An Ecco the Dolphin community dedicated to reverse engineering, preservation, game oddities & history of everything from the series. #eccothedolphin #vaporwave
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The website now has its own domain. It is unfortunate we could not get the current one back.
Welcome to ecco-online.net!
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"They call me Tailface"
eBay hopped onto the AI slop bandwagon as well, to help "seamlessly transform product photos from everyday snapshots into professional grade imagery". Uh-huh. That checks out.
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"Ecco and his mother Elisia" by Zsolt Balogh.
It is certainly unusual seeing his art in not-so-much pixelated form!
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Ryoichi Hasegawa reflecting on localization of Ecco:
"The graphics was outstanding for its time. When I saw that giant octopus, I sent a fax to Novotrade: "The graphics on this octopus are the best I've ever seen in a game! As a Japanese I think it looks delicious!"
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Give dolphin a fish, get him out of your way for a day.
Teach dolphin to fish...
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Ecco 2 scolds you for cheating in more than one way by also making a noise when accepting a password that has them enabled.
The wop of shame, as we like to call it!
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Our message board has suffered an influx of dumb AI scraper bots that assume session ID as unique URIs and fall into an infinite loop.
Countermeasures are now in place that SHOULD not interfere with our legitimate users.
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Welcome!
Again.
And again.
And again.
And...
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EdgeCase, long time member of our community, has a treat especial for us: a full series Ecco 1 walkthrough.
Even if you know it all, I'm certain you will not regret watching it. See our forum for links and maybe share some feedback while at it! Enjoy!
eccoonline.net/forums/viewtoβ¦
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Fun fact: Ecco has a history of using Times New Roman for the logo all the way to Defender.
Sometimes modified, some not too much!
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Ecco does not approve the new paint job on the Time Machine...
Palette bugs are one of my favourites. Here, instead of flashing everything BUT those dishes like on the 2nd screenshot, the game did the exact inverse of that.
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Sega Pico was a wonderful concept for 1993 and must have been absolutely magical for children at the time.
Ecco making an appearance on this platform was yet another testament to just how big the franchise was.
eccoonline.net/ecco-jr-pico/
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All the pages are printed on fairly thick paper and laminated to withstand quite a bit of abuse and still look great and vibrant after all these years!
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The song that started it all.
youtu.be/Tu7oq3VNgpY
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Stars on Ecco's model in DoTF are also meshes. This helps make them sharper without a higher res texture.
Same model is reused for all other bottlenose in the game, only texture is made transparent.
Doesn't work too well in beta, see if you can spot the impostor!
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Attila HΓ©ger is treating us with the good stuff once again!
Three new remastered tracks have been added to the playlist: Island Zone, Time Travel and The Vents. The latter is an delicate harmony of original FM and modern instruments!
eccothedolphin.com/en/#musicβ¦
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Ecco is all about bootstrap paradoxes.
In Origin Beach there's a hidden glyph that suggests it was our hero who's nudged cetacean evolution forward.
There was supposed to be a full cutscene where you meet Pakicetus but not enough time, so a secret glyph had to do.
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A console you can just plug a game in and play, no strings attached. What a novel concept!
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Music player on Ecco website got an update: remastered tracks now show artist name.
Now we can have even more appreciation for the amount of work Attila HΓ©ger has done!
eccothedolphin.com/en/#musicβ¦
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The Hungry Ones was another unique level in Ecco 2. Not only do you get to swim through it as a shark, but you also lose air quickly if you stop!
There's also hidden bubbles placed strategically throughout the map that drain your air even faster. Very sneaky!
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Europe at some point saw this limited edition boxed set that included a collective adoption certificate over a dolphin named Ecco living around Moray Firth bay.
Also in the set was this cassette with a very nice musical compilation. Give those bands a shot sometime!
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Image from the T-Shirt of of said boxed set carefully reconstructed by Callyfin of our community
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