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Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Friend posted:

I feel like I remember fans that blew in your face in addition to the rumbly seat but that may have been another game

They did that for the sequel Arctic Thunder iirc

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The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
For people who don't get this: There's a random photo of a coconut in the TF2 files that someone spread a joking rumor was somehow a load-bearing JPG that the game relied on to run. The Source Engine is an unholy mess of hacks dating back to the Half-Life 2 E3 demo (there was a bug found during Alyx's development that is probably in every Source game by this point where NPCs can see through walls when they're talking!), but it's not quite that bad!

The artist who took the original photo poked his head up on Reddit in response to this being found and says it was originally for an effect that looked bad, and that it might have been repurposed later as a coffee bean.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

i don't think these female TF2 cast concepts had been released before

https://valvearchive.com/archive/Team%20Fortress/Team%20Fortress%202/Art/Character%20Art/Alternate%20Female%20Lineup/

shame they ended up going for the all-male cast (and pyro)

e: oh those are actually old news, they're just doing the rounds again due to the gigaleak

repiv fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jan 14, 2023

Randalor
Sep 4, 2011



repiv posted:

i don't think these female TF2 cast concepts had been released before

https://valvearchive.com/archive/Team%20Fortress/Team%20Fortress%202/Art/Character%20Art/Alternate%20Female%20Lineup/

shame they ended up going for the all-male cast (and pyro)

e: oh those are actually old news, they're just doing the rounds again due to the gigaleak

Awwwww, we missed out on demograndma.

Most of those are really good character designs, the only ones I'm not a fan of are the Soldier's, but that's just because they're missing his coat (the sketch ones underneath wearing the coat are spot on though).

LvK
Feb 27, 2006

FIVE STARS!!
I couldn't find anything after a few pages of google but I'm super curious, what's the big difference between version 1 of Hydro Thunder and the patched version? Like, beyond the sake of preservation.

sigher
Apr 22, 2008

My guiding Moonlight...



repiv posted:

i don't think these female TF2 cast concepts had been released before

https://valvearchive.com/archive/Team%20Fortress/Team%20Fortress%202/Art/Character%20Art/Alternate%20Female%20Lineup/

shame they ended up going for the all-male cast (and pyro)

e: oh those are actually old news, they're just doing the rounds again due to the gigaleak

All of these are really really good, Valve's got some awesome talent on board. It's a shame none of them got used.

A Cup of Ramen
Oct 16, 2012

Hey this news to you guys? https://exputer.com/news/industry/games-archivist-canceled-games-arts/

11 gigs of stuff. https://archive.org/details/archive_202301



Mario 3 from id software https://youtu.be/iM3ZfKHOW6s

some mother screenshots?





SNES Rayman





SNES CD internal doc

https://archive.org/download/archiv...-%201993%29.pdf

A Cup of Ramen fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jan 15, 2023

SidneyIsTheKiller
Jul 16, 2019

I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...
I want to say I've seen that Mother/ Earthbound image, or at least one from the same set. It's not totally new but was made public fairly recently, it was a mockup done by Namco who tried pitching a Mother game for GameCube.

The Namco rep says Iwata and Miyamoto were there and had a "WTF?!" reaction to it, not because it was terrible or anything (I don't think, at least) but because they never thought in a million years a third party would offer out of the blue to do a Mother sequel of all things.

Chev
Jul 19, 2010
Switchblade Switcharoo
Yeah the archive is mainly made from stuff that's been posted on twitter and other social networks over the years, it's not all new leaks or something.

SilentChaz
Oct 5, 2011

Sorry, I'm quite busy at the moment.
The unreleased first attempt at a De Blob DS game:

https://twitter.com/RebelTaxi/status/1614819438989316097

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


SidneyIsTheKiller posted:

I want to say I've seen that Mother/ Earthbound image, or at least one from the same set. It's not totally new but was made public fairly recently, it was a mockup done by Namco who tried pitching a Mother game for GameCube.

The Namco rep says Iwata and Miyamoto were there and had a "WTF?!" reaction to it, not because it was terrible or anything (I don't think, at least) but because they never thought in a million years a third party would offer out of the blue to do a Mother sequel of all things.

miyamoto consistently doesn't understand the appeal of anything but mario and zelda so this is totally unsurprising

SNES CD stuff getting unearthed is pretty wild tho

Mode 7
Jul 28, 2007


Love seeing stuff like this. It's fun to dream what might have been released on the SNES CD in an alternate timeline where it all worked out.

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005





HYPER ADVANCED NINTENDO DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

Aside from all the big stuff like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger being on CDs, I'd also like to imagine ports of the Ys games on par with the TG16

certainly would have made Ys 5 more interesting

azurite
Jul 25, 2010

Strange, isn't it?!


I do like the technical descriptions of CDs that you can no longer find very easily.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

SNES CDeez nuts

Booourns
Jan 20, 2004
Please send a report when you see me complain about other posters and threads outside of QCS

~thanks!

