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|title=<center>Super Mario 64 (Disk Drive version)</center>
|title=<center>Super Mario Disk Version</center>
|image=Supermario64disktitle.jpg
|image=SuperMarioDiskVersion-TitleScreen.png
|imagecaption=A screenshot of the games title screen.
|imagecaption=The title screen.
|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
|datefound=Jun '14
|datefound=Jun 2014
|foundby=[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCknzgHiZqONH_YqNEnv1gxA afonfjv (aka jimmy130)]
|foundby=[https://youtube.com/channel/UCknzgHiZqONH_YqNEnv1gxA afonfjv (aka jimmy130)]
}}
}}
'''''Super Mario 64 Disk Drive''''' was a planned port of ''Super Mario 64'' to the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive. Originally set to release in 1999, it would have served as a launch title for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive.  
'''''Super Mario Disk Version''''' (also known as '''''Super Mario 64DD''''') was a planned port of ''Super Mario 64'' for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive. Originally set to release in 1999, it would have served as a launch title for the Disk Drive add-on.<ref> [http://nintendolife.com/news/2014/06/the_unreleased_super_mario_64_dd_edition_appears_to_have_been_uncovered Nintendo Life article on the game.] Retrieved 01 Jan '18</ref>


==Background==
==Background==
In 1996, the Nintendo 64 debuted. The Nintendo 64 used cartridges while competitors Sony and Sega moved onto discs for their consoles. Instead of cutting the Nintendo 64's lifespan, Nintendo opted to try an add-on to the system to allow for disc usage. In 1995, Nintendo announced the Nintendo 64 Disc Drive one year after announcing the Nintendo 64.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/06/business/nintendo-delays-introduction-of-ultra-64-video-game-player.html Nintendo announces the Disc Drive.] Retrieved 17 Feb '18</ref> The add-on would have utilized magnetic disks instead of the standard game cartridges. The ''Nintendo 64 Disc Drive'' missed many launch dates, but eventually came out in Japan on December 1, 1999, with a planned US release.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020105102040/http://ign64.ign.com/news/9946.html IGN confirming N64 DD's launch date.] Retrieved 17 Feb '18</ref> The add-on was a massive failure with and was discontinued in 2001 never getting released outside of Japan. Because of this, several games and expansion packs that were in development for the 64DD were subsequently cancelled, including an enhanced port of ''Super Mario 64''.
In 1996, Nintendo launched their newest console, the Nintendo 64. While other systems such as the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn had moved on to using discs for their consoles, the Nintendo 64 fell behind as it still utilized cartridges. Instead of cutting the Nintendo 64's lifespan, Nintendo opted to try an add-on for the system to allow for disk usage. In 1995, Nintendo announced the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive one year after announcing the system itself.<ref>[http://nytimes.com/1995/05/06/business/nintendo-delays-introduction-of-ultra-64-video-game-player.html Nintendo announces the Disk Drive.] Retrieved 17 Feb '18</ref> The add-on would utilize magnetic disks instead of the standard game cartridges available for the system. Despite this early accessory release, the Disk Drive missed many launch dates, but eventually came out in Japan on December 1st, 1999, with a planned US release for the near future.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020105102040/http://ign64.ign.com/news/9946.html IGN confirming the Disk Drive's launch date.] Retrieved 17 Feb '18</ref> The add-on was a massive failure with those who owned the console and was discontinued in 2001, never seeing release outside of Japan. Due to this, several games and expansion packs that were in development for the Disk Drive were subsequently cancelled, including an enhanced port of ''Super Mario 64''.


==Details==
==Details==
Little is known about ''Super Mario 64 DD'' except that it would have the same graphics and style as its predecessor and that Luigi would have been playable as well. There is reportedly a demo of this concept, but there are neither any legitimate images or videos of this. While ''Super Mario 64 DD'' was never released, ''Super Mario 64 DS'' can be seen as the fruition of these ideas. Many fans speculate that the game was going to be ''Super Mario 64 2''. The magazine ''Famitsu'' claimed to have sources close to the project that confirmed ''Super Mario 64 Disk Drive'' was going to be a sequel to ''Super Mario 64''.<ref>[http://www.ign.com/articles/1999/05/12/nintendo-sequel-rumblings IGN covers various N64 DD games.] Retrieved 17 Feb '18</ref> This can be debunked by the fact that the found disk drive shows no new game, but instead an enhanced port of ''Super Mario 64''.
Before being found, very little was known about ''Super Mario 64DD'' aside from the fact that it had the same graphics and style as its predecessor, and that Luigi had become a playable character. There was reportedly a demo of this concept, but there was a lack of any legitimate images or videos to prove this. While ''Super Mario 64DD'' was never officially released, ''Super Mario 64 DS'' can be seen as the fruition of these ideas. Many fans speculated that the game was going to be the rumoured ''Super Mario 64 2''. The magazine ''Famitsu'' claimed to have sources close to the project that confirmed ''Super Mario 64 Disk Drive'' was to be a sequel to ''Super Mario 64''.<ref>[http://ign.com/articles/1999/05/12/nintendo-sequel-rumblings IGN covers various N64 DD games.] Retrieved 17 Feb '18</ref> This can be debunked by the fact that the found disk drive shows no new game, but instead an enhanced port of ''Super Mario 64''. Footage of Super Mario Disk Version being shown at SpaceWorld '96 has been found online, basically proving that this was just a tech demo for the Disk Drive, though the fact Nintendo made a disk sticker specifically for it suggests that this could have been a planned add-on to the original ''Super Mario 64'', or at least some new content was planned somewhere in development, more than likely the cut content found in the Gigaleak, including multiplayer support, hinted in the Gigaleak.


