Archive for the ‘nintendo DS’ Category
Mega Man Battle Network 5, known as Battle Network Rockman EXE 5 in Japan, is a Strategy RPG developed by Capcom Production Studio 2 for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. MBN5 for the DS features a 3D Megaman on the bottom screen. For most of the game, it sits there idly. However, by [...]
Gauntlet [DS - Cancelled]
27 Sep 2011Gauntlet DS is the cancelled chapter of the popular hack and slash series, that was in development at Backbone Entertainment and it would have been published by Eidos Interactive / Midway Games. The game should have been released in Ocotober 2008, but after its initial announcement, the project vanished from their release list. There’s not [...]
Kirby Squeak Squad [DS - Beta / Unused]
8 Aug 2011Kirby: Squeak Squad, known in Europe as Kirby: Mouse Attack and in Japan as Kirby of the Stars: Calling on the Dorotche Gang is a platform game developed by Flagship and Natsume and published in 2006 / 2007 by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo DS. Mariosegafreak noticed a page of unused sprites on [...]
Nintendo DS Debug Cartridge
6 Jul 2011Sometime ago a Nintendo DS debug cartridge was sold on eBay and a couple of weeks ago the rom of that cart was shared and preserved online (NINTENDO DS NTR DEBUG) thanks to NintendyFan from the GBAtemp Form. There is some interesting stuff that we can see in this DS debug cart, such as weird [...]
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a Capcom adventure game following the story of new defense attorney Phoenix Wright, who takes on many murder trials and proves his clients to be not guilty. Found on the official Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney site, Capcom posted beta screenshots before the game was released. Two of those screenshots contain [...]
Ni no Kuni [DS - Beta]
11 Jan 2011Ni no Kuni is a RPG developed by Level-5 in collaboration with Studio Ghibli, released for the DS in december 2010. As we can read in Wikipedia, Ni no Kuni was first announced in the Japanese publication Famitsu in September 2008, while the development on the animation aspects of the game had begun in July [...]
How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a cancelled “horror” action game that was in development by Santa Cruz Games for the Nintendo DS and PC. As we can read on Gamasutra, players would have took the role of a little girl named Joanne, armed with a chainsaw to take down zombies that invaded her [...]
ToeJam & Earl 4 [DS - Cancelled]
9 Dec 2010A new game in the ToeJam & Earl series was planned for the Nintendo DS, but later cancelled for the lack of interest from publishers. The original ToeJam & Earl is a crazy action game developed by Johnson Voorsanger Productions and published by Sega for the Mega Drive / Genesis in 1991. The story centers [...]
Chalice [DS - Cancelled]
19 Nov 2010Chalice is a cancelled shoot ‘em up that was in development in 2008 for the Nintendo DS by Santa Cruz Games. The team created a playable prototype, but it seems that they were not able to find a publisher interested in this project, so it had to be canned. Chalice had a graphic style that [...]
Before Pokemon Heart Gold & Soul Silver were released, there were beta pictures from CoroCoro magazine that showed Silver’s, Chikorita’s, Pikachu’s and Pikachu-colored Pichu’s beta sprites. These were changed later on. There is also a beta back sprite of Ethan. His hair is slightly different and there is a symbol on his hat. Beta screenshots [...]
Fantasy Life [DS - Unreleased / Beta]
27 Oct 2010Fantasy Life is a Quest-based RPG / Adventure that was in development by Level 5 and Brownie Brown, originally for the Nintendo DS. The game had a nice 2D graphic style that was much similar to the one seen in Mother 3, but then Level 5 cancelled Fantasy Lyfe for the DS and decided to [...]
Elevator Action [DS - Cancelled]
9 Jun 2010Elevator Action, produced by Taito, was an arcade game from the 1980s. While never becoming as famous as other games of the time, such as Pac-Man, Galaga or Space Invaders, it became a cult classic, often remembered for its espionage themes. Unfortunately, the franchise never really went anywhere. In 1994, an arcade sequel, Elevator Action [...]
Reel Fishing: Life & Nature [DS - Cancelled]
1 Jun 2010Reel Fishing: Life & Nature is a cancelled fishing simulation that was developed by Marvelous for the DS. Controls aside, the game was probably going to be identical to the released PSP version. Here is the official fact sheet of RF: Reel Fishing: Life and Nature is a return to nature fishing! Whether you’re a [...]
Mario vs Donkey Kong 2 [DS - Beta]
24 Mar 2010Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis is a Puzzle Game developed by NST as a sequel to the GBA MvsDK, a follow up to the Game Boy Donkey Kong game. A playable beta demo of MvsDk2 was available at various gaming conventions, from where it was saved on the DS and then [...]
