Roonifer Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Please excuse me if this is posted in the wrong place. >< Earlier today, a friend and I were discussing the rocky production of Star Fox Adventures and what Dinosaur Planet would have been like had Nintendo not shoved their foot in the door. How cool it would be if Rare actually released the full game. Knowing how unlikely that is, we then entertained the idea of taking it upon ourselves to restore Dinosaur Planet from the data that has been found on the Star Fox Adventures disc. Not that we'd actually jump on this idea and attempt it, but how many of you would actually be interested in seeing the original Dinosaur Planet and the game it was originally meant to be, clean of any trace left by Nintendo? Whether it be produced by fans or by Rare proper. Not that I'm exactly savvy with this kind of stuff, but if it seems to me that the job wouldn't be that hard, the only real problems being restoring the 3d models and voice acting. Both of which would most likely have to be recreated.. Well, assuming that Rare isn't involved. Another problem that would be faced is how many people would be interested in seeing the original Dinosaur Planet? The only people that actually remember the game would be the hardcore Star Fox fans. Just letting a thought get out of control, guys. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drasiana Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I'm...pretty sure that's not possible Before it was Star Fox at all, Dinosaur Planet was slated to be an N64 game. There is no concievable reason for any of that to be included within the files of the Gamecube game it wound up being. The only remnant data found on the Adventures disc were some unused voice files and a couple other minor things...and they were still Star Fox Adventures. The only way to "recreate" Dinosaur Planet as it was originally intended to be would be to somehow get your hands on copies of the original game data, which isn't really accessible for any of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roonifer Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 Before it was Star Fox at all, Dinosaur Planet was slated to be an N64 game. There is no concievable reason for any of that to be included within the files of the Gamecube game it wound up being. The only remnant data found on the Adventures disc were some unused voice files and a couple other minor things...and they were still Star Fox Adventures. While I understand what you're saying. I feel I have to stop you right there. The files and data on the disc are actually mostly related to Dinosaur Planet. As there are constant references and mentions of Sabre, Kyte, the Swapstone and even the wizard Randorn. I dunno, I'm a dreamer. I'd like to see Dinosaur Planet one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drasiana Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 edit: nevermind found it revising post okay assuming you're referring to this, while interesting, is hardly enough to rebuild an entire game from (like an actual functioning workable game nearly identical to what it would have been had Nintendo not tampered) don't know why it was so hard for them to keep in the bit where the krazoas are actually interesting though why the hell did they cut out all the parts that made the story actually make sense (hey Drakor what do you mean plot relevance) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Elite Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Unless they made it from scratch. But I wouldn't be interested in seeing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xortberg Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 If it was the ONLY planet in the Lylat System i could visit, then sure. If however I could visit another one, then bye Sauria, hello Corneria. Congrats, Elite. You seem to be unable to read. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NayibPastrana Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Just yesterday, I went looking myself for a file in the SF:A disc called "GAMETEXT.BIN". It's supposed to have scripted scenes from Dinosaur Planet. I uploaded it later on as an RTF file. http://www.mediafire.com/?c2dqb7cyaclx3cz Hopefully, this helps in some way or other. I'd love to see this happen, really. Call me a dreamer, too. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shaper Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I would be open to the idea of playing the actual game if it was made by Rare yes, but from what Dras mentioned what little data there would have been found in the disc wouldn't be enough for an actual game to be created from, most of it would probably be filler and thus make it more of a fanwork. Not to say that it would be bad, I would just have less motive to try it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salem Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Well I would Love to See Sauria in real life seeing on how that Adventures is the game that got me hooked on the franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roonifer Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 Just yesterday, I went looking myself for a file in the SF:A disc called "GAMETEXT.BIN". It's supposed to have scripted scenes from Dinosaur Planet. I've been reading through that file for a couple of days now. It's what got me started on this whole "Dinosaur Planet" fix. And actually, Dras, I was referring to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drasiana Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 It just frustrates me reading it and seeing that the game could have made sense, Star Fox or no, if they hadn't felt the need to cut out half of it They've got the Krazoa, Krystal's backstory, Drakor...god daaaaaaaamn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Elite Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Congrats, Elite. You seem to be unable to read. and you appear to be blind, do i harp on about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drasiana Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 You do realize he quoted your post as it was BEFORE you edited it, right? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilgamesh Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Hi all, I posted some information about the N64 version of Dinosaur Planet. Is there someone who can make an additional contribution? http://64dd.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=856&forum=4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drasiana Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Awesome. I want to see some of the visual components for these, like Diamond Bay or the Desert Forcepoint Temple, if such things even exist anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xortberg Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 and you appear to be blind, do i harp on about it? Yeah bro, Dras already shot this little attempt at saving face down. Trying to edit your post to erase your shame only works if nobody's quoted it in all its shameful glory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrono Reaper Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 From what i read in a Wikipedia article before they merged it with Star Fox Adventures, Dinosaur Planet would have been the largest N64 game in memory capacity to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deploy Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I would have loved to see Dinosaur Planet come out. SFA was good, but the original N64 Dinosaur Planet looked like the better game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drasiana Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I remember being super stoked about it even before it got turned into Star Fox, and being almost disappointed that the "new Star Fox" and Dinosaur Planet weren't going to be seperate games (and I was HUGELY obsessed with Star Fox, too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZComposer Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Don't get your hopes up too high. Story files do not guarantee that there is enough surviving programming code or game assets from DP to extract a functioning version out of it. SFAd was an exceptionally messy compile, yes, and there is probably some stuff still there, but I imagine large important chunks are missing or have been replaced with SFAd stuff. Just because they didn't clean-out the repository before final build does not mean much. You may be able to hack some small tidbits out, but would they be playable? I don't know. But I guarantee the entire original Dinosaur Planet is NOT on the SFAd disc. EDIT: "I am Fox McCloud, Royal Knight of the Lylat System." lolwut? Gotta love Find & Replace. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drasiana Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 They'd certainly need to recreate some of the environments and character models (Kyte and Randorn, etc), which to my knowledge were never found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilgamesh Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Anyone know which utility could identify if there are 3D objects in a file of a GameCube game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Fox Runner Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I looked at the info that Gilgamesh put up. Blackwater Canyon and Test of Sacrifice? Now THOSE sound like they could have been awesome. It always makes me sad when Dinosaur Planet is brought up. I love Adventures to death, but I think Dinosaur Planet could have been an amazing game! If somehow the original game could be revived, either through fan work or by Rare themselves, that would make me one happy Runner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilgamesh Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 As I said in one of my posts on 64dd.net. There are sprites of Diddy Kong Racing contained in one file. I used Tile Molester to find them, there is what looks like a planetary system. Strangely, no relation to DKR. I thought it was in StarFox64. Anyone know what it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thu'um Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 no, no idea. strange though and very cool :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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