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First Mario 64 footage?
- Thread starter JavyOO7
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Naw, not that one. That was Super Mario Sunshine.
But it's EXACTLY what I'm talking about.
That was pretty badass seeing the first ever footage of SMS in Spaceworld, hearing the music and seeing the goo and waterpack and the city was so badass.
I'm just wondering if anyone has seen the first ever footage of Mario 64. How was it like if you ever saw it?
But it's EXACTLY what I'm talking about.
That was pretty badass seeing the first ever footage of SMS in Spaceworld, hearing the music and seeing the goo and waterpack and the city was so badass.
I'm just wondering if anyone has seen the first ever footage of Mario 64. How was it like if you ever saw it?
Ninja Scooter
Member
i think the first ever time it was shown, it was playable at the Shoshinkai show in '95. I could be wrong though.
Justin Bailey
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"Badass" and "Super Mario Sunshine" shouldn't be used in the same sentence.
No, I was referring to "project reality" or whatever it was referred to at the time footage of mario running around a realistic-modern city. Never saw it in video form but pics were in gamefan I believe.
Really? Man, that sounds cool. Can someone help me out with finding screenshots of that?
I know it's pretty ridiculous, but I just think it's awesome viewing games for the first time. Like SMS or such.
Really? Man, that sounds cool. Can someone help me out with finding screenshots of that?
I know it's pretty ridiculous, but I just think it's awesome viewing games for the first time. Like SMS or such.
Er...I saw pictures of the Project Reality BULLSHIT. It was just a realistic CG background with *2D* pictures of Mario characters pasted on them. Not real time and not a game.
I've also seen pictures of the first public showing of Mario 64, didn't quite look as good as the final product, backgrounds were more simple.
I've also seen pictures of the first public showing of Mario 64, didn't quite look as good as the final product, backgrounds were more simple.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Super Mario 64 was unveiled for the first time ever in Shosinkai '95, November 1995 in Tokyo. Featured along it playable was Kirby Bowl (or Ball), no other games. On video they showed a Zelda tech demo, Wave Race 64 (back then a futuristic boat racer), Blast Corps, GoldenEye 007and some others.
The first screenshots were published on the very same day on Nintendo.com. The Super Mario 64 screenshots featured Mario spinning Bowser from the tail, standing in front of the castle and in the entrance hall (which looked entirely different back then), among others Also the HUD was very different. Many of the textures were placeholders.
I didn't come accross any official video footage back then, I don't remember even seeing any B-rolls on it.
Video footage might have been featured in some promotional N64 stuff during Spring 1996, but the first time I remember was the pre-E3 footage of the vastly progressed version on CNN just under the show.
Now, that makes me feel old.
The first screenshots were published on the very same day on Nintendo.com. The Super Mario 64 screenshots featured Mario spinning Bowser from the tail, standing in front of the castle and in the entrance hall (which looked entirely different back then), among others Also the HUD was very different. Many of the textures were placeholders.
I didn't come accross any official video footage back then, I don't remember even seeing any B-rolls on it.
Video footage might have been featured in some promotional N64 stuff during Spring 1996, but the first time I remember was the pre-E3 footage of the vastly progressed version on CNN just under the show.
Now, that makes me feel old.
ravingloon
Member
I remember downloading that footage as the show was happening. Can't remember the site I did it from, but the wait for each video (14.4k modem) was incredible.
Almost thought I'd confused this with E3, but Shoshikai? had WaveRace in the cool top down perspective and E3 had the really bland open ocean racing (Which has greatly enhanced in the next couple months.)
Edit: It may have been from Nintendo's Japanese site.
Almost thought I'd confused this with E3, but Shoshikai? had WaveRace in the cool top down perspective and E3 had the really bland open ocean racing (Which has greatly enhanced in the next couple months.)
Edit: It may have been from Nintendo's Japanese site.
There were a couple of UK TV shows at the time (Bad Influence and Gamesmaster) that showed footage from the show. Good times. I remember the week before, Dominik Diamond said something like "Next week, Nintendo will be showing off it's new Ultra 64 console and if they're to be believed, it should be more powerful than my mum."
DJ Demon J
Banned
Project Reality was Ultra 64 i.e. Nintendo 64.
DJ Demon J
Banned
levious said:
Oh, right, sorry. Ultra 64 was awesome, KI had everyone stoked, and then what happens, we get the shitty N64. "Consumers don't want CDs!"
DJ Demon J
Banned
SantaCruZer said:
Thanks douche.
SantaCruZer said:
The one with Tim Boone was Games World, same production company (Hewland), different show. Ultimate Rad, executer... they sound like the "expert" gamers that were on the Friday show (Beat the Elite). It's quite mental to think we had a game show that was on every week night all the way back then heh heh
SantaC
Member
SFA_AOK said:
That show was hella fun. I remember that the contestants had to spin a wheel which game they would play. That old lady was owning it up in Columns. I also remember that Ultimate Rad was a reviewer on NMS. (Nintendo Magazine System) What happend to that magazine? I imported it every month.