Sonic Rush [DS - Beta / Unused Stuff]
27 Jan 2010Sonic Rush is a platform game developed by Sonic Team and Dimps, published in 2005 for the Nintendo DS. Various screenshots from pre-release versions of the game show slightly different areas, different HUD, slightly different gameplay and the first screenshot of Blaze the Cat shows a Sonic life icon while, in the final version, Blaze has her own life [...]
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is the second Zelda game for the DS, developed by Nintendo EAD and published in december 2009. The game was originally announced at the GDC in March 2009, so in the first screens and video released there are not too many differences, but Kirby64 was able to notice some [...]
Hachi Koi [DS - Cancelled]
11 Jan 2010Hachi Koi is a cancelled “love simulator” that was in development by Electronic Arts for the DS in the Japanese market. The game was announced in 2008, but in december 2009 Famitsu reported that the project will never be released. From Adria Sang’s blog we can read more about Hachi Koi’s “plot” Players learn from [...]
CCTV [DS/Wii - Unreleased]
9 Nov 2009CCTV is a cancelled adventure game that was in development at Nikitova Games, designed by Jon Hare, former member of Sensible Software. The concept of the game is that players work as a security operator in charge of using cameras to find criminals and resolve various problems. While you look at different camera feeds, you [...]
Motocross Challenge [DS - Cancelled?]
7 Nov 2009Motocross Challenge is a racing game somehow similar to Excitebike that was in development by DHG Games for the Nintendo DS. The project originally started as a Gameboy Advance game, but after Motocross Challenge GBA was cancelled, it evolved into a DS game that should have been released in 2009. After some months the official [...]
Mario & Luigi RPG 3 [DS - Beta & Unused Stuff]
20 Oct 2009Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, released in Japan as Mario & Luigi RPG 3, is a RPG released for the Nintendo DS in 2009. Unreachable normally, thanks to Waluigiuseppe and whoever made the moonjump code, we see some of the normally bowser-only enemies have some leftover attack patterns for the bros. as well. Quite [...]
Henry Hatsworth [DS - Beta & Concept]
25 Sep 2009Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure is a Nintendo DS action-adventure and puzzle game created by Kyle Gray, who founded the “Experimental Gameplay Project” with Kyle Gabler, the creator of World of Goo. Gray led a seven-man team at EA Tiburon to develop the game. While the game is an action-platformer on the top screen, [...]
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is an action RPG developed and published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS with assistance from Hand. Granville has created a topic in our forum with an interesting series of beta screenshots and early videos that show various differences from the final version. This footage is the earliest known footage [...]
Ninja Jajamaru-Kun [DS - Cancelled]
5 Jun 2009Ninja Jajamaru-Kun: Pen wa Ken Yorimo Kyoushidegozaru was going to be a DS remake of the original action game with the same name that was released in Japan in 1985 by Jaleco for the Famicom (NES). It seems that something went wrong during the development of the DS remake and it was cancelled as reported [...]
Aliens: Colonial Marines [DS - Cancelled]
29 May 2009Aliens: Colonial Marines is a side scrolling action game (similar to Contra / Metal Slug) that was in development by WayForward Technologies for the Nintendo DS, but the project was later cancelled along with all the other Aliens games that were going to be published by SEGA (a FPS and an RPG for the Xbox [...]
Granville has wrote an interesting topic in the U64 Forum, in which he showed us some misterious textures that seems to have been found by The Spriters Resource in the Megaman Starforce code. In these textures we can recognize various 3D models from the Megaman Battle Network series! The problem is that there was no [...]
Phantasy Star Zero [DS - Beta / Concept]
8 Jan 2009PS0 is the new chapter in the Phantasy Star Online series of games, that was released for the Nintendo DS the 25 december 2008 (Japanese version). When SEGA started to work on the game, various prototypes and different character designs were tried before to choose the final one. In the earliest stage of development, they [...]
This game’s Retro Grand Prix was going to include a few more tracks, such as Mario Circuit from Mario Kart: Double Dash (Dismantled for the new Mario Circuit.), Nokonoko Course, and Mario Kart: Double Dash’s Block City battle area. There was also an mysterious “Dokan Course” stage and Moo Moo Farm music, as well as [...]
Yoshi’s Island 2 [DS - Beta]
6 Dec 2008Yoshi’s Island DS (which was initially referred to as Yoshi’s Island 2) was originally going to be compatible with Nintendo Wi-Fi. Also, one early screenshot showcasing a battle with Big Guy the Stilted seems to suggest that Big Guy was once going to be organic, as he had no patches on him in that picture [...]
Pokemon Platinum [DS - Beta / Unused Stuff]
4 Dec 2008When Pokèmon Platinum was announced, lots of scans and screens came out on the net and Nintendo also put online a website about the game, with a screen of the battle vs. Giratina Origin. Howerer, the Giratina Origin sprite that we see in this screen is not the same one as the final version. Beta [...]
