Archive for the ‘leaked’ Category
In January 2010 Kirakid from the Nintendo Age Forum was able to find a previusly unknow NES Sound Editor at a Swap Meet in Orange County California. It was later discovered that this cart is a prototype music development tool created by Tommy Tallarico (the artist who wrote the music for more than 250 games, [...]
Sonic Rush [DS - Beta]
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 [...]
Explodemon [PS3/Wii/PC - Prototype]
13 Jan 2010Explodemon! is an upcoming 2.5D side scrolling platform game in development by Curve Studios for PlayStation Network, Microsoft Windows and WiiWare. The project is described as “what Treasure would create if they mixed Yoshi’s Island with Half-Life 2″, and is inspired by elements from games as diverse as Street Fighter II, Halo, Super Metroid and [...]
Jurassic Park: Trespasser [PC - Beta]
8 Jan 2010Jurassic Park: Trespasser is a FPS developed by DreamWorks Interactive, which was released in 1998 for Microsoft Windows after much hype and anticipation. The game had a development period of more than three years. Money was the biggest hurdle in the development of Trespasser.
The game severely went over-budget several times throughout its development. Second only [...]
Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Saturn) now leaked!
14 Dec 2009About a month ago SEGA Saturno in cooperation with Hidden Palace, announced a fundrising campaign to be able to release a “new” prototype for the Saturn. A couple of days ago, finally they reached the amount needed and they released Werewolf: The Apocalypse, a playable demo of the cancelled action RPG that was in development [...]
Team Fortress 2 Alpha (Team GabeN’s) Leaked
11 Dec 2009Do you remember the post about the Team Fortress 2 Alpha “Invasion”? Well, a guy named 4emoman on BetaArchive seems to have leaked this build sometime ago, but his files went down later. Another user named Popbob has re-uploaded it on Rapidshare but on its release there are some unuseful files such as an MP3 [...]
Kingdom Hearts Re: CoM PS2 Prototype Fundraiser
10 Dec 2009Update: Fundraiser Completed! The game was released by Borman / Superior Version in January 2010, thanks to everyone!
Evilhamwizard has started a new Fundraising project for an interesting proto: Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories. As he wrote in the U64 Forum:
[...] a Kingdom Hearts Re:CoM (Chain of Memories) translation prototype for the PS2, dating 10/01/08 [...]
Broken Circle [GBA - Cancelled]
4 Dec 2009Broken Circle is an unreleased rpg created by 7 Raven Studios. The game, which story was based on Nordic mythology, had a troubled development: publishers weren’t interested because it was too risky to cover the release costs for an unknown title that needed a big and expensive 256mbits cartridge.
By the time that the programmers managed [...]
As some of you probably known already, those lovely gamers at Sega Saturno were able to preserve and release various cancelled titles for the Sega consoles (X-Men 32X, Virtual Hamster, Lobo…) in the last few months. Almost two months after their last release, SEGASaturno in cooperation with Hidden Palace, are back again presenting a prototype [...]
Beyond Zero Tolerance [MD/G - Cancelled]
30 Oct 2009Beyond Zero Tolerance (or Zero Tolerance 2) is a FPS developed by Technopop for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. It was meant to be a sequel to Zero Tolerance, but it was never finished. Both games have been deemed by the (now defunct) developer to be publicly distributable as freeware. [Info from Wikipedia] You [...]
Robocop Vs Terminator [NES - Cancelled]
13 Oct 2009Robocop VS Terminator is a action game based on the mini-series of comic book with the same name that was released for all the main consoles between 1993 and 1994. A version for the Nintendo 8-bit was developed by Interplay but later canceled, because the system was considered commercially dead and probably also [...]
Batman (SC) [SNES - Cancelled]
7 Oct 2009In november 2008 Sample_Seller opened an auction on Ebay for a Batman prototype that was in development by Software Creations for the Super Nintendo.
BATMAN super nintendo SAMPLE/DEMO US NTSC version
Very early 2 level demo, no sound… undiscovered batman game!!
Devoloped by SOFTWARE CREATIONS.
Original development sample game direct from Nintendo !!
Rare unreleased/unannounced game !! Only a few [...]
Tyrian 2000 [GBC - Cancelled]
23 Jun 2009The 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 Color, but it was later cancelled to work on the Tyrian 2000 GBA version. The game [...]
