Thanks for all the views so far! Just to clear some possible misconceptions, please read the description or this post for some errors: Errata: • Middle screenshot at 3:27 is actually from Prepre9, not JP Retail • At 3:11, the button to use isn't actually Square, but Circle instead • At 6:20, one of the slab numbers is wrong... you got 37 for the one in Phoenix Mountain (three dots above three lines) but the middle dot isn't raised higher on the slab, which means it's 18! Deeply sorry about this oversight. • At 9:55, the video S̵̙̿͗̊̕L̸̝̽͑͘̚͜͜Ȧ̴̫̻B̸̟̣̒͗
That's been driving me insane for years, glad we FINALLY got some insight into what the hell that damn slab outside the Dwarf Village was for. For years, I thought it was a socket, and I was supposed to plug something into it... This video is incredible, the editing is on point and very entertaining to watched. Loved the animation of Tomba carrying the TCRF wiki logo. :) Subbed & joined the Discord!
My old-ass memory is telling me I found an item that could be slotted into the one at the Dwarf Village, I'm most likely just misremembering or confusing it with something else though.
It always bugged me what those slabs were!!!! Can't believe you guys did such an awesome video!! Well done 👏 This game brings back such amazing memories ❤️
Honestly, an amazing video. I'm amazed at how Tomba Club has grown, and to think that when I first met this project/community there were only unboxings. The edition is amazing, the narration is just as good, and the whole video is amazing. Thanks for bringing back my favorite childhood game, I hope this continues and more people join in. So much love!
Amazing video that just popped up on my front page. Always a huge fan of Tomba! I still hear the little "event complete" jingle in my head at least a couple times a month lmao.
2:11 that’s exactly how I was introduced to Tomba. I was like 4, my neighbor was like 10, he had a PS1 and a Demo Disc that had Tomba. I also remember one of the Demo Discs came with Tekken. And Pizza Hut used to give them 🥲 the memories
Thanks for this video, its super nice to see that by your work, others are also searching about this game, and to find that actually there is a group of Tomba fans. Love the game, and will never forget it all my lifetime. One of my real childhood feelings...
First of all, I didn't even realize anyone was data mining this game. Just finding that people have learned as much as they have about such a great obscure game is blowing my mind. I knew about the top down town sprites hidden on the disc since I was able to see them when I used a gameshark to view the sprites way back when, but I didn't realize there was THIS MUCH cut content. In regards to the slabs, I always wondered about that myself, but not too much. Mostly because there's so many weird things about this game that it's easy to overlook some of those details. I was about to say that the symbols had something to do with maybe visiting each slab in some kind of order, since the two dots and the single line seemed to indicate each symbol would maybe count as a section of that 5 line number or something. Granted, three of those lines were identical, but maybe they expected people to guess the order a little? But then you mentioned the Mayan number system and that makes a lot of sense too. Of course, I'd imagine they cut it because it was the late 90s, who the hell was going to actually understand the Mayan number system back then? These days, sure, you can google anything. But back then, not so much. I'm sure if they'd had enough time to develop it, they could've made it like a weird teachable moment in-game, but it doesn't surprise me that it went unused. Also, your production value is awesome. Love your sense of humor. And, obviously, the topic is close to my heart. So you got my attention!
