How Close Are We To Finding Slamfest '99?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- For the launch of Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64, Nintendo live streamed a wrestling match of costumed characters fighting o promote the game. The search for this lost media has been continuing for the past couple years, totaling 4 years of time thus far.
If only I had saved a copy of slamfest in 1999 instead of being 1 years old 😭
I was only in the womb but I should've had the foresight. And a home internet connection
If only I recorded it instead of not being born until 1 and a half year later 😢
Its alright man. No one is perfect. We all make mistakes.
I was a year old in 1999 too.
Yeah I was like 3 months old but that shouldn’t have stopped me like skill issue ig sorry guys lol
You know it's gonna be found at a garage sale in Washington with like half an episode of survivor recorded over it
i was thinking those vhs lots prolly got it
Tbh, would have been much more likely to be found if it had been broadcast on TV than on the internet at that time
Its so funny you say that. I literally daydream about randomly stumbling across it at a thrift store or something a long those lines and and I literally live in Washington. 😂
Honestly, even if the footage never gets found, at least we have all these photos and articles about the event, so at least it’s documented in some way. Other lost media haven’t been so lucky.
I doubt something like this is lost forever considering it was on a website from 1999 - 2014 or so.
Imagine we get footage of slamfest 99 and it turns out it’s actually really boring 😭💀💀
I have the same feeling which is why I’m not interested in the search, those costume limit their movement, the most they’ll do is ram into each other
We literally already know it's boring 💀👍
I'm not expecting it to be good, I don't really see the point in looking for this. The journey to finding lost media can be interesting though
It's not particularly _exciting_ per se, but as one of the more bizarre pieces of official Nintendo media, it's definitely interesting enough to warrant looking for.
I mean yeah..? but the 'fun' in lost media is the history, search, journey, and nostalgia you rediscover as you look for it so it shouldn't really matter what the final product is
Interesting thing, I work with one of the former directors of that very same mgm hotel in vegas, he does remember slamfest 99 very vividly and according to him there were a lot of people filming the event so there must be footage out there somewhere.
That's what I thought ever since I found out this was lost media. It HAS to be in somebody's box of home movies SOMEWHERE. I fully believe it exists in somebody's basement in a box of other unmarked tapes, shoved in a corner or closet, covered in two and a half decades of dust.
It was pretty popular among my friend group in high school because of how silly it was. Definitely worth the effort imo
there has to be some normie who has a tape of it but refuses to share it
@@belstar1128fuck private collectors
When you say people filming you mean as, families recording with consumer cameras? Or the broadcast company?
watch it be a clockman situation where it was literally uploaded on youtube the entire time 💀
The Slamfest 99 event is one of the most heavily researched topics and following it on its journey is inspiring for me tbh.
Nice ChatGPT comment
@@noyes. I can’t put in a detailed comment lil bro🙏🙏
@@gabetheory
What stopped you? How about an original comment?
@@noyes. I dont even got chatgpt, i got actual proof
The slamfest 99 event is one of the most events of time.
On a serious note, f that fake email. That was just slander.
It's not even edge worthy. Not even goon worthy. Just nothing.
fr, supersonic is really nice i dm'd him asking about slamfest updates like a year ago and he personally explained it to me so nicely a real geniune guy
Yea and any way why would he fake not having it for Views because round up he has about 200k views for those videos and he would get more views if found so it’s stupid
To quote Paulie Walnuts, “F’ing slander, if you ask me!”
@@andrewmurray9691also another thing, why did the discord user censor the z64planet email address in the screenshot when kheang's z64planet email was public?
If we can find the full songs of Ulterior Motives and Dreams 4ever, and the original location of the Backrooms, then we can find this.
Those are a lot easier unfortunately
Meh this a far more difficult
The original backrooms location was found and the building is still in use
@@spaghettimaestruh918This is correct. In fact its nearby me if I drove past Milwaukee Wisconsin. Its in Oshkosh Wisconsin. Im from Chicago and Im suprised to see how close it was from Illinois.
