/vr/ - Retro Games

the Titanic

>>9821128
Yoshi's Island protos
Akumajou Dracula proto
Cho Makaimura proto

L actually being real
Super Donkey
the Star Fox and Zelda stuff
Luigi flipping the bird

>>9821163
What is L?

Yoshi's Island prototypes and removed content

>>9821178
Zoomer leave.

Game Boy lotchecks

>>9821178
"L is real". Took me a while to work out what they meant and I knew what it was. I guess because pretty much nobody ever brings it up because it doesn't mean anything

the only thing that caught my eye is the questionable fuckery with their lz algorithm:
>FOUR different structures for storage
>bbgames' depot has a slightly more efficient algorithm, yet nintendo stuck with their own - to this day

>>9821128
PUSH START TO RICH

>>9821231
GRAND DAD???

Lots of wild stuff really. My favorite had to be the Super Castlevania IV proto, playable (at least half the game), all the different enemy sprites, sounds, level design and music! That totally new music for stage 2 is great, also little things like how the intro music piece that ended up being used for the library level was originally the map music.
It's one of my favorite games of all time and being able to have access to all this is priceless.

>>9821227
A lot of 8/16 bit devs were really disproportionately proud of implementing their first compression algo. For example I remember reading that Nassar from Squaresoft was very focused on compression during the creation of Secret of Mana. So maybe Nintendo saw using their own system as a bit of a feather in their cap

>>9821246
nintendo just looked at lzss, removed ring buffer, went back to sliding window, and utilized next-byte lookahead.
it took them almost 10 years to realize they could implement a simple technique to extend dictionary sizes from 18 to 273.
the real crackpots behind compression wizardry comes from HAL, and much to my severe disappointment, nothing from them was a part of anything revealed in the gigaleak - just bingbingwahoo and gotta catch 'em all siphoned by turbo autists.

>>9821240
Too bad still bot this one.

https://youtu.be/SYZaGtFnQ2g

>>9821231

Most interesting thing to me is that Super Donkey looks like it was originally going to be a sort of sequel to Sky Skipper, not in gameplay, but starring Mr. You as the controllable hero.

although super donkey has so many levels of content including an early alttp proto overdump within it i feel obligated to say dd ocarina is the winner. all this otherstuff was unknown before the leak but the dd expansion was the longest burn on us. the fact it still doesnt provide the missing link of HOW it was going to be inserted into the core game gives me the big sad.
>>9821362
im really curious if that dig boss is still leftover in our build. whether it be just its ai and or sprites.

>>9821203
Every time this is posted it depresses me.
What could have been.
Probably removed because of level orders changing or something though.

>>9821483
Having to make one of these for EVERY world and replacing it if anything happened to the level order or their themes would have been a huge pain, I'm guessing.

bump

>>9821483
I think someone mentioned that it would have taken far too much resources to do, especially for every world. I am not sure if by resources they mean cartridge space, RAM, or processing power though. It looks amazing though, like something you would have seen on a CD addon to the SNES or from an early 2D 32bit era game rather than something off a SNES cart. Shame we didn't get that.

>>9821448
What on earth are you talking about? The "disk drive" expansion, also known simply as "Zelda 64" was never supposed to connect with Ocarina of Time. It was just that, a beta of Ocarina of Time. Koizumi says in Iwata Asks that he came up with the idea of fairies (glowing white balls that follow around people) and this matches with how rudimental the story in the leak is. You think adult "Zelda 64" Link and those things go together? Say it with me,

THERE.
WAS.
NO.
EXPANSION.
TO.
OCARINA
OF
TIME.

Master Quest is the remix that Miyamoto always touted up. End of story.

yoshi tree transformation

>>9821702
i can't imagine any function for this besides a tanooki statue-like thing

>>9821739
Nah I just think a cute little tree with eyes scuttling along with their root feet 0w0

Super Donkey proving that the Plok devs weren't bullshitting about it almost being Nintendo game

>>9821797
..and enemies would move past it like the tanooki statue
>0w0
get away

>>9821623

>>9821623
>>9821870

>>9821812
How so? As in they share similarities, plok was going to be published by Nintendo or super donkey and plok are literally connected from a development origin?

>>9821558
this is fucking beautiful.
this and those uncompressed Star Fox 64 voice samples.

