Usually kept in storage somewhere. On an old hard drive, or other storage medium. Sometimes if a beta cart is made (for showing at a show, or to pass between a developer and publisher, like between Rare and Nintendo) it gets put into storage with other company stuff.
Sometimes one will show up at a yard sale or a fleamarket or something, being sold by someone who used to work there who got it, or the family of such a person.
Lots of times it's a beta of an already released game. Sometimes it's an actual unreleased game. Sometimes it's a game that only people in the company got (back in the 80's, Pepsi commisioned Namco to make a Pac-Man game with a Pepsi theme, only people in the company got it.)
Sometimes you even find demo carts. The demo cart for Turok 2 for the Nintendo 64 was a beta version of the game. These were used in stores, but sometimes people got them.
The catch is, if you find a beta cart, it isn't going to have the nice, neat final artwork sticker on it. Usually, it's completely blank except for maybe a label with an internal serial number on it. You won't know what game it is until you pop it in. If you are lucky, it will have the name in pencil on it.
I still remember when this game was announced ): It was one of the very few games from N64 that I actually wanted. I love Star Fox, but... but.. why?? Why changing the game to a SF sequel? >.<
Thanks Rare... we lost this game and possible sequels...
Rare really did push the n64 at the end. Conkers BFD with its real time shadows, lighting, facial animation, sound, unbelievable texture work, Banjo Tooie, Perfect Dark all hi res and all with massive draw distances and then this - which looks like it would've went a step further. Imagine if stuff like Conker came out at the start in 1996/97 - I think brains would've exploded!
@TheFoxshot Unfortunately, I have my doubts. As much as I hope they do, I have a feeling this game never got finished. I hope somehow, though, they go back and finish it. I think it would get a lot of interest!
@Korin88 sorry it took a while to respond. The Dinosaur Planet game for N64 was actually already finished in the first place. The reason why it took so long for this to release is because they were switching around the Star Fox characters, adding new voice lines, and updating the graphics for GameCube since they changed their minds on making this a starfox game.
It is likely that original Dinosaur Planet will not ever see light of the day. It comes like this: It is RARE -game, but Nintendo has putted some of characters now for StarFox (including Tricky). Having said that, they COULD Re -Release Starfox Andentures: Dinosaur Planet again for the WII (perhaps with the new controls) AND include original Dinosaur Planet -full game as an unlockable for those who complete game!
-This would be best solution, and other games do it as well (Panzer Dragoon Orta).
As for cutting & dumping down the game for CG, there can be millions answers! Remember, Ocarina had loading time on CG, but not on N64, so may be they did not want the DVD got too full and must do loading betveen the levels, or something.-Remember RE2 is one cartridge on N64 but two CD`s on PSX.
Other explanation is that Rare got bitter coz thay had just finished game that would not go sale, and they would start it all over again and did not bother:(
Wow you can really tell they model the character after Star Fox, I think they planned that from the start, so it'd be another update of a character like they did for Donkey Kong, and then left Nintendo to notice that it was a great game design and that the character was too much like Fox McCloud.
I looks like so much of this game had already been completed! I wish this game could have been released. If there were a ROM available, I'd definitely go download it!
Also, Krystal deserved to have her own game franchise, instead of being just a starfox character...
oh god.. ok iam happy that this game comes to gamecube... even if everytime i played this i thought, it "playes" like an n64 game. Now i know why. :) Great!
What makes this painfull is the fact that at the end of the day there is NO released game(s) for N64 that use 90 - 100% of the power of that console, courtesy of the cancellations of the games like Dinosaur Planet, Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil Zero...
BUT, with the recent N64 releases of the finished articles of the likes of O.D.T, 40 Winks, Mini Racers, ect...
-There is most definitely good change we WILL get to play even this game on N64 version!!!
