What are your "holy grails"?

Oh cool, I will check it out. This would be helpful to dump it. I've had it for a few years now and would like to get it dumped.

 

Super mario 64 beta
Half life 3 beta(derp)
Luig mansion beta
Super mario 64 2
Earthbound 64
Animal crossing any beta build of all games
Sonic 1 beta
Sonic 2 beta
Mario kart 8 beta
Big rig over the road recing beta

 

Any type of prototype from the neo-geo metal slug would be nice.

 

1 - Beta's of Giants Citizen Kabuto
2 - Alphas and betas of Diablo I (II also)
3 - original doom.wad registred non-ultimate doom (1.9), and all the versions (1.9 = ultimate doom)
4 - Shadow of colossus betas
5 - Diablo III betas and older versions with some kind of server emulator
6 - The Sims Online and Motor City Online offline (not actually oficials, but any way...)
7 - Elder Scrolls betas (with Arena being the one I really find a good beta pics...)
8 - Warcraft Adventures beta

 

I think the newest holy grail for my list would be a disk image for Super Mario Maker and the tools to extract the assets (both to look for anything hidden inside and also to see every single possible graphic and sound asset the game has). No I wouldn't want one to pirate it, if I just wanted to play it I would buy it

 

Tomb Raider The Angel Of Darkness 2001/2002 beta builds
Resident Evil Zero N64 Train E3 Demo
Parasite Eve 1 any beta assets

 

The dead rising tokyo game show build is a dream for sure, but just a dream.

 

Megaman legends (Rockman NEO) where megaman/rock actually explodes upon death.

Would make me quite happy.

 

That has been done already:
http://rhcafe.us.to/wiki/index.php/Super_Mario_Maker
http://www.spriters-resource.com/wii_u/supermariomaker/
https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Maker
http://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Super_Mario_Maker_pre-release_and_unused_content

 

I don't know if this counts.. but Gran Turismo 2000. The earliest playable version of GT3 known. Looks just like an upscaled GT2, with one car, one track, and a time limit of two minuets. It's kinda like a GT3 beta, and I've only played it as an ISO.

 

Killer Instinct 2 SNES
Shenmue Saturn
Fake Down

 

I attended a talk once where the creator of Shenmue shared some hilarious anecdotes about the development of the game. Apparently the cats were assigned the wrong animations at one point and were walking around with human animations applied to their skeletons.

For me, my holy grails remain:
-Prerelease builds of Ocarina of Time
-Prerelease builds of Mario 64
-Prerelease builds of Quest 64 <-- Odd one, I know, but something about that game fascinates me.

 

certainly "AKIRA" Snes & genesis versions. perhaps it would have been crap, but i would have loved to play them

 

A few of mine:

Freelancer sequel on 360, canned by MS...

Conan (Jaguar)

E3 Halo 2 demo-looked far more promising than actual SP campain turned out to be.

Agartha (DC)

Paperboy (7800)

GTA III and The Bouncer (DC) just to see if rumours were true...

Turrican,Skyfox and Electrocop ( 7800)


Cabal, Rolling Thunder, Vindicators... (Lynx).

Adam Caveman (A8) screens looked like mock ups.

 

But most of all:

The Dreamland Chronicles:Freedom Ridge (PC/PS2) Mythos Games.....


this was to be Julian Gollop's TRUE follow-up to XCOM, was previewed and down for a Q4 2000 release.

 

on this picture are the top 10 rarest items I own:
-N64 ANA Edition CIB with shipping box (3 known to exist, this is in the best condition)
-Gamecube Heineken edition CIB (50 made)
-Hyundai Comboy 64 CIB (10 known so far in this condition)
-Gamecube Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle Limited Edtion (150 made MINT)
-Nintendo DS Advance Wars Press Kit (50 made 3 owners known)
-Gameboy Color CoroCoro 10th Anniversary (200 made? 2 known)
-Gamecube First Prototype Controller (?? made)
-N64 controller test cart prototype (???? made)
-N64DD promo mug (50 made 4 owners known)
-N64DD Development system with a blue disk and cart (1000 made? according to Serialnumbers)

 

I have Atari 5200 Super pacman which was never released,Sinistar on the 5200 that was never released,xevious On the 5200 as well.Jr pacman on the Atari 5200,theres lots I can name.

 

I missed out on the opportunity to purchase a Dead or Alive 4 prototype some years ago due to a general indecisiveness and tight funds. However, I do know that it is out there...

 

A few of mine would be:

Shining Force
Shining Force II (I have one, with a pretty awesome quirk, at least to me, but it's final outside of that)
Landstalker
FFVI
D+D Warriors of the Eternal Sun (Don't know why lol, but love the game...YEAH!!!)

I managed to cross a few off my list in the past few years (SF 2, Dragon Warrior 1 early build and FF 1 early build), so don't give up, they do come around once in a while!

Edit - Here's some info on the SF2 for any other SF fans: http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/shining-force-ii/)

The rom is completely playable, despite the physical copy's crazy issue of having SRam with no battery slot to power it, which glitches/sends the game on an acid trip after you take a first step.

 

Wow, that's cool to hear. By FF do you mean Final Fantasy? If so that would be pretty damn cool to have.