Last night group for preserving video games, The hidden palace, released more than 700 PS2 demos, prototypes, E3 and press release demos in a major landfill site the group referred to as’Project flood”.
The Hidden Palace hosted a stream on Twitch that lasted more than six hours on Saturday night. During the stream, they showcased a number of PS2 versions and demos in front of PSL for various games, including Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, LEGO Star Wars The Video Game, Crazy Taxi, and Final Fantasy X-2.
Some of these early constructions were only seen on trade turns, such as E3, and were built specifically for a preview coverage. Other early versions include debug and beta development. All these things were found and saved from sale or discarded by one person, working with The Hidden Palace and Internet Archive to properly catalog and upload all these files. In total, it produces more than 850 GB of data.
It’s a treasure trove of video game history that The Hidden Palace has spent nearly a year, sorting out retail buildings, and saving only unknown prototypes and unreleased versions. You can read more about the funny information on how the team managed it a blog post on the group’s website. The short answer: it sounds like a lot of work. Lots of work.
And surprisingly, Project Deluge is not finished. The team claims they have many more prototypes to dig through and plans to release more soon, but does not have a more specific date than that.
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