Is there any other "Complete" videogame prototypes/betas?

Greetings.

As you all may know, one of the most "Finished" and "Completed" betas that ever existed is the RE 1.5, but sadly, none knows about its current state.

Now, is there any games that also fell into the same league as RE 1.5? Thanks, by the way.

 

Starfox 2
Dragon hopper
Bound high
Bioforce ape

To name a couple

 

Half-Life Dreamcast
ToeJam N Earl III Dreamcast
Sonic Crackers
California Raisins NES

 

Isnt Sonic Crackers is just a-mere prototype?
While i dont know much regarding Toejam and Earl III's "Finished" status..

 

Sonic crackers was far from finished, I played the ROM, buggy as hell. It turned into knuckles chaotix. Toejam and Earl I seem to remember got fairly far..

Earthbound English NES version is another

 

Propeller Arena (Dreamcast)
Great game and the leaked build is the full game that was supposed to go gold.

 

That poor game. Bad case of right game at the wrong time.

TJ&EIII was released here. http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/release-toejam-earl-3-dreamcast-beta.49322/
Give it a try. Pretty sure one of the creators said it was about 80% completed.

 

BTW what was the whole deal with Toxins in the raisins that doomed California Raisins on NES?

 

http://www.lostlevels.org/200308/200308-raisins.shtml

Here you are, sir.

 

there is always this for PSX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrill_Kill

Rom is out there ... google is your friend

 

The star fox rom that's on the net is incomplete,the final version has never been leaked.

 

It depends on how picky you want to be. Seriously, what was incomplete about it besides the debug info/menu options and fps counter? If memory serves me correct that and the English translation was the only thing they patched, and now you'd be hard pressed to tell it from a released game. I could be forgetting something, it did happen a few years ago.

 

All signs point to 1.5 never being completed. Half-Life was to reportedly either be fixed or rebuilt and not released as it was, or cancelled like it was. TJ&E3 wasn't done.

The game is missing a huge mechanic:
""There are a few ROMs on the net in various conditions. But the ones I checked out are all old and they don't have the randomizing Rogue-like stuff working or all the encounters in place, so you don't really get the feel of the game we were making." - Dylan Cuthbert

 

Also space transformations are broken. The translated ROM outright locked them out. Odd really, since that did work properly in the older beta it was based on--the one with multiplayer.

 

Wow, it's pretty cool that they actually had done a lot more to that game, considering how well it plays already.

As for what does and doesn't count for this thread isn't exactly clear, he did say "most completed"... But if there is a decent list of legitimately complete yet unreleased games I'd be curious as well.

 

"Jelly Boy 2" for Super Famicom was 100% complete but unreleased, which is a shame.

 

Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, which is where Desert Bus came from.

 

Tomb Raider, about a year before the game released. It has been found that a version thought to be a "prototype" to the original was actually a completely different draft to the game. It was refused by Sony/Sega and thus had another year of development. There is footage of this version though. I believe it was about 80% complete.

 

DESERT BUS!!! REAL LIFE SIMULATION

 

It's not exactly a prototype or beta, but there are a few finished copies of the unreleased NBA Elite 11 out there.