Peach’s Castle [GameCube - Tech Demo]
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In 2002 Nintendo sent various developers a GameCube interactive tech demo in order to show them the graphical capabilities of their new console. In this tech demo you can move an arrow through Peach’s Casle and in every room you can see a different graphic effect. It was never released to the public and could have been lost forever, but luckily sometime ago the Peach’s Castle Tech Demo was leaked online and it can now be preserved.
Update: it seems that this demo was used in the 5-22-01 GameCube SDK. The official Nintendo description says: “There are eight rooms (stages) available for introducing various features and effects. In addition, there are two demo modes available for giving effective demos: normal demo mode and auto demo mode. In normal demo mode, users move from room to room using an arrow, and each feature is introduced. In auto demo mode, the camera moves automatically from room to room and each feature of each room is introduced. The total time required for all rooms is 4 minutes 30 seconds.”
Thanks to Jay for the english corrections!
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Thanks a lot to Marco / Grotesque and 50CALBR for the contributions!
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10 Responses to Peach’s Castle [GameCube - Tech Demo]
Thyoldpie
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 am
Where can I get a rom file of this?
Dinosaur Rex
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:57 am
@Thyoldpie:
At Nintendo
gam3r
March 17th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
It’s really bieutifull!
SMBMadman
April 7th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
i barely regonize Peach’s castle!
Rapsheba555
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 am
Well, I don’t think it was meant to be a literal representation of the castle (though, does it really matter, lol?) mainly because they were simply aiming to show off their neat new effects.
Anon BSSM Fan
August 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Is there any more Gamecube prototypes, like Super Mario Strikers Beta or something? I guess I’ll draw Tsukino Usagi from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon if I insist.
Luke4496
September 6th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
The third room reminds me of Ricco Harbor.
himzy
November 6th, 2009 at 6:45 am
so what is this a game or just a tour?
monokoma
November 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
It was just a tech demo, a real time tour in which you can see the castle and the GameCube graphic effect, but there was no “gameplay” in it
MarxForever
December 11th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
This kinda creeps me out a little.