Forest of Illusion on Twitter released the files to Dinosaur Planet and shared some screenshots of the game with Star Fox’s Fox McCloud.
Additionally, while this version of Dinosaur Planet currently “won’t work 100% perfectly on an emulator,” Forest of Illusion states that it “will work fine with flashcarts.”
Forest of Illusion bought a disc from a private game collector in Sweden on which a version of Dinosaur Planet had been built from December 1, 2000. fully playable until the end. “
Dinosaur Planet, as previously mentioned, became Star Fox Adventures and was released in 2002. In our review we said, “Star Fox Adventures arrives as a truly excellent 3D action adventure for GameCube owners. It’s a definite Zelda rip, and not quite as good, but that’s okay in my book, because Rare has still done pretty well. “
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto is said to have been one of the driving forces in turning Dinosaur Planet into Star Fox Adventures. In an interview with IGN, when asked about the game, he even commented, “It looks really nice, doesn’t it? I wish they would. [use] Star Fox characters so that they could use the title Star Fox Adventures. Maybe I should call the team and talk about it. [laughs]You can read IGN’s impressions of N64’s Dinosaur Planet from 2001, when the game was already canceled on N64 and reworked as a GameCube game.
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