The hijacking of Dinosaur Planet's license from Rare to become part of the Starfox franchise owned by Nintendo was part reason I believe as to why the owner of Rareware left the company, then later convinced Microsoft to buy them off from Nintendo. Basically they had a cry over their license being butchered. Was a sad time in Nintendo's history then, from 2000 to 2004 they pulled an EA, lost RARE over it, and a lot of fans. It's great now they have gone back to their old selves.
@CmdrFoxDavion Talking out your ass here. The stamper brothers sold their shares in the company to Microsoft around the same time Adventures as released, in 2002. They both left in 2007, FIVE YEARS later.
I think porting this game to the gamecube was definitely a good idea, as the characters and visuals looked better! But making it a Star Fox game was totally unncecessary! Just because a character looks like one of your own company mascots Miyamoto doesn't mean you have the right to replace him!
@M1XART Yes....I guess. But why did they have to make Krystal a damsal-in-distress? People were looking forward to playing her throughout the game like you were meant to in the original ALONG with the... male "fox" character. I am also shocked they dropped the battle with General Scales at the end. Rushed for time my arse!
@Ketorulz That's not the reason why they merged the two games. Nintendo figured this game wouldn't sell so well and decided that Star Fox needed a new game in the series. The end result was utter shit.
@Ketorulz Still it means that maybe someday we can get a Virtual Console port or a 3DS version or something... Nintendo can still release games like DK64, Star fox Adventures etc.
If it wasn't a Star Fox game we might have gotten a sequel that doesn't live up the the original. *cough*NutsAndBolts*cough*
This game could of been a great game to play. I think the same voice actor that played Krystal, came back to play her in Adventures and Sabre sounds a bit like fox, don't you think? I wished this was out, i would of played it. ^^, also, i wonder what Krystal was searching for in the beginning..And i have so many questions to ask about this game that could of been out, so that way we can all know about Krystal and the one who was forgotten, Sabre.
It got turned into Starfox Adventures on the Gamecube in 2002, unfortunately I think the original would have been better, but it was Shigeru Miyamoto's idea-the man who created Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Starfox etc.-to turn it into a starfox game because they were "very similar" (Those similarities include being about foxes who are technically in space..and that's about it..) but it's still a good game, go to the website ign to check out the review.
Miyamoto did not create Metroid. He's far to busy making damsels in distress to ever make a cool female main character like Samus. But it is true that it's his fault this got turned into a starfox game. It probably would have been much better as is. As we can see he still has a fetish for damsels in distress because that's exactly what they turned Krystal into. They also took her for a ride in the slut-mobile and sexed her up in Adventures, I let slide because she looks much better that way.
xD fetish for damsels, no seroiously, i liked star fox adventures, i couldn't believe this thou.hehe, i also like the franchise, anyway, this looked good. what would have been good is that this got released as planned, and then make a starfox game from a scratch, but this added an important character, of course krystal. i'm not a furfag if u're wondering, i just like these games. c ya
That's the first time I've ever heard Sabre talk, and actually hear Krystal say something else other than, "My name is Krystal, and I've come for the princess!" How exciting. This makes me wish they'd release some sort of port of this game. @_@ Other than Starfox Adventures, of course. Great footage, thank you SO much for sharing.
Haha, yeah dude, that's the same clip I keep finding too XD God I wish they would have released this. Twelve Tales: Conker 64 and this game would make me just pee my pants.
I knew he was a weak boss to fight, but if he fell out of his ship then he is the lamest villain in Videogame History.
I know he looked frightening when he threw Krystal overboard in SFA, but I can see now that RARE made a few comical things with General Scales that that forgot to include when they made StarFox Adventures.
Every time I watch this, I feel like it's a NEW N64 game coming out. Sigh. My childhood...
NayibPastrana 2 months ago
People would have eaten this game up as a stand-alone. As a Star Fox game though, it feels out of place..
ACluelessKid 5 months ago
@ACluelessKid Yeah, like for instance I would have BOUGHT it if it wasn't a crime against all things Starfox.
DemonOfLaziness 4 months ago
some people comments on the dinosaur planet page of unseen64 that they got some for sell or trade.
