Development:F-Zero X

This page details development materials of F-Zero X.

This page or section details content from the July 2020 Nintendo Leak. Check the July 2020 Nintendo Leak category for more pages also sourced from this material.

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.

Internal	Retail
Deep Red Claw	Deep Claw
Super Piranhan	Super Piranha
Green Dasher	Green Panther
Black Fortress	Black Bull
King Comet	King Meteor
Queen Comet	Queen Meteor
Wonder Hornet	Wonder Wasp
Mad Beetle	Mad Wolf
Hell Viper	Hell Hawk (JP) Blood Hawk (US/PAL)

Graphics

F-Zero 64 Graphics

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

(Source: Luosetigua)

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).

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  GPrace.rgb

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  TIMEat.rgb

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  RECORDS.RGB

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  VSrace.rgb

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  Slot.rgb

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  Option.rgb

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.

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  E_proghost.int

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  E_champghost.int

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.

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  face1_TX.tex

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  face3_TX.tex

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:

Old Voice Actor	Transcript	Retail Voice Actor	Transcript
	Check behind the car!		Watch your back!
	Bingo! (Laughs)		Bingo! (Laughs)
	You got boost power!		You got boost power!
	Yeah! That final lap!		Yeah! The final lap!
	Finish!		Finish!
	You lost your machine.		Too bad! You lost your machine.
	OOOAAAHHH! It's(?) new record!		Way to go! It's a new record!
	Nobody behind the car!		Pour it on! You're right out in front!
	You're number one!		Yeah! First place!
	See you again! (Laughs)		See you again! (Laughs)

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

File Name	Voice Line	Transcript
crazy.b.16.c4.aiff		(Groans) Are you crazy?!
extend.b.16.c4.aiff		You extend your machine!
hurryup.b.16.c4.aiff		Oh-woah-oh-oh-oh! Hurry up!
rankdowngirl.b.16.c4.aiff		Oh!
rankdownman.b.16.c4.aiff		Ooh!
rankupgirl.b.16.c4.aiff		Yay!
rankupman.b.16.c4.aiff		Yeah!

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:

Old Announcer	Male Falling Scream

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