New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Unseen News

Heroes game is now officially cancelled

monokoma
06-11-2008
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On the MTV Gameblog we can find the confirmation about the cancellation of the Heroes videogame, a title based on the TV serie that was in development at Ubisoft for the current generation consoles: “The rights to the ‘Heroes’ video game have reverted back to NBC Universal. Ubisoft will no longer produce a video game based on the TV series. The game was officially announced in July 2007 and slated to release in late 2008. Ubisoft’s announcement follows NBC’s firing of the program’s executive producers, reported by Variety this past weekend.” No screens or videos were released before the cancellation, but maybe some media will be leaked in the future.

Leaked, Unseen News

Fighting / Judgement Force for Saturn: now leaked!

monokoma
06-11-2008
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Fighting Force is beat ’em up developed by Core Design that was released for the PlayStation, PC and Nintendo 64 in 1997. A Saturn version was in development too, but it was later cancelled. Now, thanks to Hidden Palace and its community, an aplha of the Saturn version is leaked to the public! It seems that the project was initially named “Judgement Force” and it was meant to be a new game in the Streets of Rage saga. I have never played  Fighting Force, so i dont know if this proto has some differences from the final version, maybe someone knows? You can download Judgement Force at Hidden Palace.

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Bomberman Hero (Ultra Genjin) [N64 – Test Map]

U64 Staff & Contributors
05-11-2008
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In the Youtube Channel of runehero124 there’s a video from a nice Bomberman Hero test-map. From the description we read that: “This code was originally discovered by Icy Guy from the RareWitchProject forums. So give him full credit. I rediscovered it a couple years later, but noticed that it had been found before.”

From an interview at GDRI we found out the design of Bomberman Hero is an adaption of the concepts for the cancelled Ultra Genjin:

GDRI: What happened with Ultra Genjin [N64]?

Ultra Genjin was being planned during the game industry’s transition from 2D to 3D games. I studied the practical aspects of this quite a bit, but I think that nobody really knew what should be done with games at the time. As a result of trial and error, we were able to adapt the design for Ultra Genjin to Bomberman Hero.

A little more information about Ultra PC Genjin directly from Shouichi Yoshikawa site:

ULTRA PRIMITIVE MAN (UNFINISHED)
PLATFORM N64/ 32M ROM (HUDSON/ Project stop )
MY TERM JUNE 1995. to DEC. 1995.
MY CHARGE Planning & 3D Graphic tool mastering
CONTENT After the project stop, this planning was transfered to “BOMBERMAN HERO”

Thanks to Celine for the contribution!

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Dreamcast, Others, PC / MAC, Sega

Omikron: The Nomad Soul [ Beta – PC Dreamcast – Unused Character / Concept]

monokoma
04-11-2008
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Omikron: The Nomad Soul (also know as “The Nomad Soul” in Europe) is a PC and Sega Dreamcast 3D adventure game, developed by Quantic Dream and published in 1999. Thanks to the Omikron Game Blog, we can see some interesting screentshots from an early (1997 / 1998) version of the game, with different character design, HUD interface, color of hair, missing transport, some removed NPC, removed street combat and flying-moto racing. Thanks a lot to UL from the Omikron Game Blog for all these informations and huge props for all the Quantic Dream media that he has archived in his blog!

Thanks to Unclejun for the video and some more screens!

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Unseen News

[New Staff] More people for the unseen researches

U64 Staff & Contributors
04-11-2008
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We are happy to welcome a new group of lovely geeks in the Unseen 64 Family: El Gato, Refurs, Thyoldpie and Deriks are going to help the U64 Staff to find more screens, videos and informations from the unseen world, to try to preserve all the changes and the cuts in the gaming development. Thanks a lot for your help guys! We are honored to have you in the staff.. and now go back to work! ;)