Resident Evil 5 was officially announced on June 2005, but it was shown to the public for the first time only two months later in a CG trailer. Capcom created another trailer for the game in 2007. Even in the last year of the development Capcom was still moving things around. For example, the crash site of the helicopter was originally a fully playable section, not a series of QTE. >>> Read the full article: Resident Evil 5 Beta Analysis
Wonder Boy in Monster World [MS – Prototype]
Wonder Boy in Monster World (Wonder Boy V Monster World III in Japan) is a title in the series of Wonder Boy games which were developed in the 1980s and 1990s by Sega and Westone. It is the fifth game in the Wonder Boy series, and the third game in the Monster World sub-series. [Infos from Wikipedia]
As Zero7 has made us to notice with a topic in our forum, a prototype of this game was leaked online and it’s possible to find it on various Master System roms archives. Some of the differences that can be found in the proto are:
- Title screen doesnt animate like the final
- There is a placeholder picture for the intro cutscene
- There is no textbox when you start, unlike the final
- There is a debug mode on, you cant die (You’ll revive back to 8 hearts) and up+a+b = teleport
- All the menu commands save items and magic go to the weapon’s screen
- You cant equip anything different, so they’re just there to show how the screen would look (maybe)
- “Night Sord”
- Bosses cant be killed, but they can kill you
- The first boss doesnt wake up for some reason
- Shops dont work
- Most doors dont work outside of the two towns and some others
Thanks to Zero7 for the contribution!
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Fate [PC – Cancelled]
Fate is a game which was in development in 1996 by DogBone Software and was going to be published by Intracorp. The game was being made with the Build Engine, a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms (used for Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood and Redneck Rampage). Sadly Intracorp went bankrupt before the game could be completed. [Infos from Wikipedia]
A playable demo was released before the cancellation and you can download it from the DOS Museum!
Thanks to Celine for the contribution!
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Hellgate (Dreamcast) preserved and leaked!
Hellgate was a cancelled racing / third person shooter that was in development for the Dreamcast. As some of you already know, in March 2009 a playable built of this game was somehow recovered from a DC DEV-BOX unit and it was shared online for everyone. Now it can be played and preserved! Huge props to whoever was able to save this from being lost forever :)
You can download Hellgate in here and here (thanks to X-Cult for the mirror!). If you are just too lazy to try it, you can just take a look at this gameplay video from Dreamcastjunkyard youtube channel:
RS Links: Unused images hidden in Harvest Moon?
Robert Seddon has made us to notice about a page on jathys.zophar.net in which there is a collection of images that were found in the Harvest Moon (SNES) code thanks to the HM Editor, but that were never used in the game. As Jathys wrote in that page, those images could have been used with the credits in the beta version of the game.