What was the coolest thing on this disc? 👀

honestly this felt like a nintendo direct before nintendo direct

I can tell Dee Bradley Baker is narrating many of these like the Sonic Adventure 2 promo. I keep hearing his "Random American Dad Background character" voice

This definitely looks like something that would've played at trade shows like E3, Gamescom, etc. Also, it almost feels like I'm watching an early 2000's version of a Nintendo Direct.

Not a bad Nintendo direct, needs more farming sims

I would recommend dumping and uploading the contents of this disc to a place like the internet archive, like others said, so we have a clean, non-KZfaq-compressed version. This was super interesting!

The narrator sounds like the current Nintendo Direct guy lol.

16:50 "one of Bowser's henchmen, the evil Koopa King" So he's his own henchman?

Kinda cool and strange how this really feels like a modern Nintendo direct in terms of narrative and presentation.

>"Megaman Zero" >looks inside >it's Megaman Battle Network

2:16 He called Fox "Star Fox"

Did anyone else Notice that all the non-Nintendo games gameplay was horrible? Like the gameplay was them bumping into things,dying or just playing badly? But when it came to first party games the gameplay was pretty good

This feels like something that could be played in a game store display in the 2000s

I’m sure that narrator is the same one they use for directs even today. That’s crazy! This was so cool

Love how Mario cheers at Sonic Adventure 2 in the background. Looks like the hatchet was buried pretty early

Not having an optical media drive on your computer is failing at life. Not having a floppy disk drive... Seriously failing.

2:17 "Aw, for God's sake! My name is Fox McCloud! Star Fox is my team, not my name!"

I am almost 100% positive this same disc was sent to us at GameStop when I worked there. I remember putting this in the PS2 demo kiosk to watch it because we didn't have a DVD player in the store.

This was very interesting to see. I wasn't born when the GBA and GameCube era started, so this is very cool to see what it looked like back then when Nintendo was promoting these consoles.

12:50 Another what looks to be some sort of beta version, much closer to the final version that the spaceworld demo but there are still several differences such as the gameboy horror in the bottom right is different, the boo counter appears to just be the number of caught boos instead of caught boos/50 and you can hear some sound affect such as when sucking up the ghosts aswell as an early version of main theme also heard in the earlier version is being played in the background.

12:50 Cool thing I noticed! This trailer uses the early prototype rendition of the main theme to Luigi’s Mansion, which can also be heard in the E3 trailer for the game! Kind of crazy how similar the narrator here is to the one they used in modern day Nintendo Directs

Yep, this is definitely one of those "store kiosk" DVDs full of previews of games that you'd see playing in the game section of Walmart or Target. Pretty sure I've seen that exact Melee snippet elsewhere on KZfaq. (Definitely don't remember any Sonic footage narrated by Dee Bradley Baker, though. Pretty sure the guy narrating the Super Mario Advance 2 and Wario Land 4 segments also did Nintendo's 1996 E3 takeaway video.) This batch could've definitely used a bit of a once-over, though. "Bowser's henchman, the evil Koopa King?" You mean HIMSELF?? Mega Man Battle Network footage with narration talking about Mega Man Zero??? "SONIC ADVENTURE" BEING USED FOR SONIC ADVANCE'S TITLE CARD???? Clearly, these were produced in large quantities quickly. Probably still got the advertising job done regardless of hiccups, though.

Are you gonna dump the disc and release it on the Internet Archive? It might have cool unused assets on the disc.

"With it's amazing realism!" Fox up throwing peach in Brinstar and moments later DK gets sucked through a wormhole.

2:05 - loved seeing the Melee ad where he calls Fox "Star Fox" lol.

Bowsers hair glitching in the melee promo 😂

9:19 apparently, the term ‘cringe’ has been around way longer than I initially thought.

10:04 "Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3" but it's 2

I'm at a loss for words, this was freaking outstanding. It felt like I was watching a Nintendo Direct.