World Reborn Unification [DS - Cancelled]
19 Nov 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Moonlight Fables [DS - Cancelled]
30 Oct 2008Moonlight Fables is a cancelled side-scrolling action-adventure game, exclusively for the DS, that was slated for release in 2005 by Majesco. Designed by Cyber Philharmonic Video Game Design, the game was going to feature touch-screen input, use of the DS’s two screens and “multiplayer network play” (according to official publicity). Whether this refers to online [...]
Chibi Robo: Park Patrol [DS - Beta]
19 Oct 2008Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol is the DS sequel of the original Chibi-Robo game for the Nintendo GameCube. In the beta version, the HUD was changed at least 2 times before it became like the final one. Beta 01: Beta 02: Final: Imho the 2 beta version of the HUD was the best one, or at least [...]
Animal Crossing: Wild World [DS - Beta]
15 Oct 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Kirby Super Star Ultra [DS - Beta]
9 Oct 2008Thanks to a post in our forum, Granville has made us notice about a couple of interesting differences between an early build of Kirby Super Star Ultra and the final version of the game. In the first comparison, the ground is a lot different. It’s blue and very rocky-looking in the early footage, but grassy [...]
Soul Bubbles [DS - Proto/Beta/Concept]
8 Aug 2008If you mix LocoRoco, Kirby’s Canvas Course and Lost Wind, the result is one of the most clever games that you can play on your DS: Soul Bubbles. I have recently finished and enjoyed this little gem (PAL version) and was so pleased by its style that I have decided to took my time to [...]
Shantae 2006 [DS - Cancelled]
24 Jul 2008The original Shantae is a platform game created by Matt Bozon for the Game Boy Color. It was produced by WayForward Technologies and distributed by Capcom. Various Shantae sequels were planned for the GBA, GameCube and the DS, but never released. In the first Shantae Club newsletter (May 2008), Wayforward revealed some interesting infos about [...]
Lunar Knights [DS - Beta / Concept]
20 Jul 2008Lunar Knights, known in Japan as “Bokura no Taiyō: Django & Sabata” and abbreviated Boktai DS, is the fourth title in the Boktai series of games developed by Kojima Productions. The ultimate goal in Lunar Knights is to destroy a number of boss vampire enemies, in which the basic mission is to defeat each of [...]
Mario Party [DS - Beta]
18 Jun 2008Wiggler’s Garden was going to be called Petey’s Greenhouse and the original story was about a Piranha Plant that was making a mess in Wiggler’s Garden. Petey Piranha was n betrayed by a member of Petey’s army and was now making a mess in his greenhouse. Edit
Racing Gears 2 [GBA/DS - Cancelled]
14 Jun 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Dragon Quest 9 (IX) [DS - Beta / Debug]
15 May 2008When it was first announced, Dragon Quest 9 was meant to have real-time action battles, but later (maybe for the critics of die-hard fans of the saga), SquarEnix decided to retain the traditional turn-based system. It’s possible that there are even more differences in these old screens & videos, so if you notice some beta [...]
Custom Robo Arena [DS - Beta]
14 May 2008In the beta version there was a different HUD in the bottom screen. Images: Edit
Another Code / Trace Memory [DS - Beta]
14 May 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks [...]
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time [DS - Beta]
14 May 2008A certain beta screenshot depicts Mario, Luigi, and their baby selves fighting two red-shoe-clad Blooper foes in the Vim Factory. Almost nothing is known about this Blooper creature, which was unused, although the timing of the taking of the screenshot featuring them (which depicts Luigi, upon being thrust by a Trampoline, stomping one) conveniently shows [...]
DK Jungle Climber [DS - Beta]
10 May 2008In several screenshots, there are some beta levels such as a foggy area that was possibly the beta Panic Factory, also there’s another screenshot which shows an underwater level in the sea with a Lockjaw. There were originally swing-like objects that were in the game. Also some objects and backgrounds were palleted different. [Info from [...]
Castlevania: Dawn Of Sorrow [DS - Beta / Unused]
22 Apr 2008Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow is an action adventure developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo DS, in 2005. As we can read in Wikipedia, the production of Dawn of Sorrow was announced on January 6, 2005 as the first Castlevania game to be released on the Nintendo DS. The DS touch screen was a [...]
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass was the sequel of the classic saga of Wind Waker, featuring Toon Link. This game appeared on lots of magazine issues, before Nintendo release it, of course… There is one magazine from Brazil called Nintendo World, what they made a lots of issues featuring this Zelda, there was some [...]
Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland [DS - Beta]
22 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Super Mario 64 x 4 [DS - Beta / Unused Stuff]
22 Apr 2008The working title for this game was Super Mario 64×4. Also, several beta screenshots were released for the game. Originally, all four characters could fight Bowser at the same time, and fly. This feature was removed, as the four characters can only fight Bowser by their own (with Yoshi utilizing hats to be able to [...]