If could be true would be fantastic that someone leak it :)
TheWolfrain64 6 months ago
We can hear at some points Conker's music :)
Blizzarderful 7 months ago
I hope this gets leaked. I would have greatly preferred to play the game in it's original form.
TheBardsSongCGS 8 months ago
Am I the only person who ever wonders where they keep all these old unreleased games?
itsdavideo 8 months ago
@itsdavideo
Usually kept in storage somewhere. On an old hard drive, or other storage medium. Sometimes if a beta cart is made (for showing at a show, or to pass between a developer and publisher, like between Rare and Nintendo) it gets put into storage with other company stuff.
Sometimes one will show up at a yard sale or a fleamarket or something, being sold by someone who used to work there who got it, or the family of such a person.
Draknfyre 7 months ago
@Draknfyre I'd seriously shit my pants in public if I was at a yardsale and I found a cart of this game.
itsdavideo 7 months ago
@itsdavideo
Lots of times it's a beta of an already released game. Sometimes it's an actual unreleased game. Sometimes it's a game that only people in the company got (back in the 80's, Pepsi commisioned Namco to make a Pac-Man game with a Pepsi theme, only people in the company got it.)
Sometimes you even find demo carts. The demo cart for Turok 2 for the Nintendo 64 was a beta version of the game. These were used in stores, but sometimes people got them.
Draknfyre 7 months ago
@itsdavideo
The catch is, if you find a beta cart, it isn't going to have the nice, neat final artwork sticker on it. Usually, it's completely blank except for maybe a label with an internal serial number on it. You won't know what game it is until you pop it in. If you are lucky, it will have the name in pencil on it.
Draknfyre 7 months ago
I never really knew what that bird in the cage was up until seeing these videos.
RupeeLord 9 months ago
this version needs to be released on virtual console.... maybe we'll actually get to fight scales
n16music 9 months ago
I still remember when this game was announced ): It was one of the very few games from N64 that I actually wanted. I love Star Fox, but... but.. why?? Why changing the game to a SF sequel? >.<
Thanks Rare... we lost this game and possible sequels...
RIP Saber xD
SeekerNami 10 months ago
Huh. Sabre has Krystal's voice at 5:37 and 5:54
TheFalkyrie 1 year ago
@TheFalkyrie
Beta. It was possible at that point they hadn't done voices for those two situations for Sabre.
Draknfyre 7 months ago
Rare really did push the n64 at the end. Conkers BFD with its real time shadows, lighting, facial animation, sound, unbelievable texture work, Banjo Tooie, Perfect Dark all hi res and all with massive draw distances and then this - which looks like it would've went a step further. Imagine if stuff like Conker came out at the start in 1996/97 - I think brains would've exploded!
liveswired 1 year ago 2
aside from nearly removing all of Krystal's role, making this a Gamecube Starfox game was a good move
CousinStudios4 1 year ago
"Late 2000"
I wish...
CitanKainUzuki 1 year ago
Star Fox Adventure is the remake of Dinosaur Planet cause it was too old so ya
KrystalFox141 1 year ago
"My name is sabre, I could have been a cool game character but instead Rare decided to sell out."
Hethrin 1 year ago 9
@Hethrin Damn right you could have
SabreWolferos 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
how I cant believe this turned into star fox adventures. I love that game
SuperMe4lyfe 1 year ago
wish they kept the krystal levels and the style.
WeEatBrainz 1 year ago
@WeEatBrainz they could have had a feature where when you beat the game you can play as Krystal for the whole game or something
theshredder39 1 year ago
star fox adventure
mspeter97 1 year ago 2
IF they ever considered finishing this and releasing it on whichever console...Id be there to play it.
PenItFoMeYo 1 year ago 4
Well that explains Fox's voice. I'm glad they changed it though caus Starfox needs more games.
penquin12500 1 year ago
ii would be awwesome that nintendo making a remake of starfox adventures!
hayabus111a 1 year ago
This video + Soccer Horn = Equivalent of dividing by zero.
