We are a community dedicated to the preservation of retro video game development history. (Thanks to @MasteredRealm for the artwork!)
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We're holding a fundraiser for over 800 dev discs, which include early builds for Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Icewind Dale, Clayfighter 64, Run Like Hell, Star Trek New Worlds, Descent, and more!
DM us or email [email protected] if you'd like to help!
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In 1991, I was a fresh new employee on the Mega CD dev team.
At the time, hardware-based rotation and scaling of graphics was something the Super Nintendo was known for. We finally made it happen on a SEGA system too—and I was so happy about it! 🙌
I was the only artist on the team, so I created the graphics needed for development. This test image was one of them.
Being the youngest on the team, my coworkers really looked after me. So they even made this awesome version just for me. 😊
Seeing this again after all these years brings back so many memories. I’m really grateful for those days, and for the amazing people I got to work with. ❤️
A really cool find from Discord member gageiro: A custom Mega CD BIOS made especially for Sonic Team's creative director Kazuyuki Hoshino! Check it out in action below!
Download: hiddenpalace.org/SEGA_Mega-C…
@KazuyukiHoshino 星野さん、ご自身専用メガCD BIOS、覚えていますか？
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We're holding a fundraiser for over 800 dev discs, which include early builds for Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Icewind Dale, Clayfighter 64, Run Like Hell, Star Trek New Worlds, Descent, and more!
DM us or email [email protected] if you'd like to help!
We are live with our community showcase and fundraiser stream! Check us out at twitch.tv/hiddenpalace
We're be doing a two-parter stream at Saturday, Aug 29 11 AM PST (6 PM UTC) showcasing some recent community releases. We'll also be showing and releasing a sneak peak into an upcoming release from our latest (ongoing) fundraiser (see below)
See you at twitch.tv/hiddenpalace
We're holding a fundraiser for over 800 dev discs, which include early builds for Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Icewind Dale, Clayfighter 64, Run Like Hell, Star Trek New Worlds, Descent, and more!
DM us or email [email protected] if you'd like to help!
This lot has turned out to be quite huge and we have secured some of it but not all of it yet. Anything you can contribute would be appreciated.
It'll take some time catalog, but we'll release everything once finished, except for some redactions of personal photos, addresses, etc
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It's time for another episode of The Hidden Palace podcast! This one is about the prototype of *Spore* that was made available in January.
* Spore's development and scaled-back ambitions
* How the prototype has boosted the modding scene
* Making preservation easy for publishers
We're back again with episode 6 of the Hidden Palace Podcast! This time we're joined by @textfiles from the @internetarchive
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Episode 4 of the Hidden Palace podcast is out now! This one is tied to a new release, Pyramid - a previously-unknown Saturn project from 1997.
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(Thanks to Nic for the art!)
In the episode, we interview Alexander Ehrath, the developer behind this would-be Saturn port.
The conversation starts with Ehrath's recollections of working on Resident Evil 2 for Nintendo 64. His engineering heroics earned him the the credit "The Man" in the game's staff roll.
The third episode of the Hidden Palace podcast is now available!
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In this episode, Bo, drx, Saz, and Nic are back to discuss:
HP's first unreleased game, Prince of Persia 2 for Genesis
Scene releases, cracktros, and the Sonic 2 CENSOR prototype
A behind-the-scenes look at Sonic Month 2019
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Disney was developing an interactive map for their Disney World guests - on Nintendo DS! It never entered production because guests refused to beta test it. 😂
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Episode 2 of our podcast is now out! @memory_fallen sits down with drx, Nic, Saz, and @hwd405 to talk about some of our greatest hits.
Thanks to everyone for the warm reception of our first episode, we hope that we can continue to entertain in the future!
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In recognition of the 18th anniversary of our 2008 release of the Sega ROM archive, we talk about how the release came to be, some of the surprises that came from it, and our favorite fun facts from the release.