4th March 2021, 6:30 PM
Yeah, that's most of the part of the game that fully functions. After that you can get farther with hacks, but the game is currently not completable, stuff totally breaks later on. It's not clear if the last parts of the game were finished at all yet or not (they probably weren't, Star Fox Adventures adapted most of what was actually finished in Dinosaur Planet, there's probably a reason several of the later areas were cut from that game and it's probably that they weren't made yet.), if there's an ending at the end (there may not be), etc.
So what's the plan, from what I've seen on that Discord?
1) Continue playing the game and trying to hack fixes into it via rom patches, Gameshark codes (ie direct code manipulation), etc.
2) Meanwhile, have some people work on decompiling the rom into readable source code. This will likely take several years, sadly, it's quite hard to do.
3) Once the decompilation is finally finished, get programmers to finish everything for real, without the hacks that'll be needed until then. Also other people (art, etc.) may be needed depending on how finished the later parts are and how much new content the people working on the game want to add.
So yeah, sadly it'll be a long process, but that we can play it at all is amazing! Rare's great lost N64 game has finally been found.
So what's the plan, from what I've seen on that Discord?
1) Continue playing the game and trying to hack fixes into it via rom patches, Gameshark codes (ie direct code manipulation), etc.
2) Meanwhile, have some people work on decompiling the rom into readable source code. This will likely take several years, sadly, it's quite hard to do.
3) Once the decompilation is finally finished, get programmers to finish everything for real, without the hacks that'll be needed until then. Also other people (art, etc.) may be needed depending on how finished the later parts are and how much new content the people working on the game want to add.
So yeah, sadly it'll be a long process, but that we can play it at all is amazing! Rare's great lost N64 game has finally been found.