We have added some stuff in these Unseen Archives: Castle Crashers, Banjo & Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Eternal Darkness [GC], Mario Galaxy, Stargate SG-1: The Alliance, Millenium Fire [Saturn], Rat Race, Joust 3D [XBOX/PS2], Starcon: Star Control 4, Black 9 [XBOX], Perfect Dark [N64], Raven Blade [GC], Shadow of the Colossus, Comanche [SNES], ShenMue [DC], Mr Bloopy, Conker’s Twelve Tales, Bioshock, GTA 3, Megaman Legends, Final Fantasy 7, Half Life, Half Life 2, Race ‘n’ Chase [GTA Proto], Warhawk [PS3], Eight Days [PS3], Ghouls & Ghosts Online, Powerslide FX, Kirby’s Dream Course and Citizen Zero [XBOX]!
A series of videos from N64 protos
In the Youtube Channel of 64Scener we can see a nice collection of videos from various N64 prototypes: Earthworm Jim 3D, Top Gear Hyperbike, Duck Dodger and Power Puff Girls. I never played these games, so i dont really know if they have any differences from the final version (only the Power Puff Girl has a comparison with the final). Do you see any changes? Props to 64Scener / Nesworld for sharing these!
[U64 Italian Podcast] Episodio 1.5: Blast Corps
The Unseen 64 Podcast is only in Italian, sorry!
U64 Podcast: Episodio 1.5 – Bull 64: Blast Corps [59:03] Dopo quasi 6 mesi di assenza e promesse mai mantenute, finalmente lo staff italiano di Unseen 64 si è riunito durante un nevoso pomeriggio invernale, per regalare al nostro fan numero 1 la podcast dei suoi sogni: un ora di discussione sullo sviluppo di Blast Corps, dedicata con amore al nostro caro Rosalex! Durante questo episodio bonus i nostri eroi cercheranno di argomentare le poche informazioni disponibili sulla beta del gioco, con i feedback sul nuovo server, richieste di aiuto, la voce sexy di Reno, fenomenologie sulla direzione retta dei camion nucleari, teorie assurde sul prototipo, le analogie con RC Pro-AM, i veicoli rimossi, i collegamenti con Jet Force Gemini, rivelazioni su Donkey Kong Racing ed altre piccanti rumors sulle beta di casa RAREware, le tecniche per avvicinare gli sviluppatori, il mistero della scomparsa di Tim Spampers e le preoccupazioni sul camionista nucleare. Come perdere un’altra ora della vostra vita? Ecco la risposta più nerd. >> U64 Episodio 1.5 – Download Versione in MP3
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In the last few months it was an hard time for U64, with lots of server problems and the high cost of traffic, we had to search for more donations and for a cheaper server. At last we were able to find a good server for cheap, but it had a monthly bandwidth limit.. so in December 2008 we had to “close” the site to not going down and only U64-members were able to login.
Later we had some talk with our server provider: they are really a lovely group of geeks, they made us a great offert so we should be able to re-open the site for everyone soon and this time we should have more bandwidth.
Thanks to all the people that have donated for the cause (Gilgalegrouik, Stereo, Miccha, Shoyz, Annah & Bamper), we were able to pay most of of the bill for 2009! We should be able to pay the rest with the various banners / ads, so there are hopes to see Unseen 64 everyday without too many problems :) Thanks again to all the donators! We really appreciate your love. If more people want to help too, all the exceeding funds will be used for the next year server bill and emergency costs.
The cancelled NiGHTS for X360 & PS3
Nights: Journey of Dreams for the Wii is the sequel to the 1996 Sega Saturn title Nights into Dreams and the fourth game developed by Sega Studio USA. It seems that “NiGHTS 2” was going to be a game for the Xbox 360 and PS3, before being “cancelled” and “ported” to the Wii. Thanks to this article on TsszNews we can read some rants from a developer that worked on the X360 / PS3 Nights before the change: “In particular, it reveals an internal strife between Sonic Team and Sega of Japan, highlighted by the fact that NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams was originally developed as an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 title – going so far as to say he played an Xbox 360 build of NiGHTS at one point. Upon witnessing the overnight success of the Wii, Sega of Japan apparently forced Sonic Team to retool the game for Nintendo’s lower-spec platform, something its producer (Takashi Iizuka) was not happy about. Despite the shift in platform, the game’s fast-approaching release date and limited development budget remained firmly unchanged, giving Sonic Team roughly one year to rebuild NiGHTS exclusively for the Wii (when most games typically take two years or more to develop).”
We’ll try to find screens from this version. We wonder how much far in development it was and if it was going to be different from the final game, apart from the obvius graphic differences.