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 :)
Huge Prototype Sale
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!
[New Staffer] ..and we have not finished yet
The U64 family is still growing somehow and more beta-lovers want to help our little archive of games that we’ll never be able to play. Today we are happy to welcome a new young staffer, that will try to give us an hand to finish all those missing descriptions for the unseen games: say hi to Max/GamerX428!
Soulstar X [Jaguar CD/32X – Unreleased]
Soulstar was a Mega-CD game created by Core Design, and after its release, two seperate conversions were planned. One was a port to the Jaguar CD, under the same name, whereas the other was an updated version for the 32X, under the name Soulstar X. In the end, neither of them were released.
Zelda: Twilight Princess – Beta Bombs video
In the YouTube channel of Sammature there’s a video from Twilight Princess that shows the beta bombs, an early version of the item that is still in the code of the game and can be seen thanks to a GameShark code. These bombs are similar to the ones that Link uses in the previous games, while the final ones in Twilight Princess have a more “realistic” design.