hiddenpalace.org has just uncovered a pretty important, previously lost piece of history: The original, unreleased port of Street Fighter II Champion Edition for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive: https://hiddenpalace.org/News/The_Lost_Street_Fighter_II:_Champion_Edition_for_Sega_Mega_Drive You might ask: “But I already own Champion Edition for the Genesis…how could it be ‘lost’???” What was released to the public was actually the “Special […]
A few weeks ago, Dreamcast aficionados FatalistDC and Jan Baumgartner started a small-scale fundraiser aiming at dumping and immediately releasing the disc image of the unreleased Dreamcast port Heroes of Might and Magic III – The Restoration of Erathia. The turned based strategy cult classic game at hand saw release on Windows, Macintosh and Linux […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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2019 seems to be the year of Nintendo’s mid-90s underdog, the Virtual Boy, as fans of the system can now enjoy the minuscule retail library on a big screen through the Virtual Tap (discontinued for the moment), play Hyper Fighting using a proper arcade stick, and eventually boot their favorite game(s) via an SD based […]
A new glimpse into Sega’s development history has been found: A previously unreleased prototype of Sonic The Hedgehog 2: http://hiddenpalace.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2_(CENSOR_prototype) There aren’t any drastic changes from the final release and most were small things like adding a signpost for a “save” area: Some mistakes were found that made certain levels unbeatable, such as this platform which […]
