Late February 2004 Build

General

These videos show a build dated Late February 2004.

• The HUD is made of Crash Nitro Kart font, which indicates being close to the early gameplay build.
• In this build, debug features and cutscene skipping are available.
• The life pickup visual is Aku Aku at this point.
• The camera is unlocked everywhere except for the Walrus Chase and N.Gin boss fight.
• Hitting wooden bounce crates changes their visual to the iron bounce crate.

Jungle Bungle

• The path splits at the worm tutorial cutscene area and to the left is a hole leading to the Bug Run.
• The transition into the Bug Run's chunk is indicated by the level geometry disappearing around Crash.

• The Bug Run section contains no objects, only scenery.
• After the chase area, the section continues into a cave area and then loops back around to a different hole in the vicinity of the worm tutorial cutscene.

Hi Seas Hi-Jinks

• The opening area of the level includes more scenery like fences, additional water hazards and a wall on the left blocking the view of N.Gin's ship.
• Shark enemies are seen jumping back and forward over the path into the ship.
• The penguin inside the ice uses correct textures and its early coloring.
• The exits behind the starting area look much wider and bigger than in the final game.

• Entering the ship requires using a TNT barrel, which explodes after a short while.
• The entrance is also guarded by a Rhino Pirate with a sword, who takes 2 hits to defeat, aswell as a shark.

• The first chunk includes slippery oil which, much like ice in the final game, needs to be maneuvered around.
• The second chunk has rats, a scrapped Pirate Duck enemy, and cargo platforms which can be lifted by spinning Boiler Room Doom's blue valves.

• Pirate Duck's attack consists of him lighting the fuse of a nearby cannon, which shoots a bomb forward from it.
• Getting near the Pirate Duck alerts it, and it can be then defeated in one hit.
• Exiting the room requires the use of another TNT barrel.

• The third area of the level contains the same N.Gin cutscene as final (albeit with no sounds and a different launcher).
• In the middle path rockets that spew toxic gas pop up as you progress.
• The Rhino Pirate Barrel Thrower here takes 2 hits to defeat.

• The way to the fourth chunk is blocked by Nitro crates.
• In the fourth area the platforms to walk on are thinner.
• The fifth area mainly contains rats, bounce crates and rockets.

• In the sixth area, the floor opens much like in the third chunk.
• In addition, much like in the third area, there's a Rhino Pirate Barrel Thrower here, unlike in the final game.
• There are Rope Swinging Rhino Pirates here that affect multiple paths.

• On both sides of the area there are seperate "bonus" chunks which contain rooms full of crates.

• Entering the next chunk starts the Rusty Walrus chase.
• Rusty Walrus has trouble following the path.

• Many of the crates lying around on the sides have Nitro crates in front of them.
• The first blocking wall is triggered before you even get to it.

• The second part of the chase is shorter, but the wall at the end works.

• After the chase, some explosions are shown and you enter a cutscene where Crash jumps on bounce crates.

• You land on the ship's deck where the cutscene from early on in the level plays again.

• This boss fight has you spin rockets away and back at N.Gin instead of getting him down from his crow's nest.
• The camera is locked in place during this fight.

• After N.Gin is hit once a cutscene plays where a big rocket hits the ship, the game fades out, and then Crash flies out of the ship onto an ice floe using the slide jump animation.

• The N.Tropy boss intro is not finished, so it's mostly a T-posed cutscene.

• After N.Brio bounces around, he tilts the platform and spawns multiple Rigid TNT Crates that fall down towards him.
• The objective there is to either activate a TNT and make it explode at the right time next to Brio, or angle a TNT towards his mouth so that he eats one.

• The camera does not lock on to the boss.
• The ice floe that N.Tropy is standing on can tilt, but not fall down.
• After two hits N.Tropy is defeated and a cutscene plays that softlocks the game.