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  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    50·
    2 days ago

    Reportedly found on a Wii test kit discovered at an e-waste recycling center

    Man, talk about a find.

    The reason for it being canned so late seems to be mostly on internal higher up conflict within Lucasarts, whose leadership became bean counters. https://www.eurogamer.net/free-radical-vs-the-monsters

    And then we went from talking to people who were passionate about making games to talking to psychopaths who insisted on having an unpleasant lawyer in the room." (David Doak on the change within Lucasarts after Jim Ward left)

    “LucasArts hadn’t paid us for six months,” says Norgate “and were refusing to pass a milestone so we would limp along until the money finally ran out. They knew what they were doing, and six months of free work to pass on to Rebellion wasn’t to be sniffed at.”

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      36·
      2 days ago

      Fully playable build, but it’s probably not a complete or finished game

      • icecreamtaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        2 days ago

        From the article:

        “It was pretty much done, it was in final [quality assurance testing],” Free Radical founder and former studio director Steve Ellis told GamesIndustry.biz in 2012. “It had been in final QA for half of 2008, it was just being fixed for release. LucasArts’ opinion is that when you launch a game you have to spend big on the marketing, and they’re right. But at that time they were, for whatever reason, unable to commit to spending big. They effectively canned a game that was finished.”

        • naught@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          They also say the controller mapping is a challenge in the emulation software, but doable. It’s the wii version so I bet the aiming and whatnot is going to be wonky when using a controller or kbm vs the other releases.

          • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
            17·
            2 days ago

            Worth noting that the wiimote just uses Bluetooth, so it doesn’t take any specialized equipment to connect to your computer. And Dolphin has built in support for it. The sensor bar was also just a pair of infrared LEDs; All of the actual “sensing” happened at the wiimote directly. So you can just throw a wireless sensor bar (like $15 on amazon) underneath your computer monitor, and it will work fine.

            • Persi@lemm.eeEnglish
              5·
              1 day ago

              No, it’s a dev build and a real wii doesn’t have enough memory to run it.

              It’d work on a dev kit, if you had one.

            • naught@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              1 day ago

              I would guess it’s possible. I had a friend with a hacked Wii and it could run like anything. Probably easier today than it was then to sideload

              edit: I’m probably wrong! See below

  • Ogmios@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    629·
    2 days ago

    Sounds like a good reason to seize greater control of the Internet other people’s computers.