>>9821558
I remember seeing these in the players guide, neat.

>>9821227
>FOUR different structures for storage
zoomie hands clutched those pearls

>>9821702
we already knew about the tree. its still in the final game. in fact im not sure its even in the betas. we only see the mushroom >>9821739
i imagine it was either planned for stealth segments or there were going to be transform roulettes with this one being the screw over.

>>9821483
>le meh childhood
Pathetic post.

Has it been fully combed through? I remember at the time it was massive.

>>9821178
Ligma

>>9822040
your post is absurd.
for context on their weird compression structures from that era:

>type 1
>MIO0/Yay0
>flags block (32-bit words)
>dictionary block (16-bit half words) (dedicated offset with pointer)
>byte block (+ length values if Yay0) (dedicated offset with pointer)
>its structuring has the potential to benefit from recursive compression, but wasn't taken advantage of

>type 2
>TKMK00 (mk64)
>some headache structuring with no real benefit as it coexists with MIO0 on the cartridge, and the person decompiling the game converted those blocks to MIO0 (TKMK00 is a waste of code)

>type 3
>SMSR00 (ys64)
>flags + dictionary block (16-bit half words each)
>byte block (dedicated offset with pointer)

>type 4
>Yaz0
>RLE version of type 1, rev. Yay0 (returning to LZSS' roots)
>happens to be the most sensible implementation
>what a coincidence, nintendo uses it to this day

>>9821128
>SMW1 prototype/beta content
>Luigi's official SM64 model
>Super Donkey and Yoshi's Island betas
>cancelled sidescroller Zelda

>>9822176
just looking into the roms at this point. currently people are trying to restore beta music in the french prerelease of alttp

>>9822023
>uncompressed Star Fox 64 voice samples
I like these on the principle that they shatter the narrative that the Star Fox 64 3D voices needed to be rerecorded, but in practice, only the ingame N64 versions sound like proper radio transmissions.

>>9821246
>A lot of 8/16 bit devs were really disproportionately proud of implementing their first compression algo.

It's not just that, using a foreign library can open up a can of worms when it comes to licensing and patents. If it's hiroshima nagasaki coding a version over the weekend on his own, it's 100% theirs and this isn't an issue.

>>9821558

>>9823082
>meanwhile doctor mario 64 uses gzip

>>9822890
>your post is absurd.
lol. Have I ruined this thread by laughing at your assburgers.

>>9823147
>family guy reaction image

>>9823086
>when you see it

>Gigaleak
>data from generations 3 to 6
>mostly first party
>the entirety of leaked 6th gen is pokémon beta/kiosk stuff, same said for early 7th gen
>it took 20 years for this to happen
>mfw won't see Gigaleak stuff for the rest of 6th gen and things from 7th gen until my late forties if ever

it would be nice to see beta sunshine or kirby air ride material....

>>9823086
>>9823210

isn't the whole point of tape backups that half the data won't degrade in 30 years

>>9823528
>tape
i don't think they go that far anymore.
it's also unlikely they'd have data on floppies.

>>9821558
Sovl

>>9823204

>>9823528
It's so unfortunate that they were only able to back up like 7 out of 40 tapes. Those tape backups had all the best stuff on them, just imagine what was on the other ones.

>>9823710
People assume they were all bad when the truth is these were the tapes the drives they had on hand at the time of backup could read, since data storage tapes are notorious for their issues mainly being at the drive level. Given how good they are at archiving they probably either acquired the correct tape drives or paid a professional recovery company to retrieve them.

>>9821968
>>9821812
IIRC the story goes about them presenting Plok, and then them going on about Nintendo refusing it because they were making a similar game, and then the devs naming Yoshi's Island or something or it was inferred from the time frame
The story was historically bizarre, because Plok is not like Yoshi's Island, at all. It made no sense
And then, the story made a lot more sense when we saw the Super Donkey protos, because it has similarish gameplay

>>9821295
What?

>>9823490
Too bad its over, thanks nintendies.

>>9823918
Ah,ok. I was hoping the story was Super Donkey was literally what was pitched to Nintendo, in development, canceled and then finished without Nintendo as Plok. The whole Super Donkey thing is a mystery I wish Nintendo would directly explain. The thing that fascinates me is how its like 4 different ips, DK, Yoshi, Mario and most interesting, Sky Skipper. Plus im curious the main gimmick or mechanic initially was that was so appealing to them in these early versions.