Unreal [PC - Beta / Tech Demo]
16 Jun 2009Unreal is a FPS developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive in 1998. Originally, Unreal was going to be a Quake-style shooter: earlier screens showed a large status bar and centered weapons, similar to Doom and Quake. The main character was also going to be a woman, however in the [...]
Sonic CD [Mega CD - Beta]
15 Jun 2009Sonic the Hedgehog CD, or simply Sonic CD, is a platform game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, released for the Sega Mega-CD in Japan on September 23, 1993, in Europe in October 1993, and finally for the Sega CD in North America on November 19, 1993. After the release of Sonic the Hedgehog, Lead Programmer [...]
Robert Seddon linked us to this article on Kotaku, in which they talk about a removed level from Command & Conquer Generals, a RTS game that was released in 2003.
Called “Black Sheep”, the mission tasks you with driving one of the Global Liberation Army (ie the terrorist faction) chemical weapons vehicles around a “town that [...]
Wingz [PS2 - Cancelled]
8 Jun 2009In April 2009, Dr.daichi and Unclejun from the Assemblergames Forum have shared a lot of screenshots from an unreleased Playstation 2 shoot em up, that was in development in 2002 at Joycast / Hanbitsoft, two korean companies. Wingz was going to be an on-rail shooter, similar to Panzer Dragoon or StarFox, but it seems that [...]
Duke Nukem (Lame Duke) [PC - Beta]
7 Jun 2009Duke Nukem 3D is a FPS developed by 3D Realms and published by Apogee Software. It was released on January 29, 1996. LameDuke is an early beta version of Duke Nukem 3D, which was released by 3D Realms as a “bonus” one year after the release of the official version. It has been released as [...]
Unreal P [PSX - Cancelled]
3 Jun 2009The original Unreal is a FPS developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes, released for PC by GT Interactive in May 1998. A playstation port was in development by Pterodactyl Software with new exclusive levels and weapons, but it seems that Infogrames decided to cancel the project for some reasons.
In may 2009 Leo from the [...]
Turok [GBA - Prototype]
30 May 2009A 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 [...]
Motocross Challenge [GBA - Cancelled]
19 May 2009From 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 (maybe? It seems that [...]
U-Force Power Games (NES) now leaked!
17 May 2009The NintendoAge community was able to rise enough money to obtain and share a rom of the cancelled NES game “U-Force Power Games“. Two beta versions of the game are now available to download, one leaked by DreamTR and the other by Skyybe: huge props to everyone for these new dumps! Keep in mind that [...]
Tyrian 2000 [GBA - Cancelled]
16 May 2009The 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, [...]
Hannibal [PC - Cancelled]
3 May 2009Hannibal was a FPS / Adventure game that was in development by Arxel Tribe and that was going to be published by Mindscape in 2002 / 2003 for PC. It was based on the horror film with the same name, and it would had let players to assume the role of special agent Clarice Starling [...]
More NES prototypes are now leaked!
2 May 2009Skrybe from Lost Levels has released many NES prototypes that were not yet available online. Thanks to him and the whole Lost Levels crew, those lost games can now be played and preserved. You can find download links for the roms in the related topic on the Lost Levels Forum.
Unreleased games
Hero Quest – Final build, [...]
X-Men [32X - Cancelled]
23 Apr 2009X-Men: Mind Games is a cancelled action game that was in development by Scavenger and it would have been published by SEGA in 1995 / 1996 for the 32X. The game was shown at the E3 1995 and a playable demo was found and leaked by the SegaSaturno community in August 2009! This version is [...]
Panzer Dragoon Zwei [Saturn - Prototype]
16 Apr 2009Panzer Dragoon II Zwei is a shoot ‘em up released for the Sega Saturn in 1996, it was the second Panzer Dragoon game released but it is a prequel of the series. It was developed by Team Andromeda, one of Sega’s internal development studios. [Infos from Wikipedia]
In the bonus section of the game, the “pandora’s [...]
“It Came from the Desert” is a 1989 computer game developed by Cinemaware. It was originally released for the Amiga and the gameplay centers on the player choosing what they want to do by selecting an option on the multiple choice screens that pop up.
This unreleased Sega Genesis / Megadrive version was going to be [...]
