How about we go for wows instead of the dull and boring debug menus. You're going to get nothing but zzzz's if you try to showcase pokemon ruby debug.
I think you should try to find a group that fits with these major categories:
Major Series (Sonic, Mario, Kirby etc)
Eras (Atari, NES, SNES/Genesis, N64/PS1, Contemporary)
Major cuts found within games (Whole modes or portions of the story cut etc)
Avoid any series or console out of the ordinary unless its a sweeping, eye-catching cut. You're not so much there to lecture them on the history of games research, but to get them interested. You want to throw some HUGE things at them.
Suggestions like Brawl would be good, but that section is a mess. I never got around to finishing it and a lot of the information is buried on smash world forums.
Personally, I think Kirby's Return to Dreamland would be a PERFECT choice. Like Mugen-tan pointed out, it has a great history with its various iterations that I think the audience would love, however... The section's incomplete. I mean, I can scrape together some unused music information and maybe a few textures I think are unused, but I'm still waiting on the proper tools to do some definitive research with the game.
For better contemporary titles, why not try NSMBWii or SMG? Treeki and Peardian have done some awesome documentation for those two titles. That, and they're from a major series and some big unused items.
For N64, I can see SM64's findings such as the Blargg and other unused things doing well with that audeince. And the Banjo games or Golden Eye might be good just to throw a bit of 'Murikan in there.
PS1 needs to have the later Megaman X games and what's Otakon without FFVII?
SNES gets FFVI and Chrono Trigger. (SMW is huge, but we may need to cut out some mario, you know?)
Genesis gets Sonic 2 (Beta), hands down.
NES has a lot that I just can't sift through and pick out. Maybe some honorable mentions here? Atari could work just the same way.
Now, I'll be honest... Having now typed this out, its dawning on me that this will not fit into 45 minutes of talking. Its going to need pairing down. In a lot of cases, maybe even dropping the focus on consoles and series and putting a greater emphasis on era. I dunno, that will probably end up being your call. And sure, there are series that probably deserve mentioning like Kirby and Castlevania.
Really, I'm just trying to throw out some heavy hitters as well as appeal to a weeaboo audience that aren't so much in tune with rom hacking, but will be intrigued to find out certain aspects of their favorite games that could have been.
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