Rare’s unreleased Dinosaur Planet for Nintendo 64 is now in the wild, and its gameplay on the console is available.
The custodians of video games at Forest of Illusion have announced that they have released a version of the December 2000 game. Dinosaur Planet finally launched in 2002 as Star Fox Adventures for the GameCube.
Today we released Dinosaur Planet at Rare for Nintendo 64. The development was discontinued and moved to the GameCube, where it was then released as Star Fox Adventures. Enjoy it! (More information in this thread).
Link to the landfill: https: //t.co/gQGGcU4vJK pic.twitter.com/Orub7RU3fa
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John Linneman of Digital Foundry confirmed the validity of the construction and managed to get it up and running on an actual Nintendo 64. The video below is the game he captured:
This game does not seem to be coming from the Nintendo gigaleak that fans recently helped restore to the Super Mario World soundtrack. On the contrary, it turns out that the conservationists bought a disk with the work-in-progress code of Dinosaur Planet on it.
We bought this disc with the build from a private game collector in Sweden. The date of the file gives a list of the builds from December 1, 2000. It seems like it’s a very late version of the game, which is great, but it’s going to take a bit of a break to be fully playable by the end to be. pic.twitter.com/igtDSzeRzG
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Dinosaur Planet was a 3D adventure game in the line of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that was not originally related to the Star Fox series. So the legend goes: Shigeru Miyamoto himself suggested that it should be coaled again to take up Fox McCloud and co, and not on the N64, but release the GameCube.