Dragon Sword 64: finally shared and preserved!

24 thoughts on “Dragon Sword 64: finally shared and preserved!”

1. miretank 09-04-2010 at 17:12

   FUCKING AWESOME!!! THANKS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED! :D

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2. Olivieryuyu 09-04-2010 at 19:01

   Great!!!!!!!!!!

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3. monokoma 09-04-2010 at 20:58

   This is a lovely release, we dont see often an unreleased N64 game leaked, especially of this quality: Dragon Sword is fun enough if you are a fan of hack & slash titles (play it at least in normal or hard) and there are 7 playable levels.. maybe even more if someone could find a way to load the rest of the stuff that could still be hidden in there!

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4. Griduman 10-04-2010 at 20:17

   I’m having a hard time getting past the title screen before it freezes

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5. Jurai 11-04-2010 at 02:37

   Game runs nicely on hardware, albeit I did encounter the failed to load a zone bug once, and the occasional hard freeze after dying and trying to continue.

   Audio also works fine on hardware, didn’t work in emulator when I tried

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6. monokoma 11-04-2010 at 11:07

   @Griduman: try to press the “B” button after the initial logos, to open the main menù!

   @Jurai: it’s nice to know that the game runs well on a N64, i wonder if it could be possible to get to the 8th level playing on that.. are you able to save your progress on the N64?

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7. Jurai 11-04-2010 at 19:21

   I tried to play through it and find out, but after replaying part of the second level 5 times due to skeletons managing to literally gang rape me the game wound up freezing during a respawn, which meant restarting at the first level again. Also had a problem in level 2 where I went down the elevator after the spiders but the game didn’t load the new zone, so I wound up stuck down there with nothing to do. Also has a problem where the second blue totem with the spiders wouldn’t solidify so I couldn’t take down the barrier. I’m pretty doubtful I could manage to get all the way to the end without it crashing out unless theres a level skip code somewhere.

   I did record some gameplay with my camcorder so that I could capture the in-game audio, I’ll upload it sometime today.

   I’m not sure the rom actually works properly in any PJ64 plugins, JaboD3D failed to render alot of text, and Rice didn’t render alot of the 2d properly.

   Playing on an NTSC N64 via a V64jr (rom states its PAL, was surprised it worked). I’ll try again later today but like I said, with how buggy the game is I’m really not sure if I can make it far enough to find out if the levels load on hardware

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8. Anonymous 12-04-2010 at 03:00

   Press L to levitate

   D0121CE8 0001
   81146674 4120
   D0121CE8 0001
   81146676 0000

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   1. monokoma 12-04-2010 at 13:28

      @Anonymous: Thanks a lot for the code! That could be useful :)

      @Jurai: i often had that problem in level 2 too (you go down the elevator after the spiders but the game does not load the new zone). On the EMU is easy to pass, as you can do a save-state before that part and reload it untill the game load the next zone, but on the N64 i can see it as a big problem. There are some more loading problems in the next levels, so i dont know if it will ever be possible to reach the 7th level on a real N64 without save states.

      If the totem does not solidify, try to kill more enemies that came out of it. When they die, they release a “blue energy” that you can absorb and after you collected some more blue energy, the totem should became destructible.

      Let us know when you uploaded the videos, i’m curious to see how the game looks on the hardware, with all the text and 2D images! :)

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9. Jurai 12-04-2010 at 18:27

   I killed about 100 spiders then gave up on the totem ever solidifying

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10. Jurai 12-04-2010 at 18:29

    *it doesnt always do that though

    if you die in the swamp area after where youre walking on some wooden bridges connecting some huts you respawn stuck inside a hut, atleast if you use the restart pause option it reloads the area not the whole level

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11. yota 13-04-2010 at 19:41

    i hope that someone will hack the rom.. we need to find the content that is not normally accessible..

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12. gilgamesh 17-04-2010 at 15:48

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    1. monokoma 18-04-2010 at 18:23

       Could those be converted into Gameshark codes? :O

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13. gilgamesh 18-04-2010 at 20:03

    I just put in evidence the presence of these debug modes.

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    1. monokoma 19-04-2010 at 12:52

       I saw some debug text in the HEX code too, but sadly i dont know how to activate the Debug Menù :(

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14. OmegaPirate 25-04-2010 at 01:38

    Nice to see another N64 Game :)

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15. Edward Kirk 12-08-2011 at 21:48

    I finally managed to find a Level Select code and see if the last two levels are there. Good news is that one is. Bad news: the final level may be missing completely. More on my website:

    http://zenade.angelfire.com/DS64/index.html

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16. monokoma 14-08-2011 at 00:42

    Wow, awesome work Edward! :) I’m really happy that finally someone was able to find the codes for those levels, i will try them in the next few days

    It’s interesting to notice that when i played the levels, i never seen the Toshiro boss, maybe because the game crashed just before him

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17. Christian Mohr Jensen 25-01-2015 at 10:45

    I remember i has a big interest this game back in the day, Im a big fan of hack ‘n slash games like “Gauntlet Legends” i still play alot to this day, Saw screenshots and read the review back then in the magazine and was so exited for the release of game, But it didn’t happen, MGM decision make me angry and sad back then because i wanted this game so bad, when i heard the magazine tryed to save the game from its destiny and i crossed my fingers for the game and hoped it will be released anyway, But that never happen, So i thought i never will get the chance to play this game…Until now, I have played this prototype alot since i got my everdrive 64 and it totally awesome, It so much fun to play even with the buggy state, I got the debug code to work as well, so now i have some content to explore, A big thanks goes to the anonymous collector for this beta/prototype of “Dragon Sword 64”, A big thanks also goes to Unseen.net for share those kind of news with us and for the cool preview video of “Dragon Sword 64”, Hope to see more awesome news from your website in the future. :-)

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    1. monokoma 02-02-2015 at 15:15

       Thank you Christian! We are happy when people find Unseen64 useful, especially when we can share playable versions of lost games :)

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       1. Christian Mohr Jensen 10-11-2016 at 15:12

          Update 2016: I want to share a video you i released several days ago, Its an video with all four bosses from the prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzkwLsCMUq0

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18. Edward Kirk 25-12-2016 at 21:59

    There’s another version of this game released over at Micro-64 (http://micro-64.com/features/dragonswordproto.shtml). It seems to be an earlier version, but has cutscenes and better graphics than the 2010 release.

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    1. monokoma 29-12-2016 at 15:07

       wow, awesome find! I’m super happy to see this other version, i’ll have to try it ASAP, this is still one of my favorite N64 games :O

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