The video game conservation community, Hidden Palace, uploaded more than 700 demo and prototype files over the weekend, all from the PlayStation 2 era. The collection, called Project Deluge, consists of ‘PlayStation 2 buildings that have been confirmed to be unique and do not match the final build’ of the games. Many of the games and demos can be played on Windows PC via emulators.
The collection in Project Deluge was loaded over a period of time from ‘different media vendors, developers and opportunities of different collectors’, Hidden Palace said on its website, all apparently summarized by a single person before being handed over to Hidden. Palace, as seen by VGC.
“These obsolete articles were miraculously saved by being destroyed, thrown away, or sold by the hard work of one person,” Hidden Palace wrote. ‘This person not only took on the task of backing everything up on his own, but was so overwhelmingly kind to let us look at and preserve every item in his collection, without any strings attached. Yes, that’s right, that’s all right. For nothing back. ”
There are currently 752 games and demos uploaded as part of the collection. Hidden Palace researchers said the project is “so massive” that it “obscures everything we’ve done so far”.
The full story on how Hidden Palace embarked on this massive project is on the organization’s website. The full list of prototypes is also there.
The large number of buildings in the collection means that there is a lot to dig through, but some of the highlights include E3 prototypes of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Shadow of the colossus, as well as prototypes and previews of Dino Stalker, Katamari Damacy, God Hand, en Final fantasy 10-2. Hidden Palace went through a whole bunch of games over the weekend during a six-hour live stream, with the light of games like The Simpsons Skateboarding and Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.