Most Wanted Lost Media in 2022

It's interesting to hear what kinds of content people in the community want to find so let's take a look at what you guys are interested in!

[@CallMeFreakFujiko]

Miyamoto said that Earthbound 64 was only "about 60% done" but Itoi said that it was probably more like 80-90% finished and that Miyamoto is "a perfectionist" and always assume that games are less done than they actually are.

[@jasonwalton9553]

And yet, he said that Pikmin 4's been "very close to completion" 6 years ago.

[@TorutheRedFox]

@@jasonwalton9553 and said that Mario 64 was 50% complete during Space World 1995 when only a handful of levels was done, and was in an incomplete enough state that it got delayed twice

[@scarffoxandfriends9401]

To be fair, Itoi never was the best at judging the more technical side of video games. So he probably incorporated 80-90% of the story, but didn't really understand how much debugging and optimization was needed to finish the game. We all know by now that Mother 2 suffered from this same issue.

[@TheLegendOf43]

Most of it has surfaced now. I would estimate from what I've seen at around 25%. You can search it up on here, character scripts and story are nonexistent, only a couple environments are intact.

[@TheLegendOf43]

@@jasonwalton9553 they always seem to think theres some nearly finished copy out there hiding in the wild, when typically the assets arent anywhere close to completion, were used elsewhere or discarded entirely. Developers will say anything to build anticipation and hype.

[@_mango_]

The Michael Jackson’s unreleased discography, especially his Sonic 3 contributions (his acapella tapes, the digitization ready, and genesis implemented versions) as a whole, is personally a pretty big grail I’ve been researching heavily. Lots of confirmed existing work that exists in vaults and private collector and collaborator’s hands, in various states of completion

[@_mango_]

@Flibbee Cam I’m writing a script about it! There’s unfortunately no unreleased tracker for Michael like there is for Kanye but MJ fans on forums since 2009 roughly have had a good list of unreleased stuff (some of which leaked and released)

[@_mango_]

@Flibbee Cam AI fakes of unreleased MJ is also a growing issue lol

[@ohnothimagen224]

It's sad that we're never going to see the rest of his unreleased catalog due to lack of demand and fans claiming that it's just cashing off a dead artist's name. I would like to have more than just the four albums (Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad, Dangerous) everybody knows at the top of their head.

[@_mango_]

@@ohnothimagen224 there’s probably enough throwaway material for those four main records, his later 2, HiStory and Invincible, and the album he worked on in the last 8 years of his life, to make 5-8 records minimum

[@ohnothimagen224]

@@_mango_ I didn't forget those last two (History/Invincible) I'm just saying that the common normie MJ fan only will listen to those four (OTW to Dangerous) albums and nothing else. They're even forgetting that he made four albums under Motown in the 70s that rarely get attention instead skipping to Off The Wall as his first proper studio album. Hell yeah I would love to have more posthumous compilation releases to hear more gems he left in the vault.

[@aortaplatinum]

Seeing the JoJo Phantom Blood movie stuff and realizing it would probably be way easier to look for if living in Japan and speaking Japanese, made me wonder about other countries' lost media. Like, I wonder if Japan lost media communities are searching for an American movie or game that would be way easier to find if living in the US, or like a Russian community trying to find a French comic series or something. How much "lost" media is only lost due to language and cultural barriers?

[@k-leb4671]

That's a really interesting thought.

[@brnne]

Yeah that's common with songs in lost media. Many of them are found in other countries more easily

[@estonianbear1]

I, an Estonian, we don't know how much lost media we have. I checked the Lost Media Wiki, and saw 2 peaces of lost media.

[@queencancerous5332]

Twelve Tales honestly looked like a very charming game. I’m happy Conker’s Bad Fur Day exists, but it really shows how much people cared only about “maturity” rather than gameplay back then.

[@mattwolf7698]

On the other hand. If it had just been another generic kids platformer, it would have been less remembered today due to blending in with all the others.

[@mistertagomago7974]

@@mattwolf7698 My thoughts. Even now Conkers Bad fur day feels like something unique.

[@lemone12]

What no they didn't care about maturity everyone wanted the game to be unique so they made it as different as they could out of spite

[@SK438]

​@@mattwolf7698 You can't say that for sure. It could've been fondly remembered, it could've been remembered as better than Banjo or Mario 64. We'll never know.

[@Mephitinae]

I wonder if Conker could have been more popular if Rare found some kind of middle ground between fully innocent and totally outrageous. T-rating would have allowed a fair bit of creative freedom. It's not like they would have lost any sales that way, but the M-rating certainly limited the audience.

