Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Rockman World Prototype Dumped


The Video Game Preservation Blog has obtained an early Rockman World prototype, the very same as Chris Covell's. As anticipated, there are a number of differences from the retail version, the most significant being the layout of a majority of the stages. Some of the graphics appear darker than the final game, too, along with a few pieces of unused music. You can find an in-depth rundown of all the differences here.

To download the proto, head to The Video Game Preservation Blog. Further research and analysis will no doubt take place at The Cutting Room Floor in the coming days. Who knows what neat things we'll find! Stay tuned.

Source: Video Game Preservation Blog
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8 comments:

  1. DantzSeptember 30, 2014 at 12:31 AM

    Wow! That's great! I was just on Covell's site yesterday looking at the prototype page, hoping i'd get to see the differences for myself. Lot's of RockMan prototype dumps this year, eh?

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2014 at 11:19 AM

    One missing proto rom is Megaman 4 Beta. I do not know if Rockman 4 Beta exist. Do you know ??? Here:

    http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/megabizkit/MM4Beta/guide.html

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    1. Gauntlet101010September 30, 2014 at 8:01 PM

      Holy crap! I remember this! It was inspired by my old, bogus Megaman 3 walktghrough. It's been so long since I saw this...

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  3. Jo Li KMCSeptember 30, 2014 at 2:25 PM

    This makes me so freaking happy... I squealed when I read the news earlier.
    But now I'm tired from being so excited. *laughs*

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    1. Jo Li KMCSeptember 30, 2014 at 4:34 PM

      And I think I've made the first discovery...

      Ya know that early Fireman stage in the final? Well... it's here as well, complete with alternate credits theme. And you can access it using the same code and everything.

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    2. Jo Li KMCOctober 2, 2014 at 12:35 AM

      Found another interesting version difference.
      Metools in the Wily stage have a unique behavior. They shoot three bullets twice, then get up and walk away, using the Neo Metool sprites.

      They're essentially a combination of Mets and Neo Mets from the first two games. It's pretty neat.

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  4. NigoliOctober 1, 2014 at 5:18 AM

    I wanted to play it on a SGB2 because of my SGB Commander controller, but it doesn't seem to work with LSDJ type flash carts. I tried modifying the header to see if that would do anything. It's totally beyond me.

    My XboyAdvance on the soft modded Xbox seemed to work fine as an alternative solution.

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  5. NES BoyOctober 1, 2014 at 3:36 PM

    You know, I hope we get a dump of Mega Man Anniversary Collection for GBA some day.

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