Hellfromabove
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Wow, a new name?! Surprised information is still coming out about this. Happy to hear it
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Lost Neo Geo Prototype FOUND, REVEALED & RELEASED : "DarkSeed"
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Wow, a new name?! Surprised information is still coming out about this. Happy to hear it
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nug
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Interesting that the time of day in the background was supposed to affect the strength of the character. Very unique system!
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That's a cool name.
Are you interested in trying to make the game complete by having some people work on the game?
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The rom is out there, people are free to do whatever they want with it. I seriously doubt they will be able to make a working game out of the existing code. People could probably take the existing sprites and work with those inside a new fighting engine.
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DarkSeed. That is a cool name. If someone finished this game so far from when it was originally made, that would be awesome.
Hellfromabove
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I thought the name was familiar lol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game)
Made in '92
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game)
Made in '92
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Shou-sama
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The producer has a more complete version but given what he says, sounds like he wouldn't give it out. I do know the people he works for however...
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He says he has a more complete version in that article?
Shou-sama
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No, I received info from elsewhere.
The system described in that interview sounds pretty cool and innovative for the time. Does anyone know any other games with comparable systems?
For the people who worked on them or owned the games, is it/was it standard practice to not talk about unreleased/cancelled games, even in present times? If I were someone who worked on the game, I would have liked to talk about it, even if it did not get released, maybe even share what did get completed if I could. That maybe a pretty naive view, but who knows how many cool games were in development for the neo that we may not be aware of. Just knowing about such games today would be cool.
For the people who worked on them or owned the games, is it/was it standard practice to not talk about unreleased/cancelled games, even in present times? If I were someone who worked on the game, I would have liked to talk about it, even if it did not get released, maybe even share what did get completed if I could. That maybe a pretty naive view, but who knows how many cool games were in development for the neo that we may not be aware of. Just knowing about such games today would be cool.
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From the sounds of it the game still needs to be named Dragons Heaven as its probably more likley to have ended with this name. It gives an insight why some people who have these prototypes do no let them out. It does also sound like there wouls be a more complete version of the game somewhere.
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I dont understand why someone would feel distraught about something like this coming out 20 years later? Maybe its a bad translation, or maybe he is distraught that this less complete version was found. It would be cool if this leads to a more complete version getting dumped.
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From what he has said and the ammount of developement he suggested happened there would be. What you have is the devboard an artist worked with and not the dev board of the lead programmers.
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If that turns out to be true hopefully he'll release it.
Regardless, I have sent him a message offering to make and send him a copy of the game if he doesn't have one. I would hate to have worked on something and not have anything to show for it. I'm happy to pass the same offer to the artists who worked on it as well.
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Wut?
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That was me, but I never got any takers.
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I thought the name was familiar lol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game)
Made in '92
Yeah, Dark Seed is the name of a pre-existing game. I for one really doubt this prototype could have ever shipped with a name already taken by something else.
mmcafe said:
You mean Ladyhawk starring Matthew Broderick?
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Doubt it would've been an issue in Japan, but yeah, in the US the title would've been different. You know, like the whole "Resident Evil" / Biohazard thing. I know that Biohazard was a band, not a pre-existing game, but still...
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I think the thread title should include both titles.