Heart of Darkness garnered a lot of buzz back in the latter half of the ’90s… It was both well promoted and highly anticipated as the follow up project to Éric Chahi & Delphine Software‘s earlier Out of This World strategy/platforming adventures. Many Saturn owners looked forward to experiencing this cinematic title on their home console back […]
It’s been almost a year (11 months to be exact) since the Satiator saw it’s last firmware update, so while this new may not be a big deal.., seeing the announcement from Professor Abrasive certainly caught our attention… Satiator owners may remember the last update FW157, which allowed for better handling of cards with frequent […]
In their ongoing quest to document video game prototypes, hardware revisions, source code, artwork, and all kinds of other development ephemera, the preservationists over at The Hidden Palace have released 178 prototype game builds—30 of which are from games that never saw a commercial release! These releases are mostly from older cart-based systems, ranging from the […]
On January 19th, the twitter account Forest Of Illusion released a beta for Zelda 64 (yep not Ocarina of Time) that is most likely dated to sometime around Spaceworld 97. Now, we don’t have the whole build as the data was found on a dev cart had the final build of F-Zero X. And that […]
On December 31st, 2020, HIdden Palace streamed on Twitch an unreleased prototype of the original Sonic the Hedgehog from before the game was set to release. It has a bunch of differences in both level design and graphics, most notable being some of the backgrounds in zones like Marble Zone (shown on the left), and […]
GamingAlexandria published an interesting article chronicling the story behind the unreleased Nintendo 64 game, Viewpoint 2064, complemented by an excellent video by Hard4Games. Viewpoint 2064 was completed and scheduled for a Nov 2000 release, but was ultimately cancelled. A fully-working ROM dump of the prototype was posted to The Internet Archive. The cart’s dumping and […]
A prototype of an unreleased Sega Genesis Star Wars game was recently made available to the public thanks to the combined efforts of Hidden Palace and the Cutting Room Floor. Based on the 1992 Super Nintendo/Famicom game Super Star Wars, the unnamed Genesis game was being developed by Sega Interactive, an in-house studio responsible […]
Thanks to Baker64 and The Hidden Palace, SNES fans have some new different material to wade through. Prototype ROMS are now available for Run Saber (pictured above), Arcade’s Greatest Hits, Aero the Acro-Bat 2, and The Death and Return of Superman. Hello folks. We have a couple of SNES treats for you for today. We have […]
A prototype of the unreleased 32x game ClayFigher 2 has been found and dumped. It shows the game in an extremely early state, but it’s still a fun piece of history to check out: http://hiddenpalace.org/ClayFighter_2:_Judgment_Clay_(Apr_28,_1995_prototype) A super early prototype of the unreleased 32x port of ClayFighter 2 has been dumped by the good folks at the […]
Someone has just purchased a prototype wiimote and sensor bar that was a prototype for the GameCube! Read the full story on arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/japanese-auction-reveals-nintendos-first-wii-remote-for-the-gamecube/ UPDATE: While I’d still call this a very cool find, this is not the first time the controllers have been seen. Someone on the AssemblerGames forum found a similar prototype a […]