There is another very big mistery in this game: the treasure of the leader of the pirates.For 2 times during the game you find a pirate that tell you that the leader of the pirates has entrusted him with the task of protecting his treasure,but he losts it and he asks you to find it.After that you find it for the second time,he thanks you and says he'll rush to return it to the leader of the pirates before losing it again.When you go in the room of the leader of the pirates in the haunted house (after freeing that area from the influence of the related evil pig) and you talk to him,at the end of the conversation he gives you his treasure telling to you that he doesn't need it anymore,then he go away and you'll never see him again...The mistery is: what the hell is that treasure and what is it for?!Because if you look in your inventory you can see this object (with an icon that has always made me think of a crystal ball on a bearing),but in the info box the game doesn't give you any specific information of it,and from that point until the end of the game there is absolutely no events where you can use it (as the icon reminded me of a crystal ball,i've also tryed to give it to the witch Mizuno and to the soothsayer in the Bacchus village,but nothing...)...And i ended the game multiple times finding and solving all the 130 events of the game...I've always missed something or simply that object was for an event that then they remove from the final version of the game (maybe when they decided to remove that event they were in too advanced stage of development to also remove that object and all the rest of the events that led to obtaining it and therefore they could only eliminate the event for which it was needed and that's it?)? 🤔
@@Andrew-Richardson Mmm... 🤔I remember that i catched the sacred fish,but I didn't use the pirate leader's jewel...Maybe there were 2 ways to obtain that object...?Even if it seems strange to me... 🤔
I thought the slab outside of dwarf village was a light switch and the slab at the haunted mansion was a letter box. Was always looking for letters on each play through 😆
Really interesting video! Your research really does add up quite a bit. It's really possible that there was going to be a bigger puzzle but they did what you said; cut it out and have the door lead to the treasure. Because for the amount of treasure you get, it seems like no effort for such a big reward. If they ever make a Tombi 3, it'd be nice if they revisited this!
i KNEW there was something wierd about those slabs... Man... theres so many hidden secrets and stuff in Tomba... Also... missed opportunity to use the "Return the Slab" clip from Courage the Cowardly Dog for a brief segway to Tomba! Remastered. :3c
There is a strange machine in the dwarf village, where the Elder Dwarf is. I don't remember that was used for any event. Do someone know what It is for?
It's a slot machine! We have some data to support these claims but that's a subject for another video. Slot machines were gonna play a larger role in the game but got scrapped.
@@TombaClub Yeah, it's pretty clear there was more planned. Just the way the warp points are distributed makes that clear. But even the Masakari Jungle feels underused, and there's at least a non-trivial amount of content there. Looking forward to the next vid.
My guess is that you could pick up the slabs once the event is triggered and then place them on a room in order to solve a math puzzle that unlocks a room or area. That's the only logical conclusion that i can come up with. In fact, in 8:50 you can see the icon showcases what it looks to be tiles with two symbols one next to another, which could indeed be related to the slab event.
Who knows, with a new Limited Run release of the game maybe things are finally happening and we'll eventually get a Definitive Version with most of the cut content restored. I could see Night Dive doing a good job remastering Tombi.
Wonderful video! I love Tomba & every mystery around its decelopment... I wonder, is there any chance for you to get contact of any whopee camp producer/developer? So he or she can "bring some light" on what was ment to be when they created these Doodle rocks and all of the unused items and places? It would be really cool tp know. Thanks!
Can you pls explore the pirate treasure side quest? It was resolved so quickly after finding the bag of the forgetful thief. Not to mention there's that laughing pirate who does nothing!
Hmm yeah I suppose we could dive into that. There are a lot of unused things to tell about the thieves. The laughing one in particular has a story to tell ;)
The audio of this was heavily edited to be the nicest possible to the ear, but yeah the original mic and it's settings were dogshit and the narrator didn't really know what the was doing lol
@@Honey_Bonnie That was a ton of years ago and doesn't have anything to do with the present, nothing worked the same way it does now fans of tomba are all arround of the globe, so a remake and follow up is perfectly possible if the hype is big enough What i'm trynna say is: we already have the no, stop being captain obvious and join the party
@@TombaClub HUIKEETA! Kuulin sieltä sellaisen pienen Suomalaisen mikä se on... Intonaation? Lausuntatavan kuitenkin 😂 Juuri hetki ennen tämän videon katselua läpäisin Special Editionin. Ja täytyy kyllä myöntää että ei olisi ilman läpipeluuviedeota onnistunut. Hiuskasen on kryptinen peli 😱
Unfortunately the only microphone we had at the time was an internal mic of a MacBook so the quality is atrocious. We'll get better audio quality for the next one, promise!
Thanks for all the views so far! Just to clear some possible misconceptions, please read the description or this post for some errors:
Errata:
• Middle screenshot at 3:27 is actually from Prepre9, not JP Retail
• At 3:11, the button to use isn't actually Square, but Circle instead
• At 6:20, one of the slab numbers is wrong... you got 37 for the one in Phoenix Mountain (three dots above three lines) but the middle dot isn't raised higher on the slab, which means it's 18! Deeply sorry about this oversight.
