Post stuff from retro game development Betas and stuff

I found some Quake prototypes the other day. Not Qtest1, they're versions that are much closer to release but they have some big differences. Several map differences and an entirely different END map which is impossible to finish as far as I can tell.

>https://archive.org/download/quake_prerelease/Unofficial/

>Pre-release_quake.zip
>QUAKE_BETA3.rar

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Cancelled GameBoy version of Diablo:
https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/05/diablo-gameboy-cancelled/

And pic related is an alpha screenshot of the PC version

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Alpha version of Half-Life running on Quake engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phTjVY04_k0

>>3049546
>running on Quake engine
Just like the full game, then?

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Starcraft in 1996 when they showed it at E3 that year, which lead them to scrap the whole project afterwards due to it being criticized as a lazy Warcraft 2 clone

>>3049546
Holy shit that face. Like he caught a glimpse of his dad bending over to pick up the soap in the shower.

>>3050652
Say what you will, but those graphics are charming as fuck.

>>3049630
I'm not even a fan of HL and I know that bullshit. the final version is like 50% quake engine 25% new code and 25% special effects stuff

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An old image of Jazz Jackrabbit from, I think, the ordering screen of Highway Hunter.

>>3050703
Exactly like that beta. It's already a heavily modified Quake engine. Saying that engine is 'running on the Quake engine' but that the full Half-Life is not is ridiculous.

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Crash Bandicoot Donkey Kong style

>three days and the thread hasn't been infested with Ocarina of Time shit
Color me suprised

>>3051786
Tell me more

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>>3051812

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Crash_Bandicoot

>>3050652
I would love to try this version out, was a huge warcraft 2 fan back in the day.

>>3051821
I like how the prototype mimicked the ps1 dashboard buttons/font

>>3050652
I hope this build survived somehwere. Those colors are yummy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSQkI_2GKRk&spfreload=10

Rockman X3 used to have a mechanic where your character could get stunned by certain attacks.

>>3051832
What a shame

>>3051916
what's this?

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>>3052973
apparently Dragon Ball for the 3DO, I'm not entirely sure what's going on in that demonstration tho

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Most interesting beta in my opinion. Really wonder if what we got was bettet then what could've been. Most people look at the art alone and say gba was better but I would've dealed with aged graphics if the game was more polished.

>>3054484
I'm a big fan of the N64's unrefined low-poly so I agree with you there.
The developers said 'The GBA game is more or less the same story as the N64 version with minor changes' but looking at what little screens there are of the N64 version, I can't recognize a single scene that made the transition.

>>3054484
Jesus fucking christ, if you're gonna post an image that small, at least have the decency to rename the file to something more useful. What the hell is it, Mario Kart vs. Doctor Who or something?

>>3054243
What a clever way to harvest children.

>>3051916
Goku seems to be giving that giant dong the ol' Gonorrhea check.

>>3054484
Is this A Requiem for Ants?

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>>3054484

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>>3056131
>>3054484

>>3055515
Just how new and underage are you?

>>3054594
From the footage I've seen it looks like they moved around Flint and Claus' appearances, made kumatora more important and cut some stuff from the desert. The intro scenes, osohe castle, thunder tower and club all seemed pretty intact.

I think the game releasing on the GBA, going 2D and having a few years to polish its story ultimately worked to the games advantage and would never trade what we got for the N64 game, though I would be lying if I said I didn't want to see more of that beta. It's more of a curiosity for me though.