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In 2022, a massive development archive for Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge was acquired by user Kneesnap. The lot contained documents, prototypes, source code, early FMV, music, and much more. Shortly after, the Game Boy Color version of the source code was obtained by Kneesnap. Shortly after this, several other game archives from Blitz Games were acquired and dumped, containing essentially everything related to the development. Hundreds of discs were acquired, along with thousands of pages of documentation and many data tape backups. Currently, the development archives for '''Chicken Run, Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge''', and '''Glover (PlayStation)''' have been secured, with more on the way in the future.
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Several data tapes were included in the game archives, and due to problems with the drive being used to read the Frogger 2 backup tape, it was sent to a data recovery company which caused damage to the tape. However, Kneesnap was able to recover about 90% of the data from the tape despite the damage caused to it.
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[https://discord.gg/2E758sS {{icon|comments}} Discuss this release on the Highway Frogs Discord server!]<br>
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In 2022, a massive development archive for Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge was acquired by [https://discord.gg/2E758sS Highway Frogs],
The lot is a near complete development history containing documents, prototypes, source code, early FMV cutscenes, unused music, and much more.
It is the first of several full-development archive releases by [https://discord.gg/2E758sS Highway Frogs].
 
'''Info:''' <br/>
Release Date: February 1st, 2025 <br/>
Size: 85GB Uncompressed (58GB Compressed) <br/>
 
'''The Release Contains:'''
* 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. ([[https://github.com/Kneesnap/onstream-data-recovery/blob/main/info/INTRO.MD More Info]])
* Byte-Matched Source Code Repos for 7 different Frogger games/consoles, which have been updated to compile on Windows 10/11.
* Custom tools made for working with some of the backups, such as a 3D object converter, or a compiler/decompiler for game scripts, and more.
* A mod fixing Frogger 2's compatibility issues on modern computers, aka the "Frogger 2 Enhanced PC Port".
* Materials from other Blitz Games projects, including ''Chicken Run'', ''Glover'', and ''The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea''.
* Tons more.
 
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==Chicken Run==
This part of the lot contained many PlayStation builds, 53 GameBoy Color builds, 1 Dreamcast build and 4 PC builds, as well as source code backups, documents, and many other miscellaneous backups and development archives.
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==Glover (PlayStation)==
This part of the lot contained 13 PlayStation builds, source code backups, documents, and asset backups.
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==The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea==
One PlayStation build was found within the Chicken Run archives.
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