The GameCube's GPU does color calculations with 10-bit integers, so numbers can be in the range 0..1023. They get clamped to 0..255 for display, but that's not uncommon... plus, lighting is multiplicative, not subtractive, so an unlit Stu would just be black since [model color] * 0 = 0 = black.

gurl same

Yeah, I think toggling writes to the buffers was a feature they didn't find useful enough to update the material loader for.

Hard to see here, but Tetra and Zelda use the same system as Link.

Here's some bonus images: these show the position of the camera, over time, for the cut-scene that plays during The Wind Waker's title sequence. To get these, I ran the cut-scene in my engine and dumped each point in the camera's position to a Wavefront OBJ file as it played out.

Same tbh. I posted some stuff way back when but I need to start posting more. I've got a couple things to talk about I guess

Aaaand fixed.

The game even has a "normal" version of him holding his arms out, which is shown later: