/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9053691
Sorry I got nothing

>>9053691
>Middle pic
Is that supposed to be like a skateboard ramp? A conveyor belt that brings bombs up kinda thing?

>>9053691
old blurry mysterious magazine screenshot filter really activated my imagination.

>>9054812
Do you know my name?

Pokémon gen had 65535 versions instead of red and blue but it was cut down to just the two because Nintendo didn't like the idea of mass producing all those different versions.

>>9054970
That's not how it works. The game was just going to use a form of RNG based on the trainer ID.

Maki throw (?) sprite in Final Fight 2 beta

>>9053691
Oh, that's simply amazing to find stuff like that. As surprising as that may sound, there's still a number of games that were left completely untouched by tech-savvy part of gamers.
My retro-est find was, I guess, in Test Drive Overdrive. I've been trying to drive Hamada's Supra and stumbled upon a half-finished, tuned Plymouth 'Cuda, completely unused by the game.

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>>9055854
Slowdown Mushrooms would have been awful because you know the game would have overdone it by making them only spawn if you were in the top 3. I wonder what the point of the Yoshi Egg (eggs?) would have been?

>>9055871
I imagine the eggs would have been similar to Yoshi's egg mines in SNES Kart, but the development team probably thought it was too similar to the fake item box and bananas. It probably also increased the number of things on the track too much, so maybe it was ditched for performance too.

>>9054728
Is that a Game Gear prototype? The screen resolution looks like it is 160 × 144 (same resolution as the GameBoy/ GBC).

Which is the best SoTC cut boss? Any theories about any of them?

>>9056241
That game was intentionally vague, had a lot of unique areas without purpose and a rushed release, it's like tailor made for early internet theory crafting.

>>9056245
As gay as it is, I did get a little sad thinking about that. All the 1k+ page discussions about Shadow of the Colossus on forums when the game was new.
There was so much wonder and mystery. The game was full of mysterious shit, and it was left to you and a council of internet nerds to interpret it and search for more.
Nowadays, within a day or two, everything has been cracked and examined through a microscopic lense. There will never be games with so much mystery and wonder anymore.

Cool thread idea
In mario RPG, Luigi was originally supposed to appear, but they decided against it. Also Square Enix was planning to make the game more "epic" (Mario was going to ride a horse at some point) before Miyamoto saw what they were doing. If you have the time to dig for it, you can find screenshots of this stuff but right now I don't have the patience

>>9053691
Conker 2.

>>9056241
It's crazy to me that these weren't even touched for the ground-up remake of the game. Even in some post-release DLC.
They clearly had models, and at least some functionality. But they're just GONE.

>>9054814
Fuck I wanna play this...

>>9056395
A couple of them had animations, and both test areas and placements on the map iirc.
Honestly, the beta Colossi, as well as the beta versions of the ones which made it into the final game, are incredibly creppy.

>>9056438
Obligatory

>>9056241

Aberth or Dionin for how surreal they look.

I remember a beta screenshot from Twilight Princess that showed Link in a sort of forest meadow interacting with a creature that looked like a Tree, sort of like the Deku tree or something, but the tree-being could walk around on 2 legs.

>>9056241
>>9056265
>>9056245
>remake / rerelease the game
>don't add a single cut or extra boss to it
God I hate the state of modern remakes / ports / whatever the fuck

>>9053691
Super Mario RPG 2 is my holy grail

>>9055854
What were the marbles supposed to do?

>>9056241
Spider, Worm & Monkey are my favorite. Very creepy unsettling vibe from those colossi.

It's like the prerendered CGI cutscenes of 1995-1998 but presented as if it were actual in-game graphics, wish I could've seen a full game in this specific style.

>>9057079
nightmare mode

Hugo was supposed to be in Street Fighter 3: New Generation, but they delayed him to 2nd Impact.
I extracted these from the game myself a decade ago.
You can select him via cheats.

You can jump with him infinitely and reappear from the bottom of the screen. He can stay in the air and crouch there.

>>9057253
>>9057260
I think the second image is just the line work from the first image, without the colors.
I don't remember much. It was a long time ago.

>>9057079
Those are probably my favourites, too. I wish there was footage of the Spider in action.