18:49 They accidentally called Megaman Battle Network "Megaman Zero" and said you play as Zero xD

14:57 this one is just all of their stock punch sounds in a row lmao

I like the voice over in most of these ads. It's more subdued than what I would hear in a Nintendo Direct and I appreciate that.

ngl a gc controller with a clear back would be pretty cool. i wish they made them.

The music being muted was definitely a copyright issue, theyd need to pay royalties to press a DVD even tho its a promo disc. All other music was proprietary.

I really enjoyed the pikmin trailer because of the many differences between this early version and the official release. This trailer was pretty short so It couldn't show much, but imagine just how many differences were left out

Bruh, not only do they pick comic sans, but they don't even display the correct game title in the preview at times.

This man just prevented a Nintendo lost media search before it could even begin lol

"Beta disc" usually means "unreleased game" but whatever, I enjoyed this.

I’m convinced the disc is fake and somehow modern Nintendo made it 😂 sounds and seems exactly like a Nintendo direct

It’s incredibly funny how similar this is to modern Nintendo Directs. Even the narrator sounds incredibly similar.

This is what I would love playing in the back ground of my gaming room, a bunch of trailers playing and console adverts etc

That very brief second of Star Fox Adventures was a beta build. Also yeah Pikmin did not look final. Bridges don't appear translucent when you're building them iirc right?

I feel like this isn't legit

12:00 It's so odd to hear a non-American accent saying "soccer". Haha!

There are no mentions of the Rare Ltd. titles planned for GBA and GameCube in this promo video. By this point, Microsoft had already purchased Rare, but the purchase was in its initial stages and wasn't finalized yet. Only Star Fox Adventures was teased twice, but not a proper promo. I'd say this promo was completed and showcased in early 2001, as Super Mario Advance was also shown here as an upcoming title.

I like how they lied about the Super Mario Advance games being new adventures and that Super Mario World had 96 levels

15:34 the pikmin are drink blue nectar and old bridges 🤔

20:04 you are correct, that is a known early version of the Pikmin logo with bright green leaves and different renders of the Pikmin on it. I documented a high-res copy of it on Pikipedia some years back but unfortunately it never ended up on any pages because I'm not a very good wiki editor. 😐

The Smash Bros Melee promo noting the inclusion of "Star Fox" just made me think of the parody series "A Fox in Space" where Fox flies off the handle at being referred to Star Fox.

I'm almost convinced the announcer is the same one from the modern Nintendo Directs

What a surprise! I used to follow your blog on Tumblr back in 2011-12? So neat to discover you're still at it with the Nintendo love in 2024 with YT. All the best to you, Cake Hoarder!

18:51 this made me crease.

7:05 WARIO LAND 4 PRE RELEASE FOOTAGE I REPEAT WARIO LAND 4 PRE RELEASE FOOTAGE

I think you should upload the full DVD image to the internet archive. also, thanks for the video :)

Man, this feels like a prototype Nintendo direct

16:25 Just casually showing a game with and fps counter and a never released port

Wow great find! Thanks for uploading the whole thing!!

18:10 Ah yes, Sonic Adventure. My favorite Gameboy Advance game.

2:43 - Man, Perch Perkins sure knows his stuff.!.!

this is such a cool piece of history to have, it's amazing to see how things evolve but still stay true to their roots. this definitely feels like if we had nintendo direct in the 2000s

I've actually seen the super circuit clip before, i think it was on like imbd or something weirdly This is what happens when you look for hours of prototype/development footage for a game lol

I loved the Luigi’s Mansions part on the disc. Thats so cool that you got a hold of this.

one of the gc controllers were the dolphin sdk exclusive transucent varient but with the final gamecube controller button colors and design which tells me at one point we were intended to be able to buy controllers with clear backs,

Watching this really brought me back to my childhood days. I unfortunately never got the chance to own either console growing up, but I'd see these games being advertised all the time and really wanted to play them.