>>9824046
>The whole Super Donkey thing is a mystery I wish Nintendo would directly explain.
I guarantee you they are never going to acknowledge any gigaleak shit in this lifetime.

>>9821558
Did Nintendo create the models and textures for these or were they outsourced?

>>9824127
Why'd you say that?
Nintendo had SGI machines. Even gave some to Square and they were pissed as hell they went with Playstation after

>>9824067
Nintendo utterly refused to say anything about the SNES's CD addon and still to this day refuses to and the most we got out of them was being told to just ignore it and what's past is past or something along those lines. And this was something that was public knowledge and big news for years. They sure as fuck aren't going to talk about anything that they never announced or revealed that was found out in the Gigaleak.

>>9821128
Star Fox 2 almost had a black woman in a 1995 Nintendo game.

>>9824753
she actually looks kinda gerudo which is interesting

oddly other leaked art show her looking like wendy thomas so her design was probably very up in the air

>>9825067
She had several redesigns, many of the concepts did, and has no palette data AFAIK, so there's no telling if she was supposed to have light skin, dark skin, or even not be human and have some other colored skin, or they even switched from one to the other during the different concepts. (I recall one of the concepts revealed her having spiky teeth like some kind of shark or demon or something)

Personally I think it would have been interesting to have humans exist in the Star Fox setting (they already added fucking dinosaurs at this point, and Starlink confirmed that but I doubt it's considered canon) but I know many others were against the idea.

Image related isn't even all of them, personally, I liked the gazelle concept.

>>9825114
i like that sexy long hair version and i have never seen that other art where she's blowing a kiss. that might be the wendy thomas art i'm misremembering. seems like she was the former miyu, maybe even a sonic 06-style interspecies love interest for fox which would explain why she was cut lol.

>>9821203
i prefer the map that got into production. this one is just too busy.

>>9825114
i like going back and forth between the same character and spotting the difference. slippy 4th from the top left is identical to 3rd from the right 3rd row except hat is rotated like 10º

>>9821128
Semi related, I'm waiting for the day the Sonic 1 prototype is found. This to me is the holy grail of retro finds.

>>9825412
This lovely lady and that cool-looking T-Rex villain were big losses.

>>9825413
I'm surprised by now that everything relating to the Genesis Sonic games has not been found or even just revealed by SEGA by now.

>>9826218
The original devs of that prototype have already confirmed that it's lost. There was a plan to put that in a Sonic collection pack in the Gamecube days, so we would have got it then if they found it.

>>9825114
>>9825412

This is like Sonic's human gf that never was

>>9825413
nah, we have tons of pictures of that, it's like 5 screens worth of stuff, a parallax layer, an unseen enemy and an unseen signpost. And you don't have rings from what I remember.
What would be more interesting is Virtua Fighter 3 for Saturn. All we have is eyewitness accounts that it existed. Nothing else. Not even a screenshot (the claimed screenshots come from incomplete model 3 emulators). It was claimed that it was completed.

>>9826218
>I'm surprised by now that everything relating to the Genesis Sonic games has not been found or even just revealed by SEGA by now.

I've a feeling they either aren't allowed (the old code may have some things they couldn't legally release, like who knows if the programmers didn't put in dicks as placeholder graphics), or they simply don't have the old code.

>>9826346
>a parallax layer,
4 parallax layers. Also fighting the prototype isn't just about visuals, it's about studying how everything behaved before the changes.

>>9826218
>>9826346
they're probably at least still holding onto some unseen concept art considering we actually did get some never before seen stuff in sonic origins.

>>9826363
That island looks a lot like South Island from Sonic 1 SMS.

>>9825114
Sheep sexo
Gazelle sexo

>>9825114
i wonder if they were originally going for a 90s romcom thing where all the main boys conveniently have love interests. the gilf gazelle has a mrs. peppy vibe imo.

knuckles was going to use his dreadlocks to fly

>>9827129
what's going on with night ver?

