{"id":133017,"date":"2023-04-09T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-147738"},"modified":"2023-04-09T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:15:00","slug":"random-rare-co-founder-tim-stamper-teases-dream-64-development-cartridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/09\/random-rare-co-founder-tim-stamper-teases-dream-64-development-cartridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Rare Co-Founder Tim Stamper Teases &#8216;Dream 64&#8217; Development Cartridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ca85aeb921a41\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ca85aeb921a41\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Dream 64\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ca85aeb921a41\/dream-64.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ca85aeb921a41\/dream-64.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dream 64\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: via Tim Stamper (@InTimsWorld on Twitter) \/ Rare<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rare had a successful run during its time with Nintendo but not every project necessarily saw the light of day. One of these games was a role-playing title codenamed <strong>Project Dream<\/strong>. It started out on the Super Nintendo and was eventually scaled back during the Nintendo 64 era before parts of it morphed into <em>other<\/em> projects.<\/p>\n<p>While a Super Nintendo version is believed to have existed, it seems now we&#8217;ve got actual photo evidence of <strong>Dream 64<\/strong>, after the Rare co-founder Tim Stamper randomly uploaded a single photo on social media, with the following text attached: &#8220;Arr&#8230;.! So it&#8217;s true&#8230; Dream 64 does exist after all&#8230;!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the picture, you can see a Nintendo 64 development cartridge running on an N64. Next to it is an NTSC Super Nintendo version of the Dream Project. The N64 cart is labelled the &#8220;latest version of Dream 64&#8221; and dated 21st November 1996.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/intimsworld\/statuses\/1644765115277889537 @ 2023-04-10T07:44:32+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arrr\u2026.! So it\u2019s true\u2026 Dream 64 does exist after all\u2026!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/intimsworld?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#intimsworld<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nintendo64?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nintendo64<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/snes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#snes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nintendo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nintendo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dream?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dream<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/banjokazooie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#banjokazooie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dream64?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dream64<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7UPSdQ0YQg\">pic.twitter.com\/7UPSdQ0YQg<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Tim Stamper (@InTimsWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InTimsWorld\/status\/1644765115277889537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Famous Rareware composer Grant Kirkhope responded to a message about Stamper&#8217;s tweet suggesting it had the intro on it as well as &#8220;some&#8221; gameplay. While it&#8217;s unclear just how far development got, as already noted, it eventually turned into other projects like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/banjo-kazooie\">Banjo-Kazooie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, this isn&#8217;t the only unreleased Rare project to resurface online. The Nintendo 64 game <strong>Dinosaur Planet<\/strong> (which went on to become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/star_fox_adventures\">Star Fox Adventures<\/a> on the GameCube) was leaked online, and the unreleased version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/goldeneye_007\">GoldenEye 007<\/a> XBLA for Xbox 360 also got an <em>unofficial<\/em> release.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/snes\/related-articles:50997,111269,110266 @ 2023-04-10T07:37:28+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>If we hear any updates about this N64 version of Project Dream, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: via Tim Stamper (@InTimsWorld on Twitter) \/ Rare Rare had a successful run during its time with Nintendo but not every project necessarily saw the light of day. One of these games was a role-playing title codenamed Project Dream. It started out on the Super Nintendo and was eventually scaled back during the Nintendo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}