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News The source code for Rayman 2 has been leaked online (update: a large amount of Rayman 3 GBA docs and builds have also been found)

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Krvavi Abadas

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Yes, it's definitely shaping up to be a wild year for game preservation.
For the record, the filename for the archive says it was for "Rayman 4". (I.E. the original version of Raving Rabbids that was a proper platformer, rather than the mini-game collection it turned into) But most of the files are Rayman 2 related, with the modification dates suggesting it was pulled out for the DS port of that game.
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(Ignore the title, this really was just a port of Rayman 2!)​

A build of the game (Using Nintendo's internal ".srl" format) is even included in the files, but it requires dev hardware to run.
Alongside this, there's a pair of music players in that same format. Which don't require dev hardware, and are naturally filled with Rayman music.
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There's also assets from other games that use Rayman 2's engine, such as Tonic Trouble and Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers.
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and you get to learn numerous developer in-jokes. Like the fact they frequently used Iron Maiden album covers as placeholder assets, and that there's an official John Lennon Rayman OC.
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I'd recommend checking out Ribshark's Twitter thread, as it contains quite a few other details worth noting.
You might also be interested in seeing this collection of unused animations taken from the source.
 
Dcubed said:
Very interesting stuff. Bizzare that the source code came from the DS version of all things though!
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Eh, not really that surprising.
Grabbing the code from a more recent port would be a lot easier than finding where it was originally stored.

The gigaleak had something a bit similar. There was a small portion of code from the original NES Super Mario Bros left in due to the devs pulling it out for Mario All Stars.
 
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It's exciting that this game will finally be able to be ported.
 
It's a shame that this borderline masterpiece has not been brought to consoles of recent generations.
 
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A Rayman 4 prototype (and source code) has leaked
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    • i suppose that explains why the original Rayman 2 archive was named "four". this is specifcally a PC proto, and seems to even run on modern windows without issue/

    like the last leak, assets from other games using Ubisoft's internal "JADE" engine are also included. such as king kong.
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    • As a massive fan of Rayman 2 specifically, this is awesome. Hope we'll get a decent, modern PC port out of this or something.
     
    It’s kind of crazy that there are no currently no official means to play rayman 2 from ubisoft. That game was available everywhere like a decade ago
     
    Oh man, seeing these images brings me back yearssssss. I loved Rayman 2 so much, played it on PC back in the day and it was my first experience with the franchise. And it's what led me to ask my parents for Rayman 3 on the GBA, which turned out to be some hybrid between Rayman 2 and 3 esthetics and I really loved that game. I also ended up buying Rayman 3 on the Gamecube for like €5 back then.

    I hope we'll be able to play Rayman 2 on modern systems again. Ubisoft should've remastered it, but I'll take anything at this point.
     
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