>>9827129
>knuckles
>the cooler knuckles

>>9821128
>gigaleak
L being real exactly 24 years and 1 month later
Genuinely one of the most funnest moments of my life and the time spent here seeing it all unravel with the boys was peak comfy and kept me from an heroing that night

>>9825114
I feel like this woman would have been like the human kid in Bucky O' Hare, just a single member of his species warped to another galaxy. Likewise, having humans as a nomadic space fleet on the edges of the Lylat system that are refugees from a long destroyed Earth would have been a fun fit.

Luigi obviously

>>9827796
that shit was wild as hell to watch unfold in real time. glad you stuck around anon, hope things are better

>>9825114
Female Pigma is not something I needed or wanted to see in my lifetime.

>>9821128
>F-Zero prototype
>BS Zelda stuff
Only because there's a chance Weeks 1 and 2 of BS Gran Prix 2 are still out there somewhere. Those 5 lost tracks are my Moby Dick, bros...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8-TNxUeRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a4grPOdZYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8B1ePtQeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiqm97bcvok

>>9821367
kek

>>9821128
For me it was the Star Fox 2 builds. I looked at pre-release stuff like pic related for years, always fascinated by the idea of the planets having different objectives instead of all boiling down to "hit switch, go inside base, blow up reactor," and I literally never imagined anybody would get to play it, let alone that it was larger in scope than previously assumed and each planet actually had MULTIPLE possible missions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UrxqVYODho
https://youtu.be/r3binFco7VM?t=322

>>9828536
>Taitania
Were they afraid of kids seeing "tit"? Damn, don't let them see Shakespeare...

I'm sad that we never got to Mother 64 stuff.
Why did they stopped the leak anyways? iirc the had gorillions of data.

>>9821623
You are, thankfully, completely talking out of your ass. We know there was more planned that never made it in, based of both existing interviews, which talk about the planned features, and the game's actual code, which included support hooks for the DD system.

>>9821870
>>9821882

>>9828551
Apparently nintrannies infiltrating and snitching to nintendo, and the big guy actually got arrested, for rwal.

>>9828551
>>9828703
i feel like he cannot be the only person to have that data, and that there must be others who have there share of it.

>>9821362
Yeah would be cool to get that build but you know, at least we have video evidence of it. We had 0 idea about this new prototype found in the gigaleak. If we got the old proto from the video, it would have been amazing, but predictable, instead we got something we didn't even know existed.

>>9828758
>>9828703
It wasn't one guy doing the leak. The guy who got the data was already arrested and banned from using computers and internet when the gigaleak happened. He send the data to his acquaintances and they were the ones leaking everything.

>>9829112
lol you're banned from a computer. lol ok *gets on phone* how the fuck does anyone on the planet actually unironically think they can tell someone they cant use a computer. nigga fuck you i'll go to the library and look up shit the fuck is someone that isnt me gonna try to tell me I cant use an item on this planet. fuck that lame mental prison thinking people have. oh some "authority" has said I cant do something so I cant now. pffft fuck off

>>9829112
>acquaintances
now the question is if there's more.


probably not, it's been 3 years.

>>9829119
I can’t tell if you’re actually retarded or only pretending.

>>9828703
are the "nintrannies" in the room with us right now?

>>9829180
i masturbate alone, yeaaaaaah with nobody home

>>9829127
I absolutely believe there's more. Like, the virtual console source was posted because someone specifically asked for it. Would it have been posted otherwise? And redbees leaked some disc last year and I bet he still is sitting on more.

>>9829127
there is two terabytes of data of which only a fraction have leaked
did you missed the whole story?

>>9827967
They were considering a female rabbit at one point too. I guess they trashed it since two rabbit characters would have been a bit boring when so many others had not been introduced yet.

>>9828536
On top of all the trashed character concepts, the other craziest thing for me was that some of the earliest Star Fox 1 protos had no character/animal portraits in them yet and the files were named "SG"

Before Argonaut were hired by Nintendo they made a game for older PCs at the time called Starglider, which looked a lot like Star Fox. They were also apparently trying to port the game to the NES using enhancement chips but were told to shelve it for the SNES.

It was known that it was at Miyamoto's suggestion that animal characters were added to Star Fox during development, but I had no idea that originally it was going to be another entry in their existing Starglider series.

>>9828703
Wasn't the reason the original hacker got arrested not for the hack itself, but because he had child porn or some shit like that? From what I recall the gigaleak was from some friend or associate of the original hacker who got a copy and decided to release it. I recall there was rumors that it was also just a small piece of the hack but I have no idea if that was true.