[@Supersayainpikmin]

About Conker: Rare actually dug a rom out of their archives and showed off gameplay footage of it around the time Rare Replay was released.

[@OM19_MO79]

I think they dug footage but not the roms. They also lost the Battletoads Arcade port for the GB. Storage was expensive when those games were created, it's very likely they used the hard drives to develop other games and deleted files as they were no longer used. Must have been like animations cells during WWII, they are rare and lost because they were erased and reused, the final product was what matter.

[@Supersayainpikmin]

@@OM19_MO79 I find that unlikely. The footage they showed looks nowhere near as good as you can't get out of a real N64; the game is definitely running at a higher resolution than what that console can do. Plus, the 2D elements like the HUD appear blurry, much like how it does on Rare Replay N64 games; I think it's running off the same emulator.

[@bluebaron6858]

@@Supersayainpikmin they should've put it in rare replay

[@do_you_see_banana_man]

There’s one piece of lost media I hope will be found: Roly Polys World Tour, a sequel to the game Roly Polys No Nakarobi Yaoki. These games were made by artist Osamu Sato (creator of LSD Dream Emulator), and were designed to be edutainment games.

[@tapiocattundra]

hi banana man

[@Grzybowt]

I scrolled down and didn't expect to see something I KNEW of so far up! I too hope this is found . I love Osamu Sato's work

[@2011supergamer]

the quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog

[@chompchompchangbin]

Sato is such an underrated artist

[@PKAlt]

I have never heard of that but am now interested… I too really enjoy LSD dream emu and Osamu Sato. I’m making an album that samples the ost actually rn.

[@Chelaxim]

Considering the Nintendo 64 is infamous for the lack of JRPGs, NOTHING can beat the irony of Mother 3,Final Fantasy VII,Dragon Quest VII, Golden Sun and, Fire Emblem The Binding Blade starting development for the Nintendo 64.

[@elementalcc4991]

Conker 64 would count as lost media that was found. A cartidge was found to be held by an anonymous collector, but it wasn't released. The same collector that had Dinosaur Planet was confirmed to have a copy of Conker 64, and other goodies.

[@safetyman4967]

Was there any proof that he really had them or was he lying for attention?

[@lazyradly]

Its not confirmed.... its *rumored* that he has Twelve Tales, but as far as I know nothing of 12 Tales has been shared from him. No videos, screenshots or anything. This doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't have it, you just have to take claims like that with a grain of salt.

[@SKOT_3]

If true i hope we get something in the future.

[@queencancerous5332]

I hate people who hoard pieces of history like that, everyone should be able to play and dissect what almost was rather than collecting dust in someone’s attic.

[@safetyman4967]

@@lazyradly more like a kg of salt, alot of collectors big up their collections and I don't believe alot of it without maybe a pic or two, oh BTW I have the sonic beta and you'll never ever get it! And don't ask for proof 🙄

[@snow_wood]

Just some notes on MOTHER 3 N64. - Development started in 1994 on the SNES/SNES CD, not on a regular Nintendo 64 cartridge. The game was on 64DD first before being switched to a regular cartridge in very late 1998/1999. You can clearly see a cartridge in the SpaceWorld '99 pics. - The game was a planned 64DD launch title, not a planned base N64 launch title. I don't believe it ever was. - The game was about 50% at SpaceWorld '99, which was straight up said in the SpaceWorld '99 Booklet. - Cancellation came down to the devs focusing on smaller details, needing resources to be shifted to the Nintendo Gamecube, and them simple running out of time. The devs struggling was really only an issue very early on in N64's development. - The scope of the game was already being reduced by 1999 with some success. The biggest reduction was the 12 Chapters to 9. Though it seems the story was still pretty different from the final GameBoy Advance version. - When the game was cancelled, they considered both the GameCube & the GameBoy Advance. They said the GameCube wouldn't have solved all their problems. Itoi felt as though the GameBoy Advance wasn't the right platform to share the story & feelings he wanted. I recommend checking out the TCRF pre-release page for MOTHER 3 and MOTHER 4ever, me & my friends have poured countless hours into researching & spreading accurate information about the game. We also have a Discord server dedicated to researching & hanging out. I wouldn't recommend Starmen.net or the Wikipedia page as good sources, as those are heavily outdated.

