U64!Leaks?

Maddrax is a cancelled action adventure that was in development by German team Soft Enterprises / i3D Software around 2002, planned to be released on PC and possibly Xbox.

(Photos by MobCat99)

A few old beta / pre-release versions of the following games were found by Steve in an old (original) Xbox Development Kit:

Rainbow Six (late 2004)

XIII (dec 2002)

Brothers in Arms (Nov 2004)

Ghost Recon 2 (aug 2004)

You can download the full XDK dump from here (2.44 GB). Please, upload it on mirrors if you can, to be sure to preserve all the files. If you find any interesting differences / unused models hidden in the code, feel free to share your finds with the video games preservation community at:

https://twitter.com/unseen64

https://twitter.com/GamingAlexandri

https://twitter.com/HiddenPalaceOrg

https://twitter.com/CuttingRoomWiki

Colliderz Prototype, cancelled Sega Saturn sci-fi hockey with hovercrafts:

https://mega.nz/#!zcMUmQjB!PKz5wjZ5cCwtEhmpiyxczRgc2E1vZq7vVqqfzCAc7rw

https://easyfilecloud.com/6kmto4ngcr3j

https://download.gg/analyz-10169905_e8f375596be548e1-f

https://9xupload.xyz/f/1jyhks-cxyvyu5i4prwr

https://dropapk.to/wm0oq6sx2lvc

https://uploadbuzz.cc/gk7pyq4vwfmb

Western Lord was an indie RPG in development for the GameBoy Advance by Blossomsoft, later cancelled. You can download the early prototype in here.

On September 2016, Ashens published a video on his Youtube Channel, showing a previously unknown Playstation 2 game titled “Explosion Royale” that he randomly found in a charity shop. Thanks to his care about the preservation of lost video games, you can now download the playable prototype of this cancelled game from the links below (if you want to create other mirrors, let us know. We’ll add more in the future):

- Explosion Royale [Mega.nz - 48MB]

- Explosion Royale [Mediafire - 48MB]

- Explosion Royale, Fixed Version by Demon [Mega.nz - 51MB]

Mythri was a Japanese-style RPG developed by Team XKalibur for the Game Boy Color, later cancelled and re-developed for GBA, but even this version was soon canned. Tomm Hulett, one of the former developers of the project, decided to release the game’s playable prototypes, arts and music, you can download the files from here. The GBC version plays better on the KIGB emu: http://kigb.emuunlim.com/downloads.htm Thanks to MrElephant for the contribution! Some more info from the Read-Me file: This document will go over the contents of the Mythri files, as well as provide some brief background information on Team XKalibur.

MYTHRI ART - Various art assets from GBC development CHARACTER ART - original key art of several characters PROMO ART - Several cool sketches, including some SD skits planned for our website SKETCHES - Concept sketches for spell effects, along with the end resultBUILDS Game ROMs you can play - Mythri.gb: our publisher demo, vertical slice For some reason this will only play on the no$gmb emulator, which doesn’t work on recent versions of Windows. We can’t seem to figure out why (the cartridge I have still plays on any GBC or GBA, so this is odd)If you get it running, you can press “B” on the title screen to cycle through the entire soundtrack - proving it works on-device! - Mythri.gba: our GBA demo MANGA STILLS - Our huge detailed story illustrations. Includes Full screen, half screen, and dialogue portrait. This is pretty much all of them covering the whole game. These are all based on drawings by Carolyn Carter and colored pixel-by-pixel by a variety of people, including Steve Robinson who did most of that insane sunset. MUSIC - A sampling of music. You can actually hear the full soundtrack here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUXNk7IGWL4 or here: https://soundcloud.com/magicaltimebean/mythri-gbc-original-soundtrackxtra

