Dinosaur Planet, The Lost N64 Game, Finally Discovered
Every now and then you hear about an unreleased game from the past finding its way to the Internet, and the sheer number of discoveries in recent months has given everyone hope…unless you’re a fan of Rare’s golden years on the N64. You see, Rare used a special development cartridge of its own invention that would self-erase its own ROMs every time the carts were disconnected. That means the odds of uncovering a lost and desired N64 game from them (like Dinosaur Planet or Twelve Tales) is painfully low. That’s what we assumed, anyway, until Forest of Illusion (the same guys who found all those Zelda 64 beta maps last month) came out of nowhere yesterday morning with an actual dump of Dinosaur Planet. Where did it come from? The data was burned to a CD-R, not stored on a cartridge, and it was formerly in the possession of a Swedish collector. We may never know the story as to why this exists, but based on the kind of build
