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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.

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Hidden Palace news

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

(earlier news)

Community releases

Dec 26, 2024: Shadowgate (NES Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Rally Bike (Prototype A) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston (Prototype B) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: War on Wheels (Prototype B) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Tecmo Cup: Soccer Game (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: The Immortal (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: RoboCop 2 (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Super Glove Ball (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Halo: Combat Evolved (Dec 21, 2000 prototype) by Ske7ch
Dec 26, 2024: Bad News Baseball (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Mini Putt (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Jordan vs Bird: One on One (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: The Blues Brothers (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Power Punch II (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Low G Man: The Low Gravity Man (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Color Dreams Color Test by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Orb 3D (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Pipe Dream (Prototype) by Main Page
Dec 26, 2024: Zombie Nation (Prototype) by Main Page

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Merry NESMas!

For the second day of NESMas, we bring you a collection of prototypes amassed by the Nolan Brothers.

Twin brothers Mark "MrMark0673" and Matt "BeaglePuss" Nolan were mainstays in the online collecting world through much of the 2000s. If you spent any time on the NintendoAge forums, these names are surely familiar to you. They quickly made a name for themselves in particular as collectors of prototype games, building up a sizable collection that included a number of unreleased games. Some games they acquired - Kitty's Catch and Hoppin' Mad, for example - were games that we didn't even know existed until the Nolans found them.

The Nolans enjoyed contributing to fellow NES-playing hobbyists by making these games available, either as physical game cartridges they produced in small quantities or, in some cases, by simply releasing the ROM files online.

The Nolans have mostly stepped away from game collecting today, but they were kind enough to pass along the majority of the ROM files they'd dumped over the years for the sake of historical preservation. While most of these are not completely new to the internet, one thing that is significant for me is that we can now validate clean, unmodified ROMs for unreleased games for the NES. These games were often modified slightly before being put on to physical cartridges, which might have led to some unintended consequences in altering game logic, so being able to provide "clean" copies means that these games are, finally, preserved.

Here it is!

Nolan Brothers Lot

Thanks to Mark and Matt Nolan & Frank Cifaldi for the release as well as hwd45, togemet2 for help with the release!

Make sure you catch our NES Year stream on January 1st!

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