For the Frog the Bell Tolls Remake [GBC - Cancelled]

Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (For the Frog the Bell Tolls) was an Adventure / Action RPG developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems, released (only in Japan) in 1992 for the original Gameboy. In 2002 a Game boy Color remake was announced by Nintendo, but it was soon cancelled, probably because of the release of the new Gameboy Advanced, that killed the final batch of GBC games. Thanks to Robert Seddon that has found some screens from this vanished GBC remake on GamesTM magazine #54, we can finally see the game in all its (cancelled) glory.

Update: It seems that these screens were just mockups made by fans of the original game and not from the remake. A GBC remake was really announced, but at this time there are still not any “official” screens from the project.

Thanks to Ita for the direct-feed screens and the informations!

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I'm an Italian gamer with not enough free time to play as much as i'd like to and sadly not enough time to write about cancelled and beta games. Founder of Unseen64 in 2001, i'd like to sleep more than 5 hours a day, but i have to pay the bills. I'm currently working for various italian & international websites for a better User Experience & Search Engine Optimization, you can add me on Twitter, Last FM or contact me by email.

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9 thoughts on “For the Frog the Bell Tolls Remake [GBC – Cancelled]”

MCM 06-10-2008 at 14:47
Very interesting. I have a copy of the Game Boy game and have pursued it in a number of ways, but I didn’t realize there was a canceled DX version.
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ita 17-11-2008 at 04:37
Isn’t this an image made on the following homepage?
http://marubou.sakura.ne.jp/archive/neta/dema1.html
>あと残念なことに、この記事は全てデマです。
Moreover, I think that this image exceeds limits of the number of colors that can be
used with GBC as long as I see.
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monokoma Post author17-11-2008 at 14:20
Direct-feed screens? That’s wonderful =) Thanks a lot Ita! I’m gonna add them in the archive ASAP! How did you find that page?
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ita 18-11-2008 at 11:53
This page exists for about six years.
Therefore, this page is considerably known in the forum of “Kaeru no Tameni　Kane ha Naru” of
Japan.
I also found it there.
And, this article on Unseen64 was found the other day and it wrote it here.
Neither the article nor images of the remake version are all official
as written on the page that became this origin though it writes again
because the word was a little insufficient in writing above.
It is a fake that the fan made.
Therefore, I think that you should describe it clearly.
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monokoma Post author19-11-2008 at 15:02
Thanks for the infos Ita, i did not know that those were fan-made.. i’m going to update the description ASAP
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Robert Seddon 19-11-2008 at 15:18
So the GamesTM article turns out to be unreliable: that’s worrying…
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Celine 06-07-2009 at 23:58
Mmmh for a moment I shouted “Holy fucking sh…”.
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Vetus 20-11-2012 at 23:06
I’d love to see a fan-made, color version of this game.
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Arshes91 19-07-2014 at 17:12
im sure there a way to colorize in this game maybe similar like this. Using a programm called Colorized! something and Gb Color can do that, if i have time i may intrest to.
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