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Posted on 01-28-11 05:32:02 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Prince Kassad
Unreleased games, I think, are way out of our scope. There's other sites like unseen64 for this kind of stuff.


Mmmm, good point. So posting stuff that's unused in unreleaed games is okay though, right?
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Posted on 01-28-11 08:59:23 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Flying Omelette


Wikipedia's original article on the SNES game, Equinox, was basically just a GameFAQs-quality review and even included a racist gem along the lines of, "Like most games that weren't made in Japan, the graphics are gaudy".


Speaking of Equinox, there's an example of a situation where wild speculation and rumors ended up damaging the game's reputation somewhat. Somehow, somewhere, somebody started a rumor that the game was supposed to be a real RPG with towns and people to talk to. Because I have that Equinox Shrine on my site, people who write reviews of this game have a tendency to link to it in their reviews, so I end up finding them via my site tracker. A lot of these reviews (almost all of them in fact) complain about how the game was supposed to have towns and people, but doesn't, and therefore it sucks.

However, I have *never* seen any actual evidence that the game was ever intended to have towns and NPCs. I have seen no interviews with programmers/developers where this was mentioned. I have found no unused graphics in the ROM that could be used for towns or NPCs. I have seen no early development screenshots that show any towns or NPCs. Solstice, the game it was a sequel to, did not have towns or NPCs (which, oddly, didn't seem to hurt its reputation one bit).

One time somebody sent me a rather ecstatic email claiming he'd found unused text in the ROM that absolutely proved the game was supposed to have towns because he thought it was NPC dialogue. It turned out to be just the text from the opening scrolls/demos that play if you just keep leaving it at the title screen without pressing start, which was doubly ironic since I already had that mentioned on my site for years by then.

I really need to get off my ass and finish that Shrine so I can put up a rumor-quelching section on this...

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Posted on 01-28-11 09:50:42 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Prince Kassad
Unreleased games, I think, are way out of our scope. There's other sites like unseen64 for this kind of stuff.

I don't see how. Unreleased games are actually right up our alley; it's just that, instead of part of the game being cut, it's the whole thing.

This mostly applies to unreleased games for which a dump exists, not just "unreleased with no release at all". e.g. Bio Force Ape is OK because we have the ROM (just, not released), while something like Hellraiser NES wouldn't since as far as anybody knows it was never actually available.

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Posted on 01-30-11 01:52:27 AM Link | Quote
I could always make up a nice list of these too, whereas I have just about anything I can think of that's publicly available just out of my own hunting around.

I actually got curious about the whole Unreleased games thing, as I had no real idea how to go about it, much less categorizing it. I think that it should be its own big section instead of just shoving them in with the same released games as well (such as mixing in Escape from Atlantis with Mega Man 3 and Shadowgate).

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Posted on 01-30-11 02:35:29 PM Link | Quote
I just noticed the Pokemon Red/Blue page already has pre-release screenshots, so it could serve as an example for any future such pages. Check it out and see if you like it.

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