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GameCube, Nintendo

Kameo [GameCube – Cancelled]

yota
08-04-2008
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Kameo: Elements of Power is a video game launched for the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console and developed by Rare. Kameo was originally slated for the Nintendo GameCube, and was set to be one of Rare’s flagship titles for the system, along with Star Fox Adventures and Donkey Kong Racing. However, when Microsoft announced its purchase of Rare in late 2002, Kameo’s future was put in question. It was decided that work would continue on the Xbox, and a planned release date of 2003 was given. After several revamps, causing repeated delays, Kameo was put on indefinite hold in late 2004. Following this, rumours began that the game was once again undergoing a platform change, this time from the Xbox to the Xbox 360, where it was the first announced game for the system. The original GameCube version had a different character design, but probably the core game was essentially the same. [Info from Wikipedia]

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Kameo: Gamecube Version

Kameo Gamecube Gameplay [Flying]

Kameo Gamecube Gameplay [Fight]

 

GameCube, Nintendo

The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker Beta Test Areas [GC – Beta]

monokoma
08-04-2008
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Thanks to some GameShark Codes, it’s possible to access to some debug rooms in Zelda: The Wind Waker. In some of these rooms there are some fun / weird places that were used by the developers of the game to test the gameplay / actions,  while in others we can check some unused / beta areas, that were changed or never used in the final game, like the painter’s studio or a different entrance for one of the dungeons.  It’s interesting to notice that in a couple of these Beta Test Areas the water is not “cell shaded” like the water in the final game.

Thanks to SargeantMario101 for the better Zelda: The Wind Waker Beta Test Areas video!

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PSP, Sony

Advent Shadow [PSP – Cancelled]

U64 Staff & Contributors
08-04-2008
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Advent Shadow was a video game developed for the PlayStation Portable handheld and a side story of Advent Rising, however, the game was cancelled. It follows the story of Marin Steel, a mercenary pilot thrust into a saga of intergalactic proportions. In the midst of extracting herself from a hostile negotiation, Marin is interrupted by a planetary invasion led by monstrous aliens bent on human genocide. In her efforts to escape the dying world, she encounters young Gideon Wyeth, the protagonist of Advent Rising, and together they find themselves swept up in a massive struggle against dire forces bent on the destruction of humanity.

Unfortunately, Majesco suffered some financial difficulties, and due to the poor sale of Advent Shadow’s console predecessor, Advent Rising, the game had been quietly cancelled in January of 2006. – [Info from Wikipedia]

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Nintendo, Nintendo DS

Metroid Prime Hunters [DS – Beta]

U64 Staff & Contributors
08-04-2008
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A highly prototypical demo, titled Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt, was included as a pack-in (now discontinued) with the DS launch on November 21, 2004 in North America, Australia and Europe. This demo was not released in Japan. First Hunt had a different layout to the lower screen, and a slightly different weapon system. There was a different default control method, in which the screens were transposed, and targets could be fired upon by tapping them with the stylus regardless of whether they were centered in view. The control schemes found in the final version were also available. The Power Beam had no charge function, and it had an ammo system. When Power Beam ammo was exhausted, the rate of fire slowed greatly.

There was also a “Double Damage” pickup that caused Samus to cause twice as much damage with each shot (which reappeared in the multiplayer battles of the final version of the game) and only two sub-weapons, missiles and the “Electro Lob” (similar to the Volt Driver and Battlehammer, it lobs and explodes on impact but also can impair vision). Three training scenarios were present, as well as a multi-card multiplayer mode. Some of the multiplayer levels from Hunters were included in the demo. – [info from Wikipedia]

[Thanks to Michael Cheek for the contribute!]

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Game.com, Others

Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night [Game.com – Cancelled]

U64 Staff & Contributors
07-04-2008
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A portable version of Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night was in development for the Game.com, the ill-fated handled console created by Tiger Electronics in 1997, but soon the project vanished in the vaporware limbo and it’s unknown how much of the game was really completed before the cancellation. As other Game.com titles (see Resident Evil 2), this Castlevania should have been a “downgraded port” of the Playstation / Saturn Symphony Of The Night, with some evident differences for the limits of the hardware.

Only few screens remain from this project, preserved in the gallery below.

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