Wonder Boy in Monster World [MS - Prototype]
7 Apr 2009Wonder Boy in Monster World (Wonder Boy V Monster World III in Japan) is a title in the series of Wonder Boy games which were developed in the 1980s and 1990s by Sega and Westone. It is the fifth game in the Wonder Boy series, and the third game in the Monster World sub-series. [Infos [...]
Fate [PC - Cancelled]
5 Apr 2009Fate is a game which was in development in 1996 by DogBone Software and was going to be published by Intracorp. The game was being made with the Build Engine, a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms (used for Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood and Redneck Rampage). Sadly Intracorp went [...]
Hellgate (Dreamcast) preserved and leaked!
3 Apr 2009Hellgate was a cancelled racing / third person shooter that was in development for the Dreamcast. As some of you already know, in March 2009 a playable built of this game was somehow recovered from a DC DEV-BOX unit and it was shared online for everyone. Now it can be played and preserved! Huge props [...]
Tower of Goo Unlimited [Wii - Concept]
7 Mar 2009Tower of Goo Unlimited is the original prototype, made some years ago, of World of Goo, a famous indie game for Pc and Wiiware. Even if you can create only a tower in this concept, the basic gameplay and the graphic style are essentially the same as the released version. There is a level called [...]
As we can read on Wikipedia STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, previously known as Stalker: Oblivion Lost, is a PC FPS by Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published in 2007. The game was first announced in November 2001 and had its release date, originally in 2003, pushed back several times. Due to the delays some considered [...]
Do you remember Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe? It was an interesting 4 Players brawl / fighting game that was in development by Treasure, and even if the Tiny Toon brand could turn you away, dont be fooled: this game was going to be a “spiritual” successor to Rakugaki Showtime, one of the [...]
Redline Arena [Dreamcast - Cancelled]
24 Jan 2009Redline 2 (also know as Redline Arena) was the sequel of Redline, a post-apocalyptic combination of FPS / Car Combat game that was released in 1999 for the PC. Redline Arena was going to be developed for the SEGA Dreamcast: a small team from Beyond Games worked on a playable PC prototype for about 6 [...]
Fire Emblem: the Sacred Stones [GBA - Proto]
13 Dec 2008Recently 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 [...]
The Toon Panic 64 proto has finally leaked!
7 Dec 2008Some days ago those wonderful people from Team Carrot and No-Intro have leaked the Toon Panic proto that was sold around from collectors to collectors from many years. It seems that one of the owners of the original proto cart decided to share this interesting piece of N64 history with everyone, so finally we can [...]
A collection of Jaguar’s protos has been leaked!
14 Nov 2008X-cult has found many protos for the Atari Jaguar in the Jaguar Sector website. You can download them here. Here’s the list:
2600 Emulator (Stella)(Unreleased)
Arena Football 95 (JSII Release)
Barkley Shut Up And Jam (Prototype)
Blue Lightning Tour 4 Beta
Blue Lightning Tour 5 Beta
Blue Lightning Tour 6 Beta
BrainGames (unreleased)Breakout2000 (Prototype)
Brett Hull Hockey (Cart Version)
Cybermorph (Early Prototype)
Dante’s Inferno PC [...]
Fighting Force is beat ‘em up developed by Core Design that was released for the PlayStation, PC and Nintendo 64 in 1997. A Saturn version was in development too, but it was later cancelled. Now, thanks to Hidden Palace and its community, an aplha of the Saturn version is leaked to the public! It seems [...]
Tiny Toon Adventures [Jaguar - Cancelled]
28 Oct 2008A platform game with Tiny Toon characters, in development for the Jaguar but later cancelled. It seems that a beta-demo of this game was leaked some time ago. In 2006, Atariboy has posted on the Toon Zone Forum some images and sprites from this game, that were found on the official site of the developers.
Thanks [...]
Ninja Gaiden [MD/G - Beta/Unreleased]
4 Oct 2008This is Ninja Gaiden for the Genesis. It is (in theory) a conversion of the 1988 coin-op, but basically the only thing that it is similar to the original is the HUD, because everything else was completely reworked. It was never released (even if some websites claims the opposite) in any region, and since [...]
Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword [GBA - Beta/Debug]
19 Sep 2008Thanks 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
Spore prototypes available for download!