Necrothatcher posted:

HYPER ADVANCED NINTENDO DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM

I remember seeing that HANDS diagram in an old issue of EGM

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Super Mario CD

NyetscapeNavigator
Sep 22, 2003


Hyper Advanced Nintendo Data Transfer System (HANDS)

Ballz
Dec 16, 2003

it's mario time

Pretty cool find dropped today:

https://twitter.com/forestillusion/status/1621846688167256064

And a video about the game and comparing it to an earlier build that leaked 30 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdCY48KXlUE

Coffee Jones
Jul 4, 2004

16 bit? Back when we was kids we only got a single bit on Christmas, as a treat
And we had to share it!
Oh wow, I remember seeing a blurry screenshot of this in a magazine that was covering CES.
Big sprites in the battle scenes.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Ballz posted:

Pretty cool find dropped today:

https://twitter.com/forestillusion/status/1621846688167256064

And a video about the game and comparing it to an earlier build that leaked 30 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdCY48KXlUE

This is super cool. Also I cannot listen to this man without hearing Christian Bale talk about Huey Lewis

Vikar Jerome
Nov 26, 2013

I believe Emmanuelle is shit, though Emmanuelle 2, Emmanuelle '77 and Goodbye, Emmanuelle may be very good movies.
It... might be happening...???

https://twitter.com/InTimsWorld/status/1640424108637732869?t=73MHtLVm4Hmx-dLmFICc7g&s=19

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



I wonder how far along it was before the shift.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

https://youtu.be/mVGx7zLymUk

This video has a lot of development footage of Twelve Tales that makes it look decently far although it looks like a less fun Banjo-Kazooie, which is probsbly much less interesting than what we ended up with

Vikar Jerome
Nov 26, 2013

I believe Emmanuelle is shit, though Emmanuelle 2, Emmanuelle '77 and Goodbye, Emmanuelle may be very good movies.
tim is just teasing now... dump the rom tim!!

https://twitter.com/InTimsWorld/status/1640811381485195271

it looks like hes being going through his attic finding old 90s rare stuff and stumbling upon stuff like this. think the game preservationists are dming the hell out of him tho. the tweet above reveals some stuff, like the quirkyness from the final game was still in the original plan minus the swearing.

https://twitter.com/InTimsWorld/status/1638969443857358848

https://twitter.com/InTimsWorld/status/1637897551612452864

Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Mar 29, 2023

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

Vikar Jerome posted:

the tweet above reveals some stuff, like the quirkyness from the final game was still in the original plan minus the swearing.
I believe the story that's gone around was that the game was pretty lacking and felt like a repeat act of what Banjo had become, so they passed the game around the studio to see who could inject something different into it. One of the artists took a scene involving honeybees and injected heavy machine gun turrets and reams of cartoon gore into it, and that was enough to convince the bosses to hand over the reins.

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


And then the Great Mighty Poo was created and videogames peaked forever.

Ohtsam
Feb 5, 2010

Not this shit again.

One difficulty is that thing at the bottom with the gold rare label is a security device specifically meant to wipe the cartridge if someone tries to dump it.

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



Ohtsam posted:

One difficulty is that thing at the bottom with the gold rare label is a security device specifically meant to wipe the cartridge if someone tries to dump it.

There’s gotta be a way to get around 25 year old security.

IShallRiseAgain
Sep 12, 2008

Well ain't that precious?

SeANMcBAY posted:

There’s gotta be a way to get around 25 year old security.

Yeah, but you only get one shot to get it right.

The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

My concern wouldn't even be beating the technology, I'd hope there's some documentation on it or someone with really great problem-solving skills would have a plan for cutting open the plastic and diagnosing.

What I think is harder is identifying who would be that person and how you get them access to the hardware.

TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.
Is it a Rare-specific device, or was it a standard part of the devkit? Other prototypes have been dumped, so if it were a standard thing there should be a way.

Worst case, somebody should theoretically be able to read the flash chips directly and reassemble it into a ROM.

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
there are 100% people who are equipped to dump this thing properly one way or another and it's just a matter of if this guy is going to sit on all his poo poo for whatever twitter fame he's getting out of it or if he's actually going to release anything meaningful.

i've just gotten tired of people who are like "look at this cool thing i will never actually let anyone have. it's mine, but here's a few crappy photos!"

Vikar Jerome
Nov 26, 2013

I believe Emmanuelle is shit, though Emmanuelle 2, Emmanuelle '77 and Goodbye, Emmanuelle may be very good movies.

Zamujasa posted:

there are 100% people who are equipped to dump this thing properly one way or another and it's just a matter of if this guy is going to sit on all his poo poo for whatever twitter fame he's getting out of it or if he's actually going to release anything meaningful.

i've just gotten tired of people who are like "look at this cool thing i will never actually let anyone have. it's mine, but here's a few crappy photos!"

Yeah but in this case, its tim stamper, one of the brother founders of ultimate play the game aka Rare. Theres probably some legal poo poo and/or bridge burning involved. Its not quite like some nobody found it in a garage sale and is keeping it for internet clout, it really is his. Well more so he used to own the ip, and now microsoft does so...

Its like if miyamoto went on twitter and posted vids of a famicom zelda prototype

Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Mar 29, 2023

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

This feels like a lead-up to an April Fools thing

Polly Toodle
Apr 21, 2010

CHARIZARD used SMOKESCREEN
It doesn't affect GEORDI THE BLASTOISE!
A dump of Twelve Tales in some form has long been my holy grail of unreleased\prototype games, don't play with my heart like this.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

TVs Ian posted:

Is it a Rare-specific device, or was it a standard part of the devkit? Other prototypes have been dumped, so if it were a standard thing there should be a way.

Worst case, somebody should theoretically be able to read the flash chips directly and reassemble it into a ROM.
It's Rare's own hand-built security dongle. The prototype has protection to prevent it from booting without it. Similar, if not identical, protections have been hacked out of Conker and Dinosaur Planet prototypes.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Zamujasa posted:

there are 100% people who are equipped to dump this thing properly one way or another and it's just a matter of if this guy is going to sit on all his poo poo for whatever twitter fame he's getting out of it or if he's actually going to release anything meaningful.

i've just gotten tired of people who are like "look at this cool thing i will never actually let anyone have. it's mine, but here's a few crappy photos!"

He’s a millionaire, I don’t think he cares about the Twitter fame necessarily

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Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Pablo Nergigante posted:

He’s a millionaire, I don’t think he cares about the Twitter fame necessarily

This disagrees with most of the behavior of millionaires that I am exposed to

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