The developer responsible for the critically acclaimed Eternal Darkness on the Gamecube, Silicon Knights, has had the title of its next game leaked. Their latest project is named ‘Siren in the Maelstrom’. The leak came about when videogaming24/7 got their hands on a release from Canada Telefilm, an organization that lists projects approved for government grants.
No further information has been revealed so far but Silicon Knights has since issued the following statement regarding the matter – ‘Silicon Knights is busy working on several exciting projects. Unfortunately, it is too early to disclose any details.’
The “interesting” part for unseen-lovers is that many obscure projects from Silicon Knights that were announced in the past were later vanished, as a rumored game with Sega and the Eternal Darkness trilogy. Could this be their next unseen game? We’ll have to wait and see..
Probably some of you are already aware of this, but last week an huge list of prototypes from DreamTR‘s own collection was offered to the community to be dumped and preserved. You can check the complete list of protos at the Hidden Palace Forum.
Here at Unseen 64 we are especially interested in the Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon (Nintendo 64) and the Earthworm Jim 2 (SNES / Genesis) prototypes. We have decided to start a fundraising campaign to find enough people interested to donate the money that is needed to dump and preserve these 2 games.
How to? Whoever wants to help to preserve these prototypes, donates the money to DRX (owner of the Hidden Palace). All donations go to [email protected]viaPaypal (you can pay with Credit Card or PostePay too!), he gives the money to DreamTR for the dump, then the rom is given to DRX so he can distribute it to everyone.
To donatego to the Hidden Palace websiteand click on the Paypal button. (If the link does not work, try to write in your browser www.hidden-palace.org (Dont click on the the link, but write it) and go in the “Contribute” section).
Be sure to write in the “description” the name of the prototype that you want to preserve, it’s important. So, write “Money for the Mystical Ninja Goemon 64 proto dump” or “Money for the Earthworm Jim 2 proto dump”.
So, how much we need to preserve these prototypes?
For the Goemon 64 proto we need to reach 350$ and currently we have already donated about 190$. That means that we still need to find only 9 more people that could donate 20$ (€ 14,57 EUR) or multiples of $20 and the proto will be dumped! If you love Goemon 64, you cannot let this to be lost.
Here’s the Goemon 64 donators list (will be updated daily). When you have donated, please leave a comment to this post or in the Hidden Palace Topic:
Evilhamwizard (70$ + dumping equipment)
monokoma (20$)
Alessandro Bacchetta (20$)
Nesworld (20$)
Goemon International (10$)
Julian Doherty (10$)
Elizabeth Thornley(20$)
Michael Capinjola (20$)
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To donatego to the Hidden Palace websiteand click on the Paypal button.Remember to write “Money for the Mystical Ninja Goemon 64 proto dump” in the description. (If the link does not work, try to write in your browser www.hidden-palace.org (Dont click on the the link, but write it) and go in the “Contribute” section).
For the Earthworm Jim 2proto we need to reach about 200$. That means that we still need to find 15 people that could donate 14$ (€ 9,20 EUR) or multiples of $14 and the proto will be dumped!
Here’s the Earthworm Jim donators list (will be updated shortly). When you have donated, please leave a comment to this post:
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To donatego to the Hidden Palace websiteand click on the Paypal button. Remember to write “Money for the Earthworm Jim 2 proto dump” in the description. (If the link does not work, try to write in your browser www.hidden-palace.org (Dont click on the the link, but write it) and go in the “Contribute” section).
What could we find in these protos? How much incomplete are they? Sadly we are not sure. You can have a look a the Goemon 64 Beta and Earthworm Jim 2 Beta pages, to have an idea about the beta content that those protos could have. The protos could just be almost-complete builds, but it’s worth the chance to preserve them before they could be lost forever!
Do you remember “Fado”, the beta Kokiri girl that was seen in a couple of early screenshots from Ocarina of Time? That girl was changed in the final game with a different 3D model, but now thanks to ZethN64, formally known as ZethAlkar, we can see her again in the beta kokiri restoration hack! This is a standalone hack not associated with any projects.
Here’s “Fado” in a beta screen:
And here’s Fado in the Beta Restoration!
Some other beta kokiri are restored too, you can check them all in the video below:
The original Exerion was a vertical shoot ’em up released by Jaleco in 1983 and licensed to Taito for distribution on the United States. The game featured parallax effects and inertia simulation, something notable for 1983. [Info from Wikipedia] Sometime later, Jaleco worked on a “sequel” of the game, but as we can read on the Lost Levels forum, it was just the first Exerion with “updated graphics and music”. Anyway, in the end Exerion 2 was never released in America but a prototype was found and leaked online by the Nintendo Age community in June 2009. For all the NES collectors out there, a reproduction cart with Exerion 1+2 can also be bought and played on a real NES thanks to RetroZone!
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