![]() The Nintendo 64 version of Dream ran into a number of difficulties. Captain Blackeye was planned as the main antagonist in the Nintendo 64 version. ![]() Following this transition, the team gradually dropped fantasy-related elements as they did not want the game to become "too childish." Dream was gradually being developed into a much larger RPG, featuring pirates rather than giants. Therefore, the team decided to port the game to the Nintendo 64. Dream was inspired by Japanese RPGs and LucasArts adventure games, and the team wanted to combine those games into one with a "Rare flavor." Īs development progressed, Dream: Land of Giants became too large to fit on a Super Nintendo cartridge, and the Nintendo 64's introduction made the Silicon Graphics technology obsolete. The team decided upon the codename Dream because they wanted the game to have a fantastical, magical feel to it. The game was an isometric RPG for the Super Nintendo titled Dream: Land of Giants, and it utilized the Silicon Graphics technology of the Donkey Kong Country games but to a more advanced level. More info was revealed in December 2015, when Rare published the A Rare Look at Dream video on YouTube.Ī screenshot of the Super Nintendo version, showing Edson walk in the woodsĭream began development sometime in 1995 by the same development team as Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. In July 2015, a blank sprite floppy of Dream, along with storyboard images and concept art sheets, had surfaced on eBay UK. Stamper has announced on his Twitter on July 20th, 2015, that he is slated to run the cartridge on the SNES. As of current, the cartridge has successfully been captured, and Stamper uploaded photos of the cartridge itself, along with an opened view, showing its internal circuitry, especially the four ROM chips. He had then allegedly found one of the rumored cartridges in his closet in early June, as he then began to tease the fans with a humorous scenario in which he had to capture it. The only screenshot of Dream made public prior to 2015įor many years, not much information was known about Dream, only one screenshot and some concept drawings were public.Īlong with that, near the end of May 2015, Tim Stamper brought up a rumor on Twitter that there were two prototype cartridges for Dream.
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