The working beta title for this game was Super Mario Bros. DS. Also, during early stages of production, Mega Goombas were going to be a generic species (the result of a Goomba colliding with a Super Mushroom and powering up) rather than an individual boss. (It is possible that other…
Final Fantasy X (10) [PS2 – Proto / Beta]
First presented at the 2000 Square Millennium Event together with FFIX and FFXI, Final Fantasy X was the most ambitious rpg ever created by Square. Unfortunately, some of the most interesting features of the proto are not found in the released version. As you can see from the pics present…
Dark Cloud [PS2 – Beta]
Dark Cloud is an Action RPG developed for the Playstation 2 by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2000 and 2001 for Japan and American/PAL regions respectively. As we can read in Wikipedia, Dark Cloud was the first game of the Japanese developer Level-5, headed by designer Akihiro…
Shadow Of The Colossus [PS2 – Beta / Unused Proto Colossi]
In 2002 Team ICO began to work on Shadow of the Colossus, initially with the WIP name of “NICO“. The NICO concept can be seen as an early design of the final game, were some of it’s core gameplay ideas were already exposed. You can read more about the NICO…
Unseen Changes
Unseen does not stand only for the differences between the beta and the final release of a videogame, but even for changes from different region versions too (usually from Jp to Usa, or viceversa) . It is not unusual, in fact, for a game converted for another market to be…