Dinosaur Planet to be Officially Finished and Released
After posting the story about the Star Fox Adventures 2 rumor from DarkSamusHunter last night, I was contacted this morning by another leaker who goes by EarMustardHunks. He sent me materials proving that the original Nintendo 64 version of Dinosaur Planet is being worked on for an actual release. The plan is to use the original game bible and multiple versions of the in-progress game builds to reconstruct what would have been one of the most ambitious games for the Nintendo 64 had it ever released. A remaster, if you will, of the unreleased gem.
Supposedly, this project is part of Microsoft's ongoing attempts to have their games and IPs on every platform possible, including Nintendo's. As you know, Microsoft owns Rareware, and thus the IP rights for things in Dinosaur Planet not directly covered by Nintendo's Star Fox Adventures IP rights. Really, if Rareware and Microsoft were going to release Dinosaur Planet, they could only partner with Nintendo on this.
EarMustardHunks is pretty new to the Nintendo leaking game, but he provided material evidence that leaves me with no doubt he has real insight into this project. He shared some videos of a build running natively on the Nintendo Switch using official Nintendo developer portal tooling. There were sequences from the very late game that were not included in any build from the original Dinosaur Planet leak. Nintendo and Rareware are working on it together, planning for a release as part of the Nintendo Switch Online service, which will continue on the Switch 2.
As part of my agreement, I can't share any of these materials. Sorry, but I agreed to his terms before I realized what he had. Also, there's some identifying information in the videos that Nintendo could trace back to EarMustardHunks and his contacts. Understandable.
And before you ask, yes, Dinosaur Planet Krystal IS in this version of the game. She's in the game exactly how you'd expect, the same young girl adopted by Randorn. Not sure who they're going to get to do her voice, since they're going to need new voice clips for the newer portions being built.
Hoping to hear more about this officially in the next couple months. What I've seen has me very excited!
Update
Sorry everybody. It would appear I was taken advantage of. EarMustardHunks is just an anagram of DarkSamusHunter. I was fooled with some elaborately faked videos made by AI. What a terrible day to be pranked!
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Hell yeah.
April fools! Lol! Sorry to hear that, Mr. K. That is a shame because I
Sorry, I accidentally clicked “Post” before I was finished typing the previous post. I was looking forward to an official Dinosaur Planet release, too. I also figured that it would be owned by Nintendo, since Krystal is a well-established Starfox character who is attached to the game. Guess we’ll have to wait on an official announcement on this one, if we ever get one. :-(
Also, Mr. K, are you going to change the site to “Renamon Archive” again for April fools? Lol…
@Jacob
I try not to repeat jokes. I think that was the very first one.
@ Mr. K
Awwww. :-(
What about “Waluigi Archive”?
I wish, nice one
before the updated – yeah, i kind of doubt that – why would rare ltd. do the game when they already deleted when they start to move and make it into a “star fox” game instead?
after the update – yeah, i knew it was a “april fool’s” thing.