Unseen News

First video of Æon Flux for Playstation 1?

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I’m not sure if online there were already some videos for the Playstation 1 version of Aeon Flux, but i do not remember any.. so maybe this one is the “first” video of the game in action, take a look and be happy.. or sad. Wikipedia says that “A game based on the original animated series was announced on April 9, 1996 for the PlayStation and Windows 95. The game, which was loosely based on “The Demiurge” episode, was being developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Viacom New Media. The game first made an appearance at E3 that same year, and commercial advertising was even included in the 1996 VHS release of the animated series.

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Viacom New Media would merge with Virgin Interactive midway through the game’s development. The merger would ultimately lead to the cancellation of Viacom’s in-development games and subsequently leave Cryo without the rights to use the Æon Flux property. The game’s assets weren’t lost however, but were reworked into the 1997 title Pax Corpus, having been stripped of all copyrighted association with Æon Flux. Pax Corpus does retain many obvious similarities to the original animated series. Specifically in plot to “The Demiurge” and also in many design details, which bear a striking resemblance to examples found in the show. For instance, the female protagonist of the game wears a purple and black outfit not unlike Æon’s.

For this little movie we should give lot of love to those lovely french geeks @ www.abandonware-videos.org ..thank you guys for your great videos archive!

For old images of the game, check our Æon Flux PSX page 

Sonic’s Edusoft: Leaked!

It 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 September 2006 by an anonymous programmer involved with the game. This page has since been removed from Wikipedia. In March 2007, “the programmer” replied to an SMS Power topic concerning the Wikipedia page, revealing more details about the game. On April 27th, 2008 the ROM was finally brought to the attention of the Sonic Retro community.”

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You can read more and download the proto @ Sonic Retro’s website 

Lots of debug in those rooms

Our friend Randy355 has started a topic in the U64 forum where to collect various infos / images / videos for debug rooms that are still accessible in released games, here are some of them!

Donkey Kong 64 Debug Room:

Jet Force Gemini Debug Room:

Lost Zelda OOT Debug Room:

Mother 3 Debug Room:

Sonic Adventure 2 Debug Room:

Final Fantasy VIII Debug Room

Final Fantasy X-2 Debug Room

If you want to help the collection, you can read the discussion and add more debug rooms in his topic: Video Game Beta Rooms