New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

The Conduit [Wii – Tech Demo / Beta]

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On April 17th 2008, High Voltage studios revealed footage for a new and mysterious game called ‘The Conduit’. The footage was a tech demo which displayed some of the visual effects that they had managed to achieve on the wii.

Almost exactly one month later, on May 16th 2008, High Voltage released more in-game footage of a beta version for their new, highly-anticipated first person shooter, ‘The Conduit’. The beta pushes the potential of the wii hardware visually, showing off some fancy effects and detailed textures.

In a later video, the developers show an interesting comparison between the first build of the game and the almost-final version. Props to High Voltage Software for showing this!

The final version of The Conduit have a hidden file called CDGame.txt in which can be changed some options to play with the debug mode. If you change the debug options to “ON” you can play the E3 demo with debug features. Also, by activating the conduit’s debug menu you can access a secret test level. The Test level – thanks to hackers – can now be played in multiplayer!

…you can also access an unused/beta level called the sanctum.

Thanks to tgarciao and DCodes7 for the contributions!

StarFox [Virtual Boy – Cancelled]

Star fox VB (Virtual Boy) was a tech demo of the star fox game that was in developement for the virtual boy. The originally planned game itself, “Star Fox Virtual Boy” was cancelled obviously because the virtual boy died soon after the tech demo was revealed. It only ever was saw by the attendees of E3 1995 and at the Winter Consumer Electronics show of 1995 along with the other cancelled star fox game, Star Fox 2. It was revealed at E3 95′ when nintendo showcased their previously planned and small virtual boy library. To do this, nintendo gave all attendees 3-D glasses to watch the projected images more effectively. At this conference was where the only publicised image of Star Fox VB was taken, as seen below.

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Image source: Virtual-Boy.org
Video source: Grooveraider

[Updates] Yoshi’s Island intro & some new screens

MajorTom could be one of our favourite beta geeks: he has sent to us a new description for the Yoshi’s Island beta page, and we have added it to the archive! You can read it in here. Thanks again Tom! :) In the meantime we have added a couple of new screens in these galleries: New Super Mario Bros, Mario Galaxy, Socks the Cat Rocks the HillPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Comanche and Mission Impossibile 64.

Spiderman 3 Debug – Part 1

Hi again everyone looking for the unseen. I recently got a chance to play around with a debug version of Spiderman for the Xbox 360. Over on my site, Past to Present Online, I am doing a multipart feature on the game and its functions. The first debug function I am featuring is a Big Screenshot function. It essentially takes 9 seperate 720p screenshots, and after some Photoshop magic, you get one huge 3840×2160 sized shot. Enjoy the feature, and keep on reading! Link: PtoPOnline.com

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