Are you unhappy girl
In this confusing world
Where everything you earn
Is getting left to burn
If it were up to me
Then living would be free
And I can give you that
And I can give you that
They'll take your money
Into their greasy hands
And spend (they do this to)
Here's some early demo footage recorded from a trade show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys723F9wiwU
Skip to 3:38 for gameplay. At some points in the video you can see a topographical map of the level appear in the top right corner. This explains why the star and coin counters are more in the center in all these screenshots.
Your money (disrespect you)
I'd give anything to play a rom of that SM64 build
And take (I know kung fu)
Away your land (I will save you)
What's with all the beta SM64 pics looking super sharp? Did they have higher-res textures to begin with and had to reduce them for the final version or something?
'Cause you're worth saving baby!
>SM64 already looks like ass
>Imagining what it could have been in BETA
;-;
![supermario64_vbjw[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Dk6ENjJ.jpg "supermario64_vbjw[1].jpg")
WHEN YOU WALK AWAY
Deregulating baby!
I'm Ronald Reagan, baby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWX9O4dfSbs
>>337629302
SM64 was pretty much in development along with the N64, so it's possible they had different iterations of the hardware for earlier prototypes.
I'm Ronald Reagan, YEAH!
I'll save you honey!
You'll never be alone!
I'll save (if you love me),
The business (say you love me),
That you (they hate freedom),
Will someday own (I'll defeat them)!
>>337628083
In this video...
Not like in comics baby!
With economics baby!
With Reaganomics, BABY!
ATOMIC BOMB IT, YEAH!
>tfw you get a fraction of what a game was meant to be due to hardware limitations
>>337628989
Super Mario 64 is the best game ever made. Looking at this reminds me of how much they could have got wrong, and how much they got so very right. Literally the first good 3D platformer ever and it STILL holds up.I had a PS1, it's not nostalgia.
Here's some trade show footage of Ocarina of Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0bOGi-tKGQ
Look carefully at the menu screen right at the beginning to see the temple medallions in the inventory connected to the arrows.
I think Rick, Coo, Kine, Nago, Pitch, and Chuchu were just meant to be minigame characters, which would have been fine.
>>337629883
What is this
We all know Afo, Dedede, aand W. Dee were meant to be switchable
>>337629883
Fuck Nintendo and their stupid gimmicks. The 64DD was such a waste of time and money for them and we got gimped 1st party games because they wasted YEARS trying to make it work..
>>337630047
looks like kirby
>>337630047
Kirby 64 before the 64DD was a flop
>>337630120
Ado*
Aka Adeleine
>>337628083
Something about beta footage from 5th gen games creeps me the fuck out
Like a world that was never allowed to exist
good thread
>>337629348
Holy fuck that tech
>>337630140
Completely rather they sit on Crystal Shards until GCN than rush out a gimped N64 version
>>337629346
Thanks for reminding me!
>new jerma rumble this summer
>nintendo are too tight lipped to show beta footage ever again
>>337629348
*unzips katana*
>>337629918
There was a lot missing.
Like Yoshi was obviously intended to be rideable, he was the perfect size and had animations for jumping and stuff. Not to mention the animated 3D egg that bounced around, obviously the "pickup" for a Yoshi.
There was an unused yellow block, and the switch for it. Another powerup.
Also worth noting is that in a MARIO game there was no super mushroom.
>>337630393
Why is it GCN? Wouldn't it make much more sense if it was NGC? Inb4 prease understand
How about games that never made it that far?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdBKq7o6RTE
>>337630885
>NGC
it's actually abbreviated that way in Japan. But for some reason it became GCN in the west.
>>337628989
>tfw there's a prototype of this shit sitting in a warehouse or some nerd's basement that will never see the light of day
>>337631109
The Saturn was such a fucking trainwreck.
>>337630885
It was always called that on the internet, I think some magazines used it too. Never really questioned it
I realize how much of a long shot this is, but does anyone remember that SA1 trailer that showed off the online features? It had a good song in it that I can't find anywhere.
>>337629994
Somehow the lighting looks better on Link. Maybe it's rim lighting? Meh
>>337631109
>X-Treme
>Heavy Metal
>Wall-Eye vision
I'm honestly glad this shit died
>>337630885
It's because of the Neo Geo Color
>>337631186
Neo-Geo Color
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjTZ_IcQ4Lg
Two of the things I had heard about from people who played the location test way back when are documented here: Victor being able to shoot lightning bolts while his power up super is active, and Huitzil's Final Guardian involving him summoning another robot. Unfortunately, none of the stuff I had heard about Donovan is shown, although I do have this screenshot of his beta Blizzard Sword.
>>337630252
Because it's all grainy and faded. It's also really mysterious and has a sketchy "deserted, outdated part of the internet" subculture attached to it, kind of like emulators.
>>337628989
>you will never, ever play prototypes of N64 games like this and Banjo Kazooie
We know at least Rareware keeps them.
We almost had this.
It was so close.
Then something happened and we got the shitty timeline of reality.
>>337633431
alpha footage = me
beta footage = u
get rekt faggot
>>337633527
>>337633431
Saturn version of Adventure, yeah?
