Unseen News

After completing one of the launch titles for the N64 in 1996, Pilotwings (the other being Super Mario 64), Paradigm was tasked with creating three new games: Pilotwings 2, a “racing” game (Which later became Beetle Adventure Racing!) and a more serious flight simulator, which was to be called “Flights of the U.N.” This title was later changed to Harrier 2000, and again to Harrier 2001 probably due to delays. The game was supposed to be released in 1999, but when it was delayed they “updated” the title to go along with the new release date. Read the rest of this entry » 

This Halo 3 beta features near, if not actual, retail maps. The difference between this and the final are of course, the fact that its slightly earlier then the final, and the fact that the Campaign mode is not available. I’ve gone ahead and posted a HD Video over on Past to Present, so until next time, keep seeing the unseen.

Link: PtoPOnline.com 

In the YouTube channel of dudaw12 we can see a video of Mario 64 “hacked”, where there are some little Chill Bullies that are not used in the final game.

As hes say in the description of the video “Using Toad’s Tool 64 by VL-Tone, I added the model ID of mini Chilly Bullies in Super Mario 64. Perhaps they were beta elements? Or maybe just a scaled model left in the game? I don’t know.” If you dont remember who Chill Bully is, here’s a description from Mariowiki:

“Chill Bully is a Big Bully found in Super Mario 64. It has a blue surface and a single golden spike on the top of its head (as opposed to the usual black surface and twin horns of normal Bullies). Chill Bully appeared in Course 10: Snowman’s Land. In this level, Chill Bully walked around on an ice platform above a pool of extremely cold water.” In M64 Chill Bully is just one big boss, but these little ones could have been “ordinary” harder enemies for the same level or maybe from a removed one? 

We have added some new beta images in these galleries: Paper Mario [Debug Rooms], Asylum, Super Ghost and Ghouls, Tonic Trouble, Deadlands, Starshot: Space Circus & Prey. Thanks to Jose Felipe Riveros Navarro, Robert Alneda, Henrique Resende and David Ladnier for some of these screens and infos! 

Robert Seddon & Glitterberri have finished their interesting translation project and now we are able to read in english all the unused japanese text that was found in FF7 International. Here’s an example: “Another piece of unused dialogue from Mt. Corel; in the English files the dialogue on this map is all from Barret’s flashback with Dyne. GlitterBerri’s translation below shows a bit of extra character development on the journey through the mountains.

Barret: Hey, Cloud……

Cloud: What is it? Your voice sounds strange.

Barret: ……..jeez… It’s nothing.

Tifa: whisper whisper…… (Something’s weird about Barret…)

[…]

Yuffie: Hey, I have to go to the bathroom! I hope there’s one nearby…

Presumably this scene would have foreshadowed Barret’s reception in Corel Village; maybe Square decided it was superfluous.”

You can read more about the “Hot Blooded Detective Joe” project and all the unused text @ BerriBlue Blog & The Face Of The Moon Blog. Props to them for the find and the translation! :)

If you are curious about the Detective Joe reference, it’s linked to the original FF7 plot, as we can read in an old IGN article: “Nomura recalled the creation of the game’s plot, which was originally written by Hironobu Sakaguchi, now of Mistwalker. Nomura, who claims to still have a copy of the plot, noted how “completely different” it is from the final version. “I think he wanted to do something like a detective story? There was a character called Hot Blooded Detective Joe.” The Midgar city was already in place at this point. The early part of the story that was written by Sakaguchi involved Detective Joe chasing after the main characters, who then blow up the city. Obviously, the story changed some once Nomura and Kitase got involved.”