Forest of Illusion is on a roll, when it comes to uncovering gaming history. Their latest find is a copy of Dinosaur Planet for the Nintendo 64–a game that never saw an official release, as the project was moved to the Nintendo GameCube and eventually came to be known as Star Fox Adventures. They’ve dumped the game where it can be now be found online, preserving it forever. This build of Dinosaur Planet is dated December 1, 2000 and is playable, though the ending levels are reportedly unfinished and potentially unable to be completed without the use of cheats. According to Forest of Illusion, emulator compatibility with the game is spotty, leading to multiple instances of slowdown and graphical glitches, however it works fine on official hardware through flashcart use.

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[Moon164]

What is the best emulator to run this on Wii and Wii U ?

There is now a patch on the Dinosaur Planet wiki that fixes some of the bugs and adds a useful cheat menu to the game.

It allows you to warp to any map in the game, jump to any point in the story, unlock all abilities, fly around the map with noclip, play as Sabre instead of Fox, disable anti aliasing, access the unused options menu and there's even a simple music and sfx test built in.

Here: https://dinosaurpla.net/Main/Tech/Mods/

It's really cool to see people trying to improve the game, how do I apply these patches to the rom ?

 

[sley]

I think I played the Alpha(?) build at the start of this year and the gameplay was pretty good, I recommend trying the game out because It could have been easily a classic if it did get released back then.
Retroarchs ParaLLE core can run it best I think.

EDIT: I should have checked the date lol, thought this was a new dump

 

[JBizzle3rd]

What is the best emulator to run this on Wii and Wii U ?

It's really cool to see people trying to improve the game, how do I apply these patches to the rom ?

download deltapatcher tool. you can apply all delta patches by unchecking the option to checksum validation in the settings.

 

[ShadowOne333]

How can one keep track of the progress being done to Dinosaur Planet's fixes?
I am mostly interested in playing through the game from start to finish on Mupen64 Plus Next, but I am not sure if the fixes done so far allow for such a thing or not.
Is there a GitHub or something else where one can track the changes and progress easily?

 

[Reynardine]

How can one keep track of the progress being done to Dinosaur Planet's fixes?
I am mostly interested in playing through the game from start to finish on Mupen64 Plus Next, but I am not sure if the fixes done so far allow for such a thing or not.
Is there a GitHub or something else where one can track the changes and progress easily?

To be honest, nobody is actively working on fixing/patching the game anymore.
Nuggs in the Dinsaur Planet Discord created the DinoMod patches on his own. But he got busy with other stuff a few months ago and since then there were no more updates.

The current version of DinoMod can be found here: https://dinosaurpla.net/Main/Tech/Mods/dinomod-exploration-testing-debug-tool-xdelta/

One thing that is being worked on is the DP Decompilation project, but it is progressing slowly and will take time before anything useful comes out of it: https://github.com/zestydevy/dinosaur-planet

 

[SaberLilly]

Even though im probably not going to play this, i love that it exists, i should probably download a copy for my own keeping though

 

[ShadowOne333]

To be honest, nobody is actively working on fixing/patching the game anymore.
Nuggs in the Dinsaur Planet Discord created the DinoMod patches on his own. But he got busy with other stuff a few months ago and since then there were no more updates.

The current version of DinoMod can be found here: https://dinosaurpla.net/Main/Tech/Mods/dinomod-exploration-testing-debug-tool-xdelta/

One thing that is being worked on is the DP Decompilation project, but it is progressing slowly and will take time before anything useful comes out of it: https://github.com/zestydevy/dinosaur-planet

Damn, it's a shame that it came to a halt :/
Thanks for the sources and links though, I will continue the development of this ROM and its fixes, even if they are slow or far apart.
I hope it can take off again in the near future, I'd love to have a full version of Dinosaur Planet on the N64 as it was originally intended.