After so many Giga leaks, which game prototype would you love to see get found and dumped?

[Arklem]

South Park's cancelled PS2 game, it was a Simpsons Hit and Run clone but it looked very interesting

 

[VidiyaGaemer]

I want the PC Engine remake or Cocoron. The original game was for the Famicom and is from the creator of Mega Man.

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I beat the Famicom version, English translated. Such an awesome take on the Megaman formula by the OG creator that introduced original elements enough to distinguish it from being a clone

 

[Haganeren]

For me, I’d love to get the Sega Saturn build of Shenmue preserved. I’d also love beta builds of Sonic Unleashed, Pokémon X&Y, Spyro the Dragon, and (I mean this 100%) Bubsy 3D to be found.

I remember asking Yu Suzuki during GDC 2014 about the Saturn prototype, if we could play it somehow but i think he understood it as "You want me to release it ? I prefer not thinking about that now"... Too bad.

 

[Leon]

Hmm this is a tough one, but probably the alpha version of the legend of heroes: trails of cold steel where the protagonist was different.

 

[Ikagura]

Hmm this is a tough one, but probably the alpha version of the legend of heroes: trails of cold steel where the protagonist was different.

True. And Ys Seven as well as Ys Celceta.

 

[gekiganwing]

The unfinished NES version of SimCity leaked in 2018. So yeah, here's a couple of unreleased games I'm hoping to see someday...

* Dream Probe, the planned localized version of the Super Famicom game Psycho Dream
* The Journey Home: Quest for the Throne, another planned localized version of a Super Famicom game (Neugier, an action RPG)
* Dragon Warrior 5 for SNES. Years ago, I heard that localization of Dragon Quest 5 (Super Famicom) was half finished before it was abandoned. I wish that I had more details, but I don't. Today, I looked at the DQ fan wiki. They scanned Enix Warrior World newsletters from the 1990s. The last one stated that Dragon Quest 6 would be localized with the title Dragon Warrior 5. So now I'm wondering if any prototypes exist.

 

[Adrastia]

Resident Evil 4 "Hook Man" build.

That looked so cool. Out of all the RE4 builds this is the one I want to have a playable version of the most. It's truly nightmare fuel.

 

[longestseason]

Densen for the PS2. Shinya Arino mentioned it on a GameCenter CX episode, that's how I discovered it. I also heard Katamari Damacy was inspired by it (don't quote me on that though). It's a shame it didn't see the light of day.

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Densen for the PS2. Shinya Arino mentioned it on a GameCenter CX episode, that's how I discovered it. I also heard Katamari Damacy was inspired by it (don't quote me on that though). It's a shame it didn't see the light of day.

Can't edit my comment anymore but there once was a fully working DS port of The Silver Case that got canceled because they didn't know how to make use of the dual screen (or something like that).

 

[FTLOTG]

Densen for the PS2

Would be wonderful to see. Kiyoshi Sakai deserves a fat budget.

As for me I'd like to see Project Offset one day sneak out of Intel's vault.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Twilight Princess has so much unused content I'd love to play a beta version.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Twilight Princess has so much unused content I'd love to play a beta version.

Twilight Princess is genuinely so cool. Just a pure example of “okay, we made the greatest game ever. Where do we go next?” but then they actually went for it.

It’s like a combination of the adventure element of Ocarina with the darkness of Majora and it just has this great dark fantasy vibe to it. I’m definitely nostalgia biased though. I started with the Wii, so Twilight Princess art was my introduction to Zelda.


(Love you WindWaker! You’re amazing too, definitely better, but nobody loved you when you were born!)

 

[extermist]

Resident Evil 0 (N64)

 

[Ikagura]

Twilight Princess is genuinely so cool. Just a pure example of “okay, we made the greatest game ever. Where do we go next?” but then they actually went for it.

It’s like a combination of the adventure element of Ocarina with the darkness of Majora and it just has this great dark fantasy vibe to it. I’m definitely nostalgia biased though. I started with the Wii, so Twilight Princess art was my introduction to Zelda.


(Love you WindWaker! You’re amazing too, definitely better, but nobody loved you when you were born!)

Which is interesting because, for me, they've literally played a bit "too safe" for Twilight Princess.

Yes, there was Wolf Link and the Twilight Realm to separate from being just Ocarina of Time 2.0 but once again the Wolf sections were quite gimmicky and the Twillight Realm was basically like a Dark World from ALTTP (and mechanically the Future from Ocarina).

Zelda is also about taking risks and not doing the same thing (which is why TotK wasn't as appreciated I think, they didn't go too further with the newly added things).

This was Nintendo's admission of defeat towards fans that complained about WW for being too different while following the trend of making games darker and most western-looking in the mid-00's.