>>9821558
I creamed when I saw this, the 3d in this game had such a dreamlike quality

>>9823086

>>9829440
>Nintendies
>CP
Every single time
I'll believe it when I see it

Isn't there still a ton of leaked stuff that's being gatekept by Discord trannies?

>>9829440
The Star Fox 64 continuity is so fucking boring, 90% of the cast are dogs or monkeys. Compare that to all these hypothetical pilots, or the ones Benimaru Itoh used for the NP comic/Mission File Printout. Even the Andrew equivalent was actually a marmoset or tarsier or whatever.

>>9829440
>Wasn't the reason the original hacker got arrested not for the hack itself, but because he blah blah
No, that was someone completely different. I don't know why you idiots keep repeating that slander against wack0.

>>9825413
this build would be very unsatisfying to have. it would have nothing but a very plain straight line of 1 act of green hill that probably would have been 20 seconds long with nothing else in the rom like yuusei sonic cd. your looking for the first build after it
https://youtu.be/gtaM0Xme21k?t=8 segment with the dark water in the background. this would have what i imagine would be the equilivant of pink casino night versions of other levels in the rom. probably just labyrinth since that was supposed to be the 2nd zone

>>9830780
also we already have a much better proto of sonic 1 that has all the big interesting beta elements for every zone

>>9830764
Then mind enlightening us?

>>9821163
I've had this as my profile pic on a bunch of forums ever since it was shown, still makes me kek

>>9821882
>>9821870
Both these are in the retail release. You just need to hack it. There's a crooked cartridge trick you can do in file select to make the Disk icon appear in the name select.

>>9830904
i would say its just a bad thumbs up drawing but he's doing the 'up yours' arms too..

>>9830898
The pedo is ryanrocks. He phished an NoA employee and got the stupid worthless Switch SDK. Completely different guy yet people are retards and mix them up.

>>9829618
Yes. Terabytes of it. We only saw a small portion of the gigaleak.

>>9829624
Has any piece of official starfox media ever elaborated on the different species relations to the planets they live on? As in, fox example, i always assumed each species was essentially aliens to another until they finally united in some type of galactic alliance. So like, all canines originate from Corneria, all amphibians from some water planet, birds from another, etc, etc. I feel like that is the idea since i want to say the DS one involved a enemy civilization/planet of aquatic species? Plus then you have dinosaurs on their own planet and insects as an extrastellar species.

>>9831184
I think there's still a bit left, but not terabytes. The autist that got in only really cared about pokemon and ique. If you check the time period he had access he was off doing random stuff like taking part in pokemon romhack challenges or getting homebrew running on the ique player(using knowledge he gained from stealing the source of it). Seems like he didn't spend much time actually downloading things.

>>9831453
its only assumed that was from a sim city game right? it has no source?

>>9829360
"allegedly"

>>9831239
>get access to dad's liquor cabinet
>grabs the mountain dew

>>9831453
>Thinking nobody is watching, Toad sneaks out of Nin HQ for a quiet smoke
The canon version of Toad is a gimbo, but this guy...

>>9824456
I don't think this is just Nintendo I think it might be Japanese companies in general. Because I remember reading interviews from Tetsuya Nomura where he said he couldn't talk about cancelled games. And it was something other than Versus 13. (It was an interview abour designs in BBS coming from a canceled game.)

>>9825114
Were these designed by the guy who did Star Fox 1? Because he's not at Nintendo anymore so I wonder if he could talk about it.

>>9829127
>been 3 years

WHAT

>>9832079
giggly leakku was 2020

>>9832070
Could just be NDA, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was some honoraburu dispray company loyalty shit.

>>9821128
Not /vr/ but for me it's the Wii Startup Disc
I loved reading that article on Hackmii on Bushing trying to investigate what potentially it was, and how it could help deal with bricked Wiis if it was ever found. It's really cool that after all these years we finally got what was on the disc and see it working with the stub menu
shame he's not around to see it .

>>9832074
I recall when one of the things revealed from the gigaleak was a tool they used to edit the text in the Star Fox games one of the former developers tweeted how he was impressed as he had not seen that thing in decades, and asked if they also found something else (I forgot what it was he asked).

