Hi This post is probably pointless but still I have to ask. "Recently" (well, more than 2 months ago), I found this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K57WvxqfNto By the time the topmost comment for it was this: "maidor (2 months ago) hey my friend have this game he know how to do n64 games copy and he downloaded it and is a shit just 2 levels and 3 bords horable." I didn't know what to think. At first I didn't believe it could possibly be true that someone had a prototype, a beta or whatever of this game and just say it carelessly like that. But then, reading his/her bad bad English made me doubt if I was gratuitiously denying the posibility. Maybe he has access to it and doesn't know it's something valuable for some. I wrote a few messages to him/her, and all I got was that s/he affirms that the rom was downloaded from somewhere in the net (no way!... or is it so? :S), that s/he no longer has it because it was deemed boring and got deleted (OMG!!!). The last 2 messages weren't replied to. My question is. Even though these affirmations are highly dubious and all that... what are the odds of KAR64 existing out there in some form?? Was it available sometime and then dissapeared??? O my, if someone has something, please, share, I beg!!
He may have remembered bad his friend's game which may have been Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards... I really liked the GCN game, although it felt really unfinished (which is quite funny for a game that has been developped for 7 years...) and would have really liked to get hands on N64 version. No rom released for the moment i think...
Floating on the net is one thing, being found on some tight FTP is another. To my knowledge, the ROM of this unfinished game has not been floating. The gameplay footage however is suspicious in that someone is actually controlling kirby and the video doesn't look like something out of an expo or anything (ie not off-screen, but captured). The most logical conclusion (for me) is that someone might own an unfinished version of the game, but I m 99% sure that the footage shown on youtube isn't running on an emulator, considering the completeness of the graphics and no glitches etc (then again, mario 64 runs virtually flawlessly so I might be wrong). Interesting subject, and definetely worth looking deeper into - although a pretty dull game by default.
Yea, this ones too iffy. Who the hell knows. I'd love to try the game, if for some reason in does infact exist in some form or another.
Gah, things like this drive me crazy! :banghead: Just like the Mario Kart DS Beta. I have found one version of it, but footage from Youtube reveals one more. Wahh. I love betas/alphas/demos. I wanna cry because of how hard they are to find though! Blah, ok, no more ranting. :icon_bigg
Man, you are thinking too much.;-) The description for the video says "Kirby's Air Ride 64 video from E3 1996. [...]" The VHS style "stretched tape" distortion in the lower part of the picture -most obvious during the 3D N64 logo introduction-, that very introduction, and the general look and feel of the video denote officiality. Also, I remember seeing pictures in magazines and montages in promotional VHS (acompaining said magazines) made out of clips of this larger video and others. There are other promotional VHS's of the time that show that same introduction, with the N64 logo and the rolling countdown. This video was official promo material of the time, not a personal recording, nor it's recent. You are right it's not from an emulator. It couldn't be, not only for the reasons above, but for the look of the video. N64 was known for having a particular "blurry" picture quality due to somewhat badly implemented smoothing techniques, and although this video would be a 4rd or 5th generation encode (original n64 in NTSC composite or s-video > professional tape for edition, maybe DV so it could have been a lossless transition for the footage part > VHS final > digital capture on a computer wich could mean 1 or two steps, depending on method > youtube) if it was running on an emulator, wich currently, in the case of the n64, are all HLE, at least for the graphics part. This means n64 native display lists are translated to Direct3D, OpenGL, Glide or other library and rendered by the host computer's 3D hardware, which wouldn't render them the same exact way the N64 does; N64's texture filtering (TLMMI), antialiasing and other stuff are pretty "unique" as to the end results compared to other hardware. AAAND I've ranted enough already... for now. So, it's original, true, official footage from it's day, and anyway, this was not a discussion about the origins of the video. I don't think someone that had the game would just put brand new, inedit footage on the net only to disguise it as old official stuff. Such an evil scheme :evil: That cleared, LET'S FIND IT, MY FRIEND!! (haha, as if it was that easy)
Well, I feel kind of bad going off subject in this topic, lets just say it has around 8 "Beta" levels. http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mkdsbeta Anymore questions, PM me.
