I was browsing Assemblergames.com Forum and I saw this topic about a 64DD version of Super Mario 64. It looks like a Mexican gaming magazine had the chance to try a demo a Super Mario 64 with faster loading time on the 64DD. Not really important though, it was just a demo that Nintendo made for demostrating 64DD’s loading time. (the Edge scan below, was just an April Fool joke)
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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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]:
Thanks to gabrielwoj for the contribution!
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The working title for this game was Super Mario 64×4. Also, several beta screenshots were released for the game. Originally, all four characters could fight Bowser at the same time, and fly. This feature was removed, as the four characters can only fight Bowser by their own (with Yoshi utilizing hats to be able to swing Bowser).
Also at E3 2004, there was a demo called Mario’s Face, where the user could use the stylus to mess around with Mario or Wario’s face, and have them be 3D or outlined like a cartoon. This could have possibly been the beta Mario Mini for Super Mario 64 DS. The caps the player uses were originally enclosed in boxes labeled M, L, and W. The boxes can still be found in the test level.
Also, early screenshots depicted Wario with his original long shirt sleves before adopting the shorter ones for the final product. The game was also originally was supposed to have a co-op mode but was canned probably due to memory constraints. [Info from Mariowiki]
An unused Red Koopa model was found in the game’s code with some cheats.
Thanks to Hiccup for the contribution!
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