One Hour of Dinosaur Planet Gameplay Including the First 18 Minutes

[@TurboPikachu]

Rare: We want to have the N64 go out with a bang. We've created a game that pushes the N64 so far that it looks like a next-gen game rivaling the Dreamcast's & PS2's offerings, with an amazing concept and story. Nintendo: N64 is dead. We won't allow you to release a big-budget game for a system we're discontinuing in months. You have to support our latest console. Oh, and you have to merge Starfox in because our characters look alike. We don't care how it affects the characters or story, just make it happen. Microsoft: We're forcing you to make a 3rd Banjo-Kazooie, design the Xbox Avatar, and focus on Kinect games. You won't have any time to make a new IP Rare: **entire original dev team leaves**

[@DieHardjagged]

That was the best decision they ever made.. selling off tho Microsoft, grabbing all the Money and just getting the hell out of there.

[@xXFlameHaze92Xx]

All the Great team of Rare gets fired after Conker's Release and founds Free Radign Design

[@CuriousUserX90]

TurboPikachuX Star Fox Adventures would’ve been in development for more time then that, you can see for certain since Melee 1 year prior featured the voice actors from that game during the chats on Corneria.

[@washingtonsouza.2183]

@@DieHardjagged I want Dinosaur Planet for N64 and StarFox Adventures, for GC, didn't they do this with Zelda?

[@nikneon3483]

I honestly don't see problem in make this game gamecube exclusive.

[@TakkuriHimare]

I JUST REALIZED THE SPELLSTONES ARE RED AND BLUE BECAUSE KRYSTAL WAS MEANT TO GET THE BLUE WHILE SABRE WENT AFTER THE RED.

[@colt6556]

maybe but also just cause fire temple = red and water temple = blue

[@NannerMan]

Footage of this quality of such obscure games is hard to find. Or should I say... Rare.

[@Nintiana]

+Squid Kid OOOOooooOOoOooOOOoo~~~

[@LHeyMX]

+Squid Kid good one m8

[@ger9121]

You just went there 😂👌

[@Whocares158]

OUT! OUT with you hissssss! XD Just kidding.

[@TakkuriHimare]

As a huge fan of Starfox Adventures, I must say this much, the game would have been better if they had left it as an independent game on its own. I would want it to still be on GameCube though. At the very least, they should have made Krystal and Kyte playable for a majority of the game. All in all, I don't mind how it turned out in the end though. Adventures kept a lot of the original ideas and designs.

[@TakkuriHimare]

Still, I will say this, Adventures had a less-than-satisfying ending.

[@nickzilla20]

Takkuri Himare yeah I mean it was rushed since Microsoft bought rare.

[@jaimecardenas4958]

Starfox is better than imbeciles make it seem

[@benjaminfarias9169]

Everything in Starfox adventures makes a lot more sense now after seeing this game.

[@harddarkdnb]

I have the same feeling and other starfox is not interesting for me. After seeing this and read the story of developing game now I'am understand why adventures 2 was never made.

[@gorgeeshmorgee4660]

It still blows my mind that a version of this original concept is finally fully playable. I never thought I'd see the day.

[@Tobi-ci3ns]

Such a shame, both Krystal and Sabre seem like amazing characters, and they certainly didn't deserve to be erased from video-game history. The UK voices in this are wonderful too.

[@AirshBornely]

Yeah. Btw, the voice of Sabre the same as the one for Fox in Adventures

[@DieHardjagged]

Airsh Bornely Really ? Its the same VA?

[@retrogamermax8287]

Krystal wasn't erased from gaming history, she just become a Star Fox/Nintendo character instead of her own character.

[@bert7651]

@@retrogamermax8287 The original Krystal is gone. The star fox one is a new character based on the original Krystal. Different species, personality, clothes.

[@Samination]

There is no way to tell if it would've been a good game, but it does look awesome for an N64 game. I'm surprised it has voices!

[@relu419]

Rare was the BEST developer for N64. Look at the Conker potential.

[@bert7651]

I can tell it would have been the best n64 game, perhaps on the level of Dream.

[@williamkoscielniak820]

The moment I saw pictures of this game and learned a bit about it I had more hype for it than for any new IP I had ever encountered. The idea of an epic, Zelda inspired adventure game set in a world of dinosaurs just felt so right to me. I really believed it had a chance to be a masterpiece on the N64. It's such a goddamned shame that rare was forced to shoehorn lame ass Starfox and his lame ass friends into this game. It's a classic case of higher ups encroaching on an artists creativity to make a quick buck and making product worse as a result.

[@Wichniel14]

@That Friendly Nutty Squirrel Named Conker it was released as a Starfox game

[@icethecoyote8643]

​@@williamkoscielniak820 Because nintendo thought that the character Saber from Dinosaur Planet needed to be replaced by Fox McCloud. DP: YAY My own game! Nintendo: Nah your new title is Star Fox Adventures. DP: B-but- Nintendo: STAR. FOX. Fans: Aww shit.... Not another Star Fox title...

[@Megsducks]

I think about this game everyday, that's how bad I want it. I wish I was kidding.

[@GLI00M]

foxy grandpa same bro, in case you forgot, rememberrr...

[@lepidotos]

same

[@aclstudios]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this with cancelled games. Earthbound 64, Toon Panic, Sadness, Eternal Darkness II, Donkey Kong Racing, the 3D Kirby game (which we still never got; Air Ride doesn't count), many others as well, but worst of all: Sonic X-treme. :(

[@spikecomix6396]

I've wondered if some indie developers could recreate it now. I read somewhere that this game was supposed to use the Zelda64 Ocarina of Time Engine. This demo doesn't look like it's using that engine. However, there are dev tools to create levels and actors on the OOT engine. I think that theoretically you could recreate something like this game using that engine.

[@dekufiremage7972]

@@spikecomix6396 Seeing how rare it is for OoT romhacks to make any real progress, I doubt a fullscale recreation project of a different game would ever get completed. Would be really cool though

[@BlueGuy98]

If Nintendo ever makes an N64 Classic, they should put Dinosaur Planet in there

[@TurboPikachu]

I’m not sure. iirc, kind of like the situation with Banjo-Kazooie, I think Nintendo relinquished the rights of Dinosaur Planet back to Rare, meaning that we’d be more likely to see this on XBLA than an N64 Classic... But both of these prospects are muddied by the fact that much of Dinosaur Planet’s assets were merged into Nintendo’s Star Fox IP upon being reworked into Star Fox Adventures. Both Nintendo and Microsoft are in a legal gray area on the matter of Dinosaur Planet... Besides; more than anything, I want Playtonic, the studio made of Rareware veterans, to make a new IP inspired by Dinosaur Planet. Just as they made Yooka-Laylee out of their experience developing Banjo-Kazooie, I’d absolutely love to see them make a spiritual successor to Dinosaur Planet

[@matthewbuckley7757]

@@TurboPikachu i agree a game like this on the Switch would be awesome and have David Wise do the soundtrack for the game too.

[@keatonkitsune4064]

One of the most poorly handled IPs I've ever seen... The potential...Now I just wanna know the entire story, its so unlike Rare not full of Conker's vulgarity or Banjo's goofiness an actual mature looking story.

[@Mudkip971]

Be glad that at least Nintendo has the IP. If they didn't Microsoft would had either ignored it, poorly reboot it or turned it into Boob Simulator 360.

