Bio Force Ape is a cancelled action game that was in development by Seta for the NES! We’ll try to have a better description in here as soon as someone has time to write it :P In the meantime, have fun with all these screens and videos! It really looked fun, why it was not released? :(
Thanks a lot to NES World for these screenshots!
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![Seiken Densetsu: The Emergence of Excalibur [NES – Cancelled]](https://www.unseen64.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/secret-of-mana-nes-famicom-Seiken-Densetsu-670x300.jpg "Seiken Densetsu: The Emergence of Excalibur [NES – Cancelled]")
This was to be a massive RPG which would encompass an impressive, Riven-esque five disks for the Famicom Disk System (a floppy drive add-on for the Japanese NES). By that point, though, the FDS was waning in popularity and Square lacked the resources to develop such an ambitious epic for a fading peripheral. The game was reportedly killed before it even got underway, and Square apologetically informed consumers that perhaps they should spend their money on the upcoming Final Fantasy instead. The company then slapped the Seiken Densetsu name on an upcoming GameBoy adventure — to save the expenses of registering a new trademark and hiring someone to do up a new logo, perhaps?
The first Seiken sold well enough to warrant the creation of a sequel, which was planned as Square’s debut title for Nintendo’s PlayStation CD-ROM system being developed in collaboration with Sony. But once again, the medium spoiled the message; when Nintendo pulled the rug out from under Sony’s feet and decided to axe the idea of a Super NES CD-ROM add-on altogether, SD2 was hastily repurposed as a standard SNES cartridge game. Presumably, this accounts for the rather noticeable game glitches which plague the game and its US counterpart, Secret of Mana. A different Seiken Densetsu appeared on the Gameboy in 1991. – [info from GAF?]
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Apparently what we know as Final Fantasy IV was originally going to be Final Fantasy V for the super famicon. the above picture is a mock up of what Final Fantasy IV for the nes would most likely have looked like in the beta stages had it gotten past the drawing board. So yes, there is a lost final fantasy game, but only in concept because it never made it past a concept sheet and into a playable beta.
For more infos: www.lostlevels.org/200311/200311-square.shtml
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English: The legendary arcade game by Capcom, released 1987, has never had it easy on the console versions: in addition to the terrible Amiga version, the developers had decided to convert the mighty Coin Op to the famous NES. Of course, the version for the Nintendo console would have been subjected to several cuts to allow the porting. For some strange reason, this version was canceled.
Thanks to dartmouth for the translation!
Italian: Il mitico arcade della Capcom, datato 1987, non ha mai avuto vita facile sulle console casalinghe: oltre alla terribile versione per Amiga, gli sviluppatori avevano deciso di convertire il possente Coin Op sul famoso NES. Naturalmente la versione per la console Nintendo, sarebbe stata sottoposta a diversi tagli per consentire il porting. Per qualche strano motivo questa versione fu cancellata.
Thanks a lot to NES World for these screenshots!
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ENG: 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 lot for your help! :)
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