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I finally finished my english translation of the Zelda: TP beta article, originally written a long time ago by monokoma in italian language. I’m sorry if there are some errors here and there.. if you find any mistakes, just leave a comment and i will edit the text. Thanks!

The second Zelda for the GameCube (and the first for the Wii) had a long development of nearly 4 years, and the final game turned out to be a lot different from what originally appeared in 2004. Some areas and dungeons were removed, while the surviving sections were heavily modified. In this article we will try to analyze the history of the development of TP with the screenshots and the videos available. Read the rest of this entry » 

Marshall Leslie makes us notice that we were missing a gameplay screen in the archive for the M2 version of D2, so he has sent it to us. Below you can see this “new” screen that we have added in the D2 M2 archive. Thanks Marshall!

Two months before the North American launch of the Nintendo Wii, the ‘Big N’ revealed a beta for the wii channels menu to the public for everyone’s jawdropping comfort. It’s in japanese but you get the picture.

Top left to top right: Disc channel, Mii channel, Photo channel, Wii shop channel.

Middle left to middle right: Weather Channel, News Channel, Internet channel, Donkey kong VC game.

Bottom left to bottom right: Unknown VC game, Super mario world VC game, Legend of Zelda: Link to the past VC game, Super Mario 64 VC game.

One strange thing I observed here is that the beta contains a digital clock towards the bottom centre of the screen. I find that strange because it was removed when released on the wii itself but then was added back in when firmware update 3.0 launched almost one year later, how abnormal. 

The last issue of Official Nintendo Magazine UK arrived at Cubed today, and inside they found an interesting interview with  Steve Lycett, executive producer at  Sumo Digital, the software house that created Sega Superstars Tennis. He said that, at the beginning, the Wii version was a Virtua Tennis Wii prototype:

We do some prototyping on a potential Wii version of Virtua Tennis 3 and whilst we’re doing that we make all the characters have big heads. SEGA pay us a visit and on seeing this suggest we pop in Sonic instead of a big-headed Federer. As such, potential character defamation cases are avoided and the seeds of SEGA Superstar Tennis are born.

 It would be nice to see the big-headed Federer, though.

Source: Cubed 

Looking through the Assassin’s Creed beta videos and screens, i found out some more differences. Here is what i have noticed: Read the rest of this entry »