[@nightshroud9671]

Nintendo has the Dinosaur Planet IP?

[@Mudkip971]

night shroud96 yes

[@JMFSpike]

Rare really needs to go back to Nintendo, but Microsoft probably wouldn't let them go. I know it's not the same team of people, and they would most likely still not be as good as they were during the 90's, but they'd make much better games with Nintendo then they've been making with Microsoft. Nintendo knows how to utilize them much better then Microsoft, and the kinds of games they make are far, far better suited for a Nintendo platform. The characters and worlds they create are just very out of place on X-Box, a system that targets a more mature audience that doesn't care much about anything that's not a shooter of some sort. Colorful and cartoony games that anyone can play and enjoy just don't sell on X-Box consoles.

[@RainyBankai]

JMFSpike This game was the reason rare left Nintendo dumbass

[@ahatt96]

Call me crazy, but I like the graphics here more than in Adventures. I don't know what it is, but the n64 has a charm to it that hasn't been matched.

[@simonemichelle5367]

ahatt96 true, but I still think Starfox Adventures is the most beautiful game I've ever played 😊

[@Tjerty]

@@simonemichelle5367 Must not have played many games in your life then.

[@simonemichelle5367]

Tjerty I've played heaps, but Starfox has a certain charm that I haven't found in any other game. What's the most beautiful game you've ever played?

[@TheMangerChild]

@@simonemichelle5367 You oughta try Ori and The Blind Forest

[@markandisobel]

you are so very right about this

[@XtremGaia]

That would have been another Rare Masterpiece for the N64.

[@parkerplatt7201]

Yup. But there are chances of a rom being leaked on the internet in the future.

[@HeilRay]

It surely would of been on my shelf.

[@menokisfiu3513]

this is starfox adventures

[@midnightnhim5836]

Xtremgaia Would have looked great right next to Banjo-Kazooie. For shame Nintendo, for shame! >:(

[@lowmax4431]

God I hope so.

[@MrThischarmingman2]

God... I love Star Fox Adventures... but this... this... I can only wish that this was what was made instead. So much potential here, and it never saw the light of day. I can only dream of what this game would have been like in it's finished form, and the sad thing is we never will see such a thing.

[@Sigismund697]

MrThischarmingman2 check the cutting room floor's article on dinosaur planet, it has tons of information about the original plot that were found in SFA's code

[@jaimecardenas4958]

RarewAre was a lot more better at heart than people for sure

[@releasethedogs]

A beta was release today. Go play it.

[@thiagovidal6137]

Graphics are mighty impressive. Damn N64 had so much hidden power.. It's insane how the graphics on that console evolved in it's 4 to 5 years of existence. You compare the first year and the last year and some games look almost a generation apart.

[@lowmax4431]

It looks awesome on a CRT with s-video and anti-aliasing disabled.

[@kagley]

I want to live in a universe where this was completed on N64 and Nintendo kept making Star Fox games that added on to 64's formula rather than changed everything.

[@releasethedogs]

You can play it now. A beta was leaked.

[@misterkyler]

The music in the beginning fight is SO much more badass than SFA. It pulls you into this story and what is going on.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

The music in the beginning fight is still in SFA.

[@2shadowgamer2]

I know this is an old comment but I am pretty positive that the music at the start of the game is the same in the final product, and as someone who has played Starfox Adventures multiple times I can tell you that not much has changed from this beta and Starfox Adventures. I am actually surprised at how much was kept from the original beta. Ofcourse it is not exactly the same but almost everything shown here also made its way to Starfox Adventures.

[@GLI00M]

2shadowgamer2 the compositions are slightly different from some songs, also the instruments, I think the voices from the n64 version from the galleon battle sound better

[@KookieStar]

That's the CloudRunner Fortress' theme in SFA xD

[@Assimandeli]

Miyamoto looked at the first five minutes and went "a flying fox? Make it starfox lol"

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Ol Shigsy can be a dick at times.

[@kattman4605]

@@basilofgoodwishes4138 Yuurrrrpp*

[@mdalsted]

Not one of his better decisions.

[@mybuddyob]

Facts 😂

[@jaimecardenas4958]

Dramatic it was rareware after he said an opinion which is allowed! Bad understandings you people are terrible

[@zachcunningham7607]

Whoever has a playable copy of this game needs to leak it online.

[@Luckyrabbit1927]

It's finally happened!

[@verguco6051]

i have good news for you, it happened

[@icethecoyote8643]

Yup Forest Of Illusion have finally released the dump.

[@damian9303]

If only it was the copy here with Sabre.

[@icethecoyote8643]

@@damian9303 Actually Sabre's Model is in the ROM file and we have modded to switch Fox's Model to Sabre.

[@vico7727]

Rareware: So what do you think about our new N64 game? Nintendo: Well you have a fox, and you know, we have a fox. What if we combine bough foxes to create one ultimate game with our fox. Rareware: But this is not possible. We almost finished the game and Starfox simply is aaaaaa... well... Boom, boom and fly, fly. We can't make this Starfox, it doesn't work. Everyone will hate it. Nintendo: Great you agreed. I want the game by Friday. Rareware: But... Nintendo: Yeah you're right. Make it for the Gamecube. Ou. And finish it by Wednesday. Rareware: Oh,@#$#.

[@Brokenface]

Vi CO Adventures is not so bad

[@Matanumi]

its certainly rushed though epsically the end.

[@gameguy_64]

Yeah basically

[@jonathanc2959]

@@Matanumi well there was the small matter of the Microsoft buyout happening at the same time the choice was either rush it out so dinasour planet can be released in some form and not have a Donkey Kong Racing fate or cancel it.

[@jaimecardenas4958]

Rareware was happy unlike the imbeciles morons on these sites they agreed about the similarities

[@superearthbender]

The atmosphere was much better in Dinosaur Planet.

[@mdalsted]

True, but the lighting was not.

[@thatoneguy9549]

@@mdalsted Well, yeah, it was an N64 game, not really fair to compare.

[@mdalsted]

@@thatoneguy9549 I dunno, I swear there were other N64 games with better lighting.

[@thatoneguy9549]

@@mdalsted While that may be true, this game(or at least, this version) is also incomplete, so who knows what it could've been like had it been completed.

[@mdalsted]

@@thatoneguy9549 Good point.

[@Novelboy2112]

General Scales is so much creepier in this, I love it. Turning this into a Star Fox game may have been the worst decision Shigeru Miyamoto ever made.

[@r13lilwendz]

Nah that would be forcing motion controls on players in Star Fox Zero

[@Novelboy2112]

Worse than sabotaging an entire potential franchise? The motion controls were bad but in the case of Dinosaur Planet, Miyamoto basically hijacked and imploded what could've been a great game with SEQUELS!

[@dab2312]

@Energytainment you had to edit this and it still reads like a child wrote it. your embellishment of the term genius is ironic because you come off as having a very smooth brain.

[@12coolbro]

@@Novelboy2112 So hypothetically if Dinosaur Planet came to be it’s own game without interference from Miyamoto, would these “sequels” be Xbox exclusives, since Microsoft bought Rare? The IP would be Microsoft’s property.

[@vico7727]

You know what's not fair? That after all the work Rare put in Dinosaur Planet, Nintendo just changed it to Starfox in the last second! And when Rare left Nintendo, Nintendo kept all the rights to the game. So, Krystal, all the dinosaurs, side characters, environments and villains are owned by Nintendo without them doing anything for the game!

