- Jun 29, 2025: Animaniacs - Hollywood Hypnotics
- Feb 1, 2025: Frogger 2 Full Development Archive
- Jan 1, 2025: Happy NES Year
- Dec 26, 2024: NESMas - Day 2
- Dec 25, 2024: NESMas - Day 1
- Jul 6, 2024: Vanished without a Trace - Out of the Vortex for the Sega Mega Drive
- Apr 9, 2024: Crash Tag Team Racing (Xbox Prototype)
- Jan 21, 2024: Crash Bash and Spyro 3
- Jan 1, 2024: New Years 2024 - Sonic Heroes
- Dec 25, 2023: A Very Bandicoot Christmas - Crash Bandicoot: Warped Prototype
- Nov 24, 2023: 6GUN: BattleBourne's Unreleased PlayStation 2 Game
- Oct 31, 2023: Daredevil: The Man Without Fear - Unreleased PlayStation 2 Game
- Feb 28, 2023: Phantasy Star Online Prototype
- Feb 15, 2023: PSP Release Candidates
- Dec 25, 2022: Project Deluge: Xbox 360 and Wii
- Dec 9, 2022: Semradical!
- Nov 24, 2022: Sega Technical Institute’s Cancelled Segapede
- Nov 23, 2022: Sonic 3 and Feel Preproduction VHS Tapes!
- Oct 31, 2022: Happy Halloween 2022! Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the Tiger Game.com!
- Jan 1, 2022: New Years 2022!
- Nov 13, 2021: Go Go Goemon! Mystical Ninja Goemon Zero
- Oct 10, 2021: Mortal Kombat prototype for the Sega Mega Drive
- Sep 18, 2021: Project Deluge: Xbox and Dreamcast
- Jul 24, 2021: Angels with Burning Hearts: Burning Rangers Prototype
- May 1, 2021: Crash Landing
- Apr 17, 2021: Project Deluge: PlayStation 1, Saturn, and CD-I (Part 2)
- Mar 20, 2021: Project Deluge: PlayStation 2
- Jan 1, 2021: Dreams Come True: Sonic 1 (MD) Prototype
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The Hidden Palace is a community dedicated to the preservation of video game development media (such as prototypes, hardware, source code, artwork, and more). This website can be utilized as a catalog for the items that we and others are able to collect and share.
If you are interested in contributing, please see our How to Contribute page.
- Jul 26, 2025: Baldur's Gate 3 (Oct 2, 2020 prototype) by Andersson799
- Jul 26, 2025: Spirit of Speed 1937 (Aug 31, 2000 prototype) by AxlThunder
- Jul 23, 2025: AquaZone (Jul 31, 2006 prototype) by Xil Dreadnought
- Jul 23, 2025: Titus the Fox (Jan 18, 1994 prototype) by Games That Weren't
- Jul 22, 2025: Disney-Pixar Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! (Nintendo 64 prototype) by Jowijowi
- Jul 22, 2025: ATV Racing (Prototype B) by Games That Weren't
- Jul 22, 2025: LEGO Battles (Castle prototype C) by Jowijowi
- Jul 22, 2025: Chameleon Twist 2 (Feb 1, 1999 build) by Jowijowi
- Jul 22, 2025: ATV Racing (Apr 7, 2000 prototype A) by Games That Weren't
- Jul 22, 2025: Top Gear Rally (Aug 15, 1997 prototype) by Jowijowi
- Jul 22, 2025: LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Feb 5, 2010 prototype) by Jowijowi
- Jul 22, 2025: ATV Racing (Apr 7, 2000 prototype B) by Games That Weren't
- Jul 22, 2025: Rakugakids (Sep 16, 1998 prototype) by Jowijowi
- Jul 22, 2025: LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues (Aug 10, 2009 Nintendo DS prototype) by Jowijowi
- Jul 22, 2025: ATV Racing (Prototype A) by Games That Weren't
- Jul 22, 2025: LEGO Battles (Pirates prototype) by Jowijowi
- Jul 18, 2025: GeoTrip (prototype) by Codebound
- Jul 18, 2025: Agent Hugo: Fly Guyz! (prototype) by Codebound
- Jul 17, 2025: Populous (Feb 17, 1993 build) by Games That Weren't
- Jul 17, 2025: Populous (Game Boy prototype A) by Games That Weren't (more)
Frogger 2 Motherload Lot
Discuss this release on our Discord server!
Discuss this release on the Highway Frogs Discord server!
Hello everyone! Today we're partnering with Highway Frogs for the release of the Frogger 2 Motherload Lot!
Highway Frogs not only obtained a full development archive of Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, but also spent hundreds of hours preparing for this release.
What could they have possibly spent hundreds of hours on, you may ask. Isn't releasing prototypes as simple as dumping CDs/ROMs, and uploading them online?
Here are some of the things they did:
- Over 1000 Pages of Paper Documents needed to be scanned, deskewed, and turned into PDFs.
- Over 200 audio tracks were rendered/mastered extremely carefully using original hardware such as the Yamaha EX-5 and original software like SoundForge 4.0.
- The "End of Project" Tape was damaged by a data recovery company, and it took months of reverse-engineering to recover the data ourselves. ([More Info])
- Source Code Repos for 7 different games/consoles were byte-matched, and made easy to build on modern computers.
- Tools were made for working with some of the backups, such as a 3D object converter, or a compiler/decompiler for game scripts, and more.
- Some prototypes were built using source code/assets found within the backups.
- Almost every single file (> 60k) was thoroughly investigated for any hidden data, what software used it, etc.
- Also juggling several other releases of similar magnitude at the same time. (Coming soon)
- A mod fixing Frogger 2's compatibility issues on modern computers, aka the "Frogger 2 Enhanced PC Port".
- Tons more.
Thank you to Highway Frogs for the big release! There were many people involved in making this release happen, so check out the credits on the release page.
Until next time!
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