Recent Posts

Prerelease Material

Commercials

Media kindly provided by Lavacopter. Commercial 1 Commercial 2 Commercial 3 Commercial 4

Comments Off on Commercials
March 17, 2011
Prerelease Material

Screenshots & Footage – 1995

Media kindly provided by Lavacopter. 1995 Shoshinkai The world's very first look at a Zelda game on the Nintendo 64. The game was built on a heavily modified Mario engine,…

Comments Off on Screenshots & Footage – 1995
March 15, 2011
Creator's Salon

Scenario – Auron of the Crimson Blade

An early illustration of a Crimson Blade member. It appears as though the seven luminary blade, Masamune, that is used by Auron in the game was their standard equipment at…

Comments Off on Scenario – Auron of the Crimson Blade
March 13, 2011
Link's Awakening

Staff Questionnaire

Did you know that Miyamoto has nightmares about Zelda? That Tarin was supposed to pop out of a treasure chest? That Totakeke has secrets he won't tell us? That Bucket…

10 Comments
March 1, 2011
Final Fantasy VII

Early Teaser Footage Analysis

Qhimm's Cupcake comments on the following video showing very early teaser footage of Final Fantasy 7. Did we miss anything? 0:13 - Zoom from intro cinematic, different rendering of Midgar,…

Comments Off on Early Teaser Footage Analysis
February 7, 2011
Animal Crossing

Debug Tests

A helpful little debug guy from Doubutsu no Mori on the N64. Thanks to Kaokan for providing the screenshots. Johnny B: This is a test for matching the sound with…

Comments Off on Debug Tests
February 6, 2011
Unseen Text

In the Truck

Previously I posted the translation of a small, unused cutscene, originally included in Robert Seddon's Debug Room Cutscenes article. Now the full version of that scene has been found by…

Comments Off on In the Truck
February 6, 2011