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Oh wow, thank you very much for sharing this! This is definitely a new find and I'm sure people who are only picking up the game are going to be happy this exists!

Ecco PC in general is considered a poor port of the great game that they also rushed so it's not receiving the amount of attention than ...

Hello there and welcome to our message board. Love your reverse engineering projects!

There are three powerups that the game gives you in general. The way the third one is NOT explained anywhere in the manual does lead me to believe it was one of those last minute additions as Tides of Time already ...

Ecco Jr. is the only Ecco game of the series that uses stock unmodified GEMS sound driver, whereas previous two 16-bit games had it modified by Novotrade to better suit their needs. The overall topic of GEMS is quite deep and I have learned a lot about it whilst working on this little project ...

September 4 2026 session has been added.
Ed took interest in my small project of fixing the glitching Ecco Jr. soundtrack and invited me to talk about it during the session. This ended up in a small lecture on videogame music history, including talking about GEMS and why it was special, before ...

August 28 2026 session recording is now available.

This week's special guest is Dean Sitton : Ed's good friend and colleague at Sega of America! He is best known for his involvement in the conceptual and localization phases of the original Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Mega Drive. He was ...

An meme. Those are my real systems...

August 21 2026 session recording has been added.
There is a lot to digest from this and this is the first time we've actually been shown some very early prototype footage!

You may remember the article in the Famitsu magazine about Ecco that would ultimately spawn even more questions on what to make of the screenshots that were posted there. Especially given the stark contrast with what would be published later.

It's now all been made clear, thanks to Sherman of the ...

From an old tweet some 2 years ago.
This is what Vortex Queen looks like according to Dall E.

This was posted on ArtStation quite a while ago and already went missing at some point before being reuploaded again, so I am saving this here just in case.
It has been confirmed during one of the Dev Q&A that Ecco team is actually in contact with Jonathan to possibly license his work for marketing ...

August 14 2026 session recording has been added.
I'm trying a bit of a new format in this one where I display some of the content being discussed in the video.

I most certainly agree! We seem to have fast-tracked to this era where companies would just rehash the same stuff over and over again with only occasional gems here and there. There was Aquaria but that was a long time ago, so now there is a chance for Ecco to make a splash again: there was nothing ...

No problem!
What the EASY password does essentially with Ecco 1 is switch the game into "Get to the good part!" mode: you get from Home Bay straight to Big Blue, then from his stage immediately to Deep Water to meet The Asterite, next level is City of Forever already, then the Time Machine takes you ...

If you don't mind my asking, how exactly is it shortened? I haven't seen anything about it outside this site.

Absolutely, please ask away! :e_smile:
The answer is that the game skips A LOT of levels if you enter that password: just as an example, Ecco goes from Home Bay straight to Cold Water ...

After a few years, you actually done it Mod! Good stuff and will start assembling the levels. Also glad you added the CAD transform addon to help with piecing things together.

Thank you! It has been WAY overdue and I'm sorry for that, but better late than never. Really appreciate your help with ...

Epilogue & Credits

• Epilogue (cinematic) (7.1 MB)
• Credits (1.04 MB)

Domain of The Foe Pack
https://eccoonline.net/project-gdexxo/cards/episode_4.webp

./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Invasion (cinematic) (9.56 MB)
./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Chance of Reckoning (10.06 MB)
./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Hatchery (6.02 MB)
./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Seeds ...

Dolphins Nightmare Pack
https://eccoonline.net/project-gdexxo/cards/episode_3.webp

./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Twisted Realities (cinematic) (10.55 MB)
./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Anguish Of Dearth (9.56 MB)
./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Anguish Of Dearth (demo) (9.58 MB)
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Whilst I don't exactly consider these artwork, since they are merely renders that I would mash together from the assets obtained with the GDEXXO project, I feel that some of these are good enough to share.

Man's Nightmare Pack
https://eccoonline.net/project-gdexxo/cards/episode_2.webp

./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Vortex of Time (4.71 MB)
./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Shrine of Controversy (9.55 MB)
./images/upload_icons/zip.gif Shrine of Controversy (demo) (9.57 MB)
./images/upload_icons ...