>>9055971
Most likely a mockup

>>9055779
very nice
There's definitely a massive amount of stuff to be uncovered, except we need the people, the time and the skill to find 'em

>>9056296
There was some sort of Prison where Peach was kept in. The map with just the collision data was found left in game

>>9056583
Even crazier if the animation they found where Gorons just gathered together to form a big creature
https://youtu.be/9yfcdcfzb5M

>>9054743
What we really need is to have analog cameras record the game we're playing at all times for maximum soul

>>9058304
>the time
I wish I had that. Just sitting here, digging into the code and translating movies, writing my semi-fanfic-stories ocasionally - what could've been better?
Unfortunately, it is an endless struggle for the money.
On topic: I wish one day to see one of those Eternal Darkness demos or Nintendo 64 version where you could play as knight templar.

>>9056610
You can't please most people. I've seen enough people get mad that remakes aren't literally 1-to-1 ports of the original to the point where I assume most companies have given up adding anything fun to remakes.

>>9056241
sotc probably has the most interesting cut content of any game in existence.

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>>9054041
The final game kept that layout. They just rotated the view and made it grassy. It is between of two grassy hills. U shaped.

>>9056614
It would have been better if Sonic controls started with Sonic running and the Act/Scene screen displays while there is noting todo but press left.

>>9060158
Really? I've always assumed the reason for this is just that companies nowadays are all lazy as hell.
I've always thought that while remakes should try not to change anything of the original, they should also try to add at least something new. Like, a new level or something... Otherwise it looks like it's a cheap moneygrabber.

>>9056618
I was about to say "meh, I'm happy with the paper mario we got;" but holy fuck give me this

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>>9061540
these are very likely mockups like they did with the anoes "proto". do you have the full ad though?

>>9056583
I always wondered what that thing was supposed to be.

Anyone remember the Starfy translation proto anon? https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/7359963/
Here's a backup of that video the author kept deleting, it's up for grabs if you want to upload it more permanently on YouTube or pass it along or something (replace spaces with period and forward-slash): anonfiles com 5b7eV8u1yc

The original Wave Race 64 was Wipeout on water...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ2kSA52ouc

The Streets of Rage 4 beta for the Dreamcast. oddly, Axel looks like a repurposed Virtua Cop model. I was sad about this one. but it looked really early in development. like conceptual stages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWqOoMRUgm8

>>9063063
>it's up for grabs if you want to upload it more permanently on YouTube
Is it needed? I kinda hate to upload someone else's work/footage/etc., unless it is... well, needed.

>>9061540
Yes those look a bit like mockups because the Text isn't 8x8 tile alligned.

>>9063479
I mean, it would be a shame it got lost because of hoarderfag. Could just preface it as "not mine."

>>9061540
I wonder why we didn’t get that Jason instead of neon blue boxing man

>>9062823
its just an underdeveloped temple guardian

>>9061873
it's so different that it's insane, every area shown is almost unidentical, that's why it is my holy grail of betas. If only there was another gigaleak

>>9053691
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO088MjJyeY

>>9061873
here's some more Mario RPG 2 stuff while I am at it.

>>9064434

>>9064439
and of course, gotta include tcrf, which has a ton of unused stuff documented about Paper Mario. https://tcrf.net/Paper_Mario

>>9056610
>he wants some mercenary porting developer to "fix" the original developers intent withotu actually knowing what it was
stop right there criminal faggot

>>9066232
Supposedly Itoi still has the at least one EB64 proto somewhere in his house. I wonder if he'd ever be willing to show it off.

>>9066393
Doesn't N64 protos require devkits? That seems unlikely he still has everything needed

Postal was basically the same game it was when it was beta, just with maps shifted around. Oh, and a scrapped level editor.

https://youtu.be/_Nut58ZhW_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x_pqyrf9lA

>>9067832
thats not really beta more of a fan romhack.

>>9067851
there's actual beta + unreleased + cut content in it, so it's on topic

>>9067909
Not really because it's all mixed together with all this fake made up shit

>>9067915
ok brainlet

>>9067931
honestly im on his side. the cut content stuff is cool but it gets confusing with the "just for fun" stuff, i cant tell which part is real and just for fun.
except for the very very ending, obviously just for fun stuff there

>>9067940
it's very clearly explained, brainlet

>>9067945
oh I see, it's in the video's description. I watched it live where it wasn't explained well as it went along. Looks like all the obvious stuff was actual beta content.

>>9067945
I don't think you realize how we're going to get years of repercussion from this crap

>>9067986
Even the most braindeead of idiots can realize what's fake and what's not, considering the presenter is explaining it in real time

>>9054970
>>9055073
We could totally do that today with a map randomizer and an encounter tables randomizer, we already have the latter and the earlier is not impossible (see infinite hyrule and various other rpgs with map randomizers.)

