Rayman 1

[Hunchman801]

Did anyone in their younger days find the trumpets in Allergro Presto to be a pain in the arse? I got stuck on that level for a long time in my early years.

I only remember getting stuck in the Swamps of Forgetfulness.

[Haruka]

I remember to have bigger issues in Picture City. That world should have been Mr. Dark's real lair.

[KWO]

Probably already known at this point, but I found a hidden mono sound setting in-game in the PS1 pal version using Cheat Engine.

[Haruka]

Well guys, the Rayman 1 SNES Prototype was finally dumped! Credits go to Ocornut (https://twitter.com/ocornut/status/881876378056085505) for the dump and share.

https://t.co/F3XB9XRhTA

Don't forget to thank him in case you have a twitter!

[Master]

Right, can it be run on an emulator, or is there some fiddling that's required?

EDIT: Think I should make a news post on the portal about this?

[Haruka]

It can be played in an emulator. I will see if today I can already update my channel with this content. Nothing much can be done as it is a very early build (the one Ancel showed) but better than nothing. Do write it!

EDIT: Already posted my own video in my channel.

[Eren]

It's incredible how we went from having just 2 pics on a french magazine to a playable prototype

[buildersith]

Already recorded some gameplay myself of everything I could find that's playable, not much too it right now, if there are more levels in the prototype they'll probasbly need to be made accessible through a HEX editor, orif someone can find a cheat code to enter a debug mode of sorts. a couple notes from the description
-Pressing Y whilst stood still on a flat surface will pay an animation for Rayman charging his fist, releasing it will not cause any attack to happen though.
-pressing Y on slanted surface or whilst moving will just speed up the current animation
- Jumping seems to have 2 different animation, unable to determine what determines which one plays.
-This is currently the only playable level, its very short, it ends in a dead end.

[Master]

Michel's mentioned it on his Instagram, he's joked about Rayman having a brother? https://www.instagram.com/p/BWF2U8TAX-h ... ichelancel

[buildersith]

Thanks to Stacey, I discovered a few more quick things about the prototype
-The squishing jumping animation that I was originally confused about plays when Rayman hits a roof.
- There's an hallway that doesn't have any artwork right above the starting point, the pipe to the left of the starting point can also be stood in.
- Rayman plays a GROOVY idle animation if you leave him for long enough, pulling out a jukebox, he starts breakdancing to it.
- falling form a certain height will stun Rayman and play a short Dazed animation.

[GOT4N]

Posted a video too. Also L+R triggers an animation, and you can change it and access a Rayman whistling animation.

[Cairnie]

Small as it is I'm really glad that a ROM has finally been retrieved. It must have been what, roughly 7 years from the moment it was first put in Pix n Love to today pretty much. I'm now hoping it could be data mined and have sprites ripped and stuff, who knows what else could be lurking in the code.

[PluMGMK]

It's… beautiful!
I guess that L+R animation was what they wanted to do in the Jaguar prototype too, but it made it crash for whatever reason.

[Eren]

So, I'm 100% sure that in the ROM there must be enemy sprites and other unfinished levels (possibly Rayman sister/whatever she is too), also what's up with Rayman when he is charging his fist, he looks like a dragon ball Z character with all those lightnings.. and for some reasons in the map I found an invisible wall where Rayman hits his head, odd...

[Greeness]

It also appears that there's a early version of the run button in the game by holding the Y button while walking, though it has no animation.
There's also a ledge animation but it seems to be still very basic.

[RibShark]

Number 20 on trending :O.

[Ambidextroid]

and for some reasons in the map I found an invisible wall where Rayman hits his head, odd...

I was playing around and noticed there's a secret passage next to the chute which leads to an invisible path, if I'm not mistaken this is probably what you hit your head on:

Also I was playing around with the ram in a hex editor and managed to find an alternate sprite of Rayman, seemingly half naked:

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And a slightly glitchier view with a larger portion of the sprite sheet visible:

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[Rock_TBT]

and for some reasons in the map I found an invisible wall where Rayman hits his head, odd...

I was playing around and noticed there's a secret passage next to the chute which leads to an invisible path, if I'm not mistaken this is probably what you hit your head on:
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Also I was playing around with the ram in a hex editor and managed to find an alternate sprite of Rayman, seemingly half naked:

snip5.PNG

And a slightly glitchier view with a larger portion of the sprite sheet visible:

snip3.PNG

Is it possible to open that game on a computer? I thought it was on a super-rare catridge.

[PluMGMK]

The concept of Rayomz isn't entirely new then, I guess.

And yes Rock, Ocornut dumped the ROM.

[Fifo]

Is it possible to open that game on a computer? I thought it was on a super-rare catridge.

The cartridge was ripped, you can download it here: https://bit.ly/2tP3Ljd