Unseen News

RS Links: More Torment and Arcanum unseen stuff

In this chapter of the Robert Seddon Links serie, we can find some interesting pages about restored content for Torment and Arcanum, a couple of computer RPG. The links of interest are:

Mods for Planetscape: Torment with previusly unused stuff.

Unofficial patch for Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura:

That restores:

‘Added race icons for Dark Elves, Ogres and Orcs. Now you can distinguish them from their brotherly races. Note: icons were in the game, but somehow were left out.’

‘Restored HEF2 (Half Elf Female 2) and NPCJay (Jayna Stiles) portraits from the beta version as the ones in the final are clearly inferior to them.’

‘Fixed Nicholas the Bartender at Madam Lil’s. He was using a generic bartender dialogue, while he had a proper one. His dialogue is rather funny, he gives you free drinks when you pay for a girl, and when you get drunk enough you get an option to sexually harass him, his comments are priceless (and random!).’

‘6 missing endings are now obtainable. These are the Death’s Champion, the Righteous Hero, the Just God, the Dark God, the Quiet God and the Undecided God.’

‘Orcish thugs will never have Potassium Nitrate (which is an unfinished item) in their inventory.’

‘Balanced Boomerang now can be bought at quality blacksmiths. The developers somehow forgot to add it in.’

‘Quality Revolver now can be bought at gunsmiths. It was forgotten as well.’

‘These are leftovers of the development. There are also leftovers of old interface and many many other things, eg originally there was a combine skill. It got replaced by technology schematics system, but there’s still art for it.’

Thanks a lot to Robert Seddon for these links and huge props to all the people that have worked on these mods! 

Shadow of the Colossus E3 beta?

Zero7 is trying to find one of the 3 different demo-disks of Shadow Of The Colossus, that should have some levels from the E3 (2005?) beta where the secret garden was different. You can read the original topic in the U64 Forum in here.

The demos with SotC beta were:

– September 2005 issue of PSM
– October 2005 (#97) issue of Official US PlayStation Magazine
– The “Playstation 2 Holiday 2005 Demo Disc” that Sony sends out

Does someone know where to find one of these? Any ISO leaked?

On YouTube we can find a couple of videos that seems to show this beta-garden:

Even in this other video there should be some differences (can you find them?):

 

New Unseen Interview: Scarred Sun from Sonic Retro

Sonic fans probably already know Sonic Retro, one of the best websites for informations about Sonic protos, hacks and various unseen stuff from our favourite blue hedgehog games. In these last years, the SR community was able to realize a wonderfull series of projects and researches, that help us to know more about the development of the Sonic saga. Sonic Retro is now a perfect example on how to organize a group of  expert gamers, “hackers” and lovely geeks, that collaborate togheter to preserve informations on lost games. What’s the secret of their success? We have contacted Scarred Sun, webmistress of SR, and she was nice enough to take some of her time to answer our boring questions about their site, the  Sonic Retro sceners and the beta-gaming world. Read the full interview » 

Outcast [PC – Beta]

In the Youtube Channel of qobol we can see an interesting video from an early beta of Outcast. In the description he has wrote that: “This early Outcast beta version is dated from September 1997. The game was formerly going to include a game mode called “duel”, which was a 1 versus 1 match. This was later discarded and the final version did not include any multiplayer option.” Props to qobol for the video!

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