[@nintendo1889x]

So? I'm glad Nintendo has the IP, Rare is not the same company we all love and know. Most of the staff left to their own thing. Can't blame them, who'd want to be a part of MS?

[@vico7727]

Don't get me wrong. like the fact that MS doesn't own the ip. But what Nintendo did was still unfair.

[@nintendo1889x]

Vi CO They would have ruined it if Microsoft owned the IP. You don't know the true story on why Rare was bought by Microsoft, do you? It wasn't a simply matter of "Nintendo selling it" outright, there were numerous factors. B the time it was obtained, almost all the original workers left to do their own thing. People need to move on and accept SFA for what it is instead of bemoaning and mourning on what could have been.

[@vico7727]

I know the story. I just don't think it was fair that after all the work Rare put into the game Nintendo just claimed ownership on their game without doing anything for the game. I know that Ms would'v messed the franchise up but how would you fell if you spend years working on something and then your forced to change it and then the thing you worked on is taken away from you by someone who didn't help you at all with the thing you worked on?

[@nintendo1889x]

Vi CO The Rare we know doesn't even exist in the way you think it does. It's a shell of it's former past, it wouldn't be able to use the IP and would be forced to port them to Microsoft consoles. Most of the employees don't even work there anymore, the founder and co-founder no longer work there, so there'd be no one really, to work with the IP. If they had the IP, it wouldn't be used by Rare either, it would end up in a void no matter what. People are just bitter that Nintendo intervened. Well guess what, I like the final form of SFA more than this, so tough. Rare is not the company we once knew, they will not be the same, thanks to Microsoft. Get over it. We get it, you're upset, you've said your piece, move on.

[@AbyssmalAngel]

One day I learned that I was more creative and powerful with my artwork when I moved from 18x24 inch paper to 6 (approx.) 3.5x6 inch rectangles on the same sheet. Console limitations sometimes promoted greater creativity and intuitiveness to make a great game. (Keep in mind, Im a PC gamer). And the look of this (although not as clean) is much more appealing to me than the finished Star Fox game. Maybe that's just me.

[@NotZippy1]

You my friend deserve a medal for that.

[@parkerplatt7201]

I totally agree, that could not have been said better, AbyssmalAngel. Being the artist that I am, it's fun to practice and challenge yourself in various art styles, whether that be something that ranges from 8-bit, to 64-bit, heck even 256 color, or wow, even 16 million colors for that matter. I've noticed how much I've developed in the past 5 years, and it's been pretty amazing. Besides various art styles, I also like to computer model, and program my own games using those models.

[@anniemouse3853]

Imagine this: People have been waiting 12 years for it's release. I just found this last year and I've been dying for it

[@trynextmonday]

Chris and Tim Stamper left Rare, I don't think that is possible...

[@turbone6028]

Yes and coupled with the fact that such a game was intended firstly for the n64 is truly mind boggling.

[@jaimecardenas4958]

Rareware did what people call crap it’s people fault with their misunderstanding and drama . Starfox is a lot better than people are making it seem

[@neuerehrgeiz7816]

How unfortunate. I feel like this would've been an awesome game.

[@TurboPikachu]

I want Playtonic to revive this concept. Seriously, instead of a Twooka-Laylee, I'd love to see the original Dinosaur Planet concept they had, revamped with their decades of improved art design. Just give this feline Krystal, her adoptive brother Sabre, Kyte, Tricky, and all the notable enemy characters different names and some design tweaks. With Playtonic's artistic talents, I'd love to see how they handle a game that takes itself a bit more seriously and has clearer, story-driven directive to aid the player in such open worlds.

[@therandom_dude]

SAME!

[@WolfieRiddle93]

Thats what i was thinking!

[@TurboPikachu]

Oakland Elliff any info on what Phil Tossel is up to now? I’d love to see that team get back together and make something

[@Dash120z]

I wish they had moved this game to the Gamecube and that's it.. no Star Fox characters slapped on it, just Dinosaur Planet on the Gamecube.

[@DieHardjagged]

Blame fucking Miyamoto for it.. i still dont know how he dared to compare Saber to Fox.. he totally killed the Game and should be ashamed of it.. this could had been the last great Game from Rare for the N64..

[@alanbrizan]

and Kristy would be an Microsoft character

[@vappyvap8814]

Krystal would still have been a blue cat instead of a blue fox.

[@spikecomix6396]

@@vappyvap8814 are you sure she was originally supposed to be a blue cat? It almost looks like she was supposed to be a blue fox but the model had to be low-poly because of the limitations of the N64.

[@vappyvap8814]

Spike Comix More like bobcat. Check the concept art for Dinosaur Planet.

[@BOTFGJSMJ]

I see allot of people saying that "Rare should remake this game, and release it for the Wii U" and stuff like that. I know i'm not the only one, so i'll lay it down for you. The year 2K was coming, and so was E3-2000 Rare had a hype of games (as well did Nintendo). Banjo-Toole, The Legend Of Zelda: Majoras Mask, and many other popular titles. This just happened to be one project that rare was working on. In late/early 1999 the game was in production, at E3-2000 (the video clips you see on the internet) is what was demoed... OK i'll skip the boring stuff, heres where "THE CHANGE" happens. Shigeru Miyamoto later started to recognize how similar Sabre was to Fox McCloud, and pretty much said "Hey why don't we use the Star Fox Characters in DP?" So without further ado, Rare decided to scrap the whole idea and add the Star Fox IP's to the game. The game later then became known as "Star Fox: Dinosaur Planet" in late 2001, then was later changed to Star Fox Adventures (2002). Now exactly why was this game ported over to the Gamecube, even though Rare seemed very confident in pushing the N64 to it's limit? Well! The Nintendo 64 just wasn't able to step up to the newly released consoles during the early years of 2000 and 2001. The Playstation 2 was coming out, and Nintendo had their own "Gamecube" coming out as well. So with the 'newer' hardware meant better graphics, and possibly better games, and with those 2 combined equals MONEY. SF/DP was then ported over to the Game Cube. The year is now 2002. In September 2002, Nintendo finally released the widely known Star Fox Adventures on the Gamecube, as well for it would be known as 'Rare's VERY LAST GAME with Nintendo'. Rare was late bought out by Microsoft, and Rare went into making other games for the regular Xbox and 360 console such as Grabbed By The Ghoulies, and the not-so-successful Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts N' Bolts. Microsoft NOW OWNS RARE and I doubt very seriously Rare will be making a "Dinosaur Planet" title due to Nintendo owning the rights to Dinosaur Planet, Krystal, and all if not "half" of the DP story. If I am correct I believe Nintendo >DOESN'T< own the right to Sabre. But I could be wrong here. NOW I have heard people say that back in 2008 Rare DID try to make some type of successor to Dinosaur Planet, however failed. Probably due to licensing issues with Nintendo or something? My personal thought on this is I do believe DP would've been a very solid, if not successful game for the time being. It's nice to see Rare Push the N64 to incredible limits, and you have to admit that almost ALL of Rare's games on the Nintendo 64 DID push the console to a limit we've never seen. Extraordinary game design, music, and voice acting (for the time). It is sad to see this game be completely shoveled behind, but let's take a moment to admire the Star Fox Adventures we know and love today. It was a great game, and had outstanding graphics on the Gamecube. Rare really DID go out with a bang!