New Super Mario Bros [DS - Beta / Unused Stuff]
22 Apr 2008The working title for this game was Super Mario Bros. DS. Also, during early stages of production, Mega Goombas were going to be a generic species (the result of a Goomba colliding with a Super Mushroom and powering up) rather than an individual boss. (It is possible that other enemies were to be compatible with [...]
Halo [DS - Pitch / Tech Demo]
22 Apr 2008In January 2007, IGN editor-in-chief Matt Casamassina claimed he played a version of Halo for the Nintendo DS. Due to speculation, on October 2, 2007 he demonstrated on-camera, and in-game footage of an early-development style version of Halo DS. The demonstrated work featured dual-wielding and a version of the Halo 2 map Zanzibar. On October [...]
Mii channel [DS - Prototype]
22 Apr 2008The development and history of the Mii avatar was a long and arduous process, taking about 20 years to reach fruition. Famed video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto revealed information regarding such a process during his keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference in 2007. He stated that the current Mii design is based on traditional [...]
Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents [DS - Beta/Concept]
21 Apr 2008At the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, iNiS Vice President Keiichi Yano described the process which eventually resulted in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. His first inspirations for the game came when he first tried a Nintendo DS handheld, and development on the game began after successfully pitching the concept to Nintendo. At the conference, [...]
Table Hockey [DS - Tech Demo]
8 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Cerulean Dream [DS - Cancelled?]
8 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
A Boy and His Blob [DS - Unreleased]
8 Apr 2008A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is a video game developed in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertainment System by David Crane. The game is a side-scrolling platformer in which the character and his friend Blob (full name Blobert) travel together on earth and on Blobert’s home planet Blobolonia in a quest to defeat [...]
Super Pac-Man Pinball [DS - Cancelled]
8 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Sonic DS [E3 2004 - Tech Demo]
8 Apr 2008The core gameplay of Sonic DS was to rub the bar on the touch screen as fast as possible. The fast you rub, the fast Sonic goes. There also seems to be some sort of obstacle jumping element. In the end, the whole idea was scrapped for the 2D platformer, Sonic Rush. Playable characters in [...]
Special Effect [DS - Tech Demo]
8 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Submarine [DS - Tech Demo]
8 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Carving [DS - Tech Demo]
8 Apr 2008Carving was a DS tech demo that was shown at E3 2004. Players were able to carve various materials to create forms with the touch screen. Images: Edit
Mario’s Face [DS - Tech Demo]
8 Apr 2008Mario’s Face is the name of a DS tech demo that was shown at E3 2004, to let people to try some of the features of the new console. This tech demo was played a bit like the intro of Mario 64, in which you can deform Mario’s head to various shapes. Wario’s head was [...]
Balloon Trip / Yoshi Touch & Go [DS - Proto]
8 Apr 2008Yoshi Touch & Go is a platform / puzzle game developed and published in 2005 by Nintendo for the DS. According to Nintendo assistants Hiroyuki Kimura and Keizo Ohta, Yoshi Touch & Go was originally planned to be designed for the Nintendo GameCube as “Balloon Trip”. A demo of the game, already ported to the [...]
Super Princess Peach is a platform game developed by Nintendo SPD and TOSE and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS in 2005 / 2006. In the gallery below you can see an early version of the Princess Peach, when it almost looked like a GBA game. It’s possible that the project started on the [...]
Nintendogs [DS - Beta]
8 Apr 2008Nintendogs is a real-time pet simulation video game developed and published in 2005 by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. Nintendogs began as a technical demo on the Nintendo GameCube long before it was considered for the DS. It made its way to the handheld when the DS was still in development. Shigeru Miyamoto originally came [...]
Black & White Creatures [DS - Cancelled]
8 Apr 2008Black & White: Creatures is a cancelled DS game that was based on the original Black & White, a PC game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts and Feral Interactive in 2001. The original game was a “God Simulation”, which included elements of artificial life, strategy, and fighting games, but we are [...]
Dynasty Warriors [DS - Beta]
8 Apr 2008Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter’s Battle is an hack ‘n slash developed by Koei and released in 2007 for the Nintendo DS. When the project was in early development, Koei was using a isometric 2D graphic engine more similar to the GBA Dynasty Warriors, but after a while they decided to change it with a “3D” [...]
Metroid Prime Hunters [DS - Beta]
8 Apr 2008A highly prototypical demo, titled Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt, was included as a pack-in (now discontinued) with the DS launch on November 21, 2004 in North America, Australia and Europe. This demo was not released in Japan. First Hunt had a different layout to the lower screen, and a slightly different weapon system. There [...]
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