Nearly 500 Dreamcast and Xbox prototypes join Project Deluge preservation effort


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In short: Hidden Palace is back with another serving of prototype gaming goodness. This time around, the dump focuses on Microsoft’s original Xbox and Sega’s Dreamcast, both of which played very big roles in the story. of the home video game console.

In March, if you remember, Hidden Palace added over 700 unique PlayStation 2 prototypes to its database with the promise that a lot more was coming. Indeed, just a month later, the group released 500 additional combined prototypes of PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Philips CD-I.

Video Game Preservers just added 349 Microsoft Xbox prototypes and 135 Sega Dreamcast games to their growing collection of early developer releases, press previews, or never-before-seen prototypes under the Deluge Project umbrella.

At the time of writing, Hidden Palace has reviewed nearly 4,000 records with “absolutely no end in sight.”

Strong points from the latest dump include a first version of 4 Wheel Thunder that was compiled five months before the game’s launch (at the time it was called Offroad Thunder) as well as prototypes from Test Drive Cycles, Vigilante 8: Second Offense, WWF Attitude, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing Round 2, all for the Dreamcast.

On Xbox, Hidden Palace archived a never-before-seen port of American Idol, He-Man: Defender of Grayskull, Pac-Man World Rally, and Hail to the Chimp, with the latter ultimately releasing on Xbox 360.

There are also some interesting Xbox prototypes from Sega developers, which isn’t too surprising given that some consider Microsoft’s console to be the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast. These include ToeJam & Earl III, Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller, Jet Set Radio Future, and Sega GT, to name a few.

In related news, a curator found Luigi hidden in the Sega GT prototype. Mario’s brother can be located in a hidden race named “SonyGT2”, possibly a reference to Sony’s Gran Turismo franchise.


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