Unseen News

Silver Duran has made us notice a video that we can see in the YouTube channel of TheLittleCuteThing, about a beta demo disc of Final Fantasy 7. In the video’s description we can read a list of differences, like:

• 0:20 – There is text on the CGI intro
• 1:42 – The Final Fantasy logo says 1996 instead of 1997
• 2:34 – Instead of finding a poton, You find nothing on the guards and can walk through them.
• 2:42 – The guards that ambush you are for some reason wearing black outfits instead of red
• 4:45 – You dont talk to jess or anyone to open the doors, You go straight to them.
• 12:00 – The summon intro was slightly different..And you dont get summons this early in the final. AND the boss is no longer a red scorpion.
• 12:55 – You have 3 minutes to escape the reactor instead of the massive 12 that you normally have.

Props to TheLittleCuteThing for these finds!
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Longuist has linked us to an old music video by Mouse on Mars, that uses scenes from what it looks like a beta version of Silicon Valley, one of the most interesting Nintendo 64 games. The major differences in this video should be:

• power gems & flowers look different
• no hud
• trees now have a texture?
• unknow level the video starts with?
• the “green” levels have now much more steel plates (remember: its a space station) (see level 7 for instance)
• and… no juggling disco bear ^^

Maybe some of these look different just because of the video montage, but its definitely newer than the e3 1997 version. Can you find more differences in here?

Unfortunately nothing is known between the collaboration of the Band and DMA. (Rumor: MoM did the score of the game). Thanks a lot to Longuist for these informations! 

Dudaw has an interesting theory about an unused flower-texture that has been found in the Mario 64 code. Check this video for details!