Archive for the ‘gameboy advance’ Category

Monster Hunter (not related with Capcom’s Monster Hunter) was an action game that was in development by Contraband Entertainment for the GameBoy Advance. As we can read from the original press-release:

In Monster Hunter, you are the one-eyed hero who travels to the five towers of evil. Your mission as the Monster Hunter is to destroy [...]

Mario Golf: Advance Tour is an RPG-styled sport game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2004. The game is the sequel to the Game Boy Color version of Mario Golf. [Info from Wikipedia]
Robert Seddon has recorded an interesting video about some of the debug rooms and [...]

In 2003 Torus Games created a Voxel Engine to develope a new GBA racing game know as Moto X, but the project was later cancelled.
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A  prototype for a Turok FPS, based on the N64 version, was in development for the GameBoy Advance, but in the end this version was cancelled and the released Turok: Evolution for the GBA was instead a side-scrolling game. This early proto was leaked in february 2009 thanks to Hidden Palace! In this  playable demo [...]

PoketMechs was a prototype for a side scrolling action game that was in development at Puppybomb Games in 2004, but sadly the project was cancelled, maybe because they did not find a publisher interested in the game.
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From 2004 to 2007 DHGames were working on a GBA racing game similar to Excitebike, but sadly their publisher changed its mind later and the project was never released to the market, even if it was finished. The game was later reworked and it’s now coming out for the Nintendo DS. A rom of the [...]

The original Tyrian was a shoot ‘em up developed for the PC by Eclipse Productions (later named World Tree Games) and published in 1995 by Epic MegaGames. A version of Tyrian 2000 was in development for the Game Boy Advance, but after the then publisher Symmetry Entertainment had closed business, the European publisher Stealth Productions, [...]

DeltaAdvance was a 3D Engine created by Talos Interactive for the Game Boy Advance. A game know as “Destiny” was going to be developed with this engine, but sadly it seems that they never found a publisher interested in their tech.
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In Crash for the Gameboy Advance, a series of early screenshots show us some differences, like the Life Crate Icon, a weird character sprite, much thinner waterfalls, a removed Jet-Sub, different Temple Background and some unseen levels, not used in the final game. For more informations check the Crash Mania archive! Thanks a lot to [...]

Robert Seddon has linked us to an interesting topic in the Golden Sun Hacking Community Forum, in which they have found a lot of unused  items, sprites and Psynergy spells that were still hidden in the Golden Sun: The Lost Age code! All of these can not be obtained in the final game without hacking. Betweem [...]

The Phantom was an action game that was in development in 2003 at 7th Sense studios: even if the game was finished, the original publisher went bankrupt and there were some problems with the copyrights so it was never released.
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Mandrake was an action adventure / RPG game that was in development in 2003 at 7th Sense studios: even if the game was finished, the original publisher went bankrupt and there were some problems with the copyrights so it was never released.
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In the Wario Land 4 code a beta logo was found by Racoon Sam and Linkin800 from the JUL Forum found some more unused tiles and a beta test level! As Linkin wrote in his topic, the test level is “surprisingly similar to the Metriod Fusion one, but thats because MF was built off of [...]

In the Youtube Channel of GamesThatWerent we can see a video from Sanxion, a cancelled shoot ‘em up that was in development in 2001 by Thalamus Interactive for the GameBoy Advance. The original Sanxion was a Commodore 64 game released in 1986 and this GBA remake was going to have updated graphics and new features, [...]

Recently a prototype of Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones has been found. It is a very early version of the Sacred Stones and contains many differences. This pre-alpha ROM uses many things from the previous game as placeholder; even the title and menus from the Blazing Sword are still there. The game opens up with a [...]

Today Luc Bernard announced Eternity’s Child 2: Retro Child for Wiiware. This sequel won’t use the same engine we saw in the first episode (that will be published soon); instead, it will be like a GBA/SNES game, because it was planned to be realeased on Nintendo’s old handled console. Wiiware-World has a video of the [...]

Golden Sun is the first installment of a series of RPG games developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo. It was released in November 2001 for the GBA, with a sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, in 2003.
Golden Sun underwent a development cycle of between twelve and eighteen months by Camelot, which is [...]

Early screens from the game show different characters and graphic style.
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Thanks to Serenes Forest we can read about a list of differences that were found in the prototype version of Fire Emblem 7, a beta that was leaked online sometime ago. Major differences are in the colors of the CGs, options, sprites, animations, extra shops and items. The 2 betas can be download at the

Battletoads is a video game by Rare Ltd. created to rival the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. The first game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991 and was followed up with sequels released over the ensuing years for GameBoy, SNES, Megadrive / Genesis and Arcade. [Info from Wikipedia] A proto for a [...]

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When you enter Starbeans Cafe and drink a new drink, E. Gadd comes and different things happen depending on what you take. But in the beta version, other characters would have come out, to tell you things depending on your choose and give you some gifts. Here are the removed dialogs:

If you search in the codes of Ruby & Sapphire, you can find music from Generation 2 (Gold, Silver, Crystal). Known pieces include:

BGM from Route 38 & 39
BGM from Pokemon Communication Center
BGM from Generation 2 Saffron City
BGM from Crystal’s legendary beasts battles
Team Rocket’s Theme

Is unknown why these music tracks were put in it. Maybe it [...]

