Press Screenshots

January Batch

These screenshots marked as "January" were presumably distributed to select press outlets earlier than the E3 screenshots below, but were never officially released directly to the public. Several of them were published in Nintendo Power magazine and on IGN64.

Notably, several screenshots appear to have been captured in the Nintendo 64's high-resolution mode. In the extant prototype, only the startup menus run in high-res mode, with the in-game graphics exclusively displaying at the standard, lower N64 resolution. This is causing some HUD issues in these screens, where the low-res HUD appears much smaller than it does when running at the normal resolution.

These screenshots were eventually published in the major release of behind the scenes Dinosaur Planet assets by RareMinion.

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Pre-E3 Batch

These screenshots were distributed to press and published on Rare's defunct Dinosaur Planet web site shortly before E3 2000. Several of these screenshots are close to or the same as the January batch: Shots 1, 4 and 10 appear to be the same as in January, while shot 6, the Galadon fight, has been retaken without the HUD displaying.

These images are presented here in their original layout from Rare's web site.

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Magazine Coverage

Nintendo Magazine System

Nintendo Magazine System was the official Nintendo magazine in Australia from April 1993 to August 2000, running for 89 issues. Its final three issues all featured coverage of Dinosaur Planet.

June 2000, Issue #87

Issue #87's News section featured the announcement of Dinosaur Planet as its lead story, speculating that it could be "the greatest and biggest adventure of all time."

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July 2000, Issue #88

Issue #88 features coverage of the year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 2000), where Dinosaur Planet was shown for the first time by Rare, alongside a statue of Sabre and Krystal riding a T. rex. The NMS preview concludes with the observation that "there's only one thing wrong with Dinosaur Planet and that's the amount of time we have to wait until we can play the finished version."

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In addition to the preview, there is a multiple-page collage of photographs the NMS team took at E3, including one of the Dinosaur Planet statue.

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August 2000, Issue #89

Issue #89 included a full-page preview of Dinosaur Planet full of the latest Rare promo screens, describing the game as "full of big surprises."

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