GBA VERSION - Includes new key art, GBA demo screenshots, and graphic comparisons with original version. Also includes a press release. SKETCHES - various sketches created for GBA version, drawn by Carolyn Carter, Carsten Bradley, and Hethe Srodawa BRIEF HISTORY: Tomm Hulett got into the game industry super young, when his neighbor Stephen Clarke-Willson let him visit (and later become a QA tester at) Virgin Games. After testing for a few summers, Tomm did level and boss design for a game Stephen was creating after going indie. From there, Tomm was determined to join a video game company as soon as possible (this was long before just being indie was a reasonable thing to do). Fast forward to the internet and AOL, where Tomm met some enterprising folks who were trying to become a game publisher / developer. He trusted these strangers for some reason and went through the application process along with his friend Keith Martineau. Tomm was hired (whatever that means) and Keith wasn’t. This didn’t seem tenable to either of them, so they jokingly named a potential company and then decided to make it a real thing instead.  (XK are the first letters of each person’s screenname. Tomm really liked how old localizations invented words to fit into character limits, like “XCalbur” in old Final Fantasies.) Team XK’s first game was slated to be Shattered Worlds, based around an interactive story Tomm had previously run in an AOL forum, “Final Fantasy: Shattered Worlds”. An artist named Vanessa Adams agreed to do the character designs. We’d also slated a second “more fantasy” game called Mythri, after Tomm fell in love with a track off Composer Ian Stocker’s demo CD. Tomm started piecing together different random ideas as the song inspired him. Carolyn Carter joined the team as Lead Artist, replacing VA (who had professional work and didn’t really need to work for free), and resumed SW’s character designs. Team XK got permission from other writers to use their characters, and had them sign off on the art. This went smoothly for the most part, but a few of the writers objected loudly to the idea that Team XK was being this lazy to not create their own game. So after ignoring that for a few months, Tomm and Keith decided to not risk any future weirdness and sidelined Shattered Worlds to focus on Mythri. They also stopped dreaming of creating a viable PS1 game and aimed squarely at the upcoming GameBoy Color portable. In Fall of 1998, Team XK became a licensed Nintendo Developer, wrote the script for Mythri, created character designs, and started the Game Design Document (GDD). They also expanded their ranks, tracking down willing programmers and artists from across the internet (who may or may not want to be known so I won’t use last names). Josh and Dayton on code, Patrick and Andrea on sprite and tile art. Things proceeded in earnest, with everyone figuring out game development as they went. Eventually there was a staff change in code and Kyle and Mahmud joined Dayton. To drum up awareness of the game, the team launched a petition so that anyone who wanted a traditional jRPG on GBC could officially state their interest. Over 4,000 people signed the petition, and sure enough a handful of publishers took notice. Team XK created a small demo to send to publishers (those as well as others), showing off the story, overworld, town, and combat areas of the game. Basically what would be called a vertical slice, though the team didn’t know that at the time. As the years without any type of pay or publisher deals wore on, the grind took its toll on the team and progress slowed. They also pitched various other port/revival projects to different publishers. The GBC itself wound down, with the GBA taking its place. A new startup publisher, Variant Interactive, contacted Team XK to ask if a Mythri demo was possible on GBA, as they’d love to publish it and needed to secure funds to do so. That sounded great! Team XK quickly restaffed with 3 new artists: Carsten Bradley, who Tomm knew in grade school, Hethe, and Wenchin. They created a ton of new art, updated the game design and script for the new platform, and created a simple demo. Unfortunately, Variant’s funding never materialized, and after grinding away for 5 years, no further work could be completed on Mythri GBA. Tomm was hired full time at Atlus doing Localization, and needed to focus on that, while the rest of the Team moved on in their own ways.

Heroes of Might and Magic V (sometimes referred to as Heroes V or HoMM5) is the fifth instalment of the Heroes of Might and Magic fantasy turn-based strategy video game series. In this early alpha version there are many differences: - the interface is completely different in nearly every respect with a lot of prototype stuff - hero portraits are completely different (Isabel is a photoshop of Kate Beckinsale lol) - many creatures have different textures - the priest/inquisitor has a different model, which was replaced when Games Workshop confronted Ubisoft for plagiarism - many structures have different models and textures - different sense of scale in the adventure map, much closer to Heroes 3 (in retail version everything is bigger and more "epic" than practical) - battlefields of varied size (some battlefields are smaller than the one size in retail) - the town screen is very different, a static 3D shot similar to previous games (in retail it's an elaborate flyover) - only one scenario/map, and the map doesn't exist in the retail game - only one faction (Haven) - there is no world of Ashan (Ubisoft's fictional world from the retail game), it's set in Axeoth (the world of Heroes 4) - different and reshuffled/repurposed music

Some days ago we wrote about Saints Row: Undercover, the cancelled PSP game revealed by Volition during one of their weekly Twitch Streams. Today you will be able to play the prototype yourself: the lovely people at Volition created a playable ISO for the Undercover prototype and shared it with us to be preserved and archived.

You can download the unfinished prototype version of Saints Row: Undercover from the links below (.ISO file, 431 MB):

http://www.mediafire.com/download/e86b2cgngtze2w8/SRUPSP.ISO

https://mega.nz/#!SEsUiajb!o3F6i-RYQsFd5g1Qrm30rc4JWSRJeezNWdTgATo9ofg

http://we.tl/QWYgZ1MMQM

There are 3 mirrors at the moment, in case one of them doesn’t work anymore let us know!

Reverence | PC | Leaked Playable Prototype:

You have been chosen by the gods themselves to determine future of human race. According to them, humans are weak and pathetic and don't deserve to exist anymore. You need to pick up a bunch of guns and energize yourself with a wide array of spells and defeat them one by one.

One of the last announced projects by Cyberdreams was in development by TSi (Three Space Imagery), pioneers in motion capture technology. Due to financial issues that struck Cyberdreams, the game never moved from an alpha phase. The leaked alpha version can be considered almost a full game. It appears to have all levels with most of the graphics, music and sounds.

Creation was a legendary, hyped and unfortunately cancelled game in development by Bullfrog Production. For some reason, a prototype of this game was leaked years ago and it’s available on Archive.org, even if i just found out about its existence today. Weird story. Go and download it!

You can now download and preserve this unreleased GBA game, that could have been lost forever. Have fun.