@noaag]

​@@kostya876499% sure i tried popping a gamecube disc in the family pc once only to be disappointed, can confirm

[@antonliakhovitch8306]

Also, no decompiling is necessary. You just need to get the files off the disc somehow

[@grape3587]

Decryption of GameCube disks is a relatively complex thing and would be pretty difficult to just waltz into

[@_.Ramazan._]

TCCO, is there any chance you could make a two-part video which explains the unused content of Cuphead?

[@jasonhatt4295]

Those graphics are so beautiful!

[@MegaManNeo]

This just showed up in my recommendations. Suddenly I want to buy Pikmin 1 for GameCube.

[@TheSuperCasual2914]

Pikmin PC Port. Not even a creepypasta. Nintendo is just like that.

[@pengwin_]

I wonder if Mario 128 was what "March of the minis" was going to be

[@garbageyoutubechannel310]

so is this technically an official gamecube editor from nintendo

[@Chadderbox]

This is absolutely wild. How do you just leave something like this in? Awesome though.

[@Atlas_Redux]

Nothing new and still happens. Developers and publishers does the dumbest mistakes.

[@TheCatQueenOfBlackCats]

Where have u been TCCO

[@Skizzy5313]

Please do a cut content of epic mickey

[@MaybeImSkittleMaybeImNot]

Bro please come back! Your videos are good!

[@CRaDISHOfficial]

The moon icon's use 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@CardboardBox8]

Imagine scrolling through your Recommended and finding a random video u dont care about as a joke and then its narrated by Block Facts

[@gelogelo318]

Ikr

[@Whipo0]

the glass bottle isn't unused, it's in the forest naval

[@Portponky]

Wow, this video didn't muck about. Top stuff.

[@alexleo-wolf4339]

0:38 pikmin go bbrrrr.

[@PEAQGHHEJHAJHDAJHSDA]

is that Block Facts voice?

[@Sheepga]

4:23 that bottle is in forest naval frm pikmin 1. it was never scrapped frm the final game

[@COVERSAI150]

Imagine some random kid in 2001 just stumbles across the pc port.

[@simpson6700]

man, i would actually play this game if it was a proper PC port. i played the Wii version for a bit, but couldn't get into it.