Unseen News

In a screen of Mario 64 Beta there was a strange item inside a Big Boo:

It was difficult to understand what it was, but the mystery behind this item was cleared a bit with the find of the same exact 3D model still in the game: thanks to Toad’s Tool 64, we can change the ID of some items to show up an unused small Key, the same one that was inside Boo in that old image! Dudaw12 has made a video with the ghost key that we can see in his YT channel:

Now the question is: what kind of use had this small key? Why we had to take it from Big Boo in the Mario 64 beta? Could it had some kind of use in the ghost mansion? Probably we’ll never know.. 

Martin Konrad has found more beta stuff in his collection of old gaming magazines: in these scans we can see more screens from an early version of Sonic Triple Trouble/Chaos 2 for the GameGear. Martin says that “There is some kind of 3D bonus levels which is not used in the final game and a couple of scenes with Nack/Fang which were removed.”

“Another scan shows a level in the first world, but the level layout is different from the final version”. You can check all these beta-screens and more in our Sonic Triple Trouble / Chaos 2 beta archive. Thanks a lot to Martin Konrad for the contribution! 

Some time ago we had a discussion about a misterious bath scene that was found in the american version of Landstalker with the help of some hack-codes, but thanks to Ryu-Ya we found out that the scene was accessible without codes in the japanese version of the game. The bath-stuff was not beta, just censorship, but Ryu-Ya is the webmaster of Landsavior, a site about codes and hacks for Landstalker, and it seems that hidden in the game there were really some beta contents: a series of enemies and items that are not used in the final version, neither the japanese or the american one. We have added these unused sprites in the Landstalker page archive, check them out! Thanks a lot to Ryu-Ya for this contribution :)  

Over at GameSniped, Castlevania4ever is selling his massive collection of prototype and unreleased games! If you are interested in buying any one of them, just send him an offer through a PM on the GameSniped Forums.

His collection spans over several different systems, including Gameboy, NES, SNES, N64, PS2, Genesis, and more! It’s really a huge list, so go check it out! There are some very rare items on the list, like the NTSC NES version of Earthbound, or the unreleased N64 game Toon Panic. I tried to buy Toon Panic, but someone had already offered over 1000 USD, which is way out of my price range. So if you have some money to spare and you buy one of his games, you can help build Unseen 64’s archive by providing us with pictures and video of your purchase!