Hi. Before evrything lets introduce myself. My name's Stefano, I'm from Italy, and I'm one of the administrators of an italian VG network. When I found the link to your forum on GA It have been linke heaven to read about so many obsuce games. So here are my questions. Xbox saw MANY unreleased titles. Titks that have been often showed running on Xbox hardware. Do you know anythng about these? Here's my list: Rent a Hero Nr.1 for what I know it was close to completion and was the only american language version existing. Illbleed. Another DC port. Annunced but disappeared. True Fantasy Online. Showed ad a demo many times. Probably impossible to be used as it requires the server code. B.C. showed running and was enough into development to suggest a demo exist. I saw i t running on a Debug kit. Then disappeared. Well there are even other games, but I'm mostly interested in these. Anyone has infos on these? Any other known portotype-game that have ben discovered? Cheers, Stefano
The Dreaming Eye had an NTSC Rent a Hero #1 beta that he sold here a while back. I believe it was around 50% to 60% complete so you might want to PM him for some more info. Also this thread might help you out. http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7846
I was fairly certain that the 60% beta had a small scale release in this community, though that might be my memory being wrong.
Of all betas im shocked this one never got dumped, so many magazines review rent a hero no.1 and there must be more floating around in magazine offices.
Sega could as well have asked to return the discs, like happened with Propellar Arena back in the day.
Rent A hero no.1 AIA english dreamcast xbox cancel leaked :katamari: http://images32.fotosik.pl/361/2090ba757e829931med.png
Could still kill everybody at MS for not releasing TFLO. Would´ve stolen a lot of momentum from other MMORPGS back then. Hell, I even bought my Xbox just in anticipation of that game! (they canceled Mythica at about the same time, thought there was nothing to gain in the MMO market because Asherons Call 2 flopped. No wonder - they didnt advertise it and nobody had the hardware to run it on!) That and Lamborghini. Atleast I´ve got a playable demo of that.
lamborghini i dont understand either. but thats the mysteries of microsoft. but WOW there is rent a hero for xbox english floating around, finally after all these years. gotta play this one immediately
Yeah its a torrent, they've got a link to it on the Sonic Cult homepage but i'm not sure if I can post that here, its the second post on the page http://www.sonic-cult.org/index2.php
Revolt. God damn I wanted to play that. It sucked so horribly on PS1. Microsoft would have done a good job. It was even in the LIVE promo videos. God damn it.
Agreed, enough people have it. Just a matter of getting them to sell/release a copy. Hell even the source is out and about. Also love the Ausfailia.
Did the world really need a port of illBleed on Xbox? I finally played it on Dreamcast the other day for the first time (didn't get to play it for long, got it the day before Hurricane Ike hit), but, really, they would've had to amp things up a lot for Microsoft to even give green light the game. It looked like a high-res PS1 game with better graphics, and the gameplay is almost completely broken. It has some great ideas, mind you, and that alone is worth playing the game for, but seriously, I doubt this even made it to the alpha stages.
There was also a PC version, the best of the bunch IMO, although i never got to try the Xbox version. Definately better than the PS1 version, thats for sure :icon_bigg EDIT: I really need to start checking my spelling before i hit submit, lol.