LoudGJ 1 year ago
Do you guys think Rare will release this game for the Xbox 360 Arcade just like Banjo - Kazooie and Perfect Dark?
TheFoxshot 1 year ago
@TheFoxshot Unfortunately, I have my doubts. As much as I hope they do, I have a feeling this game never got finished. I hope somehow, though, they go back and finish it. I think it would get a lot of interest!
Korin88 1 year ago
@Korin88 sorry it took a while to respond. The Dinosaur Planet game for N64 was actually already finished in the first place. The reason why it took so long for this to release is because they were switching around the Star Fox characters, adding new voice lines, and updating the graphics for GameCube since they changed their minds on making this a starfox game.
TheFoxshot 1 year ago
Interestingly enough tricky originally had a brother called Rocky
awesomecdiperson 1 year ago
It is likely that original Dinosaur Planet will not ever see light of the day. It comes like this: It is RARE -game, but Nintendo has putted some of characters now for StarFox (including Tricky). Having said that, they COULD Re -Release Starfox Andentures: Dinosaur Planet again for the WII (perhaps with the new controls) AND include original Dinosaur Planet -full game as an unlockable for those who complete game!
-This would be best solution, and other games do it as well (Panzer Dragoon Orta).
M1XART 1 year ago
That development cartridge is so hot that i would give away even my brand new XBOX 360 Elite -console for that!
As if we will ever see this even on ROM -version, well we can just hope...
Because this game was produced by Nintendo, the finished N64 -version could probably only appear on N64, NGC, DS or WII.
It is similar position with Eternal Darkness N64 -version, -they could release it as a download for WII if they wanted, but it is Nintendo`s decicion.
-I really hope they make that call;)
M1XART 1 year ago
Well things aren`t allways what they seem.
As for cutting & dumping down the game for CG, there can be millions answers! Remember, Ocarina had loading time on CG, but not on N64, so may be they did not want the DVD got too full and must do loading betveen the levels, or something.-Remember RE2 is one cartridge on N64 but two CD`s on PSX.
Other explanation is that Rare got bitter coz thay had just finished game that would not go sale, and they would start it all over again and did not bother:(
M1XART 1 year ago
Wow you can really tell they model the character after Star Fox, I think they planned that from the start, so it'd be another update of a character like they did for Donkey Kong, and then left Nintendo to notice that it was a great game design and that the character was too much like Fox McCloud.
TearyEyesAnderson 1 year ago
Favorited, because I will use this video for all eternity to show people why this game is not, and will never be, Starfox canon. Thank you, sir.
thpsbenage 1 year ago
I looks like so much of this game had already been completed! I wish this game could have been released. If there were a ROM available, I'd definitely go download it!
Also, Krystal deserved to have her own game franchise, instead of being just a starfox character...
TurboPikachu 1 year ago
oh god.. ok iam happy that this game comes to gamecube... even if everytime i played this i thought, it "playes" like an n64 game. Now i know why. :) Great!
SONGOKU02 1 year ago
DAMMIT Nintendo, WHY!?
kabuto335 1 year ago 2
What makes this painfull is the fact that at the end of the day there is NO released game(s) for N64 that use 90 - 100% of the power of that console, courtesy of the cancellations of the games like Dinosaur Planet, Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil Zero...
BUT, with the recent N64 releases of the finished articles of the likes of O.D.T, 40 Winks, Mini Racers, ect...
-There is most definitely good change we WILL get to play even this game on N64 version!!!
M1XART 2 years ago
@M1XART How about Conker's Bad Fur Day? That probably used 90% of the Nintendo 64's power. And it had the best graphics of the n64.
sonikku956 1 year ago
@sonikku956 As far as i know Conker did not utilize expansion pak that much, so i would say Conker is 80% -90% power eater.