==Reemergence==
==Reemergence==
While a full realization of these concepts hasn't been found, footage of a 64DD disk of ''Super Mario 64'' had surfaced in 2014 when a French collector found the game at a second-hand store in Japan.<ref>[https://www.retrogamer.net/blog_post/unreleased-64dd-version-of-super-mario-64-discovered  Retro Gamer article announcing the game's discovery.] Retrieved 17 Feb '18</ref> The only real noticeable differences between this and the original game with better textures, different castle music, slightly longer loading times, and buggy encounters with the Wiggler boss in Tiny-Huge Island. It's unknown if any further development of this was made or if it's even a sequel, but it's speculated that the game found was actually just a tech demo for the 64DD that Nintendo made and showed off to the press to show the hardware's potential.
In June 2014 footage of the Disk Drive release of ''Super Mario 64'' surfaced online when a French collector found a copy of the port at a second-hand game store in Japan.<ref>[https://retrogamer.net/blog_post/unreleased-64dd-version-of-super-mario-64-discovered  Retro Gamer article announcing the game's discovery.] Retrieved 17 Feb '18</ref> The only real discernible differences between the Disk Drive variant and the original game are some slightly better textures, different music for Peach's castle, buggy encounters with the Wiggler boss in Tiny-Huge Island and longer loading times. It's unknown if any further development of the game was made, but it's speculated that this version of the game was just a tech demo for the Disk Drive that Nintendo made to show the hardware's potential to the press. The disk has since been dumped, and the game's ROM is available to download on 64dd.org.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
[[File:Super-mario-64dd.jpg|thumb|center|350px|A photo of the game disk.]]
===Images===
 
<gallery mode=packed heights=250px>
SuperMarioDiskVersion-GameDisk.jpg|A photo of the game disk.
</gallery>
===Videos===
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  |description1 =Yuriofwind's video on the aforementioned ''Super Mario 64 2''.
  |service2    =youtube
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  |description2 =Lady Decade's video on the aforementioned ''Super Mario 64 2''.
}}
===Footage===
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   |description2 =More gameplay footage.
   |description2 =More gameplay footage.
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  |description3 =Hard4Games video on the port.
  |service4    =youtube
  |id4          =1ZXA2pzrLlo
  |description4 =Nintendo SpaceWorld '96 Footage of ''Super Mario Disk Version'' which starts at 2:41.
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}}
==See Also==
==See Also==
*[[Nintendo 64DD (lost miscellaneous video games from Nintendo 64 add-on; late 1990s-early 2000s)]]
===Nintendo 64DD===
*[[Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (partially found unreleased video games for Nintendo 64 add-on; late 1990s-early 2000s)]]
 