5 Sep 2008Yep, that’s right, you can download the various beta builds of Spore at www.spore.com/comm/prototypes . We can only hope that more software houses follow the example of EA and release as many betas as possible!
As they say in their site: “Spore has been a huge undertaking. Along the way we ended up exploring countless design [...]
Mega Man Legends [PSX - Beta]
9 Aug 2008Mellahan has sent us a mail to make us to notice that Protodude’s Rockman Corner blog has just gotten a hold of a beta build of Mega Man Legends (Rockman DASH) for PSX. The first link contains info over the beta build, while the second link contains the files to download the beta. From [...]
Corn Buster [SNES - Cancelled]
17 Jul 2008Corn Buster is an unreleased Super Nintendo game developed by Engine Software. The game is the story of a dragon named Globey, who sets out to defeat the person who’s stolen all the cornflakes in the world. The gameplay is an interesting mix of an Arkanoid-Style ball-and-paddle game and a vertical scrolling shooter. The game [...]
World Reborn [GBA Version] leaked!
2 Jul 2008Probably it’s an old news for some of you, but if you still did not know, the Neopong team has shared with the public a ROM of their cancelled GBA / DS game, a shmup named World Reborn. As we can read at the WD Forum “My partners and I have finally completely given up [...]
Tommy Thunder [N64 - Prototype / Cancelled]
28 Jun 2008Tommy Thunder was a third person shooter in development for the Nintendo 64 (and later for the PSX too) from Player 1 studios, but it was never released and we never got many informations about it. In November 2007, herpetic.adventures on the LostLevels forum posted an interesting story about a misterious file: “[...] about 10 [...]
Killer Instinct [SNES/Arcade - Beta]
26 May 2008Killer Instinct is a fighting game developed by RareWare and published by Midway and Nintendo. Initially released in arcades in 1994 it was later ported to the Super Nintendo. In the gallery below you can notice some early character designs for B.Orchid and Glacius. As they wrote at the Killer Instinct Arena, the earliest version [...]
Lobo [SNES/Genesis - Cancelled]
26 May 2008LOBO is a cancelled fighting game that was meant to be released for the Super Nintendo and the Sega Mega Drive / genesis, settled up in the DC Comics’ LOBO universe. Ocean was planning to release this in 1996, but it was cancelled for both platforms at the last minute. A prototype of the game [...]
Spore [PC - Beta]
21 May 2008Spore is a video game under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game has drawn wide attention for its promise to simulate the development of a species on a galactic scope, using its innovation of user-guided evolution via the use of procedural generation for many of the components of the game, providing [...]
Panzer Dragoon prototypes: now leaked!
16 May 2008DRX has updated Hidden Palace with the Panzer Dragoon protos we talked about a couple of days ago:
Panzer Dragoon Saga – Sep 16, 1997 prototype – Disc 1 (of only 1?)
Panzer Dragoon Saga – Nov 30, 1997 prototype – Discs 1, 2 and 3
Panzer Dragoon Saga – Dec 22, 1997 prototype – Disc 1
Panzer Dragoon [...]
Images from an old E3 Beta demo that was sold on ebay some time ago. The description said: “This auction is for the Castlevania E3 edition. Only one known to exist in collector’s hands this could be the highlight of many game collections. This disc was an early development version of the title which was [...]
Sonic’s Edusoft: Leaked!
28 Apr 2008It looks like that at Sonic Retro they have found a playable proto of Sonic’s Edusoft, a cancelled sonic game for the Sega Master System: “Sonic’s Edusoft is an unreleased educational game for the Sega Master System developed in 1991 by Tiertex. The unofficially licensed game had been unknown until a Wikipedia page was created [...]
In 2002 Team ICO began to work on Shadow of the Colossus, initially with the WIP name of “NICO“. The NICO concept can be seen as an early design of the final game, were some of it’s core gameplay ideas were already exposed. You can read more about the NICO Concept in here. After Shadow [...]
Three new atari 7800 protos
18 Apr 2008Recently, three new Atari 7800 protos, Sirius, Plutos, Rapart, were finally recovered. This is an interesting news because they represent some of the most complex titles ever developed for the ill-fated console. You can read all about them on http://www.atariprotos.com/
40 Winks per Nintendo 64 leaked
17 Apr 2008Stavo spulciando il forum di ASSEMblergames.com quando mi balza all’occhio il titolo di un topic: N64 40 Winks dumped and released
Un flashback, in un non meglio precisato episodio del nostro Podcast 64 Ness e Yota (o era Bakka, ehi non ho una memoria perfetta!) discutono se 40 Winks era uscito o no per N64, affermando [...]
