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.

As a reminder, sharing links to ROMs is against the rules.

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[Reynardine]

Sadly the game crashes for me on Mupen64Plus-Next in Retroarch on Switch. In the cutscene with the stone golem right after using the first warp.

In terms of graphics it looks fine in m4xw's build of Mupen. No broken/missing textures. The crash is ingame and shows a crash screen, it is not the emulator that crashes.

Ah well, after all the waiting I can wait just a little longer until someone fixes it. I can't believe that I'm actually playing this, the music, the graphics, everything here is pure childhood nostalgia, like being back in the N64 days.

 

[VinsCool]

Just saw some gameplay footage from the leaked rom... Really impressive for a N64 game, could almost pass a very early gamecube title!

Looks really far into the making, too, but seeing it then being entirely remade for the gamecube was definitely the best move, however.
That was beneficial on the long run.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

PLEASE TELL ME the actual fight with General Scales was programmed in this build...

 

[tfwh2ubzat]

Did anybody get it to work on WiiU yet?

 

[Prior22]

Get us the unreleased WCW game for ps2 please.

 

[FanNintendo]

Works on M64Plus FZ

 

[KiiWii]

to use sabre, you have to
1. go to cloudrunner fortress as krystal
2. get the disguise spell (it's on the left side of the main room, down a pit with guard robots, and past a cutscene trigger you have to clip by)
3. swap to fox
4. use the disguise spell#DinosaurPlanet

— Harshmallow (@harshmallowy) February 21, 2021

 

[eriol33]

given that the source code doesn't exist even in nintendo's mega hack, this is amazing

 

[Spider_Man]

ohhh id like to try this, is linking to a game that never got released considered as piracy?

(not that i am asking for a link)

 

[shadow1w2]

Amazing, glad to see this still existed.
Never would have thought we'd ever see it.
Hopefully we'll see some fan works to fix it up more and other interesting things.

 

[Little_Anonymous_Hacker]

Cera's in this game?

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

Why didn't they release this officially? One thing to make any game cooler is: Dinosaurs.

 

[Moon164]

I didn't see many people talk about that, but this game is simply gorgeous for the Nintendo 64 standard, the gameplay is very well done and the graphics are exceptional for the platform, RARE really managed to push the console to the limit here, maybe even more than they did with Conker and Jet Set Gemini.

It is a pity that RARE did not follow its original idea, this game could have become the game that would close the Nintendo 64 cycle with a golden key (similar to Majora Mask and Conker Bad Fur Day), it could have become an excellent classic, but in the end it just became a average Star Fox game for the Game Cube that nobody cares about.

PS: Star Fox Adventures is a good game, it just isn't a good Star Fox game.

 

[Worldblender]

Cera's in this game?
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No, that's most likely a coincidence if they share a similar appearance. In-game, the triceratops's name is Tricky.

 

[raxadian]

What's the best Nintendo 64 emulator for PC be it Windows or Linux?

 

[Deleted User]

Kevin Bayliss, former designer at Rare responded to the Dinosaur Planet leak.
"just saw this - ah, brings back some memories! I remember building that older Krystal model.
The game went through various changes before it finally got released.
I think I've some old Concept artwork I'll post on youtube soon!"

 

[jnl1]

Played a bit on ED64P and it looks great, tho performance crawls in some areas.

u64aap doesn't seem to work. I would be great if someone can find some aa cheats.

did you use the normal ed64p os? or alt64?

 

[duidovwud]

Sadly the game crashes for me on Mupen64Plus-Next in Retroarch on Switch. In the cutscene with the stone golem right after using the first warp.

In terms of graphics it looks fine in m4xw's build of Mupen. No broken/missing textures. The crash is ingame and shows a crash screen, it is not the emulator that crashes.

Ah well, after all the waiting I can wait just a little longer until someone fixes it. I can't believe that I'm actually playing this, the music, the graphics, everything here is pure childhood nostalgia, like being back in the N64 days.

I had the same thing happen to me on switch but I tried it on sixtyforce and it’s running perfectly so far.

 

[duidovwud]

I had the same thing happen to me on switch but I tried it on sixtyforce and it’s running perfectly so far.

Nevermind, It crashed when I tried to destroy a block.

 

[Deleted member 323844]

did you use the normal ed64p os? or alt64?

Alt64. Vanilla 1.28 didn't work for me. But some people is reporting that it works so idk.