>>9832610
https://twitter.com/dylancuthbert/status/1286789583061934080

>>9821178
L stands for leak.

>>9832070
in general it's just not in a company's best interest to discuss scrapped projects since
1. the work could be repurposed towards something else, even many years later
2. it would immediately invite speculation and questions about reviving the project even if there are no plans for it

>>9832132
Speaking of which; did Jany curious Japanese net goers ever bother checking in on the gigaleak or is there some retarded cultural pressure/laws that don't allow them to discuss it?

>>9834476
A demon known only as Miyahon in the ancient scrolls has been silencing them.

>>9832534
I, too, remember the Wii gayfish/pinkfish disc.

>>9827796
If a video game stopped you from killing yourself, then you never really wanted to die in the first place

>>9831239
>The autist that got in only really cared about pokemon and ique
God I hate pokefaggots

>>9834819
>God I hate pokefaggots
I legitimately wonder how in the god damn anyone can be that absorbed in the franchise past childhood even if they're autistic.

>access to internal development network
>treasure trove of source code, object binaries, tools, etc.
>meanwhile obese neckbeard with suggestive gardevoir images covering the wall is sipping on capri sun and pepto bismol while glancing at said trove
>*spits drink*
>yowza! a kiosk demo of porkyman!
>OMFG! it has a different revision number than the retail release!!!
>*discord notification* "Patrick, remember to grab everything you can find. We won't have this opportunity again."
>"REEEEEEEEE FUCK YOU TODD! POKEMON POKEMON MOTHERFUCKING POKEMON!!!"
>"*deep sigh* alright, fine! i'll clone the tree of an obscure depot for some obscure chinese product!"

>>9824753
In game color pallet confirms she was white.
Although it would of been funny to think that in a cast of animals they thought to include a black woman

>>9821163
>L actually being real
I almost wish it wasn't so the /v/ threads weren't filled with Nintentards pushing threads to their limit and discussion could be had.

>>9827796
That is really fucking pathetic.

>>9821178
Lycanthrope, referring to a cut werewolf enemy in Ocarina

>>9825412
>>9825114
>>9824753
Kinda funny that Fox still interacted with humans in the end.
It was a good proof of concept game if it didn't get killed by the toy gimmick.

>>9825269
why do you think its too busy? its not like you don't have time to stop and look at everything going on. in an actual stage, absolutely, but in a menu like that i think its fine

>>9832302
>>9824914
>>9822850

>>9821265
>>9820658
>>9832925
>>9830853

>>9816762
>>9819203
>>9823203
>>9817746
>>9819521
>>9818337
>>9832151

>>9835559
They clearly had a lot more planned but canned it due to poor sales. I just played through it a few months ago and there are a few big story elements that went absolutely nowhere and were never brought up again, several smaller ones that also go nowhere and are never brought up again, there are spoiler-ish characters as part of the pilots you can get (which I am pretty sure were only released digitally) that are never brought up in the story and were clearly meant for a later wave when more story was added, the game mentions three big zones with the first being the one you are in... yet when you reach the second zone it's just the final boss fight and then you are forced to leave after the fight which then goes straight to the ending with no option to return to the second zone again much less do ANYTHING with the third zone, and there was heavy implications that the main bad guy you are after is being manipulated by someone else but that never happens

Probably also didn't help that there was very little reason for people to buy the PS4, Xbox, or PC versions of the game as they had significantly less content since it's not like Nintendo would allow Star Fox on rival systems or PCs and there was nothing additional in place of Star Fox for the other platforms.

My guess is the game was stuck in development hell for years, and might have even started out being a WiiU exclusive with Star Fox, but time and uncertainties of being able to get the Star Fox license caused them to turn it multiplat (probably why Star Fox being in it was not mentioned when it was first announced) and by the time it did finally come out the toy thing was dead, but they had already spent millions in the R&D and production of them and had no choice.

And of course after it sold like shit they just decided to cut their losses, release what they had finished as DLC, and just drop it completely.

>>9826363
holy shit

>>9827129
>knuckles originally glided with his hair

I wonder if that got to sprite phase

>>9829602
hot

>>9831854
>>9831239

Yeah, what a waste

>>9824753
>>9825114
Everybody lost their shit over this, but it had been known for years that a human woman was considered at one point.