[@jah5390]

Bro you're cringe

[@BOTFGJSMJ]

Born in Wrong Generator eat me.

[@Fuchsfein]

The game is finally out there! It appears to be one of the last, if not the final build before development switched to Gamecube. Sadly Fox McCloud had already replaced Sabre in the released build but the original story and voice acting remains mostly intact, it seems the voice actor only re-recorded a couple of lines to replace mentions of Sabre's name. Words can't express how happy I am that I finally get to experience this game in its original vision. It would have been a jewel on the N64 had it been released. The music, graphics everything about it is pure childhood nostalgia and takes me back to the N64 days. What a time to be alive. Rareware's N64 games were magic. To play a "new" one after 20 years is an incredible experience.

[@milojkokitic6991]

Sabre is still in the files so with some modding he can be brought back

[@Fuchsfein]

Your link isn't working for me, but I read about it. You change into Sabre when using the disguise spell, so he definitely can be restored which makes me really happy. As much as I like the Starfox characters and games they don't belong here, this game should have been its own thing. It was charming and perfect as it was.

[@milojkokitic6991]

@@Fuchsfein i havent put any link in there, maybe i accidentaly put a dot instade of space somewhere so youtube maybe recognized it as link EDIT: looks like i accidentaly did place dot instade of space, there was no link there :)

[@icethecoyote8643]

@@milojkokitic6991 You know if I knew how to modify a ROM file I would gladly replace Fox McCloud's Model to Sabre's Model. Probably even upload it to Google Drive for people to use if I ever do figure out how.

[@Fuchsfein]

@@icethecoyote8643 There is now a patch on the Dinosaur Planet wiki that fixes some of the bugs and adds a useful cheat menu to the game. It allows you to warp to any map in the game, jump to any point in the story, unlock all abilities, fly around the map with noclip, play as Sabre instead of Fox, disable anti aliasing, access the unused options menu and there's even a simple music and sfx test built in. You can find the patch on dinosaurplaDOTnet in the mods section.

[@bumpndump9643]

so the original n64 version didnt have that invented languaje? interesting, also Krystal´s desingne changed a looooooooooooot thank to the addition of starfox...i would preffer this game over the one we got...

[@LHeyMX]

+Nicolas Cortés It's the same shit

[@bumpndump9643]

EpicGift it clearly isnt

[@LHeyMX]

Nicolas Cortés yes it is

[@kristyyocum4362]

+Nicolas Cortés they super sexualized crystal:\ made her a pieace of meat instead of a badass

[@StarFalcc]

Krystal*

[@StiffAftermath]

THis game would of been my favorite game on the N64 almost certainly!!!

[@LaSagadeF]

The graphics, the music, the gameplay... it is a shame it did not come to the great N64

[@addictedtoRS]

All enhanced and pushed to their absolute limits on the Gamecube. I'm very pleased with the end result.

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@addictedtoRS not me. If it was on the GameCube, they should’ve stuck with the original concept.

[@mistamontiel00]

Well we've got it now =} Leaked

[@RedVanquish]

I would have bought the shit out of this game. Nintendo, you disappoint me. I don't even remotely care how the N64 was doing in this time.

[@Avilnetro]

What difference does it make? Just because it's on the Nintendo 64? Star Fox Adventures is essentially the same game, except it improved on the existing content of Dinosaur Planet and added more. I think the real reason people hate Star Fox Adventures and love this game are N64 fanboys. It's like hating a piece of toast that was toasted in toaster-A because it's a different color than toaster-B.

[@RedVanquish]

That isn’t essentially the reason I hate the path Nintendo took with this game. Not to say I don’t think it was a smart idea; from a game development standpoint, making a game with Nintendo usually confirms that it will live on forever for as long as you have a contract with them. The reason I dislike the idea Nintendo took, was because the original design of the game’s storyline was completely non-canonical. It was the first of its kind, by Rare. From where it was going it proved more successful than Adventures. It really breaks my heart that this version of the game will never see the light of day ever. Another reason why I disapprove of the motion Nintendo took was simply putting Starfox on the cover. It ruins the entire formula of the game in general. Now, we all know that Fox McCloud is an Air Pilot; we know it’s usually hard to picture Fox in a game that’s about land exploration, which gave off a large Turok/Tomb Raider vibe. The game’s design was originally just land exploration, so when Nintendo added Arwing flight to the ridiculously small portions of the game where you fly through space into the force point temples and chunks of land, you feel a little confuzed. The reason is because Fox is normally assumed to be in the Cockpit of an Arwing, not facing off against Sharpclaw with a mystical staff. Because the balance between Arwing Flight and On-Foot Adventure is so largely different, it keeps the game in a state of being Off-Balance. This is because Nintendo took a working formula and broke it to a large degree. Gameplay wise, the adventuring and combat has most certainly been cleaned up a LOT. This is very clear. And the visuals were so gorgeous, this game was so ahead of its time, even after it was remade. Because of the massive change to the formula that made Dinosaur Planet shimmer, turn into a feint dim, is why I hate Starfox Adventures so much. It was a wonderful game with, granted, a few bugs and problems, but the game was so vanilla and had shown SO much promise. But now is no longer something that can happen. It makes me sad that it can’t happen, and if need be, I would pay handsomely to get a hand on the prototype. Or a copy of it, at least. So no, I cannot say I am like the other people who hate Starfox JUST because Fox is in it. If the formula for the game was balanced out, I would have absolutely no problem with Fox being in the game. But because Nintendo basically broke a perfectly working game formula, is why I hate the game in general.

[@Avilnetro]

Red Vanquish I agree with you, the game wasn't the most balanced and I don't feel that it would've originally fit in with the Star Fox series, but I think the end result was stunningly good and helped build more on the series' lore. But I agree that if Dinosaur Planet was its own series, it would fit in much better with itself. In my opinion though, they took two great games and merged them into one. I like that Star Fox took a different approach to itself, adds more variety. I think Assault was much more balanced than Adventures though.

[@xyex]

Red Vanquish Agreed. Wanted this game so much. Lost interest as soon as it was turned into a Star Fox game.

[@xyex]

Avilnetro X Yeah, no. There were a lot of changes, and a LOT of cuts, because of the change to being a Star Fox game. Do a little research and you'll see that the difference is they took a great game and made it into a mediocre one because Fox's face sells games.

[@hued2542]

AND HERE WE ARE IN THE FUTURE !

[@indask8]

I went on KZbin to see if there is footage of the new release... not yet.

[@Cyber_Akuma]

@@indask8 This is still interesting footage to see, since the build in this video still has some considerable differences than the one that just leaked.

[@daymanfighterofthenightman]

The game is beatable now with the discord patches!!!

[@KentaroMiyamoto21]

Hmm. What if Nintendo remade Adventures to be more like this? Still part of the Star Fox universe, but with Krystal as the protagonist. Fox could still be playable, but it would be more Krystal's story.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Nah.

[@LastGuardian98]

+Idazmi7 I agree

[@Lucifronz]

Fuck that. Even if Rare wasn't owned by Microsoft, if they were just to keep Star Fox in it, I wouldn't want it.

[@Matanumi]

I'd like to see saber and fox be separate characters... Scales return (so we can finally kick his ass) and Draknor being the real big bad playing more of arole.

