StarTopic The Nintendo Gigaleaks |ST| Tomohiro, we're home.

[Krvavi Abadas]

Thanks for compiling this, OP, great stuff. Do we think that Zero eventually turned into Cosmic Walker? The protag looks quite different but is also wearing something resembling a space suit.

Not 100% sure. I did briefly consider going through Coded Soul to see if it had any assets from ZERO. But it's all using a proprietary format.

You mentioned Captain Rainbow, so i'll add that another thing we learned about it from the Gigaleak is that it started on the GameCube, under the codename 'ウラキャラ' ('background character').

Yeah, that was one of the things in the release spreadsheet i figured most people were already aware of.

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Here's a smaller thing that i left out of the OP. A test application for the Mystery Gift feature in Pokemon Diamond & Pearl.


Actually getting the gift requires a Japanese copy of the game, but doing so reveals it's a Level 5 Pikachu captured by Nintendo themselves.

I took a screenshot of the Event Cart making app (DPDeliver.exe) too, but as noted. I'm pretty sure it needs a Japanese build of Windows as you can tell from the lack of text, and i'm not sure if all of the necessary assets for fully using it are there either.

There was also a few design docs for the Mario Calculator/Clock DSi apps, really.

Alongside a text document containing various equations (Over 1000!) for testing.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

yes, we're finally back at this stage. though it's probably not what you're wanting.

that "wii crusher" is the biggest one, essentially being an internal tool that resets a Wii to it's inital state in the factory.
it'd mainly be useful for homebrew purposes nowadays, as one of the main features is that it lets you run applications off the SD card on startup. which means helpful tools like Bootmii can work on Wiis released after 2009.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

Yes, people are still finding notable things in the older leaks.

Just a note on Tomohiro Kawase, his N64 NES emulator was originally planned to be used with the 64DD/Randnet service as a sort of proto-Virtual Console allowing you to download games and even write them to a blank disk. In fact Nintendo sent out a survey to Randnet subscribers asking which Famicom and FDS games they'd most like to see.

I'm actually not too sure how far into development that went. there's articles from the time period mentioning plans for it. but outside of the emulator (which was internally developed the same year as Randnet.) it doesn't seem like any other work was done on it.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

for those unaware, this was one of the original designs for the world map in Super Mario World, and pre-dates the more famous early "mushroom" design that appeared in a few screenshots by about 3 months.