/vr/ - Retro Games

Before this thread dies, can someone PLEASE set the record straight, to the best of their ability, on how much of a game was actually found tucked away on that F-Zero cartridge? Because on the one hand, from day one people have said that everything was overwritten but the text, textures, and map data. No music, no items, and no actors. Nothing resembling a playable game, just fragments.

On the other hand, guys like this Anon >>7332647 >>7332651 are now telling a different story. The maps have actors associated with them, they're just not loading right? Jabu Jabu is in Lake Hylia? What happened to the actors all being overwritten with F-Zero data? People are still claiming that!

And that's not the only thing that I think is begging for an explanation. I've seen various claims made about the state of progress in this build, one being that they hadn't written any of the story past the Master Sword (since the text we got ends there). But is it the case that they'd only written that far or are we just missing huge swaths of text due to it being overwritten by F-Zero? What about the state of the Temple maps? By August '97 could they have really only completed one room of the Water Temple? Was everything we expect to see overwritten or was the game really in such a rudimentary state at that point?

And above all else, where the hell does >>7329130
actually come from? As far as I can tell, it was first posted on /v/ and everyone took it as genuine leaked material. But text string "Statue of the Evil God Din" doesn't appear alongside any of the UI text in >>7327723, nor did TCRF comment on it in their translation of the UI text. Several commenters have confirmed that the Desert Colossus map is indeed called "Evil Desert God Statue" in this build as in the final. So if someone could prove that >>7329130 isn't bullshit and actually comes from this build, that'd be swell.

>>6252107
Huh... early Legend of Zelda really was influenced by Wizardry.