/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4129301]

how would one go about acquiring this prototype? how much money would i have to throw at someone to track down one of the programmers/itoi himself and persuade him to relinquish it/a copy of it?

[Anonymous No.4129308]

>>4129301
For an unreleased game the base price would be around $50k and climb up the rarer it is.

[Anonymous No.4129309]

>>4129301
I have that prototype, OP! I'll let it got for just $1000.

[Anonymous No.4129312]

>>4129308
i read an article and apparently there's a more feature complete build of it in the possession of either Brownie Brown or Nintendo. it goes up to the first chapter.

[Anonymous No.4129324]

>>4129301
That dog's eyes are freaking me out man.

[Anonymous No.4129341]

>>4129324

[Anonymous No.4129402]

>>4129341

[Anonymous No.4129434]

>>4129301
that was tried already. poor starmen.net

[Anonymous No.4129439]

>>4129341
spooked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygjmOaxn6uE

[Anonymous No.4129680]

Infiltrate in Ninty's HQ.

It's confirmed that they still have the N64 prototype there. Or at least still had when Mother 3 on GBA was in development.

[Anonymous No.4129762]

>>4129341
he's seen some shit

[Anonymous No.4130456]

>>4129680
Sounds like an intelligent and well thought out plan.

[Anonymous No.4130469]

Has something happened with the mother series or something? There's like six threads going on and they keep coming.

[Anonymous No.4131049]

>>4130469
"localize mother 3" became a meme among twitch kids

[Anonymous No.4131069]

>>4131049
Frankly I wish they'd do it already so that everybody would finally give it a fucking rest.

[Anonymous No.4131085]

It doesn't even look interesting.

I'm glad this shit was canned in favor of the GBA version.

[Anonymous No.4131091]

>>4129308
Lol, wut. Given how absolutely fucktarded EB fans seem to be with money, maybe one would pay that. But in general unreleased games don't sell for anywhere near that amount.

[Anonymous No.4131110]

>>4129301
My biggest hope is to see the original and darker Mother 3 for the mini N64.

[Anonymous No.4131117]

>>4131110
That will not happen. Starfox 2 was literally finished before it got canceled. mother 3 was nowhere near completion.

[Anonymous No.4131359]

>>4129308
source: some anon's butthole

[Anonymous No.4131412]

>>4131091

Are you fucking retarded? They're talking about releasing the source code of a game, not a copy of the game itself. $50k is nothing fuckface cunt retard

[Anonymous No.4131502]

>>4131412
>ctrl+f source
>ctrl+f code

You are literally the only person in this thread to even mention obtaining source code. The OP to whom you directly replied said "prototype" which is absolutely not the "source code." Quit being so pissy, anon.

[Anonymous No.4132310]

>>4131049
Why do people care? I thought everyone played it like a decade ago.

[Anonymous No.4132334]

>>4132310
Probably just a meme or something, like >>4131049 said. But you'll have to take someone else's word for it, I don't follow the EB fandom or twitch stuff.

[Anonymous No.4132386]

>>4131359
Nah, that's the going rate. Source: My dad who works at Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.4132390]

>>4131085
Mother 3 looked cool on 64 but I feel like it would've probably been ambitious-but-mediocre if it had come out.

[Anonymous No.4132528]

Since there appears to be real interest here I'll share info here from all the research I have done on the game. I'm a huge motherfag and researched the series way too much.

One idea Itoi had for Mother 3 was that involving a crooked detective. He explains you would play the role of a detective who gets by solving petty cases. Your character would be shady, he described him as a womanizer. He said one important part of the game would be involving a flower shop that changes every day. Ultimately this idea was dropped.

According to who was asked, different answers would be told if asked how much of the game was completed. Iwata thought it was only at about 30% completion but Miyamoto said it was as much as 60%.

Development began quite soon after the release of Mother 2. It was even thought to may be developed for the sfc/snes. However this was decided against as due to the development hell of Mother 2 the team thought the game wouldn't release until after the sfc/snes became irrelevant.

When being developed for the 64DD there were plans to utilize the abilities of the 64DD for the game. One idea was to have the game use real time, similar to animal crossing. One example of this they gave was the idea of a player planting a seed and it growing in real time. Another concept they wanted to do was to have players take pictures of their face and be able to put them on the character models. When development moved from the 64DD to the 64 these features were removed.

Originally the games featured a subtitle. The first subtitle was "Forest of the Chimera" however I believe they feared some kind of legal problem with the word "chimera" in the title. The later subtitle became "Fall of the Pig King".

According to Itoi the scenario for the N64 was much "dirtier" as he described it. There is little information on what he means he has said he had planned to "betray the player".

[Anonymous No.4132559]

>>4132528
Part 2

Some information regarding the N64 version of the game: it was said to be 60 hours in length and contain 12 chapters, the GBA game is about 30 hours in length and contains 8 chapters. Flint is believed to have had a much larger role as if compared scenes are compared from the N64 to the GBA versions he appears outside of chapter 1. This could mean players would be able to swap out characters on their team. Wess was also shown to be a fully playable character instead of a npc who participates in battle.

Brendan Sechter, the only non Japanese person involved in the development of Mother 3, a copy of the prototype exists and he has played it. Where this prototype is now is unknown.

[Anonymous No.4132635]

>>4132528
>I believe they feared some kind of legal problem with the word "chimera" in the title
You believe this based on what?

[Anonymous No.4132664]

>>4132635
I believe they said there was some problem if they used "chimera" in the title and that is the reason they had to change the subtitle.

[Anonymous No.4132910]

>>4132664
>i believe it because it believe it
Oh. Ok then. Totally useful. kek

[Anonymous No.4132945]

[Anonymous No.4133463]

>>4132559
They should have dropped the chapter system, its horrible. It was probably way better with all 12 of them

[Anonymous No.4133465]

>>4132945
God it looks so amazing, the GBA game is really shitty and the worst in the series this is almost as big as MML3 cancellation.
What a waste

[Anonymous No.4133524]

>>4133465
kys

[Anonymous No.4133538]

>>4132945
Imagine all the dropped N64 rpgs that would've made it a god tier console otherwise

[Anonymous No.4133565]

>>4130469
>>4131049
People have been asking Nintendo about it for years. Reggie himself has addressed it multiple times in public interviews.

[Anonymous No.4133646]

>>4131412
Didn't that one unreleased 3D Castlevania sell for several thousand, though? And that was only a demo IIRC. It was supposed to come out on Dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.4133656]

>>4133646
DrX from Hidden Palace spent hundreds of thousands into megadrive protos.

[Anonymous No.4133687]

>>4131069
Then they just bitch it was done poorly

[Anonymous No.4133692]

>>4133656
Iirc the Sega ROM archive might've been into 5 figures (probably low 5) but I don't know if a hard number was ever publically disclosed, and that was for a large number of potentially prototypical ROMs since it was the full archive and not a single cart or something.

[Anonymous No.4135862]

>>4129301
You'd need to have a respectable position at Nintendo if you ever wanted to get your hands on their unreleased prototypes. They won't hand this shit over to anyone, so the best you can do is set up a petition asking them to make like a video series on their cancelled projects. It may not be exactly what you want, but the possibility of getting new footage and in-depth interviews with the devs sounds so much better.

[Anonymous No.4137664]

>>4135862
Thanks kid whos dad works at nintendo

[Anonymous No.4140407]