Advanced Wars: Under Fire [GameCube Battalion Wars Beta]
Sonic Adventure – Removed Dragon Boss [By FullM3talGamer]
OoT Beta room in Ganon’s Castle? [By DeathBasket]
Conker Twelve Tales N64 Beta E3 97 [By adonfjv]
Super Mario Kart – Vanilla Lake 1 beta soundtrack [By marshallsuperplexi]
Here are some beta / unused finds from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest! Robert Seddon linked us to another interesting topic in the DKC Atlas Forum, where Kiddy14 has found out about a beta video of DKC2 with lots of differences from the final version! In there we can see that there’s no fog in Web Woods, the Lava Lagoon has no lava and there are Klaptraps around there, the player can not swim in the water and there’s a storm in Mainbrace Mayhem and Krow’s Nest. For more infos check the original topic in the DKCA Forum! Also, they found some unused sprites for Dixie and Diddy Kong. There was also a character cut from the game. His name was Mr. X. It is speculated that he was supposed to be the boss of Gusty Gulch but never made it to the final game and was was replaced by another boss named Kreepy Krow.
Codes for unused levels and more can be found at The Cutting Room Floor!
Thanks to Gabriel for the contribution of the sprite pictures!
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From the long list of scans that MathUser has posted on the HPZ Forum, there’s an image from an early build of Virtua Fighter, with a beta select screen, different names for some fighters and a character (Shiba) that was cut and later reintroduced in Fighters Megamix.
From wikipedia we can read: Siba / Shiba is from a prototype of Virtua Fighter but was cut from the cast by the time of game’s actual release, though an icon featuring him (and mislabelled as “Akira”) appears on older Virtua Fighter arcade cabinents. Siba is an Arab in a white and purple outfit equipped with a sword that charges with green energy.
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Thanks to Celine we can even see some screenshots with Siba / Shiba in action! (Taken from CVG magazine issue 31 and a spanish magazine thanks to Sega Saturno). We can also notice that the original name was Virtua Fighters (plural) instead of Fighter.
Also, Nick C was able to find an arcade cabinet with the Shiba picture! Click on the image for a bigger version:
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Thanks a lot to Interactive Dreams for these images!
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Grazie a Federico abbiamo qualche notizia in più su questo gioco cancellato per CDI: Space Ranger doveva essere uno sparatutto a scorrimento orizzontale ambientato su vari pianeti, previsto in uscita per il 1995. Il progetto fu poi abbandonato perchè la Philips non voleva investire ulteriori fondi. Il gioco avrebbe richiesto opzionalmente la Cdi Digital Video Card. Una versione alpha è stata rilasciata un paio di anni fa, ma putroppo sembra che non sia stato sviluppato molto: è presente un solo livello giocabile che non è possibile nemmeno concludere. Già dalla versione alpha si può comunque notare una grande cura nella grafica 2D, con diversi livelli di parallasse e sfondi in movimento. Ancora una volta un progetto interessante cancellato troppo presto.
Thanks a lot to Federico for the info and to Interactive Dreams for these images!
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