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 :)
Coded Arms [PSP – Beta]
SANiK on the X-Cult forum has wrote an interesting post about the early screenshots of Coded Arms for the PSP. The game is a first-person shooter that was developed and published by Konami in 2005: it takes place inside a virtual reality military training simulator, which has been abandoned. However, the program Read more
Battletoads [GBA – Proto / Cancelled]
Battletoads is a video game by Rare Ltd. created to rival the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. The first game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991 and was followed up with sequels released over the ensuing years for GameBoy, SNES, Megadrive / Genesis and Arcade. [Info from Wikipedia] A proto for a cancelled GBA version of Battletoads was discovered in the collection of cancelled RARE games that transparentjinjo has uploaded on his Youtube Channel.
The game was in development only for a few weeks, and everything from character animations and enemy AI to sound effects is a placeholder.
The character design was the result of merging the sometimes conflicting ideas of the original Battletoads artists, who were now in director or lead positions on other teams.
Even the main game design was not fixed at that point. Team instructions ranged from “make a shiny clone of the NES version” to “do whatever you think is best” to “everything cool will have to wait for an Xbox version”.
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Tekken 5 [PS2 – Beta]
In this old trailer of the Tekken 5 we can see less-detailed characters, enviroments and animations than the one in the final version. Even the hole in the wall behind Kazuya is missing from this trailer.
Thanks to Marco for the contribution!
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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!