WTF? I know Nintendo's decision to go with cartridges (and its difficulties with 3rd parties because of that) have been discussed to death. But it's funny to see EGM back in the day falling for Nintendo's justifications. Even in 1995, it was clear that CDs offered a lot of advantages besides FMV -- lower production costs, faster manufacturing, room for high quality sound files, pre-rendered backgrounds.
SantaCruZer said:
Yeah Gamesworld was indeed quite good, some of the shows during the week weren't so great but the two gaming challenge shows were good, the reviews programme was good and it had the games mistress
Not sure I remember Ultimate Rad but I'm sure it's Radion Automatic, he wrote for EMAP mags for ages, he was a writer back before Mean Machines split into MM Sega and NMS. NMS became Official Nintendo Magazine which I think JohnTV writes the occasional column for. (I think ONM is the only gaming mag that Emap has left...) Not sure what happened to Rad, maybe he started writing under his real name?
heh heh...
SantaC
Member
SFA_AOK said:Yeah Gamesworld was indeed quite good, some of the shows during the week weren't so great but the two gaming challenge shows were good, the reviews programme was good and it had the games mistress
Not sure I remember Ultimate Rad but I'm sure it's Radion Automatic, he wrote for EMAP mags for ages, he was a writer back before Mean Machines split into MM Sega and NMS. NMS became Official Nintendo Magazine which I think JohnTV writes the occasional column for. (I think ONM is the only gaming mag that Emap has left...) Not sure what happened to Rad, maybe he started writing under his real name?
oh now I remember it was radion automatic
DJ Demon J
Banned
digit said:
It wasn't just EGM, and it still happens today.
SFA_AOK said:
Haha. Yeah I remember Bad Influence footage of Mario. First time I saw it. Looked fucking incredible....only those super crisp hi-res images didn't quite equate to the same thing you saw when it finally arrived on actual N64 hardware and shitty lo-res resoultion.
God's Hand
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That demo of Mario and pals in a city was running on N64 dev kits. It was primarily used to show off the mip-mapping and level of detail techniques possible on N64 (some might remember the checkered-textured water tower). The Museum demo was used just to show off unique 3D interfaces.
There was also a game called Project Onyx, which a few magazines ran stories about. It was a first person game that had you on a fire breathing dragon, exploring huge worlds. It looked unique and quite good. I'm not sure if it was ever released for SGI machines (definitely never came out for N64), or if it was scraped. Anyone have shots of it on the net?
There was also a game called Project Onyx, which a few magazines ran stories about. It was a first person game that had you on a fire breathing dragon, exploring huge worlds. It looked unique and quite good. I'm not sure if it was ever released for SGI machines (definitely never came out for N64), or if it was scraped. Anyone have shots of it on the net?
COCKLES said:
Are you sure you're thinking of the same showing? The one I'm talking about is when Violet Berlin was actually playing the game (that and that Kirby game). The game looked better when it was released... if it's direct feed footage you're talking about then I can see there being some disparity between the 2 but not anything huge. Then again I seem to remember Rare games like Banjo Kazooie looking much better in Edge than the final game because of the debug units the game was running on for those shots so maybe it was something like that.
God's Hand
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COCKLES said:
Uh, Mario 64 was never anything other than 320x240. What are you smoking?
ravingloon
Member
DJ Demon J said:
Tell me about it. The way the industry eats Sony and MS PR is maddening.
Are you nuts?
Those pictures appeared on a Nintendo Power in *1993*. No, they didn't run on N64 dev kits. The city was CG, and the characters weren't running either, they were static sprites. The "musuem" demo as you call it is once again regular CG. The only connection it had to Nintendo was that photographs of some characters(like Luigi on a Kart) appeared as pictures in the wall.http://sfghq.emulationzone.org/betan64/
I scanned these a while ago and I think I posted them at the old forum. They need to be documented somewhere
I scanned these a while ago and I think I posted them at the old forum. They need to be documented somewhere
Super Mario Kart R:
http://home.datacomm.ch/nintendo3/betaversion_mariokart.htm
Zelda - Majora's Mask:
http://home.datacomm.ch/nintendo5/betaversion_index_majorasmask.htm
More Beta-versions:
http://www.nintendoworld.ch.vu/
http://home.datacomm.ch/nintendo3/betaversion_mariokart.htm
Zelda - Majora's Mask:
http://home.datacomm.ch/nintendo5/betaversion_index_majorasmask.htm
More Beta-versions:
http://www.nintendoworld.ch.vu/
Red Dolphin
Member
jarrod said:Shoshinkai '95 debuts...
Super Mario 64
Wave Race 64
Super Mario Kart R
Star Fox 64
...and a bunch of other early stuff was shown too (The Legend of Zelda, Pilot Wings 64, Kirby Bowl 64, Body Harvest, Buggy Boogie, Blast Dozer, Creator, Star Wars 64, etc)
I love looking back on early N64 games. Many of the games went through such dramatic changes from their initial released screenshots.
I remember reading about Wave Race where you would press a button to change the shape/structure of the vehicle to take corners better (but go slower) and on the straights you could change into another form to go faster (but have harder controls). It was something like that. Sounded really interesting!
ravingloon
Member
It's Yoshi's Story.
clipunderground
Member
this thread brings a tiny tear to my eye. *sniff*