Mother 3 is the latest (and some say last) installment in the Earthbound saga. Released 12 years after the previous game in the series, Earthbound, it offers a radically different story and presentation than the other games it shares its name with, all the while retaining the same combat system and quirky sense of humor.
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A Shantae sequel was planned for the Game Boy Advance, and screens resembled a port with updated graphics. However, all news of the game stopped and nothing became of it. It is assumed to have been cancelled. As with the original game, Shantae Advance was [...]

Donkey Kong Plus is the name of an unreleased game demo developed by Nintendo as a demonstration at E3 2002. Nintendo had planned for the game to be an extension of the Donkey Kong Game Boy game. The player would have the ability to design and create levels on the GameCube, [...]

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Cendamos was able to find some interesting hidden stuff in the memory of this game. Items such as the Giant Hammer, Mega Crush, Enemy Set and Power Wrist were removed from the final game. Not much is known about these items, other than the Power Wrist was probably similar to the one in Wind Waker, [...]

When it was first shown, Mario Kart for the Gameboy Advance looked a bit different than the final version. If you take a look a these beta images, the characters had bigger heads and smaller karts. Also it seems that the tracks had some differences in the details and in the course design, as we [...]

La storia dello sviluppo di Diddy Kong Pilot è piena di controversie, legate alla separazione tra Nintendo e Rareware. Presentato nel 2001, Diddy Kong Pilot doveva essere uno spin-off del classico per Nintendo 64, Diddy Kong Racing uscito quattro anni prima, ma a differenza dell’ originale l’ unico veicolo a nostra disposizione sarebbe stato l’aeroplano [...]

 
GB Music was a software for the Game Boy Advance, shown to the public at the Tokyo Game Show in 2001. By using the A and B buttons in combination with the D-pad players could push some serious tunage out of the GBA system. The game was to come packaged with a battery-powered Pocket Speaker [...]

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The game was originally revealed as Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers. It featured an isometric gameplay grid and Donkey Kong-themed levels and modes. The isometric view was scrapped because it was thought to be too awkward to see where puzzle pieces near the back of the board were. The game itself received [...]

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Gods was originally released some 11 years ago on numerous formats. Our lasting memory of it has little to do with the game itself, just that the main character walked in a very stompy manner. Originally developed by The Bitmap Brothers, handheld-loving Crawfish was coding the Game Boy Advance title. It [...]

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Pining for a Game Boy Advance version of Command and Conquer? There was an upcoming RTS game, cheekily titled Command and Destroy Advance, but it was cancelled. We say cheekily titled, as the game looked rather similar to Westwood’s classic Command and Conquer. Inspiration or plagarism? The game took place in 2018, [...]

Rick Dangerous advance was cancelled because Spoutnick Team received a mail announcing that the copyrights holders of “Rick Dangerous” doesn’t want to sell their license for “internal reasons”. So the team cannot legally continue to work on a game which is not their property and they decided to stop developing a [...]

Chronos Twins is an action-adventure released for the DS in 2007. The game show a different perspective on time travel than most games. Instead of revisiting an area in two different times, both screens show the same setting during two eras as gamers explore the land with a present-day hero. Chronos [...]

Mythri was an upcoming American-developed, Japanese-style RPG for the Game Boy Advance. Originally for the Game Boy Color, development switched gears after the GBA was released. The game has been in development by Team XKalibur since around 2000. Message from Keith Martineau, Co-Owner of Team XKalibur: “Mythri was officially [...]

Protodude has made us to notice about a rare beta video of MegaMan Battle Network 1 from the Tokyo Game Show 2000, in the Youtube channel of SuperMega233. There’s quite a bit of superficial differences between this build and the final such as:

Odd PET icon, “jumps” when Netto receives mail/call.
Unused “matrix” scrolling background in battles
Unused [...]

Also known as Mega Man Mania and Rock Man Mania, the portable version of this GBA Anniversary Collection, unlike the home console versions (PS2, Xbox and GC), was to include only the first five episodes of the saga emerged for Game Boy . These include Mega Man in Dr. Wily’s Revenge, Mega Man II, Mega [...]

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Wizards è un gioco basato su Warlocked, uno strategico in tempo reale molto apprezzato per GameBoy Color. Vestiti i panni di un Arcimago, il compito del giocatore era quello di liberare la magica terra di Talismania, dalla malvagia strega Kun-Mara.
Il sistema di controllo era adattato ai limiti del GBA: muovendo il cursore con il [...]

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Differences:

Wynaut is green instead of blue Shroomish has a different sprite

more evil looking Sharpedo and different HP font hmm weird tornado

female sign should be red

different layout of trees different fisher bottom

the mart has a red roof and the sign [...]

 
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Nel 2004 cessava definitivamente di esistere Delphine, celebre software house francese che agli inizi degli anni 90 aveva regalato agli appassionati due adventure di gran classe come Another World e Flashback. Rimasero cosi non completati alcuni progetti in fase di sviluppo, tra i quali spiccava naturalmente Flashback Legends, una [...]

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La compagnia Europea AGB Games è conosciuto nell’ambiente delle console per i kit di sviluppo ideati fino ad oggi. I programmatori di questa software house infatti lavorarono al progetto di un motore grafico per GBA, conosciuto come C2 Engine WFR (Wall/Floor/ceiling Render). Fare girare su GBA un prototipo di Quake sembrava essere una mossa vincente.
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Il primo nome che viene mente guardando Jet Riders è Waverace. Dai colori ai personaggi, fino allo spirito stesso del gioco, lo stile tipicamente Nintendaro di Jet Riders colpisce senza ombra di dubbio! La modalità primcipale di gioco è la “Sfida”, in cui si sarebbero dovute fare delle gare, come un percorso a boe, completare [...]

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