• At 9:55, the video S̵̙̿͗̊̕L̸̝̽͑͘̚͜͜Ȧ̴̫̻B̸̟̣̒͗
The most random TH-cam recomendation, but if it's Tombi!, I click.
Love the way your videos are edited! 7:32 really got me lol
we do our best :D
Thanks for keeping tomba alive with this content ❤
little fun fact: in italian Tomba means grave, so they changed the name in Tombi :)
Same here in Sweden.
In all European versions the game was named Tombi! You can see it in the video at minute 2:51. In catalan Tomba also means grave or tomb.
@@Lenve spanish to, most romance languagesa
That's been driving me insane for years, glad we FINALLY got some insight into what the hell that damn slab outside the Dwarf Village was for. For years, I thought it was a socket, and I was supposed to plug something into it... This video is incredible, the editing is on point and very entertaining to watched. Loved the animation of Tomba carrying the TCRF wiki logo. :) Subbed & joined the Discord!
Man, you and me both! haha
My old-ass memory is telling me I found an item that could be slotted into the one at the Dwarf Village, I'm most likely just misremembering or confusing it with something else though.
It always bugged me what those slabs were!!!! Can't believe you guys did such an awesome video!! Well done 👏
This game brings back such amazing memories ❤️
I hope tomba gets a remake of a 3rd game, that game was my childhood.
We are 2 now :))) its the only game up to mow i feel like repeating again and again for years!
It's happening my friend!!!
We did it boys
There's a third game?
It's happening
Holy cow this went into more detail than I was expecting! Can’t believe I’m still learning more about one of my all time favourite games!
This was really well produced and I can tell you put a lot of effort into it. Thank you for posting! I love finding out more about Tomba
Honestly, an amazing video. I'm amazed at how Tomba Club has grown, and to think that when I first met this project/community there were only unboxings. The edition is amazing, the narration is just as good, and the whole video is amazing. Thanks for bringing back my favorite childhood game, I hope this continues and more people join in. So much love!
Thank you!!
Amazing video that just popped up on my front page. Always a huge fan of Tomba! I still hear the little "event complete" jingle in my head at least a couple times a month lmao.
0:19 high level of animation here
Well done, I would pay good money for a fully realized copy of Tomba today
2:11 that’s exactly how I was introduced to Tomba. I was like 4, my neighbor was like 10, he had a PS1 and a Demo Disc that had Tomba. I also remember one of the Demo Discs came with Tekken. And Pizza Hut used to give them 🥲 the memories
Thanks for this video, its super nice to see that by your work, others are also searching about this game, and to find that actually there is a group of Tomba fans.
Love the game, and will never forget it all my lifetime.
One of my real childhood feelings...
ngl I thought it was a mailbox in the haunted mansion and never questioned it.
First of all, I didn't even realize anyone was data mining this game. Just finding that people have learned as much as they have about such a great obscure game is blowing my mind. I knew about the top down town sprites hidden on the disc since I was able to see them when I used a gameshark to view the sprites way back when, but I didn't realize there was THIS MUCH cut content.
In regards to the slabs, I always wondered about that myself, but not too much. Mostly because there's so many weird things about this game that it's easy to overlook some of those details. I was about to say that the symbols had something to do with maybe visiting each slab in some kind of order, since the two dots and the single line seemed to indicate each symbol would maybe count as a section of that 5 line number or something. Granted, three of those lines were identical, but maybe they expected people to guess the order a little? But then you mentioned the Mayan number system and that makes a lot of sense too.
Of course, I'd imagine they cut it because it was the late 90s, who the hell was going to actually understand the Mayan number system back then? These days, sure, you can google anything. But back then, not so much. I'm sure if they'd had enough time to develop it, they could've made it like a weird teachable moment in-game, but it doesn't surprise me that it went unused.
Also, your production value is awesome. Love your sense of humor. And, obviously, the topic is close to my heart. So you got my attention!
