Rayman Pirate-Community

RayGamer99 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 5:17 pm Also this would have been the perfect opportunity to at least tease Assassin Ray and/or Avelina coming back in Retold, but hey, what do I know?

0xkurokawa wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 4:33 pm I'm not sure if this has been posted before; I was on eBay looking for more Rayman per-release content, and came across this advert for Rayman 2
You can see some of the storyboards that were used in production, some of them even have the safe frames.

Droolie wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 5:33 am Near the end of the development of King Kong, the team at Montpellier received a Xbox 360/"Xenon" dev kit. A team in Montréal had been developing the X360 port of the game, which is very much an early X360 game that uses all the cool new graphics technologies a bit too much - to the point it looks downright ugly in some places (for example, the characters' faces are shiny due to specular lighting being applied everywhere and it ruins the original art style). Turns out that the team at Montpellier agreed, as they were very disillusioned when they first tested this port on their new dev kit. A certain "Michel A.", very frustrated by how disgusting the game looked in this version, sent a very angry email complaining to the producer of this version, putting all of Ubisoft in CC. It sounds like it was quite a drama!

Droolie wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 5:33 am [*]When sending the game to Sony, they were given a "must fix" bug: "the controls of some minigames resemble mouse controls too much". It was their way of saying that it was too lazy of a port from the Wii version, so they had to come up with more clever solutions for some minigames (such as snapping the cursor to targets).

Droolie wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 5:33 am Frédéric was more of a hacker, someone who tried to push the hardware to its limits and made crazy things - not a very good programmer at architecture level. For example, Rayman on Jaguar (and SNES before that) was entirely written in assembly! With the PlayStation however, arrived C. Ubisoft switched to C programming for these ports. Frédéric thought he no longer had a place in the videogames industry and decided to quit Ubisoft.

Droolie wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 5:33 amBefore quitting, he was given a list of features to complete on the Jaguar version in 3 months. He completed the entire list in 2 weeks, received all of his money, took a flight to Polynesia and spent the rest of his 3 months there.

Droolie wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 5:33 am And that's most of what Rayman fans could find interesting. A long wall of bullet points maybe, but I'm sure you will find some fun facts in here!