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Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut (SFC) has been fully translated into English (romhack.ing)
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Sonic Unleashed has been unofficially ported to PC (Windows/Linux) (github.com)
 

This has implications beyond just this game - the process of recompiling the Xbox 360 version led to the creation of two dedicated tools (XenonRecomp and XenosRecomp) that could be used for other games on the platform. (Theoretically, of course - I recall one developer saying it would likely take a considerable amount of modification for use outside of Unleashed, but it *was *possible.)

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Two preview builds of Mega Man X7 have been dumped publicly (www.rockman-corner.com)
 

Specifically, one for preview events in early 2003 and one for that year's E3.

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Video outline of scrapped content for Lego Dimensions (youtu.be)
 

Here's a link to the actual documents.

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Video overview of newly-released, very early 3DS game prototypes (mostly E3 2010 tech demos) (www.youtube.com)
 

Link to the actual dump here.

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Newly released prototype for Half-Life on Dreamcast (dated September 10, 2000) + a written history of the port (www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com)
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Day 2 of Hidden Palace's "NESMas" - 40+ prototypes dumped from the collection of the Nolan brothers (longtime NES collectors) (hiddenpalace.org)
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Hidden Palace has released 40+ NES/SNES/Genesis/Game Boy prototypes (with more to come) (hiddenpalace.org)
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Full E3 2010 trailer for what would become Paper Mario: Sticker Star (www.youtube.com)
 

This was discovered & posted earlier in the month - probably late posting it here, but I felt like it fit the site's purpose well.

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New CodeBound dump: a very early prototype for Cartoon Network Block Party on GBA + 2 design documents (archive.org)
 

Maybe not the most exciting release, but game history is game history.

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Newly-released Crash Twinsanity prototype (hiddenpalace.org)
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Aero the Acro-Bat is getting rereleased on modern consoles on August 2 (www.youtube.com)
 

Just the first game.

The Making of Karateka is Out Today! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Definitely planning to buy this sometime!

Wild Land: The Weirdest Phone Game You've Never Heard Of in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Excellent article! I hope the effort to preserve this game succeeds - I have a soft spot for hyper-obscure but interesting titles that are genuinely at risk of being near-entirely forgotten.

Part of the original Mega Man's design document (shared in Japanese by Capcom themselves some time ago) has now been unofficially translated into English in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You're welcome!

Part of me feels like the health-as-timer mechanic was born from the developers approaching the game with arcade-style design in mind. That sort of thing works to make sure people don't play too long on the machine (a la Gauntlet or Wonder Boy), and while other games still retained it I don't think it fits well with the kind of game Mega Man turned out to be. (That said, I think the final product's completely useless scoring feature is definitely a holdover from this same line of thought.)

SpriteCell's Shigeru Miyamoto archive (interviews, writings, & more) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's great to hear! If you'd like to contact SpriteCell, the site recommends either email or Twitter.

"Happy Birthday, Sonic the Hedgehog?" (an article from Sonic Retro about the US release date of the original Sonic game) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is part of why I value contemporary Use-/Internet posts about games - they provide a window into things like this that might otherwise have been lost to time.

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