Unseen News

[Projects] Zelda: Ocarina of Time Beta Restoration [UPDATE 28/06/2016]

Update: Unfortunately the team never finished the project because of technical issues related to the impossibility to incorporate actors into the new scenarios they made. But thanks to Akito_Kun a playable demo of the mod was shared online.

The Ocarina of Time Beta Restoration Project was a mod who’s goal was to remake the entire (or as much as possible) Beta version of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. Now, there are several beta versions. They were focusisng on the A+C version, where there was only adult link. So the game was adult link only. There was a massive number of things from the beta being revived.

Beta attacks such as the jump strike and sword beam attack. All attacks and interface modifications were programed directly into the game, so no cheats needed. And of course, the original A+C interface was there, as well as a integrated textures to make the game look as legitimate as possible.

Beta Items include:

  • Bomb arrows
  • Medallions
  • Equippable fishing rod.
  • Reed whistle for calling Epona

Beta areas such as:

  • Original graveyard (flat, very different layout)
  • Castle Sewers (original method of escaping castle)
  • Beta castle town (3D and explorable)
  • Lost woods (3D, has multiple trails leading to places, and no tunnels like final version)
  • And more!

Old Project News :

Currently ZM90 has not touched the beta restoration stuff in months and TBT just recently reformed, they are not done with the demo, and they are just getting things back to normal. Their plan is to release a playable demo of the Zelda 64 Beta Restoration in the following months. Due to internal issues in the team, it’s possible that the Zelda 64 Beta Restoration will never be finished.

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Restored (For now):

BETA Presentation – Restored

BETA Lampposts – Restored

Great Blue Fairy – Restored

Temple of Time – Upside-Down TRIFORCE – Restored

Temple of Time – Background Music BETA – Restored

Backalley BETA – Restored

Dogs BETA – Restored

Market BETA – Restored (%80)

Alpha Jump Attack – Restored

Beam Blade Attack – Restored

BETA Dodongo’s Death Animations – Restored

BETA Link’s Shadow – Restored

BETA Triforce Transition – Restored

All BETA Link’s Attacks – Restored

BETA Zelda’s Courtyard – Restored

BETA Kokiri Forest – Restored

BETA Cucco’s House (Lon Lon Ranch) – Restored

BETA Zora’s River Exit – Restored

· More Coming Soon…

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[Update] New descriptions, screens and videos

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We have added some stuff in these Unseen Archives: Earthworm Jim [SNES/MD – Beta], Earthworm Jim 2 [MD/G – Beta], Boom TV [PS2 – Cancelled], Mario Galaxy [Wii – Beta] [Thanks to Girrrtacos], Demonik [X360 – Cancelled] [Thanks to Phugolz], Yoshi’s Island [Thanks to Jose], Stage Debut [Gamecube – Unreleased], Mario Kart R 64 [N64 – Beta], Body Harvest [N64 – Beta], Attack [N64 – Cancelled], Half Life (Quiver) [Beta], Illusion Of Gaia / Time [Thanks to Robert Seddon and Adrien BAPTIS] and Retro Studios Football [Tech Demo / Cancelled]

A collection of Jaguar’s protos has been leaked!

X-cult has found many protos for the Atari Jaguar in the Jaguar Sector website. You can download them here. Here’s the list:

2600 Emulator (Stella)(Unreleased)
Arena Football 95 (JSII Release)
Barkley Shut Up And Jam (Prototype)
Blue Lightning Tour 4 Beta
Blue Lightning Tour 5 Beta
Blue Lightning Tour 6 Beta
BrainGames (unreleased)Breakout2000 (Prototype)
Brett Hull Hockey (Cart Version)
Cybermorph (Early Prototype)
Dante’s Inferno PC Demo (Unreleased)
Defender 2000 (Prototype)
Fight For Life (BETA 3-22)
Fight For Life (BETA 9-7)
GPU26 2600 Emulator (Unreleased)
Jack Nicklaus Golf (V002)(Unreleased)
Jack Nicklaus Golf (V002A)(Unreleased)
Jack Nicklaus Golf (V003)(unreleased)
Jack Nicklaus Golf (V004)(Unreleased)
Missile Command VR (not 3D)
Oswald’s Invention – PC Demo (Unreleased)
Phase Zero (Prototype)
Rayman (Early Prototype)
Slam Racer (Unreleased)
Spacewar2000 (unreleased)
Tiny Toons Plucky Duck (unreleased tech demo)
Ultra VorteX (Prototype) 

The National Videogame Archive: a project to save lost games?

It seems that finally an organization is going to seriously work in collaboration with developers to try to preserve the games that could be lost forever. As we can read on their website “The National Videogame Archive is a joint project between the National Media Museum and Nottingham Trent University, which aims to celebrate that culture and preserve that history for researchers, developers, game fans and the public”. With the Save The Videogame campaign they are trying to “encourage a debate about what games are, what they mean to the people who play them, and what elements of them should be preserved” […] “Consoles, cartridges, discs, and tapes gather dust in lofts. Crucial prototypes get thrown away when studios go bust, rare versions of classic games are lost forever. Every day, we lose another little bit of our history.” Will they be able to save prototypes and share media from cancelled games? We sure hope so! U64 is just a little group of geeks and we cant really do much, but if a serious organization will be able to keep up with a project like this, more unseen games could be saved. Good luck TNVA!