[@Matanumi]

DP "later called Suaria" was different from the rest of lylat- we got to see tribes and serious backstory from one planet... imagine if we saw this for the rest of the planets in game star fox universe?

[@MrPeanut624]

Wow! I never knew the track from the warp rooms and magic caves came from Dinosaur Planet! I always knew there was something more to that song, it was very calming and I'd just leave the game running to hear it play. David Wise is a music legend!

[@quackk_kk]

The fact that we now have a playable build of this game is crazy, I salute to Forest of Illusion for their work!

[@Demonskunk]

It's a shame this was changed so much for the worse when Star Fox Adventures was made. I wonder why they decided to completely sideline Krystal instead of just featuring her as an active partner character. Either way, this gameplay is hella impressive for the N64.

[@zero1zerolast393]

The code didn't work property on the gamecube. Given time, they could have fix it but the Microsoft buyout gave them a time limit that could not be extended.

[@addictedtoRS]

What was changed for the worse other than better playable characters? The gameplay is almost identical, except obviously improved in a lot of ways for the Gamecube due to its much stronger hardware.

[@gthreek]

Krystal's transformation from "strong warrior maiden" to "bikini-clad bint that gets trapped at the very start" is one of the most astounding things about this

[@cutesyprincess14]

Blue Boob Mcfurry Dream.

[@bigdilfenergy6217]

Although I love the N64 aesthetic I'm glad it was ported to Gamecube. It looks so beautiful at 480p and 60fps. I wish it stayed it's own game.

[@ninteniam2153]

Here after the actual damn game leaked finally. Still amazed. First Zelda OOT beta stuff dumps and now this? Incredible

[@icethecoyote8643]

Yup, we all prayed that someday the game would get leaked and we never expected it till now.

[@willamobrien6292]

It's probably RARE to find a rom of this game

[@menokisfiu3513]

this is starfox adventures

[@DieHardjagged]

Haha.. that pun.. clever tho.

[@Lucifronz]

+Zetosz которая сосет It really isn't. It's a totally different game without all of the shitty changes that were implemented. I think I could have loved this when I was younger. Instead it became this creepy (not scary creepy just... uncanny valley and C-Movie cheesy creepy) amalgamation of Star Fox and bad decisions.

[@JDBmoviefilms]

​@@menokisfiu3513 no offense, but bullshit

[@RetroArcadeGuy]

I see what you did there.

[@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

00:00 Intro (Galleon Battle - Early Warlock Mountain) 17:44 dark Ice Mines 1 21:42 dark Ice Mines 2 33:06 Early CloudRunner Fortress 34:32 Ice Mountain 35:25 EarthWalker Temple (early Walled City) 40:05 Early discovery Falls 40:46 Early Cape Claw 42:30 Test of Fear (MMShrine) 44:21 Early Sabre's Intro (Early Ice Mountain Race) 48:12 Early CloudRunner Fortress 50:58 Boss Galadon 53:59 Menu 54:24 Early death state

[@BooAngels1209]

11:40 Triceratops: Help 11:57 Triceratops: You can’t help me THEN WHY DID YOU ASK FOR HELP?!

[@kayokango]

Nintendo murdered what more than likely would've been one of the greatest N64 games of all time, "Dinosaur Planet". In it's place, they released some mutilated, whittled down mess called "Star Fox Adventures", which was the harbinger of the qualitative land slide and ultimate death of the Star Fox series. All in all, definitely not one of Nintendo's brightest chapters by any means.

[@azuresaiyan9005]

They killed 2 birds with one stone.

[@Avilnetro]

I don't understand your hatred towards Star Fox Adventures. They took this game, greatly improved the puke-textured graphics, took literally nothing out aside from Krystal's roles in the game, and improved on nearly every aspect of the game-play. I'm sure it would've been a great N64 game, but they did the right thing by waiting and releasing it on a much more powerful and better looking system. I'm not sure how I feel of it being incorporated into Star Fox as I think it would've been great with its original characters, but I also like how Star Fox Adventures impacted the future games of the series. A lot of people hate SFA just because it's not like its predecessors, but I think the game was greatly successful because it dared to be different. I bet if it was released as it was originally intended, it would've been cast aside and forgotten fast due to the end of the N64's shelf-life. Star Fox Adventures was shiny new on a brand new console and offered a spectacular adventure to the people who played on their GameCube for the first time.

[@Uberdust5]

I can't help but agree. Starwolf went from being Starfox's hated blood enemies, to lame animu-esk friendly rivals. Plus the series was flooded with stupid, superfluous and annoying characters such as Amanda, Lucy and Panther who came in and stole Leon's personality, and Leon became Egor. It really did start with Krystal and Starfox Adventure. That was the beginning of ALL of the series' problems. As much of a load of suckass Starfox has become, at least we'll always have Starfox, Starfox 2 and Starfox 64, they ain't going no where.

[@MrPoeGhost]

kayokango I think you're being a bit too dramatic. Star Fox Adventures wasn't nearly as bad as everyone says it was. Speaking as someone who has gone into the game and played it front to back with an objective mindset, it's _far_ from the worst game out there, both on a technical and conceptual level. Wasted potential? Yeah, to a degree. But at the end of the day, it happened. It's a thing. It ceased to be Dinosaur Planet and became Star Fox Adventures, which in the end, really aren't terribly different to each other. Either take it or leave it, but still bitching about it well over a decade later isn't gonna suddenly make a finished N64 cartridge of the pre-conversion original crop up on eBay or Amazon.

[@Undeabducks]

Poe Ghost Mega burn

[@ravenknepp]

its kind of sad this could have been great

[@mldgameing]

if you havent heard the news the game has been found and is now playable

[@kejiri3593]

@@mldgameing the whole game? The whole rom you mean?

[@kejiri3593]

@@mldgameing Wow you are right. Downloading this. Nintendo is probably not gonna rerelease this anyways! Looks amazing!

[@AirshBornely]

I'm watching this as I begin a new file in SFA to compare both. Rather interesting and depressing... Funny how the little dock that was alined with the ship in DP still exist in SFA. It basicallly has no purpose anymore and only serves as a reference to the original concept.

[@RevolutionaryOven]

Wow. I have to say I am overwhelmingly impressed. While the overall level design and HUD doesn't look complete exactly, the cutscenes were something to behold. I've never seen such flawless facial expressions, exquisite camera angles and impressive effects. Compared to many other N64 games I've seen, this one runs so fast with such a large area to render. This is one incredible masterpiece that I (as much as I like Nintendo) think Nintendo totally screwed up. It would have been fine if they published it, just leave Starfox out of it. Anyone else want to see if somehow some other game company might be able to get together and release the original? This would truly stand out as a great piece on its own.

[@DieHardjagged]

Gilamex I think a reimagination would work best nowadays on PC with an easy to use Engine..i would do it myself if i could Program in C but i just cant.

[@shelagado1379]

If you mean by “run fast” in fps (framerate) actually a Q&A with a staff member that worked on this game he said “Even added with the required use of the Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak. Dinosaur Planet ran no faster than 15fps with most 3D for N64 ran 30fps or a little higher” and said “When I saw this run at E3 2000, it made me cringe so much. The game took advantage of the Nintendo 64 so much the game would be so laggy that it would sometimes crash, making Nintendo Helpers restart the console from time to time.” So, that’s some information I wanted to share.

[@jackpar9813]

I much preferred Krystal's voice in this than the new one

[@TakkuriHimare]

I think it's the same VA.

[@jackpar9813]

Takkuri Himare Well she sounds completely different in Adventures, but you could be right.

[@TakkuriHimare]

Part of it's probably because she talks in dinosaur a lot and she has a stronger accent when speaking English to sound more exotic or something. I dunno. I wish she spoke more like this though.

[@Sonic09Hedgehog]

She Talks in this Game a Bit More British

[@jackpar9813]

Sonic 2099 The Hedgehog wat?

[@Cyber_Akuma]

Pretty interesting to compare this to the recent leak. I wonder if this build will ever leak someday too, has some differences that kind of made it feel like the version that leaked, even if it was further in development, was not as good. (Like how the towers in that room with the pressure-plate switch puzzle were already knocked over in that version). UI is also considerably different.

[@the_dook2145]

The original game has spaceships, hovercrafts, and those jet speeders? With Sci-Fi tech like that, dinosaur planet might fit into the Star Fox universe more than most people think.

[@ETXAlienRobot201]

the problem lies not in the two being compatible in concept, it's that the way in which they were merged left nothing but gaping plot holes and not always so great gameplay. Pretty much anything that could've realistically tied starfox adventures into the storyline was pretty much cut. That's on top of the things that tied the very core of the game's story together ultimately being scrapped. Remove some levels, reduce a main character to basically nothing but a fine example of "sex sells", and a shell of her former self. But, we're not done yet... Add-in stuff that the dev tools simply were not designed for creating/debugging, thus add-in programmer's NIGHTMARE. Add-in starfox-specific stuff that takes-away from the existing game/engine's time to actually be finished/updated. Move to the new console, so update the assets, re-write significant portions of the code and change the file formats, thus add filesize, and stress on programmer and artist/animator alike. Just for kicks, throw in a rushed deadline. (Deadlines are really good for only one thing consistently: stressing those working on a project to get it done faster than is realistic/reasonable. Stuff gets rushed, stuff gets cut, and TERRIBLE decisions are made to make 'better' use of time.) Deadlines played a large role in why General Scales is the ULTIMATE pushover of a "tyrant ruler of an entire tribe on a conquest for world domination". He was still to be a pawn, but he WAS supposed to be someone you fight. Andross took priority over that. Some parts of the game even LOOK rushed, because they were. The true problem isn't DP was incompatible with starfox, it's that that whole transition was handled VERY poorly, producing an empty shell of a game full of plot holes within itself, and serving as one massive plothole in a whole series of games, all because one large corporation was buying out rare, and another wanted a new starfox title cuz "well, we need a new starfox title, oh, this game looks like a good candidate!" The only thing that really can be applauded are the graphics, in most cases. But, then look at all that has been released/recovered/revealed about DP, and especially its graphics. It had a good and very well written story going, some interesting gameplay elements, and as far as technology was concerned, pushing the very limits of what the Nintendo64 could do, or was believed to even be capable of. It was truly a thing of beauty. Adventures just can't compare with that when one sits down and dissects what each game was/is like, and even the decisions that went into the creation of the final product. You could probably even say Adventures was a bootleg. A lot more is wrong with SFA than storyline/tech compatibility. Sadly, this is the 'main' reason it's scorned. The true reason is it was just done poorly in general.

[@DieHardjagged]

Im being honest here, real honest.. Miyamoto shouldnt had fucked with the Game.. it could HAD been a GREAT GAME if they had just updated Dinosaur Planet and switched it over to the Gamecube.. but since Miyamoto fucked with the IP, he literally killed it.. this man cant leave shit alone, his decision was THE WORSt he ever did.. and as i said.. switching Development over to the Gamecube UNCHANGED could had given us a great Product.. (well if Rare hadnt been bought out by Microsoft back then)

[@BlueAmpharos]

Dang, that ship fight seems a lot more involved than I remember in the final one, but then I might not remember it well either. The ship always felt empty like I was missing something on it too, now I know it's because there was going to be an enemy there. Krystal as a character also seems more developed here, and that interaction with General Scales gave some interesting plot elements already. The ship General Scales is on also seems more relevant to the plot, because in Star Fox Adventures the moving head on it just seemed weird to me and was never explained, and we just needed to assume it was mechanical, but it seems more like it was originally going to be organic here. The voice acting, as already mentioned, did need work though, most noticeably after they land and Kite said "Krystal. Get me out of here." as if she was bored. The game in general has a darker tone, and I think this could have been a stronger story if Fox wasn't put in it and given a questionable reason why he can't use his blaster, not to mention the end where some of the stuff about the story seems to make sense when it's over. Lasers aren't okay but fire blasts and earthquake shockwaves are? The final product does have the environments, and gameplay, and bosses in the final version though, so that's good. I do wish that the icicles freezing the water remained in, I loved the freeze ray in Rocket: Robot on Wheels the water pots hardening sections of lava in Wind Waker, but really this seems like it was just something to shoot at to make platforms appear so it hardly made a difference. Star Fox Adventures is still a good game, it's just people comparing it to other Star Fox, and the thought of what it could have been, maybe something greater and more unique. Again, gameplay is pretty much the same, maybe even better in Star Fox Adventures, and that is the most important part, and is more so than the story, but I do wish we could have seen more of this version of it. Does anyone know why it skips around by the way?

[@TakkuriHimare]

www.rareminion.com has the full original storyline and characters that you can look at. The video skips around because this isn't a full version of the game as it never came close to being finished.

[@BlueAmpharos]

Takkuri Himare Okay, thanks ^^

[@DracoHandsome]

Krystal's British accent And that guy's Scottish accent THEY'RE NOT FURRIES AT ALL THEY'RE JUST HAIRY UK PEOPLE

[@olex94]

The game exists! Amazing that after 12 years of waiting! A big thank you from you to be able to upload 60 minutes of gameplay. I realize that this is not the final version, but I hope to at least play it a day, or almost have the final ROM. Even better than the so Rare! : p

[@jeanenep33]

Actually, the original story is completely different. Its been leaked, and I read it. It's very long and seriously different.

[@bluedragonfire4960]

The graphics and music are actually quite impressive, even today. This game would have been one of the classic n64 titles.

[@ChessPieceRook]

Why is it the N64's lighting engine in this game felt so much more alive and, dare I say, cinematic, than most modern lighting engines?

[@Ur2ez4me81]

Someone has the beta version of this out there somewhere... Please find a way to reproduce this game even if it unfinished... BTW, they should have released both versions of this game.

[@DieHardjagged]

Well, at least we now have at least 73 Music Tracks for this Game. Also, theres an Audio File with at least 1 Hours and 20 Minutes of Voice Dialogue.

[@DieHardjagged]

Liberty Prime Thanks for the Info, its always good to know more and yes, i heard that Rare trashed the E3 Cartridge since it was no longer working..