There is another very big mistery in this game: the treasure of the leader of the pirates.For 2 times during the game you find a pirate that tell you that the leader of the pirates has entrusted him with the task of protecting his treasure,but he losts it and he asks you to find it.After that you find it for the second time,he thanks you and says he'll rush to return it to the leader of the pirates before losing it again.When you go in the room of the leader of the pirates in the haunted house (after freeing that area from the influence of the related evil pig) and you talk to him,at the end of the conversation he gives you his treasure telling to you that he doesn't need it anymore,then he go away and you'll never see him again...The mistery is: what the hell is that treasure and what is it for?!Because if you look in your inventory you can see this object (with an icon that has always made me think of a crystal ball on a bearing),but in the info box the game doesn't give you any specific information of it,and from that point until the end of the game there is absolutely no events where you can use it (as the icon reminded me of a crystal ball,i've also tryed to give it to the witch Mizuno and to the soothsayer in the Bacchus village,but nothing...)...And i ended the game multiple times finding and solving all the 130 events of the game...I've always missed something or simply that object was for an event that then they remove from the final version of the game (maybe when they decided to remove that event they were in too advanced stage of development to also remove that object and all the rest of the events that led to obtaining it and therefore they could only eliminate the event for which it was needed and that's it?)? 🤔
You take the bosses jewel and give it to the mermaid it’s part of a huge side quest to get the sacred fish
It’s like a paper clip trading thing. You start with one item and slowly trade up to the main prize it’s like a long drawn out side quest.
@@Andrew-Richardson Mmm... 🤔I remember that i catched the sacred fish,but I didn't use the pirate leader's jewel...Maybe there were 2 ways to obtain that object...?Even if it seems strange to me... 🤔
@@Andrew-RichardsonNope, the Boss Jewel have no use, just collecting.
Yea boss jewel event just kinda happens and is immediately cleared
El mejor video de tombi! / The best video of Tomba!
I thought the slab outside of dwarf village was a light switch and the slab at the haunted mansion was a letter box. Was always looking for letters on each play through 😆
The editing in this is slick. Great work! 👍
I would really prefer if you'd be quiet but yes you are correct.
This video is awesome!! So interesting to watch... deserves a lot more views
Wow very interesting.i have always thought I missed something with those stone carvings
Ngl I saw these slabs on multiple playthroughs but never thought much about them until seeing this 😮
Really interesting video! Your research really does add up quite a bit. It's really possible that there was going to be a bigger puzzle but they did what you said; cut it out and have the door lead to the treasure. Because for the amount of treasure you get, it seems like no effort for such a big reward. If they ever make a Tombi 3, it'd be nice if they revisited this!
i KNEW there was something wierd about those slabs...
Man... theres so many hidden secrets and stuff in Tomba...
Also... missed opportunity to use the "Return the Slab" clip from Courage the Cowardly Dog for a brief segway to Tomba! Remastered. :3c
There is a strange machine in the dwarf village, where the Elder Dwarf is. I don't remember that was used for any event. Do someone know what It is for?
It's a slot machine! We have some data to support these claims but that's a subject for another video. Slot machines were gonna play a larger role in the game but got scrapped.
Oh I see, thanks. I'll be waiting for the video.
@@TombaClub I always thought they were slot machines too! :D
I always thought they were like decorative letterboxes, with handles to pull down that you just couldn't interact with
I wish we had more to do in the Lumberjack Factory and area around it.
There was a point in time where we indeed had... But the entire area got scrapped so nothing remains.
Next video will focus on this!
@@TombaClub Yeah, it's pretty clear there was more planned. Just the way the warp points are distributed makes that clear.
But even the Masakari Jungle feels underused, and there's at least a non-trivial amount of content there.
Looking forward to the next vid.
Imagine after all this research and work, one if the developers of tomba says that it was gonna be a puzzle but they scrapped it.
Seria uma tremenda de sacanagem.
Well, it literally happened (look for @Phonotical comment). Better yet, all that @TombaClub had to say in response was _"what"_
Thanks for doing tomba content. Very well done
Just watched this video again....i cant wait for more tomba club content
i can finally die in peace
My guess is that you could pick up the slabs once the event is triggered and then place them on a room in order to solve a math puzzle that unlocks a room or area. That's the only logical conclusion that i can come up with.