Of course, the soundtrack is great and the game looks impressive for the 6th gen when the Xbox 360 already came outt.

 

[Belldandy]

please please please please please

I need this so badly!!!

 

[blackfrostbufu]

The original Mother 3 that was being made for the N64 before it got scrapped for the GBA. It certainly looked odd, but I would be overjoyed to see it in all it's glory.

 

[CheelaCheela's icon]

This trailer has lived rent free in my mine since i was a kid. I know we got Kirby Return to Dreamland but this is the game i wanted as a Kid

 

[Ikagura]

This trailer has lived rent free in my mine since i was a kid. I know we got Kirby Return to Dreamland but this is the game i wanted as a Kid

Even a simple leaked demo area would be great.

This trailed showed how flexible Melee's Engine was.


RTDL and Star Allies are good on their own but we'll never see this game proper sadly.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Ubisoft's Zodiac, but it's straight impossible since the only prototypes are on discs that each of the original developers have.

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The Sega Saturn localisation of Devil Summoner that got cancelled

Sonic Xtreme, obviously. They gotta have the files.

Kirby GCN

Earthbound 64

(the original) Metroid Dread

Blur 2

Lufia 1 (SEGA Genesis). Apparently Lufia 1 almost made it to Genesis but was cancelled because of Taito America's 1995 closure

Plok (SEGA Genesis). That's actually mad, I wish this happened. Geoff Follin magic on SEGA Genesis (RIP)

Mega Man Mania (GBA)

Devil Buster, the canceled Sega Mega Drive SMT game that we only know existed because it was mentioned in a magazine combined with the cameo in (once again) Devil Summoner.
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Also Fate Apocrypha, if it even was being developed.

Shantae GBA is actually getting finished

@ColonelKurtz Thank you for reacting because it made me realize that I forgot to add Castlevania Resurrection to the list

 

[iamthemilkman]

System Shock 3, Prey 2, Shadow of the Eternals, B.C., The Unseen, The Lost, Advent Shadow, Demonik, Elveon, Project Offset, Necessary Force, Two Days to Vegas, This is Vegas, Frame City Killer, Killing Day, City of Metronome, Scalebound, The Crossing, Pirates of the Carribean: Armada of the Damned, Alan Wake original open world concept, Transworld Skateboarding, Eight Days, the original Dark Sector concept

 

[J0_]

There exists at least 1 copy of a prototype PAL localization for the original Mystery Dungeon: Torneko's Great Adventure that some private collector has their hands on.. Not much is known but supposedly the translation was done in-house by Nintendo. It was likely canceled due to poor sales of Enix titles outside of Japan at the time. I would absolutey KILL to have the ROM on that prototype.

 

[Ikagura]

Mystery Dungeon: Torneko's Great Adventure that some private collector has their hands on.

So let's consider it lost media for good sadly...

Not much is known but supposedly the translation was done in-house by Nintendo. It was likely cancelled due to poor sales of Enix titles outside of Japan at the time. I would absolutely KILL to have the ROM on that prototype.

Honestly what are people gaining from not releasing online? It's the same big issue as Panel de Pon 64 that is only in one collector's house:

 

[fake-kun]

So let's consider it lost media for good sadly...

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Honestly what are people gaining from not releasing online? It's the same big issue as Panel de Pon 64 that is only in one collector's house:
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Those kinds of people are the lowest of the low.

 

[Ikagura]

Those kinds of people are the lowest of the low.

Well, technically they're still in their right. You can buy a painting and keep it in your house for you and your family's view for as long as you wish (or until you pass away and that your heirs are getting it).

Sure, there are laws forbidding you from destroying said painting but most don't have to expose it in public or private exhibitions.

That would still be safe to dump it in another support as a saving copy.


PS: Lowest of the low is a bit of an hyperbole, they haven't killed anyone nor dealt weapons or any illegal products.

 

[fake-kun]

Well, technically they're still in their right. You can buy a painting and keep it in your house for you and your family's view for as long as you wish (or until you pass away and that your heirs are getting it).

Sure, there are laws forbidding you from destroying said painting but most don't have to expose it in public or private exhibitions.

That would still be safe to dump it in another support as a saving copy.


PS: Lowest of the low is a bit of an hyperbole, they haven't killed anyone nor dealt weapons or any illegal products.

What do you think is more important: the preservation of history and culture, or some collector getting to stroke their ego by owning a rare game prototype?

 

[Ikagura]

What do you think is more important: the preservation of history and culture, or some collector getting to stroke their ego by owning a rare game prototype?

Preservation is important but it's not like we're gonna ask to do some burglary at people's houses just for some video game.