[@vashsan71]

They could have easily finished this game put it on the N64 and still made star fox adventures as a sequel to it or a cross over or alternate path. Star fox adventures was still a great game but I would have loved to see how dinosaur planet could have turned out

[@idclol7122]

+Liberty Prime Where do people get the idea that there was only one cartridge existing and that it just so happens to be destroyed? During E3 2000, Rare had demos for this game and about 10 setups for demoing. I don't believe Rare would just trash the handful of working demo carts and only keep one that happens to be corrupted. It might just be me, but I believe that Rare most likely kept the extra carts and gave them to the people who worked on the game. I'm sure if there is a working cart out there, that whoever has it is most likely hiding it from the public probably for copyright issues, etc. Hopefully a ROM will show up sooner or later, even if it's the unfinished portion seen in this video

[@spikecomix6396]

Think about where cartridges come from... they are made by flashing a ROM onto the cart's memory chip. They might not have cartridges but the ROM must exist. They just don't want to leak it to the internet. Mostly because they don't want any trouble with copyright laws and stuff. I'll bet that sometime next decade the rom will randomly show up on the internet and people will be playing it on their phones via an emulator. It's kinda like Sonic X-treme and Star Fox 2.

[@Gabriel-vw3tq]

Miyamoto take shit on this game.

[@TRJ2241987]

I never moved onto the Gamecube from N64 and was so disappointed how Nintendo just halted development for absolutely everything for the N64. The NES had such a nice lifespan after the SNES had already been released, but they didn't do that for the N64. This, Eternal Darkness, and Animal Forest would have been some of the greatest games of all time. Dinosaur Planet did not deserve what happened to it, and the N64 really got robbed in general in its final years, there were going to be some fantastic games that were all axed.

[@DieHardjagged]

Yes its strange.. as soon as the lifespan of the N64 ended.. nothing came out afterwards..

[@7Marx7]

Being someone that played Star Fox Adventures, this is so fascinating to see. Nintendo really did Rareware dirty with this game.

[@DJWaffleston]

Possibly one of the worst decisions Miyamoto-san made since canning Star Fox 2. The lighting effects are perfect. It is unbelievable on how beautiful this game looks. Also, why does Sabre have the voice clips of Krystal? They didn't have any clips of him? He talks in cutscenes, so it's weird. Even so, the voice acting is laughably atrocious.

[@DracoHandsome]

The real irony is that the finished product is just as weird - Fox uses all of Krystal's very bouncy, feminine, butt-swinging animations.

[@Mudkip971]

At least Nintendo owns the IP. Imagine if Microsoft had this in possession. May I remind you of Young Conker?

[@jsalisbury2nd]

The shadows look really good too, and the eyes really impress me for a Nintendo 64 game. I have to be honest here, I actually really like the voice acting, but that's just me.

[@user-jf4lt4uk7u]

@@Mudkip971 OH GOD NO

[@daymanfighterofthenightman]

Its an unfinished game??

[@Sigismund697]

five spellstones and 8 krazoa spirits plus time travel, the original plot sure had much more about it than the rush caused by the MS take over allowed for.

[@gmaster2647]

Man, if this still came out for N64 it would be such an amazing title.

[@nonsensicalfox]

I wonder how early on in development this was? Comparing it with the leaked beta from 2000, you can see quite a few differences. But then again, Sabre still uses Krystal's icon here, and some of her voice clips, so this was probably a super early build that specifically won't ever see the light of day. But then again, I thought no version of this game ever would so who knows.

[@nonsensicalfox]

The late beta that we have still uses Sabre's icon and calls it "Sabre's Adventure", so I'm hoping someone will restore the original skin, because honestly that'd be pretty cool. I mean low priority after fixing the bugs that make the game unbeatable, but still, it'd be neat

[@milojkokitic6991]

@@nonsensicalfox model is still in the files so its possible

[@PkGam]

Incredible work finding and compiling these in one video!

[@skyrogue1977]

After years of wondering if this game would see the light of day, a miracle has allowed it to be.

[@gurb9738]

We need to petition Nintendo to get this version of this game on the EShop ASAP

[@noneofyourbusiness1998]

+Gurb They can't........can they?

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Nope. Dinosaur Planet would be Microsoft's property (due to eating Rare).

[@gurb9738]

Someone needs to just leak it. For the betterment of mankind.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Gurb I doubt the original code exists beyond this. You'd need someone to re-develop the whole thing. Problem is Krystal is owned by Nintendo. It would be cool to see a game similar to this though.

[@gurb9738]

MegaAstroFan18 If you look on Rare's channel, they even had the code to twelve tales conker, the alpha of conker's bad fur day. Hell, they even had project dream still intact. There is no way they don't have the code. I just think that since it's technically a nintendo property, they don't wanna show it.

[@saibot20194]

Man I've been playing this on my 64 and I have no doubt that this game would been an absolutely classic if it was released on the Nintendo 64, the story was ten times better and the gameplay is awesome & magical, it was so close to completion I would say like 80% done, this was a good call for the 64, too bad that they decided to pull the plug at the last minute. 😢

[@DKGH124]

For those who are for whatever reason unaware of this, this game later became Starfox: Adventures, for no real reason, they could have just ported it to the next console, improving graphics, etc. to retain popularity but kept it the same for the most part, but they had to include Starfox in the title to draw in more attention.

[@Meeeeeeeeeeeeh34]

Every now and then I come back here and realize just how weird the entire situation is....star fox adventures was one of my favorite games as a kid. Just to see how much these two IP is gotten mixed together in the final product will never stop being weird....I honestly can’t get over it

[@Rihcterwilker]

Have you played the leaked version?

[@toonrat]

And Miyamoto chose to make this Starfox Adventures instead because?

[@GoldMario5]

He was an idiot and saw that sabre looked like fox mcloud and changed some crap

[@Z95HeadHunter]

because he believed Fox Mccloud and only Fox Mccloud should be playable in a furry series and steal away the spotlight from Krystal and Sabre. (Sabre was her brother, not lover) at least that's a rumor

[@GoldMario5]

No its true. its her brother

[@Z95HeadHunter]

I LOVE Fox and Krystal's relationship, but I think the sibling relationship between Krystal and Sabre. Sister and brother more meaningful.

[@RedFoxKett]

BurningForever64 Um, they aren't really brother and sister as Randorn left Sabre behind at the Wolvens settlement, you could say that he just took care of Krystal or that he never 'officialy' adopted her. The leaked bios files mention that Sabre wants to ask her on a date after everything is over and that Krystal hopes that Sabre goes on a date with her. Randorn's bios mention that he wants to watch them lead Animus to an era of peace - together. So yeah, the files heavily hint a canon relationship.

[@ThundertheDragon]

Sure wish somebody would bring out a rom or something like that. I would totally play this game.

[@JoLiKMC]

Now this is something else! I remember some of this footage from an old Nintendo Power video (and later, IGN videos), but so much of this is brand new to the internet! This is quite simply amazing. THANK YOU for sharing this with the world, Falcon. I'm kind of curious how this fell into your hands, but I'm just happy this exists.

[@adriafro7321]

WE NEED A BOOT OF DINOSAUR PLANET....LIKE HE WOULD BE. Im a big fan of SFA and i'll like to see the first history

[@mdalsted]

This game should be re-released as "Sauria: Dinosaur Planet". Give it a graphical overhaul, better voice-acting, maybe tweak the gameplay a bit (including having the LoZ-style gameplay come BEFORE the rail-shooter stuff), and the only changes to the story (unless there are more flaws in said story) are that Krystal is a fox, and that this game is part of the Star Fox canon. No more changes than that; nothing as drastic as what Star Fox Adventures did, anyway.