>>9067832
faggotry

Plok had an arcade predecessor meant to be published by Rare and a 30 second animated movie meant for promos, both of which were canned when they were nearly finished.

>>9068101
You'd be surprised

>>9057079
This anon gets it. I wish they had at least kept the Monkey. That thing is freaky yo

Do these unused colossi exist ANYWHERE?

>>9068476
>Do these unused colossi exist ANYWHERE?
Oddly enough, there are remnants in the code in the remaster: https://tcrf.net/Shadow_of_the_Colossus/Cut_Colossi_Remnants

>>9069130
we really are in the worst timeline.

>>9070983

It is an absolute crime against humanity that these were cut from the final game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESEHzlewLmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvp9rDSErHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDmyjWX30k

>>9071041
>We want Babes!

>>9069130
Which one is supposed to be Duster?

>>9071094
Still the bassist. Him and Shimmy Zmizz were the only ones that didn't have their roles changed and didn't have their full names removed. Baccio Trumpman is the one with the saxophone. OJ Hagii is the guitarist. Magic Zildjian (real name Rodrigo Rodriguez) is the drummer.

>>9053691
https://tcrf.net/Game_%26_Watch_Gallery_3

>>9071041
All of those endings added so much character to the game. It just fits.

As it turns out, GamePro covered Mega Man X before it came out and the only footage of it sat on YouTube for eleven years undisturbed.
This unused Maverick looks like an early design for Mandrill or Chameleon.

>>9063223
looks cool

>>9067832
Gay LARP

>>9071986
Link to the source?

>>9071986
I see a boar or warthog.
>>9073335
Seconded.

>>9073335
>>9073350
https://youtu.be/QtLVhqxdMvI?t=473

>>9073606
It's from a wmv video which is an inferior format so that's sovl

>>9073350
agreed, I see ganon

always hurts

Jungle Taitei/Kimba the white lion for N64, by the Super Mario 64 team.

>>9074060
I wonder if the difficulties faced by the team made the game shit or if Miyamoto was just soured on the idea of working around the creator of Kimba's schedule.

>>9074204
Tezuka was long dead by that point.
Apparently, the problem was working with Tezuka's son, who held the rights to his father's works.
I'd love to see more of it someday, there's only some very few pics and videos in very low quality.
Hoping something about it will someday surface in another gigaleak or whatever.

>>9074209
Here's a video with most of the trailer in much higher quality than other uploads of it. I tried look at other episodes on the channel and didn't find anything new.

>>9074306
Forgot the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWg1jSM7a7s&t=199s

>>9074309
Footage is at 3:19

>>9074060
>>9074209
What genre was this? 3D platformer?

KOTOR Beta images. Anyone got more of these?

>>9074362
Preferably higher quality.

>>9074363

>>9074367

>>9074368

>>9074369
Pretty sure this one's concept art, but whatever

>>9074375

>>9057081

Look up Render96. They're doing this with SM64 and it looks great

>>9074385
soulless

>>9074385
if you think that looks good, you have no soul. i suggest you try to find one

a couple of faggots appeared

>>9074385
It's alright, don't listen to haters.

>>9074362
>>9074363
>>9074367
>>9074368
>>9074369
>>9074375
>>9074378

>>9074430

I think it's cool. They've also found many of the original texture sources, so they're using the original uncompressed textures wherever possible. Having a Mario game based on the 3D renders was always a dream of mine so it's cool that someone's doing it.

>>9073736
I would trade autumn for this.

>>9074458
most of those arent original textures. and they added a bunch of stacked walls around the world to hide the sky. definition of soulless

>>9074498
I hadn't even noticed that until you pointed it out. But you're still a gigantic cocksucking faggot.

>>9074448
At that time, a lot of people were probably still rocking 800x600 to 1024x768 res, these would have been somewhat fine as article pictures

>>9074306
>>9074309
thank you anon! never seen this before.
>>9074360
apparently, yeah, or platformer-adventure.
I like to think of it as a sort of Okami game, since it also features a white animal on a big adventure.

>>9073736
That would be good to see in a randomizer

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>>9076202
>>9076230
these look like bullshots to me

Mockup by the age of empires developers for a never made game

so was he possessed or just anime sad he couldn't find mario

>>9074498

That image is an official render from Nintendo. I just posted it to show the style they're trying to emulate.

>>9055871
Yoshi eggs might have been planned to be what they were in Double Dash. Theory is backed up by the fact that they already had a giant Yoshi egg modeled and only used for a one off obstacle.