In fact, in 8:50 you can see the icon showcases what it looks to be tiles with two symbols one next to another, which could indeed be related to the slab event.
Really amazing that Tomba after 25 years later, has these amazing secrets, unsolved.
Hope you guys to find the answers one day.
The video is very cool, will be awesome to ask directly to some developer, the only ones that know the truth.
Who knows, with a new Limited Run release of the game maybe things are finally happening and we'll eventually get a Definitive Version with most of the cut content restored. I could see Night Dive doing a good job remastering Tombi.
I wish :C
You are doing the lord’s work, and our lord is Tomba!
For a moment, I thought this video was a meme with how long the intro lasted :')
Finalmente um canal bom! Desde pequena me perguntando o que era essas pedras!
Learn English please!
Interesting video, always wondered what the slabs were about. The announcer has a Finnish/Swedish accent?
finnish yeah
Return the slab... or suffer Tomba 3's curse...
I always wonder what tomb stones were designed for.
This is the kind of content I need ty!
Wonderful video! I love Tomba & every mystery around its decelopment... I wonder, is there any chance for you to get contact of any whopee camp producer/developer? So he or she can "bring some light" on what was ment to be when they created these Doodle rocks and all of the unused items and places? It would be really cool tp know. Thanks!
Tokuro Fujiwara is working under as a freelancer under the WhoopeeCamp company again, although it's very hard to get into contact with him.
As i remember there was one place i could not go to on the map. It was a village that you could see on the map but could not activate
You guys are the best!
I wonder if the underground treasure assets was really the final black pig boss arena and its stone door.
That's an excellent point!
what a very good video! i have to say!
6:20 , why 37? Is 18, no?
that was an honest mistake - we did mention it in the description but nobody reads that lol
Can you pls explore the pirate treasure side quest? It was resolved so quickly after finding the bag of the forgetful thief. Not to mention there's that laughing pirate who does nothing!
Hmm yeah I suppose we could dive into that. There are a lot of unused things to tell about the thieves. The laughing one in particular has a story to tell ;)
Tomb i/a
So why exactly didn't this really awesome game sell well??
I think it comes down to marketing.
the editing on this video is insane, you honestly want a little nicer mic. at least some denoising software
The audio of this was heavily edited to be the nicest possible to the ear, but yeah the original mic and it's settings were dogshit and the narrator didn't really know what the was doing lol
remake ya!!!!
Sí
Tomba 3 will never happen. 😭
@@Honey_Bonnie not with that attitude!
@@AtanoKSi I am realistic. The game didn't sell well.
@@Honey_Bonnie That was a ton of years ago and doesn't have anything to do with the present, nothing worked the same way it does now
fans of tomba are all arround of the globe, so a remake and follow up is perfectly possible if the hype is big enough
What i'm trynna say is: we already have the no, stop being captain obvious and join the party
Glad to know dude
nice editing, shame about the mic quality
Wish some publisher would buy the IP from whoever owns it. And remaster both games, and put them on all systems
The voiceover has to be Finnish? Onko aika mennä Torille? 🇫🇮
Mistä vitusta arvasit :DDD no mut joo torille ebin
@@TombaClub HUIKEETA! Kuulin sieltä sellaisen pienen Suomalaisen mikä se on... Intonaation? Lausuntatavan kuitenkin 😂
Juuri hetki ennen tämän videon katselua läpäisin Special Editionin. Ja täytyy kyllä myöntää että ei olisi ilman läpipeluuviedeota onnistunut. Hiuskasen on kryptinen peli 😱
@@JussiValtanen no näinhän se on. Mut hei subaa meiän kanavalle ja tsekkaa meidän uudet huikeet tutkimukset
Might want to get a muffler for the mic. Everytime you spoke the sound had an awful hissing in the background. Neat vid though
Unfortunately the only microphone we had at the time was an internal mic of a MacBook so the quality is atrocious.
We'll get better audio quality for the next one, promise!
Mhh... morse??...
:3
What the pliping heck is tomba
@@cubirk say sike
@@TombaClub sike (^o^)/
good job guys! i always think that symbols are mayan ones