Twelve Tales: Conker 64 - Will it be DUMPED, RELEASED?!

Tim Stamper showed off a working development cartridge of Twelve Tales: Conker 64 on Twitter. Will it be released? Will we ever play a Conker 64 / Conker's Quest prototype?

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[dreamielynn]

Personally, even if we can't play it, I'd love to see a full playthrough of the game just to SEE it with my own eyes

[mhfsilver_]

Not that I think it will amount to anything, but Tim did like several tweets asking for it to be released, so he is aware of the demand for it and shares that view with fans. I think what's likely going on here is Tim stumbled upon it during some sort of cleaning, wanted to see if it still worked and wanted to share his excitement over it's functionality with Twitter. When he said he had more than twelve tales, I imagine he's maybe talking about other stuff he found, other builds of games in his collection and ones he may show off just like this one.

[SKOT_]

It's like the holy grail of prototypes, and as such it's kinda hard to imagine it will anytime soon. I hope I'm proven wrong, if Dinosaur Planet could get dumped anything could happen.

[real_Furryratchet]

After the big leak of DInosaur Planet I was so hoping to see the full Beta of Conker for the N64. This is so BIG!

[joman]

This isn't one of those "anonymous 4chan dump" situations. I don't see this being released online for the masses.

[Soonjai]

12:10 Rodea the Sky Soldier on Wii U did pretty much what you mention here. That geme was originally developed and finished as a Wii game, however it was held back because the Publisher decided that they want to release a console and a 3DS Version of it at the same time. That 3DS Version however took so long to finish that the Wii U was already on the market for a good while.

They now had the dilemma of either releasing the Wii version anyway, scrapping the console version and make it 3DS exclusive or make a Wii U version. They opted for the last one and ported the 3DS version to the Wii U. For the first print run (wich ended up being the only print run) they decided to add the already made Wii Discs and Manuals as a Bonus to the Wii U game, and at least the EU release also went so far to make the cover reversible with the Wii U art being the default, but you can flip it to the original Wii art.

Many people consider the Wii version to be the better one because of better gameplay and art style.

[awanderer]

Lovely to see you guys talking about this, thank you! Tim Stamper is such a tease! For me personally, I'd love to see a playthrough video of Twelve Tales, don't necessarily need the ROM. Regarding high-profile industry members leaking stuff: It does happen, they do want their unreleased games to be seen by the world, I was actually lucky enough to play a very small part in such a leak over 20 years ago. They just don't tend to do it in public.

[LXDarkSniper]

I really hope Tim Stamper shows us some content for Killer Instinct 2 SNES. Even just a screenshot would be insane to see!

[MASF_]

This is a big deal for me since I have talked about Twelve Tales for decades, and I am a big Conker fan. I think Tim Stamper is retiring soon and before he goes out, this might be his swan song. He is currently 61 years old, he wants to go out with a bang, will he dump it? Probably, but only time will tell.

[unofficialSummer]

I'm so used to you showing these great findings that I was pretty sure that I was going to see some Twelve Tales Conker here.

[subdrag]

I'm hoping he does a full and possibly commentated playthrough... Probably best we can hope for for now.

[milesdevinny]

Tim did this same thing some years back before Rare Replay when he showed off owning a Dream cartridge for the SNES. I assume that maybe the lead up to that was the footage we got of the game in Rare Replay, but at the time I really was hoping for an actual game release. With Conker, I honestly think he's just showing stuff off since Rare Replay already happened now.

I sure would like it if Rare broke the mold in terms of game companies sharing their history. Imagine if they did a ~2hr doc covering their unreleased games and their development that also has digital releases of the unreleased games that compliment the doc. This would be an amazing way of telling history that no company has done before and certainly would set a nice precedent. Preservation is entering the public conscious more and more these days, so I really would like to see somewhere take a step forward towards commercializing it like that, if profits are that much of a concern. It would also give reason for releasing unfinished things so they don't have to hide behind the "well it's not a finished product, why would we ask for cash for a janky thing?" excuse.

[bobafett]

I think Twelve Tales of Conker could be released at some point, we did get Diddy Kong Pilot the early pre Banjo version leaked previously and as Tony said in that Atari collection that included some unreleased games and such included for public use and Conker 64 has multiple builds of it's pre Mature rating days out in the wild, largely owned by former Rare Staff with some builds being in Rare itself stored and preserved, so the odds of Twelve Tales Conker getting either leaked or to some extent released in some official capacity thanks to Microsoft as Rare Replay content of sorts and/or released on Xbox Live for a few dollars due to it's unfinished nature is extremely likely, if MS did officially release the lost version of Conker they could easily state what Twelve Tales Conker is as a description for the game store page to some promos where they make it absolutely clear what Conker 64 is and they should be fine, either way seeing an actual playable cartridge of the Conker game we could've gotten does give me and others hope it will show up for the public to enjoy at some point, just gotta be patient and I guess making the right contacts could help too.

[SoleilPhoenix]

N64 holy grails of betas:
1. Ura Zelda
2. Banjo Threeie
3. Conker's twelve tales
4. Super Mario 64
5. Dinosaur Planet
6. Earthbound 64

[davidscottheath]

Don't forget Tim Stamper teased a dev build of Dream years ago and that never got dumped either.

[iPhantom]

This is the equivalent of Nintendo showing off working builds of Earthbound 64 & Uru Zelda

[teh_supar_hackr]

I wonder if Rare would officially release the most complete protos of 12 Tales via an update to Rare Replay, or via Nintendo Online if the demand became high enough.

[macuser]

Rareware made the best N64 games and I hope this gets dumped soon so we can finally try it out and play it.

[radzs]

This has to be up with the legendary Earthbound 64.

[rcrazycanucks]

Here we are, 1 year later, and we still do not have a dump of this game.