>>337633621
That and classic designs with good aesthetic. It was so close to being reality that there's still bits of it leftover in the game.
>>337631535
Need you remind me metroid?
>>337633431
>>337633527
Where are these photos from?
>>337630787
>no super mushroom
that's actually a good thing
>>337633751
Both versions have the exact same aesthetic.
>>337629348
looks better than the real game. fuck, what a downgrade.
>>337633828
>tfw Dread never
>>337634348
I like what Platinum did with MGS:R but I think a hands-on approach from Konami/Kojima would have made for a better Metal Gear game, if not a better game outright. The series splinters so much in terms of game play (MG1,2 and Babel, MGS 1,2 & 3, etc.) that Revengeance works but is totally unnecessary in story terms. Even the lore doesn't really need Raiden beyond 2 & 4. Less pointless tHan Acid, but still could have been better
>>337634348
It doesn't help at all that Platinum's version of the game was made in around...a year?
>>337629302
Most likely it was being devolved on a system with "estimated Ultra 64 specs"
I think it's more the texture filtering is much better in these screenshots, plus no VI filter to blur the image
>>337634348
Cause it was being made on hardware far beyond 7th gen consoles, i think Kojima was hoping PS4 would be out earlier
>>337636457
Kojima always pushes his vision beyond what's available, hence the point and click games where he focused on cinematography and MGS 3-5 where thecompromise was apparent or compromisingm
>>337628083
Just fucking leak already.
>>337628083
>>337638091
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvIyCKHn1JgA sixth color shows up at one point.
>>337638091
>that lewd Terra
>>337631330
>>337638832
>YFW Sonic was trying to be unnecessarily edgy since 2
Thanks for reminding me of this song OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdGfxFZHE-0
>>337639117
only sorta, that name only exists because a bunch of japanese fuckers wanted an "extreme" name for a level and once someone actually pointed out what that meant they went "wait fuck that's not what we meant" and renamed it to "cyber city" before just scrapping it entirely for time constraints
ended up using the level layout for metropolis zone 3 though
>>337639117
>tfw we will never see Concentration Camp zone from the Sonic 3 beta come to life
>>337638091
>tfw it would have probably been 10x as short, or had multiple carts to play it
Can you imagine? A multi-cart game?
>>337639375
>robotnik drives around in an panzer
>free jews from a capsule at the end of the level
>>337639228
They actually have a music video for it, surprisingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCyVfBiwpE
>>337639740
>free jews from a capsule at the end of the level
But Sonic is supposed to be a good guy
>>337639549
Advertising is a hell of a thing. Most of FFVII's discs are filled with the video files for cutscenes and the soundtrack.
That being said, FF didn't even get out of the tech demo stage on N64, Square was interested in cinematics and went with the medium that would support it better.
The best leap forward in the CD era was right near the beginning when after completing most of the beta work on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night they noticed that they had like 80% of the disc space left over and decided to fill it with high quality audio. Things were never the same again.
>>337639797
Mm, I kinda prefer the remaster that was on Spirit Phone. Incredible album in general, really. Neil's a fun guy.
>>337639824
>>337639824
I always thought it was neat that RE4's little demo had shit leftover from RE3.5 in it's files.
Which was actually an entirely different project by a different director.
>>337639824
Glad they changed the inventory system
>>337636245
>I think it's more the texture filtering is much better in these screenshots
The texture filtering in these screenshots looks like that weird shit that was on the first Unreal game.
>>337629994
Why is the triforce upside down on the temple?
>>337633751
Wow, that sanic looks really good.
>>337633431
>>337633527
>>337633751
Holt shit, this looks so much better than what we got.
>>337640269
>said no one ever
not alpha nor beta,but I think this is pretty interesting
>>337634179
The final version toned down some of the colorful surrealism and made it more realistic. This aesthetic became dominant in Adventure 2 and set a new standard for the series.
SOMEONE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MUST HAVE THAT DEMO FROM BREATH OF FIRE 3 THAT WAS AROUND YOUTUBE UNTIL 2013.
REMEBER SEEING IT MULTIPLE TIMES BUT NEVER BOTHERED DOWNLOADING IT. SINCE THEN IT'S GONE AND NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.
HELP A DESPERATED FAN!
vIDEO show a little of game play (vertical HUD) world map and a dragon form that wasnt used.
>>337628083
thanks for the song OP.
not sure how I feel about it though.
>>337628218
That Cool, Cool Mountain Beta level looked really interesting because a lot of it looked different. Same for Bob-omb Battlefield. I really hope a copy of the Beta/demo still exists somewhere out there.
>>337641113
also different magics and areas!
>>337641304
If someone could find the N64DD version of the game, they'll find the beta one day.
>>337641304
>The shadows are realistic
>>337641113
if there ever was an oppertunity to download it online. then you can bet your ass in some deep corner of the internet.. it still exsists.
good luck anon, i wish you the best of luck finding it
FFversusXIII (XV) had blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=CRF_4Ewaxt4
Nintendo was going to buy the rights to Harry Potter.
I'm not joking about this.
>you will never know what this Yoshi egg was used for
>>337643435stop n swap
>>337643435
I'm guessing it made you ride yoshi
>>337643435
haha