I mean to be fair those had alot more info and leads
at this rate, Slamfest '99 is bound to end up in the same position as "Me and my Friends".
In the case of “Me and My Friends”, there’s an actual tape in existence, but Slamfest ‘99 is like trying to find a tear drop in the rain.
Maybe the real Slamfest '99 was the "Me and my Friends" we made along the way.
Andre from Gamexplain opened pandora's box when he first tweeted about slamfest
"Hey guys lssq here now lets start a massive search that will never end"
Based
If you think about it, he might have opened that box to himself as well...
THE SOUND IS LOST MEDIA YOU GUYS HELP
It got fixed I think
Lol
It probably just didn't fully upload but yt thought it did. I think I've seen that before
It’s Jaxcheese. He made a new album
What does this comment even mean? I need grammar to live
we got the Backrooms and GTA VI before Slamfest 99
GTA 6 is coming out next year, so they still have a chance
We Got Pikmin 4 Before Slamfest 99
bro y’all stfu with this unfunny garbage
No GTA 6 hasn't even came out
We got GD 2.2 before Slamfest 99
This HAS to be on someone's hard drive, somewhere. Even if Nintendo didn't offer a link to download the rebroadcast, there definitely existed tools to extract the file from the page source data, even back then. It's probably going to surface if and when a channel as large as Whang's (or larger) ends up covering the topic.
This was 1999
@@0xm Inspect exists
It's a bit more complicated than that - the video wasn't embedded in the webpage source. The "rebroadcast" file that you could download was just a container file that directed RealPlayer to stream the actual video from the RTSP address it contained. Think of it like a paper with an address of a house written on it, and not the actual house. To download the video file, the user would have to be savvy enough to open the container file in a text editor and manually download the file it was pointing to.
Love your Glimmy icon
probably not most people didn't know how to do that and it took up a lot of hard drive space and took forever to download back then. and hard drives tend to break quickly compared to other pc parts and people reformat them all the time
Slamfest99 is the 21st century equivalent of a Doctor Who missing episode
At least we know that Slamfest wasn't intentionally destroyed lol
i know theres been alot of grails in the community but if this actually gets found im considering this the grail of the lost media community
This one has the most working against it. Even London After Midnight and the lost Doctor Who episodes have SOME hope of being found!
Glazing
This is just becoming the one piece of lost media at this point.
imo the Jeff the killer original pic takes the cake but just by a smidge
The 9 hour cut of Greed with always be the holy grail of lost media🏆
i spotted what seems to be a camcorder recording the event, maybe we could get a shaky recording of the event.
You may be on to something
"Give up whenever you feel like it"
The only hope here is getting a homemade record with a camera of the event.
The official good quality streaming it's unlikely will ever be found
if you think about it there is a few ways slamfest could be found
1: a family member kept it as something their family could watch
2:nintendo does some anniversary
3:Idk we get enough photos or idk
Also it might just be me but when looking at the photos you dont see that many cameras or phones, it might be due to the quality but its jsut me
I'd laugh if someone manages to find the gif with the chair
@@HauntakuTV found it
ofc you don’t see phones because it was in 1999 😭
1. if you sift through the camera roll photos released, barely anyone in the crowd has cameras, it's mostly just kids in the crowd, and in the very few instances you do see cameras, they're all point and shoots, besides one of the pictures which has another guy taking a picture of a kid with mario and yoshi, in that was a DLSR, but that isn't apparent in the crowd photos.
there's a photo of a nintendo employee with what seems to be a handheld video camcorder, however the picture is taken somewhere else in MGM, presumably this is after the event, maybe some video got recorded during the event from that, but i wouldn't cross fingers that it survived all the way to this day.
2. very low chance, nintendo is just about the last company to be transparent about their media with the community, they've pretty much never done any type of unearthing of behind the scenes content or previously unseen footage/etc, they are a very closed and tight lipped company in that regard generally speaking, they also probably just kind of assumed that the broadcasting company would take care of the footage for this, they likely don't have anything additional that the broadcasting company doesn't.
3. somewhat decent chance more photos may surface from some of the people with point-and-shoots, wouldn't cross fingers though.
You know camera phones weren't a thing until like 2007 right? And they were SHIIIIITTTTTY until like 2010.
slamfest happend back in 1999! its 2010!! how tiem flies
We are in the 2020s
@@KamehamehaSuperStyle EVEN WORSE
@@KamehamehaSuperStyleNo, it’s currently the 2030s
@@Rhettroizms CORRECT!
@@KamehamehaSuperStyle You don't get the joke
We’re still looking damn this brought me back man😂
probably on a vhs in some random guy named eric’s closet along with random mario gameplay
SM64BA MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
watch it be found by showing up to nintendo HQ and asking for a copy
Watch It Be Found At A Charity Shop
watch it be in an adult film, the entire thing, while some “activities” happen it just cuts to the full thing
Didn't Nintendo say they didn't have it? Granted they might not want to actually bother to look.
@@Odindoesstuffreal I hope people will stop referencing the etk thing, it’s get annoying to see this under every lost wave and other lost media
@@Odindoesstuffreal wasn't a lost episode of doraemon in a japanese porn
Have been following this search for many years now if this ever gets found I’ll pass out
If filming was allowed at the event then you could contact people who were there at the time to see if they have a vhs copy of it or go to a Vegas goodwill and buy up a bunch of old home video tapes.
The costumes were made by a company called KCL Productions. They may be a possible lead.
Just when i rewatched your last slamfest video, you drop this one! Magical timing
It's honestly pretty wild that Slamfest '99 is about as old as I am
I was born in '98
Probably not that close
Fr tbh
Time travel 🤔
@@Chase.h.hillenberg
We time travel to where Slamfest is available. Download it. Upload it to TH-cam and travel back and reveal its been on TH-cam since 2006
Probably
✅
your videos are so freakin interesting dude, I love lost media and the search it takes, even if you don't get the result you're looking for.
finding slamfest has been so hyped up for years that I actually can't wait for someone to find it
This event is as old as I am thats insane how long its been lost.
an uncensored version of sailor mouth and full tape of slamfest are basically the holy grails of the community lmfao
We've already got a tiny bit of the former
It’s been so long. I fear if we do find it we will feel happy but empty
i skipped past the golin part unconsiously because i thought it was a sponsership lmao
Imagine if we find a recording of the event on a tape or something but in a crazy twist of events it gets stolen-
Chances are that it exists in an MP4 somewhere
*A tape gets found*
Nintendo's 5 actual Assassin's that were hired to steal it back (its their property): 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
I can't believe how long its been since this little fish made a big splash!
I really hope it gets found in the near future sooner than later hopefully
I hope it will be found eventually!
Maybe the real slamfest 99 were the friends we made along the way
LMAO
At this point, just recreate it in one of the WWE games. Hell, I'll do it right now.
EDIT: I'm a man of my word: th-cam.com/video/vZ_K9LTe9yw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=aSrqjM6aILp9oveg
Wrestling empire is the easiest one to make mario and dk but pikachu and yoshi would be hard
The top Lost Media finds that I really hope get found is Me and My Friends and Slamfest 99
who’s gonna tell him
@@TheCommentYapperwhat do you mean
I have move on from slamfest 99, I feel it’s lost forever
Hopefully this video gives it the boost it needs to be found. I doubt it will, but it would be awesome
it could be sitting on some random 1999 computer in a thrift store somewhere or in someone's house
maybe but most hard drives from that time are broken or reformatted
@@belstar1128 not necessarily, hard drives from that time were tanks and would still be functioning today
why is your channel full of fart videos
I literally had this on my pc back in around 2004. I dont remember if it was kazaa or limewire or where...so i can say for certian, slamfest was saved and put online in a shareable format.
Are you sure it wasn't the TV commercial?
