New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Neo-Geo Pocket, Others

Magician Lord 2 [Neo Geo Pocket – Cancelled]

Celine
11-10-2012
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Magician Lord 2 is a cancelled sequel for ADK‘s sidescrolling action game, that was in development for the Neo Geo Pocket. When SNK released his handheld system Neo Geo Pocket in 1998, its historic ally ADK started to work on the new platform. ADK thought to resume one of its past franchise: Magician Lord.

A sequel was already in development in the mid nineties exclusively for Neo Geo CD (alongside Crystalis 2) but it was eventually canned. The NGP game was a direct sequel of the cult Neo Geo title, with Elta (the original protagonist) that could morph in even more creatures than previously, although game mechanics looked more oriented toward a Metroid/Castlevania type of gameplay.

Unfortunately even this time Magician Lord 2 and another NGP game, World of Heroes, was never released because ADK went bankrupt in early 2000. Recently an alpha version of Magician Lord 2 which was available to the japanese press got unearthed thanks to Puyo/Gamekult.

For more details (in french) read the article on Gamekult.

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Leaked, Microsoft, Xbox

Storm Riders [Xbox – Cancelled]

monokoma
09-10-2012
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Storm Riders is a cancelled action game that was in development for the original Xbox, that could have been based on a korean film / comic with the same name. There are not many info on its development, but an early beta version / prototype of the game was somehow found on an old Xbox Debug Kit by Museman and it was shared online thanks to the Assembler Games Forum. The menu, HUD and some of the character’s moves are really similar to Ninja Gaiden, but there aren’t any connection with Tecmo’s game.

As wrote by Andrew Borman in the Assembler Forum:

Storm Riders was built really, really late in the Xbox’s life, July 22 2005, NG started life in like 1999 before being announced at e3 2002 and released in March 2004. I havent found any evidence other than one comment that seemed to think it came from a Tecmo Xbox. Ive dug through the XBE some more and didnt find anything. It was compiled from a folder called Phoenix, which I thought might be related to Iron Phoenix, but beyond that I havent seen the evidence to link it, so I moed on.

Borrowing assets isn’t all that unusual in the dev world, so the NG assets are meaningless. But if you look up Storm Riders Online, which was to be an MMO, it was made by a studio called Phoenix Games Studio, which with the compile info points to it being from them, which is a studio in Malaysia. This also links back to the fact that the Xbox it was found on was 220v, which wouldnt be the case for a Japanese box, but does match for Malaysia. So that is much more likely

Thanks a lot to MegaMoto85 for the video!

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Others, WonderSwan

Mobilesuit Gundam MSPlatoon.com [WonderSwan Color – Cancelled]

Celine
07-10-2012
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In 2001 Bandai announced Mobilesuit Gundam MSPlatoon.com for WonderSwan Color. However the game concept, known during production as “the Net Gundam“, first concept was in 1997 when developers at Bandai started to think to create a Gundam game designed to work over the Internet. MSPlatoon.com was a strategy game that allowed gamers to play as a soldier for the Republic of Zion or the Earth Federation and engage fights in operation plans announced every week by server-side so to battle with other humans online. Over the time you could even become a leader of your chosen side.

The online component was guaranteed through the WonderGate, an add on that allowed the WonderSwan to access to NTT Docomo network, or through a special cartridge to connect with a PC (see image below). This interesting title, the first multiplayer online game for a dedicated handheld system, was planned to be released in autumn of the same year but seems the concept was far too ambitious so Bandai quietly cancelled the project.

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Unseen News, Unseen Podcast

[U64 Italian Podcast] Episodio 2.1: Super Mario Beta Saga (Parte 2)

monokoma
06-10-2012
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The Unseen 64 Podcast is only in Italian, sorry!

U64 Podcast: Episodio 2.1 – Super Mario Beta Saga (Parte 2) [105:03] (streaming) ebbene si, siamo riusciti a registrare una nuova podcast! In realtà questa la abbiamo registrata la scorsa estate, ma tra una cosa e l’altra abbiamo avuto tempo per sistemarla e uploadarla solo oggi. Assieme a mono, Reno, Bakka, Yota e Mr.Game ci siamo incontrati di sfuggita per parlare di Mario Galaxy e delle sue caratteristiche rimosse, con una introduzione sulle leggi di censura online (che probabilmente saranno ormai superate), strani fenomeni paranormali e suoni che uccidono nascosti in pokèmon, il mistero dietro l’urlo di munch, e forse si, abbiamo anche fatto una lunga e approfondita discussione su tutti i modelli inutilizzati nascosti nel codice del gioco! Solo i veri fan o chi non ha di meglio da fare, riusciranno ad ascoltare questo episodio fino alla fine.. buon ascolto! >> U64 Episodio 2.1 – Super Mario Beta Saga (Parte 2) [105:03]– Download Versione in MP3

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Playstation, Sony

Konami Rally [PSX – Cancelled]

Celine
05-10-2012
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Konami Rally is a cancelled racing game planned for the origina playstation. Konami output on MSX platform was legendary, loved franchises as Metal Gear and Parodius moved the first steps on it. At E3 ’99 Konami announced that one of his glorious MSX games, Konami Hyper Rally, was getting new outings on GameBoy Color and Playstation. This racing game however had a different fate compared to Metal Gear Solid, because it vanished after that show.

The GBC rally game was renamed as Cross Country Racing and released in 2000 .

Scan from PlayMag issue 37.

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