14th November 2016, 1:43 PM
Remember the expansion pak, which was repeatedly sold to us as something that lets DK64 be even bigger and better than it could possibly be otherwise? Remember how Banjo Tooie seemed like it was doing all those various things we attributed to the expansion pak in DK64, but it didn't need the pak at all?
As it turns out, DK64 didn't actually need the expansion pak for ANY of that stuff. It's been revealed now, in interviews with Rare, that the only purpose of that expansion pak was a hasty kludge of a fix for a game crash bug they didn't have time to iron out any other way before the game's release. Technically, they could have resolved the issue without the expansion pack, but they just couldn't figure out where that bug was coming in in time to code up something better. So, Nintendo slapped an expansion pak into the box for every copy of the game and mislead all of us into thinking it was giving us bigger and better graphics and gameplay. That's gotta be one of the most expensive bug fixes Nintendo has ever had. Still, I don't really have that much of a grudge in this case. It helped me get prepared for the upcoming games that actually DID need the expansion pak, namely Majora's Mask and Perfect Dark, without having to buy the accessory separately.
As it turns out, DK64 didn't actually need the expansion pak for ANY of that stuff. It's been revealed now, in interviews with Rare, that the only purpose of that expansion pak was a hasty kludge of a fix for a game crash bug they didn't have time to iron out any other way before the game's release. Technically, they could have resolved the issue without the expansion pack, but they just couldn't figure out where that bug was coming in in time to code up something better. So, Nintendo slapped an expansion pak into the box for every copy of the game and mislead all of us into thinking it was giving us bigger and better graphics and gameplay. That's gotta be one of the most expensive bug fixes Nintendo has ever had. Still, I don't really have that much of a grudge in this case. It helped me get prepared for the upcoming games that actually DID need the expansion pak, namely Majora's Mask and Perfect Dark, without having to buy the accessory separately.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)