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More NES prototypes are now leaked!

monokoma
02-05-2009
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Skrybe 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, or very close to it. Set your emulator to PAL mode for this.
  • Superman – Early version of Sunman.

Prototypes

  • AD&D: Heroes of the Lance
  • Adventure Island 2
  • Baltron
  • Banana – Early build with debugging features.
  • Bard’s Tale (Proto 1)
  • Bard’s Tale (Proto 2) – Different build from above.
  • Dengeki: Big Bang! – Clash at Demonhead. Several minor enemies have different graphics.
  • Famicom Shougi: Ryuuousen
  • Flying Warriors – The logo actually reads “Flying Warriros”!
  • Galg
  • Hokuto no Ken
  • Klax
  • Moero!! Pro Yakyuu – Bases Loaded
  • Nagagutsu o Haita Neko – Puss ‘n Boots
  • Pachio-kun
  • Shatterhand
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
  • Takeshi no Sengoku Fuuunji
  • Urusei Yatsura

Racermate

  • Racermate Challenge 2 v3.11.088
  • Racermate Challenge 2 v6.02.002
  • Racermate Challenge 2 v9.03.128
 
32X / Mega CD, Leaked, Sega

X-Men [32X – Cancelled]

monokoma
23-04-2009
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X-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 playable only trough real hardware (edit: now supported by Kega Fusion) and it’s an  early prototype with a couple of levels. A mirror of the leaked beta can be downloaded on Hidden Palace. (edit: not available)

Thanks to Celine for the contribution and props to SEGASaturno!

Images:

MEAN MACHINES SEGA 37, november 1995.

Videos:

 

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[New Article] Killer 7 Beta Analysis

monokoma
17-04-2009
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Killer 7 is an adventure game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Capcom for the GameCube and PlayStation 2. It was released in 2005 but it was first announced in 2002 as one of the original “Capcom 5” games. In 3 years of development the game changed a lot from its original concept trailer and when Killer 7 was finally released many  parts of the story were removed. >>> Read the full article: Killer 7 Beta Analysis 

Leaked, Saturn, Sega

Panzer Dragoon Zwei [Beta / Proto – Saturn]

monokoma
16-04-2009
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Panzer 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 box”, you can find an interesting beta video that shows gameplay from its own prototype (from the Episode 2 mission, mostly from the easy path, with a couple clips from the hard path.). The beta graphic and the details of the level and the dragon / enemies are differend from the final game and you can notice that the music is completely different as well.

Thanks to Mozgus that has ripped this video from the Panzer Dragoon Zwei disc we can take a good look at the beta / proto and compare it to the final version below!

A Panzer Dragoon Zwei proto (45% complete – Feb 02, 1996) was leaked in 2008 thanks to Hidden Palace and The Will Of The Ancients community, a build that is visually nearly identical to the final. It just has a variety of small differences like font and gui colors, different prologue music, and a lot of minor gameplay adjustments. You can see in the third video below a list of those differences.

Thanks a lot to Mozgus for the contribution!

Prototype Video:

Final version (Episode 2, Route 1) Video:

Video from the Prototype 45% Completed: