Crash Bandicoot: Warped (Aug 26, 1998 prototype) - Gameplay

We are proud to announce the Crash Landing 2021, a project we've been working on the past months, which we've been recovering several prototype material of Crash Bandicoot games for PlayStation 1. As part of this project, a total of five unique prototypes are included.
This is a preview build dated August 26th, 1998, over a month before the final NTSC-U release version. This seems to be the first build to be labelled as a "Beta Demonstration", and also the first build to feature all main levels and bosses. The game is also pretty much finishable at this point.
This version matches the ones used in a number of European magazine previews.
TCRF documentation - tcrf.net/Proto:Crash_Bandicoo...
Hidden Palace - hiddenpalace.org/Crash_Bandic...
Patch (use Delta Patcher to apply):
mega.nz/file/sdgWAQ4Q#DnOv3WS...
Made by SolidSnake11
This project wouldn't have been possible without the collaborative effort of Darkaiser, Hwd405, iniche, madmarsrocks, Niko, and psx-collector.

[@HikikomoriDev]

Thank you for bringing us this. This is something we as children at the time would had never known it existed.

[@Casketkrusher_]

Love the music in the warp room, I think its an early version that was suppossed to be for the underwater levels.

[@amyrose8411]

57:04 this the crash 1 sound effect

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

when you stand on the buttons I love how it shows crash’s icon that was used in the Japanese version. The North American version he’s sticking his tongue out.

[@tomatogenesis]

I've been waiting this moment for so long.

[@MystLgnd]

Interesting to see the subtle but important changes brought in just a month that radically improved the cream of the cake 👍

[@shahaman5694]

So it seems bonus music eventually became main theme of Crash 3. Bonus theme was origin.

[@smartass643]

Didn’t crash 2 have bonus music as well?

[@Sheimiko]

They removed the guy riding the triceratops.

[@crashybandicoot0136]

It was due to the console limitations at the time, they had to remove him to save space. Tho I wish Vicarious Visions added it back in.

[@crashybandicoot0136]

@@swdtk in earlier builds of the game

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

It’s because of console limitations numbnuts, so it doesn’t cause the PlayStation to blow up.

[@dan_1809]

If you hadn't given this information I would never have realized, thank you, you saved my life

[@Sheimiko]

@@dan_1809what

[@linkfaris7769]

The warp room theme slaps bro where can i find it cuz the theme is good

[@KaiokenBlueGT]

It's the Beta theme of the Underwater levels. You can find a Pre-Console mix of it on Josh Mancell's SoundCloud :)

[@user-nv7nr1ju7l]

👑

[@trickster9789]

The warp room ost of this beta version is better on my opinion.. Too nice to hear ❤

[@itzpat215]

Everytime i play crash 3 warped and go bonus level the songs be bussin tho 😄

[@mgg169]

The begging music 🥰

[@amyrose8411]

High time what missing the bonus and zhe death routh theme?

[@pjmuir1603]

hey im still having problems making it work even with the patch and it been in the memony card slot on epsxe

[@mr.eyeballs2307]

Bronze Time Relic

[@DoktorWoron]

Warp room. Save screen looks different in demo

[@-FloweyTheFlower]

How can i put .mcd file (The one that bypass dongle protection) on my modded ps2 to run them? I use OPL with Popstarter and i run the game from an usb key.

[@Darkaiser]

Use Delta Patcher for this: mega.nz/file/sdgWAQ4Q#DnOv3WSz9XPhGpvnSrFX5jID-plW3wBNzgzbwehQZW4

[@-FloweyTheFlower]

@@Darkaiser Thank you man!

[@XxXRapidoSxXx]

How to access Hidden Treasure (Hot Coco) ? Thanks.

[@Darkaiser]

Only via level modifier, unfortunately.

[@victorsoul2328]

hope you guys can show the beta of version of Titans as well Uka Uka was suppost to have theses blue fires over his head? wierd choice.

[@Darkaiser]

Yes, those blue fires were present in the concept art.

[@DoktorWoron]

14:54 sea side

[@Shavav13]

The ost is samed snes sounds

[@Vicedivo]

I have a problem with the Crash Bandicoot 3 prototype ISO, I use ePSXe 2.05 and the Crash Bandicoot 1 and Crash Bandicoot 2 prototypes work perfectly for me, but with the Crash Bandicoot 3 prototype it gets to the menu and then the emulator stops working and it gives me an error, like the ISO is locked. How do I solve the problem ? Thanks so much to anyone who replies.

[@Darkaiser]

Did you insert the dongle into memory card slot 1? Or you can just patch the game with the xdelta file

[@Vicedivo]

@@Darkaiser I don't know what the dongle is, honestly, and xdelta file where can you get it and where should it be inserted on ePSXe ?

[@Darkaiser]

@@Vicedivo Everything can be found on the Hidden Palace page. Please check the notes section.

[@teamtrivettrules.2011]

i can't believe the beta removed the warp messages when entering the level

[@Darkaiser]

Because it's not removed...? Just not implemented yet.

[@augi1034]

entällegence

[@PhilCascio97]

How to bypass the dongle detection?

[@Darkaiser]

Put the memory card dongle in memory card slot 1.

[@PhilCascio97]

@@Darkaiser it doesn't work. I'm using ePSXe

[@Darkaiser]

@@PhilCascio97 Check the new patch in the description. Use Delta Patcher to apply it.

[@PhilCascio97]

@@Darkaiser thx. I'll try whenever it's possible

[@PhilCascio97]

@@Darkaiser hi 👋 it works fine now, thanks for the help

[@SALG2401_UWU]

Al principio creí que era una falsa pero cuando vi el logotipo de crash y la poción que estaba coco me dije que era la demo prototype

[@GM4E01]

39:30 Not automatically broke same as final.

[@ramzehx6534]

What are the main differences between one and the other besides the main theme and some of the character icons and scenes

[@Darkaiser]

tcrf.net/Proto:Crash_Bandicoot:_Warped/August_26th,_1998_build

[@munkiandtrunktvofficialchannel]

Munki and Trunk (January 14th, 1994 - prototype) Munki and Trunk 2 (January 19th, 1999 - prototype) Munki and Trunk 3 (January 24th, 2004 - prototype) Munki and Trunk 4 (January 29th, 2009 - prototype)

[@PSXTAS]

the game crashes in the title screen.I runned the bin and the cue file is there any problem

[@mspeter97]

Was there a patch with the archive? I recon it needs to be patched in order to work

[@PJS-7K-]

you must use dongle file and put it instead of memory card and it will work

[@user-yi5wm8lk3u]

حلو ةاوي.اوي.العبةدي.اوي🎉

[@DoktorWoron]

Faking nostalgie