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This is a collection of various resources around the internet - feel free to suggest more in the replies.

• Modding Tools/Community Sites
  • LEGO Island Rebuilder - A launcher for LEGO Island providing multiple fixes, features, and improvements.
  • libweaver - A comprehensive SI file editing tool (for both extraction/repacking) currently being developed by me.
  • lierip - Formerly the most reliable SI extractor, however its functionality has been superseded by libweaver.
  • WDBRipper - Currently the only tool somewhat capable of extracting assets from WORLD.WDB (e.g. the model data for the island).
  • LEGO Island Wiki - A counterpart to this forum and work-in-progress documentation of all aspects of the game.
  • LEGO Island Video Game Flashback - A fansite containing a lot of interesting information, by le717, one of the earliest modding contributors to LEGO Island.
• Development Materials/Unused Assets
  • Behind the Scenes of Adventures on LEGO® Island - A promotional video created some time during development showcasing its progress. Notably contains a completely different racetrack and shows that most developers used the mouse controls rather than the keyboard, potentially explaining how the turn speed bug wasn't caught until too late.
  • Leaked 1996 source code - An early partial backup of the game's source. Unfortunately, it's incomplete; all of the code for the underlying OMNI engine is missing, so most of the source cannot be recompiled as-is. Some tools and builds are available though.
  • Leaked beta 9.0 - The final beta build compiled around 1 month before the 1.0 release (and 2 months before the more common 1.1 release). Plays largely the same, but contains several minor differences, as well as a changelog documenting various changes over the various beta releases.
  • LEGO Demos - A collection of demos for LEGO games, including a Japanese demo of LEGO Island.
  • The Cutting Room Floor - A good collection of assets included the retail release that never get used.
  • Project Island High Quality Music / A Better Organized Playlist - A re-digitization of most tracks from the LEGO Island soundtrack by its main composer Lorin Nelson.
• Interviews
  • Wes Jenkins (archive) - Creative Director / Designer / Writer / Co-Creator
  • Dennis Goodrow - Director of Development / Lead Programmer / Co-Creator (2018)
  • Brandon Davis (archive) - Animator

Hey, this is a nice collection of resources! I might also recommend linking Brickstobytes, which is the source of stuff like that Behind the Scenes video that leaked a long time ago: https://brickstobytes.org/

It's worth noting this website only came out a few months ago. Documents and such were scanned for ages, but release was held off for a long time. Not sure if anything there will be interesting technically, but it should at least provide fans of the game some neat stuff to look at.

I have a feeling that the leaked source code will come in handy later on in the development of this project.

I looked at OMNI Demo and realized that it's probably an older version of ISLE.EXE
In fact, there's a DLL that aligns with that assumption (kinda)
"LEGOOMNI1D.DLL" - probably an older version of LEGO1, might be easier to decompile.

It's certainly useful as a reference, but so much of the code is missing (I estimate more than half), and what is there is over a year prior to the final release (i.e. it's missing a whole year's worth of work/development), so it's probably not as useful as might be expected. But having it is definitely better than going in completely blind.