M1XART 1 year ago
if this had of came out on n64 it would have been the best game on the console
Hadouken471 2 years ago
The hijacking of Dinosaur Planet's license from Rare to become part of the Starfox franchise owned by Nintendo was part reason I believe as to why the owner of Rareware left the company, then later convinced Microsoft to buy them off from Nintendo. Basically they had a cry over their license being butchered. Was a sad time in Nintendo's history then, from 2000 to 2004 they pulled an EA, lost RARE over it, and a lot of fans. It's great now they have gone back to their old selves.
CmdrFoxDavion 2 years ago 2
I don't know much but do ya mean they "pulled an EA"??^^;; But yea, Nintendo hasn't made the best moves that time
nintendude19 2 years ago
@CmdrFoxDavion Talking out your ass here. The stamper brothers sold their shares in the company to Microsoft around the same time Adventures as released, in 2002. They both left in 2007, FIVE YEARS later.
AlexPlaysGames 2 years ago
I hear Banjo.
lemurboy12 2 years ago
I think porting this game to the gamecube was definitely a good idea, as the characters and visuals looked better! But making it a Star Fox game was totally unncecessary! Just because a character looks like one of your own company mascots Miyamoto doesn't mean you have the right to replace him!
Ketorulz 2 years ago 32
@Ketorulz StarFox has much highter fun base allready existing compared to any new release with new characters, so it can sell more. -Simple as that...
-Having said that, i can`t understand that they cut out so much from Cube -port:(
Original version had so much more gameplay and stuff going on...
M1XART 1 year ago
@M1XART Yes....I guess. But why did they have to make Krystal a damsal-in-distress? People were looking forward to playing her throughout the game like you were meant to in the original ALONG with the... male "fox" character. I am also shocked they dropped the battle with General Scales at the end. Rushed for time my arse!
Ketorulz 1 year ago
@Ketorulz That's not the reason why they merged the two games. Nintendo figured this game wouldn't sell so well and decided that Star Fox needed a new game in the series. The end result was utter shit.
tyrannasaurasalan 1 year ago
@tyrannasaurasalan This was ANOTHER reason. Why not find a character that looked just like Sabre?
Ketorulz 1 year ago
@Ketorulz Still it means that maybe someday we can get a Virtual Console port or a 3DS version or something... Nintendo can still release games like DK64, Star fox Adventures etc.
If it wasn't a Star Fox game we might have gotten a sequel that doesn't live up the the original. *cough*NutsAndBolts*cough*
mrplow321 1 year ago
@Ketorulz Amen
SabreWolferos 11 months ago
@Ketorulz Not only was it unnecessary, but it scrapped both Star Fox AND Dinosaur Planet ! It was totally a mistake !
Quartrez 9 months ago
@Ketorulz Yeah, but it was because nintendo didn't want to rare make it a "microsoft game" and they put starfox characters........
jordyperu 2 months ago
Holy Crap Saber's Voice Actor is the same as Fox's. So thats how it happened
bcoz7264 2 years ago 3
The Enemies look cooler.
bcoz7264 2 years ago
im glad they decided to turn this into a starfox game. :)
PUMPuptheNERD 2 years ago
isnt star fox the main character with the sword on his back ?
FOZproductionz 2 years ago
starfox?......SWORD?
doesnt sound right to me, dude. lmao
PUMPuptheNERD 2 years ago
oh my bad it mighta been another beta demo
FOZproductionz 2 years ago
I think it is strange that Dinosaur Planet was Rare's last game.
cheatguru2173 2 years ago
This game could of been a great game to play. I think the same voice actor that played Krystal, came back to play her in Adventures and Sabre sounds a bit like fox, don't you think? I wished this was out, i would of played it. ^^, also, i wonder what Krystal was searching for in the beginning..And i have so many questions to ask about this game that could of been out, so that way we can all know about Krystal and the one who was forgotten, Sabre.
Absolhunter, out!
Absolhunter251 2 years ago
o.O
When Sabre said,"Hey wait!" at 3:40 ish, he sounded like Fox o.O
Crash22203 2 years ago
It was probably the same voice actor.
