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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.

Hidden Palace news

Jan 1, 2026: Year of Spore

Dec 25, 2025: One Bad Ass Hedgehog - Shadow the Hedgehog

Nov 26, 2025: A Mojave Thanksgiving - Fallout: New Vegas Prototype

Oct 31, 2025: Happy Halloween 2025! Dark Empires Prototype & Craig Stitt Interview

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

(earlier news)

Community releases

• Jan 02, 2026: Gears of War (Sep 21, 2006 prototype) by Gonzo
• Jan 02, 2026: Shadow Man (Nintendo 64 prototype) by 8bitbros
• Jan 01, 2026: Dead Trigger 2 (Jun 29, 2016 prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 31, 2025: Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury (prototype E) by Terra Snewstorm, Lonntra
• Dec 30, 2025: LittleBigPlanet 2 (Dec 5, 2010 prototype) by KeRbDoG
• Dec 27, 2025: Halo 2 (May 3, 2003 prototype) by Anonymous
• Dec 27, 2025: Halo 2 (May 11, 2003 prototype) by Anonymous
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Beta F prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's (Beta A prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Beta B prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Beta G prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's (Beta B prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Beta C prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Star Command (May 10, 2015 prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's (Beta C prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Beta D prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's (Beta D prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Beta E prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 26, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Beta A prototype) by ToroInoue
• Dec 25, 2025: Spawn: Armageddon (Aug 19, 2003 prototype) by AxlThunder
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Latest news

Hidden Palace presents...

Spore (Feb 19, 2008 prototype)

Discuss this release on our Discord server!
And check out the Twitch stream as it happened!

Happy New Year everyone! We start off with a big bang. The game Spore has been famed for its lengthy development and the many iterations it went through. Today we present a build, donated by a generous anonymous secret Santa, dated Feb 19, 2008, a full six months before the final release.

It features many cut creatures, features, debug editors and overlays, a planet editor, a cut flora editor, an animation viewer, a model viewer, and much more cut content that is sure to make the Spore modding community busy in 2026.

Enjoy!

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Latest contributed articles

• Oops! (Proton-Run prototype) by Tikal.
• Shadow Man (Nintendo 64 prototype) by Tikal.
• Dead Trigger 2 (Feb 23, 2015 prototype) by Funtimeandrefoxy
• Dead Trigger 2 (Jun 29, 2016 prototype) by Funtimeandrefoxy
• FIFA 17 (Aug 31, 2016 USA demo) by Funtimeandrefoxy
• FIFA 17 (Aug 31, 2016 EU demo) by Funtimeandrefoxy
• FIFA 17 (Aug 26, 2012 demo) by Funtimeandrefoxy
• Gears of War (Sep 21, 2006 prototype) by Funtimeandrefoxy
• Escape from Colditz (Commodore 64 prototype) by Tikal.
• Devious Designs (Late C64 prototype) by Tikal.
• Devious Designs (Early C64 prototype F) by Tikal.
• Devious Designs (Early C64 prototype E) by Tikal.
• Devious Designs (Early C64 prototype D) by Tikal.
• Devious Designs (Early C64 prototype C) by Tikal.
• Devious Designs (Early C64 prototype B) by Tikal.
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