>>9810801
>>9835840

>>9824091
>>9831629

knuckles' seemingly random sunglasses from the ova and sa2 actually came before knuckles himself

>>9836413
forgot image of course

knuckles' seemingly random sunglasses from the ova and sa2 actually came before knuckles himself

>>9835792
Its cool how you didn't need the actual toys to play the game, but the switch version being one of those "download the rest of the game" faggy releases was a huge pile of shit. I got my ps4 version at fucking dollar tree.

>>9828691
>support hooks
Yeah, for Master Quest. There is this persistent myth among you tcrf folk that it was released in Japan for the N64 and only brought overseas as a pack-in bonus for Wind Waker. This is a handy red herring to draw attention away from the fact there was nothing beyond Ocarina of Time. Miyamoto waxed philosophically about a lot of things as he revised the last quarter of the game. The story being the Imprisoning War and Ganondorf not starting as evil. Navi being Link's girlfriend and able to feed Epona. Magic-infused arrows. There being more to the Deku Scrubs. All of these were lies. If there was a planned expansion after OoT, why didn't Aonuma mention it back in 2009 when he described the cut arrow spells? This was post-Medallions since the leak proved the Goddess Spells reused the Magic Powers.

>the man who has devoted his heart and soul to the series for the past 28 years
or
>group of sprite rippers and amateur coders with a vested interest in making you believe in the golden fleece so they get your patronage.

>>9837441
>Yeah, for Master Quest.
The hooks are specifically and explicitly for the Disk Drive system. We know it was not released, but there were most definitely *plans* to use it, even if they were scrapped.

>There is this persistent myth among you tcrf folk that it was released in Japan for the N64 and only brought overseas as a pack-in bonus for Wind Waker.
Nobody is saying this.

>All of these were lies.
Like, you do understand that I have access to the interviews you are talking about and can read them in Japanese, and can read code for the original ROM, which includes the hooks?

We are not claiming the planned ideas were actually implemented and sold, but the OoT cart release was absolutely intended to support the DD system and have expanded content introduced to it from this even if this didn't happen, though what was ultimately created ended up being Master Quest.

Saying "The "disk drive" expansion, also known simply as "Zelda 64" was never supposed to connect with Ocarina of Time" is just wrong, flat out.

>>9829602
Thanks internet.

>>9824753
Wrong

>>9830904
Subtle souvenir from all of this madness.

>>9826225
Doesn't mean it can't still surface though. It was fucking crazy seeing that S3&K prototype turn up a few years ago

>>9826363
What's the context on gigachad sonic

>>9821161
>Akumajou Dracula proto
>Cho Makaimura proto
Holy fuck, what? First I've heard of this. Can you refer me to somewhere to see it all? I thought it was all just Mario stuff.

Gary bowser of hacked 3DS/Switch devices just got sentenced to paying nintendo 30% of his earnings for the rest of his life after having spent 3 years in jail

The leaker of this is fricked

>>9841190
The Gigachad didn't earn any money from this, so he'll probably get off easier.

>>9841914
>nintendo: he released these just as we were releasing The Official Mini-Nintendo consoles which uses builds from the leaked contents

>judge-san, we ask you to please give him the death sentence and garnish his entire families wages

>>9834685
video games are the only thing that make life worth living

>>9823147
Having skills and knowledge isn't autism anon. You should try it sometime.

>>9842306
holy fucking hell

>>9842306
Try an instrument. It's like video games but thousands of times better.

>>9844112
I tried the meatflute but that didn't go anywhere.

>>9844112

>>9844210
That's fine as a start. Then the real expert mode is an actual guitar.

>>9822890
Neon Genesis Evangelion (for N64) uses yay0 too for whatever reason

>>9844094
It's true, I hate people I hate my job I hate life, but at least I have video games.
>>9844112
Used to play guitar when I was a teenager. It was fun but I like video games more.

>>9844636
video games are Portals to other worlds and lives.
I am thankful they were invented for people to escape to.

>>9844112
I'm too old to be trying an instrument like I'm an upper-middle-class elementary schooler. I should have had the discipline and patience to seek out lessons back then. You can't teach a middle-aged man piano.

>>9844537
>Neon Genesis Evangelion
That game is on the list of software to use the improved SLI algorithm formatted with type 1.