AJX1495 2 years ago
Duh don't you people ever think?It's the same voice actor.
SgtThom 2 years ago
How do you really know if it's the "same voice actor"?
There is no proof of it being the exact same one.
They may sound the same, but can probably be said by a different person...
Crash22203 2 years ago
Do you think they will change ever thing?And the n64 have a much weaker sound system them gamecube.
SgtThom 2 years ago
*then* *every*
SgtThom 2 years ago
actually this was the original game for star fox adventures.. but it got ported to nintendo gamecube.
Niuka112 2 years ago
I am well aware of that.
But Sabre's voice was Fox's?
Crash22203 2 years ago
ohhh okay.. well damn!! that was a QUICK REPLY! lol
uhh idk. it probably was.
Niuka112 2 years ago
Well, this reply isn't as quick. I was busy playing some L4D.
Crash22203 2 years ago
I wonder if rare has any plans to release it?
zeogeox 3 years ago
It got turned into Starfox Adventures on the Gamecube in 2002, unfortunately I think the original would have been better, but it was Shigeru Miyamoto's idea-the man who created Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Starfox etc.-to turn it into a starfox game because they were "very similar" (Those similarities include being about foxes who are technically in space..and that's about it..) but it's still a good game, go to the website ign to check out the review.
Palmerifics 3 years ago
Miyamoto did not create Metroid. He's far to busy making damsels in distress to ever make a cool female main character like Samus. But it is true that it's his fault this got turned into a starfox game. It probably would have been much better as is. As we can see he still has a fetish for damsels in distress because that's exactly what they turned Krystal into. They also took her for a ride in the slut-mobile and sexed her up in Adventures, I let slide because she looks much better that way.
echtdeutsch 3 years ago 2
xD fetish for damsels, no seroiously, i liked star fox adventures, i couldn't believe this thou.hehe, i also like the franchise, anyway, this looked good. what would have been good is that this got released as planned, and then make a starfox game from a scratch, but this added an important character, of course krystal. i'm not a furfag if u're wondering, i just like these games. c ya
Slashpython 2 years ago
Miyamoto did make Metroid btw.
IPb0mber 2 years ago
Nope, Gumpei Yokoi made Metroid
rifleviejo 2 years ago
Ah, that's right. Discard my previous comment. ^^
IPb0mber 2 years ago
Woah!
That's the first time I've ever heard Sabre talk, and actually hear Krystal say something else other than, "My name is Krystal, and I've come for the princess!" How exciting. This makes me wish they'd release some sort of port of this game. @_@ Other than Starfox Adventures, of course. Great footage, thank you SO much for sharing.
Xeninicune 3 years ago 13
Haha, yeah dude, that's the same clip I keep finding too XD God I wish they would have released this. Twelve Tales: Conker 64 and this game would make me just pee my pants.
LoneBesamell 3 years ago
conkers bad fur day was funny, im sorta glad that twelve tales didnt take off.
mariovssonic64 3 years ago
yeah, and the guy talking Sabre sounded like Steve Malpass, who voiced Fox in SFA!
Ignigknawt 2 years ago
Also, did anyone else hear someone say 'Sabre' at 3:05? Is that Krystal, or would that be one of the Cloudrunners?
Xeninicune 2 years ago
@Xeninicune it was a good game but with star fox was a good idea,but i think the game missed something else
you finished the game and thats all.... nothing extra,2nd quest or something
they shoul put the classic beta or something like that
omegazerozx 9 months ago
OMG!!!!
General Scales fell off his ship???
I knew he was a weak boss to fight, but if he fell out of his ship then he is the lamest villain in Videogame History.
I know he looked frightening when he threw Krystal overboard in SFA, but I can see now that RARE made a few comical things with General Scales that that forgot to include when they made StarFox Adventures.
TBoneTony 3 years ago 3
omg... its starfox adventures^^
SLightningHedgehog 3 years ago
Really great and rare footage here. This game would have been great if it would have been released on the N64.
Oni64 3 years ago 3