UPDATE: Mission accomplished! :D
With a lot of folks coming together, we managed to pull this off! Huge thanks to all involved! Here are the credits I put in the video description:
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MANY years ago, back at E3 2001, Rare revealed Donkey Kong Racing for GameCube.
Well like Chunky Kong... it's dead.
IGN somehow was able to get their hands on a 480p version of the trailer that we all know and love, which they had in this article:
With the URL itself being:
Now back then it was an IGN Insider-exclusive. Clicking on it takes you to their IGN Prime page (same thing).
What sucks is that I DID have Insider back in 2007 (thanks to a kind person who gifted it to me back then) when I'm certain this was still up... but stupid me didn't know about this and didn't know to grab it when I could have. Sorry guys. :(
I asked the man himself who wrote the article; Fran Mirabella III and he said it seemingly wasn't accessible. Now at the time, I recall the link not working period, so maybe there IS hope now that it takes you to IGN Prime's page.
We have to options:
1. This could be solved straight away if someone here has IGN Prime and can check.
2. Failing that, if someone on here remembers this and did download and save the video on their hard drive and can retrieve it, then viola!
This is crucial since the only footage we have is this crusty thing that's been on YouTube for years:
This is all we have of a fairly important game that we so close to getting but alas, Microsoft bought Rare, they attempted to reboot it as Sabreman Stampede, that got canned, the rest is history.
Let's get together and try to recover this seemingly HQ version of the one trailer we did get!
With a lot of folks coming together, we managed to pull this off! Huge thanks to all involved! Here are the credits I put in the video description:
This is the LONG searched for Hi-Res 480p version of the Donkey Kong Racing E3 2001 GameCube trailer that was on IGN via their Insiders program. The kind folks at IGN (specifically Peer Schneider and Dave Toole) apparently JUST uploaded the trailer to their site today because of my thread on ResetEra!
Let's work together to recover the lost 480p trailer for Donkey Kong Racing that IGN once hosted (UPDATE: Success!)
UPDATE: Mission accomplished! :D With a lot of folks coming together, we managed to pull this off! Huge thanks to all involved! Here are the credits I put in the video description: ### MANY years ago, back at E3 2001, Rare revealed Donkey Kong Racing for GameCube. Well like Chunky Kong...www.resetera.com
Here's the IGN video link:
Donkey Kong Racing GameCube Hi-Res Trailer - IGN
At E3 2001, Rare and Nintendo showed off a pre-rendered trailer of its kart-influenced animal racing game, Donkey Kong Racing. The trailer used in-game models and, according to Rare, tried to simulate the look the developer was trying to achieve with the final game running on Nintendo GameCube...ca.ign.com
And here's a Mediafire download of the raw file:
Donkey Kong Racing Hi-Res Trailer
MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.www.mediafire.com
And finally, a very special thanks to metsallica at ResetEra for using his IGN Prime membership to check and verify if the trailer even was still on the site, and for just helping me out in general! And thanks go to ErrorJustin at ResetEra (aka Justin Davis at IGN) who also dropped on by to get this really going in the first place! Can't forget to thank Lucas M. Thomas (formerly at IGN, now head of Nintendo Force!) for being a big help as well!
Buy Nintendo Force here:
Nintendo Force Magazine | Home | NF Publishing
An homage to Nintendo Power, Nintendo Force is a subscription-based magazine covering all things Nintendo. Join the NF magazine community by subscribing today!www.nintendoforcemagazine.com
There, hope that can help return the favor. :P
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MANY years ago, back at E3 2001, Rare revealed Donkey Kong Racing for GameCube.
Well like Chunky Kong... it's dead.
IGN somehow was able to get their hands on a 480p version of the trailer that we all know and love, which they had in this article:
Donkey Kong Racing Hi-Res Movie (GameCube) - IGN
Check out a high resolution video of Donkey Kong Racing for GameCube. The 640x480 resolution is the only way to see the lush worlds Rare is hard at work designing.
ca.ign.com
With the URL itself being:
Video Game News, Reviews, and Walkthroughs - IGN
IGN is your #1 destination for all video game news, expert reviews, and walkthroughs.
insider.ign.com
Now back then it was an IGN Insider-exclusive. Clicking on it takes you to their IGN Prime page (same thing).
What sucks is that I DID have Insider back in 2007 (thanks to a kind person who gifted it to me back then) when I'm certain this was still up... but stupid me didn't know about this and didn't know to grab it when I could have. Sorry guys. :(
I asked the man himself who wrote the article; Fran Mirabella III and he said it seemingly wasn't accessible. Now at the time, I recall the link not working period, so maybe there IS hope now that it takes you to IGN Prime's page.
We have to options:
1. This could be solved straight away if someone here has IGN Prime and can check.
2. Failing that, if someone on here remembers this and did download and save the video on their hard drive and can retrieve it, then viola!
This is crucial since the only footage we have is this crusty thing that's been on YouTube for years:
This is all we have of a fairly important game that we so close to getting but alas, Microsoft bought Rare, they attempted to reboot it as Sabreman Stampede, that got canned, the rest is history.
Let's get together and try to recover this seemingly HQ version of the one trailer we did get!
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