Project Alpha is a cancelled RPG that was in development by Multimedia Intelligence Transfer for Game Boy Advance. The team is mostly known for their work on the portable side-series of Shin Megami Tensei, with titles such as Devil Children, DemiKids, Megami Tensei Gaiden.
This canned project was in development using the same GBA engine they created for the Devil Children titles, as much as it reused many assets from Devil Children: Fire Book. However it seems Project Alpha was planned as a different, original game. In early 2019 YT channel Hard4Games made a video about this prototype and sometime later Kuriatsu acquired the same proto, doing more research on its content. As wrote on Reddit:
“For those that are unaware, Project Alpha, is a game prototype that first appeared on Hard4Games about a month ago. In these videos, they covered a few things that are and are not relevant to the game series Devil Children on GBA. Project Alpha uses the exact same game engine to a T that Devil Children: book of fire uses, to the point that it even uses book of Fires internal designation. (so basically Atlus rom hacked Book of Fire) A lot of the assets, such as music, some visuals, a LOT of Debug, and so on, are from Book of Fire, but Project Alpha is its own game, and at one time, was supposed to be something, but noone knows what. In my experiments with this game, there’s not even a single trace of its original name that I’m seeing thus far.”
The japanese prototype was translated thanks to RetroTranslator and Kuriatsu made a video showing off more of what can be found in this early demo:
As wrote in the video description:
- This game is not even 1/50th complete, but it is an interesting game.
- This game is not a Devil Children game, despite using the DC3 Engine. project alpha is the same for devil children as Guruguru Garakuta-zu is for devil children on the Gameboy colour. Devil children on the GBC actually took a LOT of resources from Guruguru Garakuta-zu. In the same way, project alpha took a LOT of resources from Devil Children Flame Book. In fact, all of the music that we’ll hear from this game is actually from Devil Children Flame Book.
- This game is highly unusual in comparison to other prototypes, and is likely the equivalent of a pilot TV show thats testing the waters, as a result, it’s not incredibly detailed, but the back story is clear as crystal.”
Thanks to Kuriatsu for the contribution!
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Hi Unseen64 owner! its me remember? We emailed sometimes before. My name is Phil Ramsey in case you forget lmao.
I have good news and bad news to tell you about this. I want you to update this page because I rescued all the videos about Project Alpha before Kuriatsu locked her YT channel privately! This means some footage of the game cannot be seen anymore but before she locked it I managed to grab them right away and wanted you to upload all the videos of this game right here on this article and update the current whereabouts of it.
I would not recommend contacting the collector about it. Kuriatsu refused to cooperate. Thats typical collector nature especially crummy selfish Americans who don’t care about saving game history.
Im currently working on whatever I can to get a hold of it soon as I know some rather forbidden places who can hopefully help me get what I want out of this game in order to preserve it!
In the meantime, I want you to update this article with the files I sent to you on the attachments! They are video only, no pictures.
One more thing I forgot to say about the update. The new videos I saved were trimmed and put together as 3 mp4s by me because the entire video is too long to reupload on my youtube there and my internet archive. I want more people to see this game so hopefully a better person than Kuriatsu can track this prototype down themselves and ask Atlus some questions about it or help encourage sellers who might be former Atlus workers in Japan to sell whatever build they have of this lost game if they see how much we’re demanding it!