GamesMaster Feature: Nintendo Shoshinkai/Space World 1996

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Published on November 4, 2020 12:00:01 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0A2_bmQFeg

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Mario Artist: Paint Studio (1999)

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S06E10

Even more beta footage of N64 games

The eighth Shoshinkai show was held on November 22–24, 1996[21] and was located at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, Japan.[22] New software was shown for the Nintendo 64, Super NES, and Game Boy.[22] This show bore the first demonstration of the 64DD, which IGN reported was one of the biggest items of the show along with first-party titles,[23] while other gaming press said it was kept out of the spotlight and had no meaningful demonstration of its capabilities.[22][24] Nintendo itself stated that the company was deliberately downplaying the 64DD at the show in order to demonstrate the ongoing commitment to the cartridge format.[25] Nintendo's Director of Corporate Communications, Perrin Kaplan, made the company's first official launch window announcement for 64DD, scheduled for late 1997 in Japan.[26]

The 64DD system was shown in its own display booth with the hardware specifications having been finalized, according to Nintendo of America's Chairman Howard Lincoln. The system played an improvised conversion of the Super Mario 64 cartridge game onto a 64DD disk in order to demonstrate the storage device. The booth also demonstrated the process of rendering audience members' photographed faces onto 3D avatars and shapes—a feature which was ultimately incorporated and released in 2000 as Mario Artist: Talent Studio and the Capture Cassette for 64DD.[27][28] Another 64DD title in development was Creator, a music and animation game by Software Creations,[29] the same UK company that had made Sound Tool for the Nintendo Ultra 64 development kit. They touted the game's ability to be integrated into other games, allowing a player to replace any such game's textures and possibly create new levels and characters. There was no playable version of Creator available at this show, but the project was later absorbed into Mario Artist: Paint Studio (1999).[29][30][31]

Reportedly several developers attended the show to learn how to develop for 64DD, some having traveled from the US for the 64DD presentation and some having received 64DD development kits.[32] Included in the early roster of committed 64DD developers, Rare officially discounted any rumors of the peripheral's impending pre-release cancellation.[33]

N64.com described the presentation of Zelda 64 as "very quick shots on videotape".[27] Yoshi's Island 64 debuted in a short video, and was eventually released as Yoshi's Story.[34] "The biggest surprise" of the show according to IGN and "most impressive [new peripheral]" according to Electronic Gaming Monthly was the Jolting Pak,[23][35] which would eventually launch as the Rumble Pak in a bundle with the upcoming Star Fox 64, but Next Generation claimed it "was seen as merely another whimsical Nintendo fancy destined to the bin marked Good Idea at the Time."[22]

Mario Kart 64
Star Fox 64
Yoshi's Story
Mischief Makers
Goldeneye 007
Superstar Soccer
Turok
Zelda

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