Seems like things are mostly finalized by this point, but its interesting to see how much old press kit footage survived for so long. For one, at around the 16 minute mark, there's a sizzle reel that reuses music used by Nintendo at SpaceWorld 2000, during their sizzle reel that revealed a ton of gamecube game concepts. Then, with a lot of this B Roll, its using earlier console designs and renders and mixing them all around. Stuff like the disc window in the gamecube's jewel on top, or the silver and orange/teal GBAs in some closeup shots. Plus yknow, flat out tech demos that were nearly a year and a half old at this point that weren't ever going to become games, with stuff like yoshi at 16:26. A lot of the specs and marketing terms seems like they were really nailed down too. They'd really stress stuff like "32,000 colors" on GBA, or "The Nintendo Difference" at E3 2001, and they seem to have been still abiding by those same guidelines this long later. So really, this is a product of the tail end of that first wave of GameCube marketing, before Nintendo started to realize things were going downhill and roll out the discounts, edgier marketing, etc.

Dude that’s not rare at all….. Just give it to me cause it’s…..junk 😶‍🌫️

Not them calling smash a battle Royale before the massive spike in battle Royale games

Luigi's Mansion beta theme: 12:51 Main reason why I watched the video was the depressed Luigi on the thumbnail. I expected to "potentially" see beta content never seen by the public before. Nope, none at all.

Surprising to hear Dee Bradley Baker voicing some of these, he does a lot

Bro made the GameCube his whole personality. That's pretty cool tbh.

The whiplash between Advance Wars and the Ice Age trailer is insane lol

16:26 looks like they cheated and put N64 Yoshi's Story clips on the GBA. But I looked it up. It was a real prototype. It was made to look like polygonal graphics, but it's sprites.

18:20 lol that typo

They got so confused showing Megaman Battle Network 2 😭😭

The spinning Gamecube model used in the video looks like the Spaceworld 2000 version (disc window, extra vent holes on the sides, power button is convex, no rear vents below the AV ports) but it seems to have the little "wings" below the side vents from the retail version and the reset/eject buttons look concave, closer to how the retail eject button is but not the retail reset button. It's cool to see the Yoshi GBA demo, but the lesser-known GBA Dolphin demo is there too!

dang didnt know they had nintendo directs back in 2003 that wario land 4 trailer sounded exactly like something you would hear in a modern Nintendo direct

Crazy how back then they’re seeing advance wars for the first time, and skip to now where many people were seeing advance wars for the first time (reboot camp)

holy shit this is the OG nintendo direct

You should consider releasing a dump of the disc image.

Not really a "beta" disc, but nonetheless this type of media is always good to see preserved. Nintendo couldn't give two shits less to care if that type stuff is preserved or not.

2:16 "20 new tracks await with enough twists and turns and trouble to make any kart racer cringe"

The fact its just slience with grunge music for Dark Summit 5:00 is hilarious. Did they even play these games? Dark Summit is an awesome game that deserves some credit.

basically watched games that were trailers almost like it was a beta of the games that were coming out at the time

Looks like something that would've been in a kiosk.

One of your best videos. Really enjoyed seeing this!

Its crazy how much bever before seen stuff you're putting out there man 🔥

Like others said this definitely seems like a store promotion disc

Immagine that nintendo is going to present switch 2 like they did with the gamecube

Gotta love how some are eerily silent and only the sound effects run, so creepy, I'm guessing it was rendered before the announcer commented on everything? maybe? lol

Backyard baseball actually looked cool

13:01 Notice how Luigi doesn't follow the line leading to the mansion but rather skips, this must be footage of a late beta version

Incoming DMCA from the Nintendo Ninjas

16:26 footage from that prototype Yoshis Story GBA tech demo.

Crazy how the title card and subtitle call it "Sonic Adventure" instead of Sonic Advanced; and how we get a teaser for Megaman Zero over footage of Battle Network.

It's funny how the less popular games don't even have a commentary. You can call me crazy but to me the graphical leap from 5th to 6th gen was so huge that to this day these graphics feel more next-gen than the current-gen.

I have one of these but I think the disc is black has GC and GBA logos on it. It was in a free bin at a thrift store a few years back. I grabbed it but never looked at it. I’ll go look for it.

"Once again, Bowser is being a bad boy 😏"

Sounds like something they would show at school

Who knew one of the best Nintendo Directs came out 20 years ago.

This isn't a beta.