Archive-y thing for Neopets the Darkest Faerie

here to show neat things from a game i love dearly. if there's something particular you'd like to see, requests are open! main: snowflakeb0ttles

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DIRECTORY MASTERPOST

this will be pinned and i'll update it every time i make a post so stuff is easier to navigate and so it's easier to tell what i've posted before and what i haven't :^)

BOOKS: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

MODELS: sophie, tor, roberta, hubert, drackonacks, bogberries + plague serpent, harris + dark/tainted harris

GLITCHES: invisible drackonack, clipping drackonack, spinning + clipping spyders, mountain passage not loading

SHENANIGANS: marion+primrose quest out of order

MISC: how to extract models

CUT/CHANGED CONTENT: lightwater forest

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just a neat thing that i don't think i've paid attention to before! whether or not you've freed bogshot beforehand, you're still able to complete the sidequest from marion in brightvale to check up on her sister there, and she'll always reply that things are going well even pre-plague serpent. adds a little unintentional foreshadowing lmao

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0h my gosh, I have never followed someone so fast. You are doing amazing work here ❤️

i'm glad you think so :^D

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INCREDIBLY bad quality videos of spyder nonsense in the mountain passage <3 something something spyder ball oc

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not gonna make a new post for this but my baby sister was playing earlier and i heard her go "oh my god where am i" so i looked at the tv and she completely fell out of the map lmao

she managed to walk back into it and then i asked her to show me how she fell out and so she walks into the mountain passage and The Entire Thing was unloaded and missing until she paused and unpaused (it took like 4 minutes to load). god bless

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INCREDIBLY bad quality videos of spyder nonsense in the mountain passage <3 something something spyder ball oc

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happy 3am! here are some harrises :^)

model viewer by monster860!

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probably more of a well known thing at this point as it's pretty easy to tell from the game manual, but illusen's glade was originally called lightwater forest ! (and the negg shop icon used to be a bit different, more of an egg less of a negg but thats besides the point lmao)

i didn't think this was mentioned in game anywhere but turns out you can actually buy a map from gord where he mentions the name lightwater, though the map isn't even for illusen's glade (instead the treasure is near where you first meet prince tourin to start the golden rose questline)

interesting that the name stuck so long in order to get put into the manual (though it's also referred to as the correct name on an earlier page) and evidently into the game to some degree to still be leftover in the final product. i wonder at what point they decided to change it.

i think it's neat though !

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bogberries + plague serpent!

i think its really funny how long the serpent is considering how much of it you actually see during the boss fight and the few short scenes its in. you'd think the bottom half of it that doesn't really get shown would just be unmodeled as is usually the case with these things but nope! all there baby

model viewer by monster860 !

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@neo-punks

ofc! i dont fully know how it would be done for other games (i assume its a case by case thing, no idea honestly) but for this one i use this tool here: https://monster860.github.io/ntdf-tools/gamefile_reader.html which requires the gamefile.dat file off of the ps2 disc

if you have a rom of the game (.iso, disc image file, you can probably get it off any emulation site that has ps2 games) that works as well, you just have to mount it to see the files

which would give you these

and then all you gotta do from there is open the gamefile.dat file into the tool and hit load :^)

pretty much every file in the game is there, models, textures, etc, theres even the music and sound effects which i find pretty neat !

and of course theres also an option for the models to save them if you want which is how i open them in blender !

ofc i take no credit for the tool at all (i can only thank monster860 for it!), i wouldnt even know where to begin on making something like that or understanding how it works beyond the bare minimum lol

hope this helps tho!

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UPDATE on how to do this with the new tool as well since it's a bit different (though in comparison much easier)

that one can be found here: https://monster860.github.io/ntdf-editor/

instead of having to mount the game and specifically use the gamefile.dat file, you just have to open up the .iso itself and thats pretty much it

though once that's done and you've got a bunch of this

you have to actually click on the dropdown menus and click on the stuff inside to actually view anything

(that seems self explanatory but i didn't realize it at first and thought the whole thing was broken for me lmao) BUT YEAH that's it really 🫡 go forth my psionic warriors

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& then a weird guy appear........

found another little freak (and also figured out how to make my ps2 capture the correct aspect ratio in obs whoops)

i've always been scared of these guys and the fact that they're able to glitch out so often has never helped that LMAO

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drackonack and giant drackonack models! separated by a sleepy boy.

they look incredibly similar upon first glance to the point where i thought they might even be the exact same (just one bigger of course) but i do actually think the giant ones have some minor tweaks in comparison. i'll have to check them more in blender sometime to be totally sure.

model viewer by monster860! still using the old version for some stuff as i still have some things saved from there lol

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I came across your blog while searching for more cut content and model work of The Darkest Faerie and I just want to say I love your blog!! I love that there's also someone out there who loves looking into everything in this game. I read that you might look deeper into the cut maps and I would LOVE to see that if you ever do that! The unused fyora tower and ancient castle spires maps would be amazing to be studied in more detail. Anyways, thank you so much and looking forward to your posts!! :)

yeah!! i've loved this game like crazy ever since i first played it around 9-10 and so much of it is really just fascinating to me as someone who eventually wants to get into game making/design. all the glitches and cut maps/enemies and weird little quirks are always so neat to me :^)

i do definitely want to look at the ancient castle spires eventually (likely whenever i get to that point (treasure vault) in my rom save) so i can get a high quality recording of it all, same with the fyora's tower map however with that i'm pretttty sure you need to modify save files in order to get to it ? so i might have to learn how to do all that first lmao

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invisible drackonack! started up a new playthrough on my actual copy of the game (mostly to see differences between it + the rom i've been using) and came across this guy.

he did reappear after walking into meridell and back again, though despite having the hunting drackonacks quest active, he didn't drop any teeth.

i've only ever had this specific thing happen once before but with a giant drackonack in the cave where you can get a red negg, but i've definitely heard of it happening often with the minion enemies as well (especially in the oubliette). i love how broken this game is <3

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BOOKS! part 4. been a little bit since the last one lol

definitely seeing more repeats this time around

part 1, part 2, part 3 (might just make a pinned masterpost of these + everything else i've posted from now on to make this a bit easier)

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omg how serendipitous I just finished a replay of the darkest faerie..!! would love to see u cover some of the cut content

yes yes yes! i loveee the cut content in this game its so very interesting to me (as well as the millions of glitches which ill make another separate post for lol)

i'll definitely follow this up with some posts about cut maps/areas eventually (i wanna get my own footage/pictures of the ancient castle spires in particular, even though i know theres videos already out there (monster860 really on top of everything lmao))

not particularly "cut" content but i'd also like to make a post about postmaster tilbar as well, the whole situation with him is fascinating to me

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BOOKS! part 3

so far only two repeats? just the juppie book and the knights of meridell one

part 1, part 2

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BOOKS! part 2 yayyy

part 1, part 3