F-Zero X

This page details development materials of F-Zero X.

'This page or section details content from theJuly 2020 Nintendo Leak.'''

On July 25th, 2020, a large amount of internal data was leaked relating to a variety of Nintendo properties. This leak also included many early F-Zero X assets.

Internal Names#

Some machines sport some alternative names. This can be observed in f0x\dai_traveling.h. Black Bull and Black Fortress both occupy #15, which suggests that they are likely the same machine.

Graphics#

F-Zero 64 Graphics#

The speedometer and power bar present in E3 1997 footage of F-Zero X are present in f0x\IMAGES.

Cup Graphics#

The graphics for each cup were originally represented by a playing card. Found in f0x\CAD. The checker-boarded card seems to be an early graphic for the Edit Cup (not to be confused with Course Edit), as the retail Edit Cup graphic is named Ed.rgba.

Menu Graphics#

Found in f0x\CAD. There are two menu options, Records and Slot Race, which do not show up in retail. As evident by the filenames provided within the leak, Records was replaced by Death Race (named RECORD.rgba) and Slot Race was replaced by Practice (named SLOTrace.rgba).

Selection Graphics#

At some point, selecting a cup was handled through a menu similar to the VS player selection. Speaking of which, an early graphic of the VS player selection is also present. Both graphics notably feature some skewed text. The cup selection graphic lacks Jack and X cup.

There is also another early VS select graphic which is closer to retail's, but the text is closer together and the fire graphic is different.

Ghost Menu Graphics#

f0x/CAD contains two unused graphics that reference ghost selection options, Celebrity Ghost and Champ Ghost.

Beavis#

In the f0x/IMAGES directory there are two files, face1_TX.tex and face3_TX.tex, both of which are pictures of Beavis from Beavis and Butt-Head. The latter of the two has its colors inverted.

Audio#

An early version of the title screen's music is present in f0x\sound\SeWave. Unlike most music, this has both the left and right audio channels present as title_l.b.22.c4.aiff and title_r.b.22.c4.aiff respectively. The guitars are different in this version.

Old Announcer#

Also in f0x/sound/SeWave are early voice recordings for the announcer. Many of them contain different dialogue:

Some voice lines lack a used equivalent in the retail game.

Presumably, the voice lines labeled "rank up" and "rank down" were supposed to be used when the player ranked up or down during a race, or perhaps when their position in the tournament overall changed, but they didn't make it into the final game.

Identity#

It's likely that these lines were recorded by composer Taro Bando, given the similarities to the vocals heard in a handful of songs in the game, and the pronunciation of the word lap as "rap" in the "That final lap!" line. It's also likely he recorded the male falling scream from the final game as well:

Pilot Graphics#

Early designs of some of the pilots were found in the iQue leak from July 25th, 2020. These aren't actually located where all the F-Zero X stuff is, instead in the sf64\assets\en\gfx\nigen_i\multigen\FZ64 directory.

Captain Falcon#

Early	Retail

Samurai Goroh#

Early	Retail

Dr. Stewart#

Early	Retail

Jody Summer#

Early	Retail