Tiny Toon Adventures: DotL is the name of Tiny Toon Adventures video game that seems to have been cancelled. Originally developed by Treasure Video Games, it was originally slated for the PlayStation 2 and possibly the Nintendo GameCube. It was originally slated for release in May of 2001, but thanks to many delays, the game [...]
Chrono Trigger [SNES - Beta]
14 Apr 2008A few months prior to Chrono Trigger’s market release, a beta version was given to magazine reviewers and game stores. An unfinished build of the game, it contains numerous differences from the final version, such as unused music tracks and a location called “Singing Mountain”. Curious fans later explored the [...]
Nightmare Busters [SNES - Unreleased]
14 Apr 2008Nightmare Busters is a cancelled beat ‘em up / action game that was in development in 1994 by Arcade Zone (a french studio) for the Super Nintendo. After Sony decided to not publish Nightmare Busters SNES as the original Playstation arrived in Europe, Arcade Zone had to close down and cancel all their projects.
At 1UP [...]
Prime [SNES - Cancelled]
14 Apr 2008Prime is a cancelled beat ‘em up that was developed by Malibu Interactive for the Super Nintendo. The game was based on the comic of the same name and maybe for the low popularity of the character, Prime was never finished. A beta version of Prime was leaked online and it contains 5 playable levels. [...]
Universal Soldier [SNES - Unreleased]
14 Apr 2008Turrican was released in 1989 for the Commodore 64 and 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was Programmed by Rainbow Arts and Factor 5. Then Accolade made a port to the Sega Genesis, GameBoy, and Turbo Graphix 16. The Accolade Ports were a huge disaster. However, Accolade wanted to do the same thing [...]
Time Diver: Eon Man [NES - Cancelled]
14 Apr 2008Time Diver: Eon Man is a cancelled beat ‘em up developed by A.I for Taito for the NES. The game was finished, receiving a four-page strategy guide and review in issue 45 (February ‘93) of Nintendo Power. Despite this, the game eventually disappeared from the Pak Watch section and was silently canceled.
According to game designer [...]
Xybots [NES - Unreleased]
11 Apr 2008Xybots is an old third person shooter developed by Atari released for the arcades and many home computers in in the 80’s. A porting for the NES by Tengen was supposed to be released in 1990, but it was canceled even if the game was almost completed. The prototype was somehow leaked online and it [...]
Kill Wheel [PSX - Cancelled]
11 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 [...]
Bounty Arms [PSX - Unreleased]
10 Apr 2008Bounty Arms is a cancelled action game / third person shooter that was in development by Data West for the original Playstation in 1995. A playable demo was added on the fifth volume of “Demo Demo PlayStation” in Japan and thanks to Carnivol from the Lost Levels forum this beta-demo was shared and now you [...]
Toon Panic 64 [N64 - Cancelled]
4 Apr 2008Toon Panic was an interesting fighting game for the Nintendo 64, in development at Bottom Up. It was meant to be a multiplayer brawl fighting game, similar to Power Stone or Rakugaki ShowTime, but it was later cancelled because of bankruptcy of the developers. A proto was sold some years ago on a japanese auction, [...]
Rez Beta Leaked
9 Mar 2008Recently a Rez beta was leaked and posted on underground-gamer’s forum . You can download it from http://www.megaupload.com/it/?d=J5HR8VNM
Source: Lostlevels Forum
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- Nuclear Rush [Sega VR - Unreleased]
- Cooly Skunk [SNES - Unreleased]
- GoldenEye 007 Remake [X360 - Cancelled]
- Aftershock [Sega 32X - Cancelled]
- Denjin Makai [SNES - Not Cancelled?]
- Tommy Tallarico’s Play Me Sound Editor for the NES leaked!
- Dealer: Chronic, Pills & Coke [XBOX/PS2/PC - Cancelled]
- The Magical Ninjya: Jiraiya Kenzan [PS2 - Cancelled]
- Black [PS2/XBOX - Beta]
- Ratchet and Clank [PS2 - Beta]