The classic "it's on an old pc of mine from way back when." No matter how far lost media searching progresses, this always remains
You still have that old computer?
Really?
darn it, I hope we find Smashfest 99, Jimmy Two Shoes pilot from Hell, and Godzilla VS Gamera stage performance
Dude, these PR firms would not have "archives" of something like this. Especially something so long ago.
I feel like even if it is found, Nintendo will just instantly C&D it off the face of the earth.
Hopefully Slamfest 99 will be found one day. I'd love to watch it.
It was online for years (I saw it in highschool) and it's 100% definitely worth it. I wish Nintendo would do more fun stuff like that.
@@HauntakuTV online where? cause otherwise we're gonna think you're making it up.
@@nes96 Supposedly it was on TH-cam in 2006, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's been taken by now.
@@andykishore Question, I'm sure it wouldnt hurt to ask youtubes higherups, yeah? Its worth a shot for publicity that they recover it if its possible.
@@shinygiveaways1920 Actually, a really good recent video from TH-camr
toastedcherries was uploaded called "How TH-cam's first videos are becoming lost media" which goes through excessive research, data codes, and archives of pretty much all of the earliest TH-cam videos uploaded in April and May 2005 respectively. It's been proven that no such video for Slamfest 99 was uploaded during that time which further proves that the person claiming it was uploaded in spring 2005 is a fake claim. The only accounts uploading videos in April 2005 were the higher ups/founders at TH-cam or family members of those higher ups. In fact, hardly any cartoon related videos were uploaded in April 2005 except for a random South Park video that got taken for copyright and is first known instance of a copyright notice on the site.
Anyone might have this complete on tape, who knows. they might even be watching this video right now and maybe even writing a comment at this very moment, but we'll never know.
Dude do you have a tape?😆
I was at the event and recorded some of it on my vhs camcorder I'm the boy with glasses standing next to Pikachu in one of Ed's photos I might upload it to my channel but I don't know if anyone would be interested in seeing since it's from a different perspective
@@Brushedmetal69 Do it id love to see
@@Brushedmetal69 man do you mind to upload or send link i think it almost complete this almost 10 year search
Digitise and upload it! Some video is better than none at all
I just find it funny that no one bothers to record on the day of the event? Surely, by 1999, people have access to video tape/camcorder everywhere, especially in the U.S.
Heck, Nintendo was already popular by that time and people do aware of Mario let alone Pokemon.
Well people wise, It makes sense. Screen recording wasn't a real thing and a lot of kinda didn't really record things with cam corders for content ya know?
They did in person but the livestream itself is prob much rarer and the hd one being deep in some archive somewhere
@@nexusgiga You may not find high quality footage, but a gif should be easy to find
@@HauntakuTV yeah. You'd think so
There wasn't a good reason for most people to record it. Smash was not the blockbuster franchise it is now with a huge dedicated fanbase, the stream was highly time-limited, and there weren't any new details or screenshots from the game for most of the gaming press to bother with it.
How close are we to finding the Me and my friends pilot?
mmmmm
There’s a chance it might pop up one day
100% some rando has the .rm file you're after, but I really think getting in touch with random employees who were just trying to do their job and in no way would've made a copy or have one is a bit absurd. Continue to chase old webmasters, not people likely nearing their 50's.
I was watching some old lssq videos when this came out, the timing was perfect lmao
I really hope it will get found!
We really need that pink morning cartoon to be released
Thats highly doubtful the masters were confirmed to be destroyed. Also was limited to colombus ohio on a very weak signal. Not to mention it was in the mornings meaning it was harder to record live. Given these circumstances the whole thing will never happen unless the scumbag who destroyed the masters actually ripped the footage out of the tapes with capturing software before destroying them. This has everything going against it but unlike slamfest will probably never see the light of day.
It's always kinda funny reading the comments on vids about stuff like Slamfest, because there's always a huge chunk of people who overestimate the technology back then ("why didn't people just record their screens as it streamed?"), but an equally huge chunk of people who underestimate it, too ("what? Livestreaming didn't exist before TH-cam").
