New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

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More old magazines scans! EGM 01 (May 1989).. any beta in there?

monokoma
26-04-2008
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The great people at Retromags have found and shared the first issue of EGM, dated May 1989! Are you unseen-geek enough to find some beta screens in it?

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“This issue was incredibly hard to come by on Ebay, I believe in the past 3 years of running Retromags, I have maybe only ever seen it listed 3-4 times. I hope you guys enjoy this release! A big thanks goes out to Meppi for sacrificing his Mario Kart play time to clean up the scans of this issue. I would also like to thank everyone who donates to this site, those donations help us acquire these rare gems for preservation. As this issue is now scanned, I have re listed it on Ebay for selling. We will be taking the money won from selling this issue to acquire more missing EGM issues.”

You can download the file @ Retromags:

They are even working on getting a full set of the first 10 years of EGM released, so help them if you can!

Nintendo, Nintendo DS

Castlevania: Dawn Of Sorrow [DS – Beta / Unused]

U64 Staff & Contributors
22-04-2008
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Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow is an action adventure developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo DS, in 2005. As we can read in Wikipedia, the production of Dawn of Sorrow was announced on January 6, 2005 as the first Castlevania game to be released on the Nintendo DS. The DS touch screen was a primary point of interest, and several functions, such as picking up items on the screen and moving them, were originally intended to be incorporated. However, scheduling problems forced the development team to abandon many of these ideas.

As noticed by argh4430, in the first two screenshots (the ones where Soma is fighting a manticore and skeleton archer in the Lost Village), those enemies are not there in the final version of the game. They are in the next area you visit, the Wizardry Lab).

Thanks to Xelba we have some more info about the beta differences in the early game. There was one screenshot that showed Soma fighting Gergoth at the beginning of the Lost Village stage. Also, an analysis of the game’s rom revealed some unused dialogue hinting about the piano room and Hammer wanting to help out Julius, Alucard and Yoko fight against Soma/Dracula.

While the piano room doesn’t do anything in the final version, there might have been a puzzle that rewarded you an item if done so correctly, but this is only speculation. As for Hammer, no action sprites were found other than his normal sprites. But the hidden unused dialogue between him and Julius as well as before the fight against Soma hints that Hammer was once planned to be playable in Julius mode only.

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Nintendo, Nintendo DS

Zelda: Phantom Hourglass [DS – Beta / Concept / Unused / Prototype]

U64 Staff & Contributors
22-04-2008
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The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass was the sequel of the classic saga of Wind Waker, featuring Toon Link. This game appeared on lots of magazine issues, before Nintendo release it, of course… There is one magazine from Brazil called Nintendo World, what they made a lots of issues featuring this Zelda, there was some beta changes in the screen shots (see the images gallery below)

An different “Go” and “Cancel” icons, well, at the final version are only text.
And different rupee/heart sprite…

Also, there is an unused short song on the game:

One Unused icon have been found by gabrielwoj in the game files. The icon located at /Test/banaicon.nbfc seems to be an old Icon for the Nintendo DS Menu [Which shows the game information and its icon]:
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Thanks to gabrielwoj for the contribution!

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Nintendo, Nintendo DS

Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland [DS – Beta]

U64 Staff & Contributors
22-04-2008
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ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a lot for your help! :)

ITA: Questa pagina dell’archivio non ha ancora una descrizione. Se vuoi aggiungere delle informazioni riguardo le differenze della beta o la descrizione di un gioco cancellato, lasciaci un commento o mandaci una email! Inseriremo le tue informazioni nella pagina ed il tuo nome nella lista dei collaboratori. Grazie per il tuo aiuto! :)

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