===Mario Series===
*[[BS Super Mario Collection (partially lost Satellaview broadcast versions of compilation platformer; 1997-1998)]]
*[[Mario Artist (lost builds of unreleased Nintendo 64DD games; 1999-2000)]]
*[[Mario's Castle (lost build of cancelled game on Nintendo's "Project Atlantis" handheld console; existence unconfirmed; 1995-1998)]]
*[[Mario Demo (lost Virtual Boy tech demo; 1994)]]
*[[Mario's Face (lost Nintendo DS tech demo; 2004)]]
*[[Mario Motors (lost build of unreleased Nintendo DS racer; early 2000s)]]
*[[Mario Kart XXL (lost Game Boy Advance tech demo; 2004)]]
*[[Mario Takes America (lost build of cancelled Philips CD-i edutainment game; 1992-1994)]]
*[[New Super Mario Bros. (lost early builds of Nintendo DS 2D platformer; 2004-2006)]]
*[[New Super Mario Bros. Mii (lost Wii U tech demo; 2011)]]
*[[Super Mario 128 (lost build of cancelled GameCube/Wii game; 2000-2006)]]
*[[Super Mario 64 (partially found Spaceworld '95 demo of Nintendo 64 3D platformer; 1995)]]
*[[Super Mario Bros. 3 (lost Japanese prototype of NES platformer; 1987-1988)]]
*[[Super Mario Bros. (lost Commodore 64 port of NES platformer; existence unconfirmed; 1986)]]
*[[Super Mario Kart R (partially found pre-release version of "Mario Kart 64"; 1995)]]
*[[Super Mario RPG 2 (lost pre-release version of "Paper Mario" Nintendo 64 role-playing game; late 1990s)]]
*[[Super Mario Spikers (lost build of cancelled Wii volleyball-wrestling sports game; 2007)]]
*[[Super Mario's Wacky Worlds (found prototype of cancelled CD-i game; 1993)]]
*[[Super Mario World: Mario Attack (lost Japanese arcade game; 1996)]]
*[[Super Mario World (partially found early build of Super Nintendo platformer; 1989)]]
*[[Super Paper Mario (lost build of unreleased original GameCube version of Wii side-scrolling platformer; 2006)]]


==External Link==
==External Links==
*[http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/06/the_unreleased_super_mario_64_dd_edition_appears_to_have_been_uncovered Nintendo Life article on the game.]
*[https://64dd.org/dumps_u.html The download link to the game's ROM file.]


==References==
==References==
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Revision as of 22:27, 8 August 2022

SuperMarioDiskVersion-TitleScreen.png

The title screen.

Status: Found

Date found: Jun 2014

Found by: afonfjv (aka jimmy130)

Super Mario Disk Version (also known as Super Mario 64DD) was a planned port of Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive. Originally set to release in 1999, it would have served as a launch title for the Disk Drive add-on.[1]

Background

In 1996, Nintendo launched their newest console, the Nintendo 64. While other systems such as the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn had moved on to using discs for their consoles, the Nintendo 64 fell behind as it still utilized cartridges. Instead of cutting the Nintendo 64's lifespan, Nintendo opted to try an add-on for the system to allow for disk usage. In 1995, Nintendo announced the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive one year after announcing the system itself.[2] The add-on would utilize magnetic disks instead of the standard game cartridges available for the system. Despite this early accessory release, the Disk Drive missed many launch dates, but eventually came out in Japan on December 1st, 1999, with a planned US release for the near future.[3] The add-on was a massive failure with those who owned the console and was discontinued in 2001, never seeing release outside of Japan. Due to this, several games and expansion packs that were in development for the Disk Drive were subsequently cancelled, including an enhanced port of Super Mario 64.

Details

Before being found, very little was known about Super Mario 64DD aside from the fact that it had the same graphics and style as its predecessor, and that Luigi had become a playable character. There was reportedly a demo of this concept, but there was a lack of any legitimate images or videos to prove this. While Super Mario 64DD was never officially released, Super Mario 64 DS can be seen as the fruition of these ideas. Many fans speculated that the game was going to be the rumoured Super Mario 64 2. The magazine Famitsu claimed to have sources close to the project that confirmed Super Mario 64 Disk Drive was to be a sequel to Super Mario 64.[4] This can be debunked by the fact that the found disk drive shows no new game, but instead an enhanced port of Super Mario 64. Footage of Super Mario Disk Version being shown at SpaceWorld '96 has been found online, basically proving that this was just a tech demo for the Disk Drive, though the fact Nintendo made a disk sticker specifically for it suggests that this could have been a planned add-on to the original Super Mario 64, or at least some new content was planned somewhere in development, more than likely the cut content found in the Gigaleak, including multiplayer support, hinted in the Gigaleak.

Reemergence

In June 2014 footage of the Disk Drive release of Super Mario 64 surfaced online when a French collector found a copy of the port at a second-hand game store in Japan.[5] The only real discernible differences between the Disk Drive variant and the original game are some slightly better textures, different music for Peach's castle, buggy encounters with the Wiggler boss in Tiny-Huge Island and longer loading times. It's unknown if any further development of the game was made, but it's speculated that this version of the game was just a tech demo for the Disk Drive that Nintendo made to show the hardware's potential to the press. The disk has since been dumped, and the game's ROM is available to download on 64dd.org.

Gallery

Images

Videos

Yuriofwind's video on the aforementioned Super Mario 64 2.

Lady Decade's video on the aforementioned Super Mario 64 2.

Footage

The game booting up on the Disk Drive.

More gameplay footage.

Hard4Games video on the port.

Nintendo SpaceWorld '96 Footage of Super Mario Disk Version which starts at 2:41.

See Also

Nintendo 64DD

Mario Series

External Links

References