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Hiiii this wasn't the Dinosaur Dig related download I was expecting to post, but big things have happened!! A user by horse14t has bought many different beta and marketing discs for Zoo Tycoon 1 and 2 over the years, and last month she stumbled upon a disc for sale for a marketing beta of Dinosaur Digs. Me and a bunch of other users in a server it was posted to went through the files and found some incredible stuff!! While much of the game is close to the final product, a few things stand out. The big one is an earlier design for the iguanodon, more closely resembling the WWD design, as well as a much larger deinosuchus (sadly unfinished). Some objects and scenery are a little different in design too, as well as the insectivore food more closely resembling a worm pile, and a lot of stats seem to be altered from the retail version as well. I took the opportunity to seperate some of the more obvious and interesting things into their own standalone pack that you can use alongside the vanilla DD stuff without overwriting one another. Huge, huge thank you to horse14t for buying these discs!! We have found so much cool stuff for these games alone just from their efforts. <3 Included is: Beta iguanodon seperated entirely from the vanilla iguanodon, complete with young and adult sprites, and adoption icon, list icon and plaque. I used the beta iguanodon ai file so there are potentially some stat and price changes, but the two are compatible terrain, rock and foliage percent wise. The vanilla iguanodon will complain about incompatible animals, but both can reach 100% suitability with one another regardless. When the beta version of the iguanodon escapes and is picked up or crated, it will use the beta version of the large dinosaur box! Earlier versions of the rex and raptor skeleton are included. Vanilla DD seems to actually use icons that match these sprites more in the final game. Bigger versions of the tar pit and lava pit are included. The beta ai files for these had them not be deletable, so maybe they were dev objects? Regardless, they have been turned into scenery and can also be deleted lol. There's also an alternate version of the smaller volcano that's constantly smoking which has been isolated. Since I didn't want to overwrite the vanilla insectivore food sprites and making new foods isn't feasible at the moment, I decided to turn the beta insectivore food into three different scenery pieces. Lots and lots of wormies! I made younger guests enjoy them more too. I have made two versions by request, the first version makes it so that the beta and retail iguanodon are basically one and the same, just different internally and in graphics, and maybe one or two stats. They are meant to be the same type of animal, really. The second version renames the beta iguanodon to Dakotadon, oweing to the fact the beta iggy design is taking after Walking with Dinosaurs's north american iguanodon design, which has since been reclassified to Dakotadon. The Dakotadon has had their terrain and a few preferences changed just to differentiate it from Iguanodon, but it's not a very in-depth change. There's quite a few other things included in the marketing beta but I will probably be including them in the patch I was working on. When the patch comes out I will also probably make another version of these with more accurate terrain. I might try and see if the deinosuchus is also salveagable at some point. Anyway, enjoy! Link to normal version! Link to Dakotadon version!

Horse14t is like a Zoo Tycoon archeologist