Every Canceled Nintendo 64DD Game

Part 1 of 2.

It's data but I'm not sure it's beautiful.

Yeah as far as gameplay mechanics go they would be fine, most main line Mario games have a unique gimmick.

I wonder if the family friendly branding would be as strong if people could publish rom hacks in retail channels.

The online players are just that much more profitable that they don't want to risk them.

If even a small percentage of people who stop playing online to play the single player DLC feel satisfied and don't go back to online then they lose money over all.

The rom I'm seeing is tagged "proto" and is presumably a leak.

I wonder how the final release compares.

I often see them in offices. People who are working 8 hours in an environment where thy don't control the AC will often want proof that it is or is not working effectively. As there are potentially multiple vents along a duct these ribbons are a handy way to see how much the duct pressure varies across the room.

For a company that is iterating on its products this is probably fine from a mechanical sense but would be a nightmare for their IPs.

Consider the early Super Mario series:

• 1985 - Super Mario Bros
• 1986 - Super Mario Bros: The lost levels
• 1988 - Super Mario Bros 2
• 1988 - Super Mario Bros 3
• 1990 - Super Mario World
• 1996 - Super Mario 64

If in 1990/people could legally make their own "lost levels"-esque remixes with the SMB1 engine that would be paltry competition with SMW.

Similarly if people started remixing SMW in 1995 it wouldn't have stopped SM64 from defining the 3d platformer genre and presenting a very strong argument for the analog stick being required for any 3d console.

But if people could tell their own Mario stories, that might tarnish the brand. If that happened we might not still be getting Mario games today.

I'm not sure how you open source both engine and assets without losing control of the narrative.

True, "community" might not be the right term.

But nonetheless if the OG developer structures their license so that each version becomes open source after 5 years then people publishing that as is or creating forks will always be a few steps behind the official release.

Of course if the title has any kind of community support that crowd sourced effort has the potential to outshine the OG developer, its important they time their license to give themselves a head start.

I think Friday Night Funkin' will turn into a cautionary tale here, by releasing their game with much hype and open sourcing their code the first 7 weeks in 2020-21 they allowed community to really flourish. The player community has created content and then content that builds on and responds to that content (both narratively and mechanically) for several cycles now. Much of this content is now viewed as core to the FnF experience by players but much of it is also now built around other people's IP (video games, TV shows, music, etc)

At the same time The Funkin' Crew has been quietly working on Friday Night Funkin': The Full Ass Game but I suspect that as a commercial game bound by the resources of single dev team and the rule of law they will be hard pressed to compete with the community they spawned.

While this is a win for remix culture it might not turn out as being the most prudent business decision. On the other hand they pulled off a two million dollar kickstarter so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the other hand if the code from the 5 year old release was open source but the updates from today was still closed source for another 5 years that would encourage continual improvement addition content to differentiate from the community releases.

Thats what i get for using google translate.

Thanks for correcting!

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/a2a6bc534868773b9320ec3ca7399283cf7a375b

Anytime

Newspaper classifieds used to be full of arcane abbreviations.

Now we have the internet we can look up a cheatsheet, but no longer use newspaper classifieds.