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New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Storm Riders is a cancelled action game that was in development for the original Xbox, that could have been based on a korean film / comic with the same name. There are not many info on its development, but an early beta version / prototype of the game was somehow found on an old Xbox Debug Kit by Museman and it was shared online thanks to the Assembler Games Forum. The menu, HUD and some of the character’s moves are really similar to Ninja Gaiden, but there aren’t any connection with Tecmo’s game.

As wrote by Andrew Borman in the Assembler Forum:

Storm Riders was built really, really late in the Xbox’s life, July 22 2005, NG started life in like 1999 before being announced at e3 2002 and released in March 2004. I havent found any evidence other than one comment that seemed to think it came from a Tecmo Xbox. Ive dug through the XBE some more and didnt find anything. It was compiled from a folder called Phoenix, which I thought might be related to Iron Phoenix, but beyond that I havent seen the evidence to link it, so I moed on.
Borrowing assets isn’t all that unusual in the dev world, so the NG assets are meaningless. But if you look up Storm Riders Online, which was to be an MMO, it was made by a studio called Phoenix Games Studio, which with the compile info points to it being from them, which is a studio in Malaysia. This also links back to the fact that the Xbox it was found on was 220v, which wouldnt be the case for a Japanese box, but does match for Malaysia. So that is much more likely

Thanks a lot to MegaMoto85 for the video!

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Unseen News, Unseen Podcast

[U64 Italian Podcast] Episodio 2.1: Super Mario Beta Saga (Parte 2)

monokoma

06-10-2012

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The Unseen 64 Podcast is only in Italian, sorry!

U64 Podcast: Episodio 2.1 – Super Mario Beta Saga (Parte 2) [105:03] (streaming) ebbene si, siamo riusciti a registrare una nuova podcast! In realtà questa la abbiamo registrata la scorsa estate, ma tra una cosa e l’altra abbiamo avuto tempo per sistemarla e uploadarla solo oggi. Assieme a mono, Reno, Bakka, Yota e Mr.Game ci siamo incontrati di sfuggita per parlare di Mario Galaxy e delle sue caratteristiche rimosse, con una introduzione sulle leggi di censura online (che probabilmente saranno ormai superate), strani fenomeni paranormali e suoni che uccidono nascosti in pokèmon, il mistero dietro l’urlo di munch, e forse si, abbiamo anche fatto una lunga e approfondita discussione su tutti i modelli inutilizzati nascosti nel codice del gioco! Solo i veri fan o chi non ha di meglio da fare, riusciranno ad ascoltare questo episodio fino alla fine.. buon ascolto! >> U64 Episodio 2.1 – Super Mario Beta Saga (Parte 2) [105:03]– Download Versione in MP3

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Playstation, Sony

Konami Rally [PSX – Cancelled]

Celine

05-10-2012

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Konami Rally is a cancelled racing game planned for the origina playstation. Konami output on MSX platform was legendary, loved franchises as Metal Gear and Parodius moved the first steps on it. At E3 ’99 Konami announced that one of his glorious MSX games, Konami Hyper Rally, was getting new outings on GameBoy Color and Playstation. This racing game however had a different fate compared to Metal Gear Solid, because it vanished after that show.

The GBC rally game was renamed as Cross Country Racing and released in 2000 .

Scan from PlayMag issue 37.

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Playstation 3 (PS3), Sony

Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 4: Summer Memories [Cancelled – PS3]

yota

01-10-2012

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Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 4: Summer Memories was going to be the fourth installment of the franchise known variously in the west as SOS Escape, Raw Danger or Disaster Report. Developed by Irem only for Playstation 3, it was supposed to be released in march 2011, but it got delayed after the Tōhoku earthquake that struck Japan and in the end the game was cancelled probably also due to Irem’s financial difficulties.

According to Andriasang blog, these were the main features of the game:

The game takes place in a big city in the year 201X. It’s July, the heart of summer, and your character is visiting the city for a job interview. The city is suddenly hit with a major earthquake.
The game will feature over 60 characters, the largest in series history. You’ll need to work with these people to escape.
There are a few new features Irem highlights for Disaster Report 4:
You can enter collapsed buildings, within which you’ll find survivors and additional escape routes.
You’ll find new items, including crutches for when your legs are injured.
The game has a new “cleanliness” parameter for your character. If your character gets too dirty, your stress will rise. To increase your cleanliness parameter, you need to…
Use the toilet!. This is a new facility for Disaster Report 4. You can use the toilet to increase your cleanliness parameter
You’re free to customize your character. At the start of the game, you can set gender, face style, and hair style. As you work through the game, you’ll earn over 100 clothing items, including suits and casual outfits.

Also, here is the 1up interview where the director talks about the game cancellation, and the article on hardcoregaming101.

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Others, WonderSwan

Super GPS Pac-Man [WonderSwan Color – Cancelled]

Celine

29-09-2012

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During Spring TGS 2001 Namco announced renewed support for Bandai’s little handheld. One of the game was a curious variant of Pac-Man tentatively named Super GPS Pac-Man (GPS超!!パックマン) that would have used the WonderGate, add on that allowed the WonderSwan to connect to DTT Docomo network, and the GPS add on so that your current location would have been used as a maze where Pac-Man could eat his loved pills, while moving objects like cars would be the enemies.

This bizarre project was never released for unknown reason, though the WonderGate success was limited and the GPS add on was never released so much of its appeal would have been lost without them.

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