SO to make this a little clear: there was livestreaming back then! It was generally handled via separate programs, not in a web browser (there may have been in-browser streaming back then, but if there was, it was in its infancy and very, very resource intensive). Basically, imagine if Twitch had its own launcher instead of being a website, but people from any domain, not just Twitch, could be watched on it so long as you had the right address for their stream. However, screen recording (especially recording a playing video/stream) took a fair amount of computer power to do, so it wasn't commonly done by average joes outside of things like making short GIFs. Videos that weren't things like animations were mostly things that were recorded on something other than a computer, and were then uploaded (or, obviously, streamed).
So for the case of Slamfest, our best options are either:
1. Video from the source, be it Nintendo, Game Freak, the marketers, the recording crew, or otherwise; just SOMEONE involved that may still have a recording somewhere
2. Second hand, who got the video from the source in some way (gifts, inheritence, thrift, etc.)
OR
3. People who recorded the event from the audience with their own camcorders, assuming it wasn't banned.
Nice that this search has still been going, atleast. As increasingly unlikely as it is, I would LOVE to see this get found one day. Regardless of the results, I think we can all agree that this is one of the most iconic lost media searches to come in this recent decade!
I find it interesting how the banner in the background of some of the event photos says super smash bros "title fight" instead of slamfest
A 20 min slam fest video is the best this that could have happened today
this search and the dedication is so nuts
9:23 There's a guy with a camera at the bottom of the N64 logo
I get this is lost media and all, but what I wanna know is how the hell they were able to shove someone into that Pikachu suit.
Hear me out, but instead of a live stream recording of slamfest what if someone (like a person from the audience) recorded the event via through a video camera? As far as I'm aware the event never said you couldn't bring video cameras into the event. Plus, even if it was prohibited someone could have sneaked in a camera to secretly record the event in person, tho that's just a personal assumption.
So we still don't have it from our first lead and honestly I thought this would be longer
i feel that slamfest can be still out there but maybe some one still has some kind of recording of it but may not be aware that its so important or they do know about it and are just being to safe with what they have and are not giving it to us which is a real big headache if this is true. I have a feeling that it might be found and has a possibility of hope unlike me and my friends which is very slim for hope but i do hope that slamfest is found because its been missing for so long and many people have been waiting for this momment to happen
have you tried looking in that archive where the live action toonmaker sailor moon was found
Would be hilarious if it's been there the whole time.
What’s the name of the archive
Can you link the archive?
Slamfest 99 may have a few gifs online considering how silly it was
@@PabloBudgaga-ui9gu library of congress
When I get my Time Machine up and running, this will be my second stop after going back to the UK in the sixties to record all the missing “Doctor Who” episodes.
if we get a full footage of slamfest 99 one day
i swear to god if there isn't any climax where one of the 4 unlockable characters comes in into the ring and beats the shit out of everyone, then ill say that the search wasn't worth it
What about the people who manufactured the costumes and the agency who shot the Smash Bros commercial? Pretty sure the suits in the ad and this event are the same.
It's mentioned in the video. KCL productions has told us they don't have anything and are constantly getting contacted by people about this
This is just a crazy idea I had, and I wanted to know what you think about it, why not try and get in contact with Sakurai, I mean he has a TH-cam channel and is literally the creator of Smash Bros, so he should know something about it, I hope you guys succeed with your search,🤠👍 have a nice day,
Oh, he'll probably show it off in a video if he has a copy.
"Someone sent it to me to cover it on the observer. When I watched it. I found it to be boring and the structure of the match is predictable. I remember giving it a rating of 2 stars. And I deleted the video afterwards"
- Dave Meltzer
Where is this quote from?
Hey tbf Meltzer never gave Kurt Angle a 5 star match. For all we know, Slamfest '99 could very well be one of the greatest worked matches of all time, pure squared circle kino.