To my knowledge regarding N64 titles,
>15 games use MIO0
>20 games use Yay0
>3 games use Yaz0

The games using Yaz0 are
>Animal Crossing 64
>LoZ Ocarina of Time
>LoZ Majora's Mask
... considerably late in the console's life cycle (November 1998+, Ultra64 development began ~1993 with the SLI algorithm ~1994).

On another note, it's unclear as to why studios opted to use the lesser MIO0 revision for their titles circa '99/2K.

The last known game to use the Yay0 structure was Luigi's Mansion for the GCN.
Interestingly enough, there are a number of Gamecube titles that have SLI decompression functions within the games' code, yet there's no trace of those functions being used (FourCC a.k.a. magic bytes are nowhere to be found in the data).
Kirby Air Ride and Super Monkey Ball serve as such examples, the former's compression method(s) unknown being a HAL game, and the latter using LZSS.
This suggests that the SLI library was bundled with Dolphin SDKs at some point, puzzlingly, being absent in the leaked SDKs found online today.
What's more confusing is that ARC files are SLI compressed, [R]ARC being a Dolphin SDK storage utility.

If only more of the Gigaleak had been dispensed/procured, there might've been more interesting things to read up on.

>>9821128
So the the hacker really pass up that much stuff? and are people still sitting on the rest? Could we send an agent to befriend a nigga from his circle and get the goods?

>>9845903
>are people still sitting on the rest?
Yes.

I hope someday we get a Fire Emblem 64, Mother 64, and Melee source code leaks

>>9832534
Can it actually help with bricked Wiis?

Does the 6gb version contain the previous versions?

>>9824753
In keeping with the animal theme

>>9847452
The original point of the disc was before launch, Nintendo couldn't get enough Wiis with the OS installed to send to retailers, since that process was slow. Instead they just installed a stub that would read the disc, and the full OS was on the disc to install. The theory was that with the disc, people could see how the install worked and used that to unbrick wiis.
Dunno if anyone ever looked into it since the leak, but at this point it's been so long that homebrewers have already blasted the thing wide open and we can fix bricks anyways, so there's really no point,

>>9840880
Just search castlevania IV gigaleak and you will find it, on youtube there's videos and someone even ripped the whole soundtrack.

>>9834563
that's a different thing. Your pic is the shit they used at repair centers for transferring data

>>9847034
Mother 64 likely got shelved for being too large to implement on a cost-effective basis.
Bonkers Sad Fur Fag was one of the largest titles for the system on a cartridge sized at 512 megabits,
and that game would not have been possible without zlib, mpeg audio, and an experienced development team who'd mastered the hardware moreso than the company that engineered the system.
HAL Laboratory had crack programmers, but the compression algorithm they'd devised for Kirby 64, Smash Bros., and Pokémon Snap could compete with zlib's "-fastest" switch at best.

I'm willing to bet the team behind the Mother 64 fan project has the secret sauce for reference material.

Granted, the fan project is for PC and not the N64, but a theory of mine is that they've gone straight to a PC port basing it off of reverse engineered object code from leaked materials.
The time frame from which the project started is awfully close to the timeframe of said leaks from Nintendo.

Just a little runaway thought~

>>9847034
>Melee
I'm sure some hardcore Melee autists are hard at work decompiling the game.

Medusa

can’t touch this

>>9848804
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>>9841061
>>9847562
>>9847653

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>>9847735
I think Itoi straight up said in an interview it was because his team were inexperienced and didn't really know what they were doing.

Beric

>>9844224
Guitar Hero is shoot harder than actual guitar.

>>9835792
Actually, the game was first demo'd at E3 2017 and it caught the eye of Nintendo and the devs were invited to Nintendo HQ to meet Miyamoto, we don't get any real details on why Nintendo invited them or what they were looking to get out of it. I'm assuming Nintendo was looking for ways to expand the Amiibo brand and see if the Starlink toy line was a plausible way to do it.
Either way, they made the sales pitch and Nintendo liked what they saw.
https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/685vD1WjWuSwwuwci2Rz7q/how-star-fox-joined-forces-with-starlink-battle-for-atlas-e3-2018

Of course as was already mentioned, this effectively doomed the other versions of the game and it all fell apart from there.

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