[@BLOODY__FATALITY]

"Shoot the propeller!!!!!!!!" *shoots everywhere except the propeller*

[@Whocares158]

I know. XD The character's is trying to tell you. But the person isn't listening. XD

[@awesomstuff]

Could not believe it shows N64 Gameplay at first. The voices, the details (look at the ears and the tail in the sled sequence). This is awesome.

[@vito015]

To be honest, the game looks just like Star Fox Adventures, I dare to say they *added* things to the final game instead of removing them. I don't know why people complain a lot about this because the final game actually looks gorgeous, and the fact that Miyamoto decided to add Fox into the game I find it more like a crossover of Dinosaur Planet and Star Fox, both games collide and make a great game, even if people would disagree with me here. In fact, I must say I wouldn't have played this game if I wouldn't had seen Fox McCloud in it in the first place. If the game would had kept as "Dinasour Planet" only, there would be a lot of comments like "this is the most underrated game ever" etc etc, one of their plans was to attract Star Fox fans into this, and is not the first time Nintendo would do something like that. The game had its demands mostly because most of us saw Fox McCloud in it, I'm a big fan of the Star Fox series and I did like this game a lot.

[@TakkuriHimare]

They actually did remove a great deal of content and characters. I love Adventures, but if I had to change one thing, I'd say keep the feature to switch between Krystal and Fox/Sabre. Krystal and Fox's romance would have been more plausible, and Krystal wouldn't be as hated as she is now.

[@vito015]

Takkuri Himare That's true, Krystal had a lot of hate for being a new member of the Star Fox team, she didn't recieve a lot of fame as she would had in Dinosaur Planet only. About being able to switch between Krystal and Fox/Sabre, I don't know, I probably would felt it kind of fake shifting one character to the other in the same place, but I agree that Krystal needed more adventure from her part, not just for Fox in the whole game. The only thing I really dislike about the final game was how Andross self-insert into the game from nothing at the end, I really wanted to fight Scales so bad but that ending was really messed up, but beyond that, all the game its amazing.

[@TakkuriHimare]

To be fair, Scales was never planned to be the main villain. That dragon you fight at dragon rock was originally the main villain, I'm not sure if you would have fought Scales either way.

[@Vote4waifu]

The game was redone a few times. I have a feeling it would've been waaaay better and more polished if Miyamoto kept his mouth shut and they stuck with the original.

[@bert7651]

Still watching and weeping. Been playing a lot of Rare lately.

[@NortheasternATV]

THE MUSIC😍

[@machinegunbliss]

This game would have given Ocarina of Time a run for its money.

[@ahatt96]

ZOMBIƎE It could have easily been better than Ocarina of Time.

[@KegOfSweg]

With some extra time and polishing, yes

[@noneofyourbusiness1998]

+ZOMBIƎE Well, it was running on the same engine.....

[@user-jf4lt4uk7u]

So its not a zelda clone Except for that one remix sound from ocarina of time and the floating objects....and the magic caves........ And the health bar............. And Magic meter.............OK it is a zelda clone But a very good one

[@Bladerunner-yd5lk]

Yep this was rares take on zelda same way banjo was their take on mario 64. I personally like banjo more so the idea it was even possible this could have been better than ocarina makes me very angry indeed with miyamoto

[@SammyRenard]

*pushes the cage lightly* "Oops, doesn't open!"

[@Guims83]

I knew it was not meant to be a sarfox game originally, but I never thought it was that accomplished at the time ! Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@mspeter97]

Clearly an earlier build than the one we have now

[@bahooneyonastick]

This is definitely from a VHS; you can tell from the whizzing. That said, this is still amazing! I can only hope that a prototype (although this looks mighty finished to me) surfaces... thanks, Falcon, for somehow uploading this. You're doing the community a huge service.

[@KOTEBANAROT]

When I was a kid, I would've give my leg for a game like this.

[@layers5255]

Certainly would've been better if it wasn't a star fox game

[@ShlimeReviews]

It’s so weird to know about this game after loving the Star Fox version as a kid! Thanks for posting this. I seriously wish I could play this, it seems so awesome!!!

[@ciprianmogosanu7169]

Hope one day somebody releases a rom of this gane online+plus 12 tales conker 64 because we sure aren't getting a new conker game soon

[@haon7272w]

Sadly enough the only copy of this game before it was changed to Starfox was completely and utterly corrupted, and is unusable :/

[@987zerozero]

haon7272w wait what where did you hear that? Can you give me a link or something?

[@haon7272w]

Nexus max Pretty sure it was announced by the creators somewhere. There might be a ROM file floating around somewhere but the actual N64 copy is no longer usable.

[@eskimodude812]

It must happen! I really hope that there just happens to be some copy of the ROM somewhere still out there (who knows, maybe the founder of rare has it in their attic or something), and hopefully the right person finds it and uploads it

[@ciprianmogosanu7169]

If i will have to choose,i would be more in the favor of a rom of 12 tales conker 64.what are the chances for that game?

[@alejandromolina7270]

I wish I could go into an alternate universe where this game did come out, for either 64 or GameCube, and play it.

[@woodhousepictures5376]

I used to dream about playing this game after reading about it so much. For some reason i had that same dream last night, damn i wish Rare would dump a rom of it. What harm could it do. Amazing channel btw, just spent an hour on your website browsing things i'd never even seen! Jim

[@inFAMOUSgagimeister]

I heard the game was about 90% finished. What is this channel playing? isn't he playing a beta rom?

[@Dinnick3rd]

the game wasnt fully finished, obviously they left those sabre's voice clips for the very end

[@this1guy101]

Somewhere there is a drawer with an n64 cartridge, with dinosaur planet labeled on it , also I garuntee this rom exist somewhere, maybe on a pc? I’m pretty sure rare wouldn’t just delete all this progress so, but if somebody can just get a hold of it one day, that would be really amazing to see , hopefully maybe one day

[@paulsoper3874]

man do I have news for you....

[@this1guy101]

@@paulsoper3874 whats that?

[@wantedwario2621]

We all must join together to try and find this game! It must be released to the public somehow!

[@finchvink]

It's so mind-blowing to even see this. I can't help but wonder how you managed to get this footage, I mean... it's so rare to find anything of this. I love the graphics, too. It's more realistic than Banjo or DK64, but still has that unique Rare-charm.

[@hectormacedo3944]

Hello, I come from the future and this game has been leaked and is playable. Many thanks to Forest of Illusion.

[@OniLink99999]

Amazing stuff! Wonderful work RareMinion! I do hope that a playable build gets leaked one day - it'd be nice to have it archived online =D

[@TheBitBlock]

Rare sucks these days, WiiU definitely doesn't need them. They're not even the same teams that made the snes and N64 games.

[@KitsuneYojimbo]

As much as I enjoyed Starfox Adventures... I gotta say... This looks like it would have been amazing to play. I actually hated that in Adventures, they let you play as Krystal for a short sequence, then swapped you over to Fox for the rest of the game. Would have been nice to have Krystal and Fox sections like Dinosaur Planet did instead.

[@reviverghoul5059]

I know, I liked adventures and all. But the Arwing sections were pretty bad, not to mention Krystal got a very minor role in the game. The staff thing didn't work very well for me. I wish we could get a different weapon, and finally the bug that traps you in the final battle with Andross in the save file. So in the end I enjoyed Starfox adventures. But I feel like the original idea of Dinosaur planet would have been better.

[@KitsuneYojimbo]

@@reviverghoul5059 Agreed 100%.