@@bozossb1937 its a joke
I want to be creeped out by the costumes but DK genuinely looks really cool. Maybe it's my desperation for new DK on the next Switch (Edit: two ports, woooo) but that is genuinely a really good costume for this time- the placement of the seams and the padding, the way the fur is used to push dimension, etc. All aspects of this search are neat and I hope we can see them in action one day, thanks for accidentally putting us on to a costume and wardrobe company :)
such a wild event that has not been televised. that’s crazy
I genuinely think someone could’ve recorded this event with their camcorder back then, that’s the only chance something like this could be found.
@@JamesLawner That or someone who loves to archive Nintendo history may have it considering that it was on a website for over 5 years
that is why the internet is so great the big tv companies didn't want to do it because they thought not enough people would watch it
@@HauntakuTV people in the early 2000s really didn't care about that only in the last 10 to 15 years did we start to care about lost online media. in the 2000s it was just like new thing good old thing bad .
If we can find lost nein levin footage that was never seen. we can find this
I wonder who Nintendo hired to play the characters. I wonder if it was Indie wrestlers from that time frame in the area, would be cool if it turns out that a big wrestler worked that match
So this will probably end with either being found, or being considered fully lost.
I think I had a tape the event in my childhood home better yet I still remember the screams of the people there!
So far, this has been quite the year for the lost media community.
Silence makes me think they were threatened.
Talk about “just a game”! It’s a lost song and it’s not only catchy but the search for the song has been wild
Yesss I love just a game I wish it was longer
What?
You also know whats just a game?
Lostwave isn't the same as lost media, it's just grouped into the same category because of terminally online idiots. A lot of the time lostwave is also lost media but that's like saying all Islam are terrorsits.
@@Rhettroizms MY MOM!!!
that part where you were framed was pure cinema
If we can find EKT and the backrooms, we can find the slamfest footage.
Um the backrooms were found recently in wisconsin of all places.
backrooms is a place that still exists and will probably exist for a long time ekt was never really lost but it was in a place nobody dared to look
OH SHIT it's been 4 YEARS!
Update I looked at the description and apparently Go! Go! Mario Paint had no book of its own, but had its thirteen chapters reprinted in other volumes, from volume 1 of Super Mario Kart to volume 1 of Donkey Kong Country. Assorted 4-koma were also included in certain volumes.
It took many years but the original back rooms photo location was found
If only I had recorded it instead of being born in 2010
"Somethings gone lost in the happy go lucky world of Nintendo"
I was just watching videos about the topic nearly an hour ago, dang.
Another great video as always!
I want this topic found as much as the next guy, but What about the institute of innovation It looks so cursed and I love it
Edit: 0:46 That cut off had me on the floor
This reminds me of the super smash brothers comercial with the pop song by the turtles playing. "Loving nobody but u, for all my lifeee".
we're probably going to find this on another giant nintendo leak lol
25th anniversary happened recently too!
i regret throwing away a old pc i bought from a unique thrift store. it had a video of it. well a short clip. its been years since i saw it
more photos of the costumes
th-cam.com/users/shortseBYnmzz23L0?si=wuSalG8c4MbHpb9X
15:30 I love how the reply to the user's accusations of holding back the video isn't "I wouldn't do that, it doesn't match the mission statement of most lost media archivists" but rather "I didn't do it...I'm not saying I wouldn't have, but I didn't." 😆
I do remember going there. I did record the Slamfest event lol. Lemme find it.
OMG REALLY please share it!!!
@@Squirtybirdy sadly, i can seem to find it. i probably broke it or have it somewhere outside my house. i'll try my best to find it
@@TheEliteSonicGamer oh thanks for lettting me know
@@Squirtybirdy couldn't find it so i'ma fly to my parent's house to check
@TheEliteSonicGamer any update?
I eated it
NOOOOOOOOO
Dude the next lost media search in 25 years will be what this guy ate
"We outta tires" ahh comment 💀