New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Nintendo, Nintendo DS

Shantae 2006 [DS – Cancelled]

monokoma
24-07-2008
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The original Shantae is a platform game created by Matt Bozon for the Game Boy Color. It was produced by WayForward Technologies and distributed by Capcom. Various Shantae sequels were planned for the GBA, GameCube and the DS, but never released. In the first Shantae Club newsletter (May 2008), Wayforward revealed some interesting infos about the DS version of Shanate: “In 2006-2007 we hit pretty hard, with a massive undertaking to redo the cast of hero and enemy sprites, and about half of the sequel’s backgrounds were created by Read more

Projects, Unseen News

Sonic 1 Beta Remake Project @ Sonic Retro

monokoma
23-07-2008
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This is probably an old news for hardcore Sonic fans, but everyone else will be happy to know that at the Sonic Retro website they are working on a playable remake of the Sonic 1 beta! As they write on the project page: “Sonic 1 Beta Remake is a Sonic 1 hack created by Mistergambit, first released on September 14th, 2006. This hack has all of the Sonic 1 levels redesigned to look like their prototype counterparts as seen in various magazine screen shots. This hack also has new objects, such as a functioning Splats, The Checkered Ball that was scrapped from GHZ, and more. To make it seem more like a genuine prototype, Some levels are made to look unfinished.“

You can read more info and download the beta remake at Sonic Retro! Props to them :)

Here’s a video from the remake of the beta Marble Zone:

Playstation, Sony

Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped [PSX – Beta]

monokoma
23-07-2008
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Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped is a platform game developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation. The game serves as a direct sequel to Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. It was the last platformer in the series developed by Naughty Dog, who then developed Crash Team Racing. [Info from Wikipedia]

In these screens from the beta version there are some differences: an early design of the HUD, changes in the the Load/Save Monitor room and in the Warp room, a missing background in the “Under Pressure” area, a removed bonus stage in the medieval levels, a removed Lab assistant that was supposed to Read more

Unseen News

Earthworm Jim 2: video from the beta version

U64 Staff & Contributors
22-07-2008
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In this old video from Earthworm Jim 2  there are some differences from the final version: the health display’s different, there’s some extra animations in the flying segment, the door segment’s layout has changed completely and there’s the unused green tentacle enemy (which looks incredibly well animated- maybe that’s why it was cut). You can check more info and screens about the beta version of EJ2 in our archive page

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Unseen News

The Roots? It was cancelled, but not on the Ngage

U64 Staff & Contributors
22-07-2008
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Al Carlson has made us notice that The Roots, a cancelled XBOX action RPG, was released for the Nokia N-Gage. Obviusly the Ngage version looks different from the XBOX one and probably even the gameplay is a bit different, but we wonder if it could have the same storyline as the unreleased game. You can check the Ngage version of The Roots at these links:

Thanks again to Al for this information! It’s interesting to notice that another cancelled game, Johnny Whatever for the PS2, was somehow released for the Gizmondo . Even if they are some of the more unknow portable gaming consoles, the Ngage and the Gizmondo have some love for lost games.