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“That time, adopting the Pokémon world clarified what we should do and the direction we should head,” Yamamoto adds, “and I came to like Pokémon, so I felt like that had saved us.”Īs noted by Andy, in the intro of Pokemon Snap, along with the “HAL”, “Nintendo” logos, we can see the text “Jack and Beans”:įrom the credit list on Mobygames, JACK and BEANS seems to have been the name of the main team behind the game, which director was the same Yamamoto that lead the Jack and Beanstalk project:ĭirector: Yoichi Yamamoto, Koji Inokuchi, Akira Takeshimaĭesigner: Shigezo Kawase, Takeyuki Machida, Masanobu Yamamoto, Shizu Higashiyama “Originally, Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64 system wasn’t a Pokémon game,” recalls Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, “but rather a normal game in which you took photos, but the motivation for playing the game wasn’t clear.” Game designer Masanobu Yamamoto was working on Pokémon Snap, and he initially had a negative reaction to the addition of Pokémon, because the characters replaced what he was working on. Although the game was never completed, many of its flagship features eventually found their way into different games, such as Pokémon Snap and EarthBound 64.
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The game was slated as being a brand new type of video game, and one that utilised the features of the N64DD to their full extent. It is not clear why Nintendo specifically sought out professionals from other fields to work on Jack and the Beanstalk.
Yamamoto, originally a construction designer, was one of several non-video game-industry personnel selected to work on the project by a panel of four important Nintendo figures: Shigesato Itoi, Satoshi Iwata, Kouichi Nakamura and Shigeru Miyamoto himself.
Jack and the Beanstalk was being developed on the second floor of the Nintendo Kanda building, under the supervision of HAL Laboratories, by a team of ten or more employees, lead by Youichi (Yoichi) Yamamoto.
He arrived in a land high up in the clouds that happened to be the home of a giant. When Jack saw the huge beanstalk, he immediately decided to climb it. Unfortunately, we will probably never know for sure.Īs Jack slept, the beans germinated in the soil, and by morning a gigantic beanstalk grew in their place. Presumably this intriguing game was similar in plot or gameplay to the traditional fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. However, the game was never released, and very little is known about its specific operation. It was originally advertised in February 1995, but was not heard of again until February 1998, when more details of the game’s development emerged. Jack and the Beanstalk was a game being developed for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive. This is an official Nintendo cart that was apparently supposed to be decommissioned before being tossed out, but whoever attempted to break this one didn’t do a thorough enough job.Īs you can see from the photos and video, the date on the program is August 18th, 2004 which is 3 months before the handheld was released anywhere in the world! The Product ID on the back of the cart reads: NTR-005
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This is because the cart is specific to testing on the original DS software on the older handhelds. It was tested on each model of DSi including the 3DS, but would error out. We received a few of these, totally smashed and broken up, however we were able to recover this cart and get it to load up. I have never seen anything quite like this before on the market. Up for grabs is a Debug Mode / Dev cartridge for the Original Nintendo DS and DS Lite Models of handhelds. Here’s the description from the eBay auction: In order to get to the menu, you have to hold Start + Select when launching the ROM.
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We are not sure why they chose such kind of strange images and sounds to test the Nintendo DS hardware, but it could be possible that hidden in the rom’s code there could be even more unusual / beta files, just like in that old SNES debug / hardware test cart. There is some interesting stuff that we can see in this DS debug cart, such as weird icons, models of Nintendo characters and music from Mario Kart 64 (?!?). Sometime ago a Nintendo DS debug cartridge was sold on eBay and a couple of weeks ago the rom of that cart was shared and preserved online (NINTENDO DS NTR DEBUG) thanks to NintendyFan from the GBAtemp Form.