[@SuperRetro64]

Some extra notes: -The SNES version apparently has a playable build according to Reid Young, someone who is close to Itoi and has interviewed him a few times. It was supposed to be a pre-rendered game similar to DKC. The plot was a hard-boiled detective story at this early point in development. -Mother 3, if it was released on N64, would’ve got a N64DD add-on that’d expand out the story. It was confirmed in 1999 to IGN that Mother 3.5 was in development alongside Mother 3 on cartridge. We know nothing about it besides the fact it was supposed to happen. -Early builds of the N64 version still exists, it was confirmed by a Brownie Brown employee that they were permitted to play through what bit of M3 they had. The game crashed after the first chapter, but according to the employee, it had a very Flintstone’s kinda vibe. The build was given out by HAL and was taken back shortly after. We could still end up finding Mother 3 N64 at some point in time. We know at least HAL has a build of the game and there has been a lot of discussion if Itoi has a build of it or not. That’s not including the Spaceworld build which could potentially be found if there’s another giga-leak.

[@hippaman2435]

@@SuperRetro64 It’s amazing how much info has been found over the years about this game

[@SuperRetro64]

@@hippaman2435 Absolutely, we learn more and more as the years go by. That’s the wonders of the modern internet, there’s always small teams working on finding new discoveries about these games. We’re extremely lucky to be in the modern age!

[@Sonicfoxtrot]

ok but where are your sources

[@SuperRetro64]

@@Sonicfoxtrot For the detective plot and pre-rendered: tcrf.net/Prerelease:Mother_3/Early_N64_Development Reid Young made a tweet years ago talking about it and the playable build, but it’s been deleted for a while now. You can find it with enough digging. Mother 3.5: www.ign.com/articles/1999/08/14/mother-35 Mother 3 N64 Build Playable for Brownie Brown Employees: mother4ever.net/interview-with-a-mother-3-debugger/ Here an extra; Mother 3 GBA Lucas and Claus Beta Designs (With Extra Concept Art): motherforever.net/official-artwork-of-mother-3/

[@LatiasDita]

My most wanted piece of lost media is the pilot to Toon Makers' Sailor Moon, sometimes erroneously called "Saban Moon." Gods, that weird animation/live-action mix show that we might have gotten looks so terrible based on the trailer, but I want to know just *how* terrible.

[@kaiser8659]

I want it found unironically. I know it would be terrible. But it was a terrible that'd take me back to simpler times 😁 I dig the 90s feel Saban Moon gave off

[@bluebaron6858]

Did you watch the history of Saban moon by bobdunga?

[@LatiasDita]

@@bluebaron6858 I recently did. It is a very good documentary!

[@sam1gnon]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3KVh4KrpsaCpM0 It's been found.

[@bacone-]

it was found!

[@Mudkip971]

I'm pretty sure Microsoft still has 12 Tales somewhere. If I'm not mistaken, a few years ago they posted on KZbin a video about Conker where it had unseen gameplay footage in HD which could only mean they still have a ROM of it and used it for the video.

[@sarinabina5487]

👀👀👀

[@Quartzer.]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnXRp4mYmaqmbcU I think its this

[@kenm2709]

Rare has it, not Microsoftpenis

[@No-cs2xf]

They do, the video is pretty easy to find, i don't know how he missed that

[@ant-fan]

My most-wanted piece of lost media personally is the Luigi's Mansion beta. I know that interest in it has dwindled some since some of the more outlandish claims about the game have been proven false, and since the Spaceworld 2000 trailer has surfaced (which I'm still over-the-moon about) but there was still so much different and cut content between the beta and the final game that I would give just about anything to see it resurface.

[@amandaletcher1320]

Some people did make a mod on what the beta could've looked like but it would be awesome if we can find original version

[@hanakoisbestgirl4752]

I do wonder if its part of the giga leak stuff that hasn't been released yet

[@CheatFreak47]

I don't know how you missed this, but, the rom for Twelve Tales is not lost, Rare/Microsoft still have it and they included loads of HD footage of it in a short video on Rare Replay. So while not fully "found" it technically is known to exist somewhere.

[@fawfulthegreat64]

About a year ago I reached out to the Nintendo World Report journalist who posted the Paper Mario video, and he confirmed that was the only footage he had of it sadly. Very nice to see it mentioned here though, I really want that trailer to be found. Also 8:24 There I am Gary!

[@kaiser8659]

Oh wow! Fawful I didn't think I'd see you here. I love your content! :D

[@LittleKoneko]

hey man you’re great love all of your content you formed my childhood

[@Reecee]

I’m glad that you covered the Paper Mario E3 2010 trailer, I’m the Lost Media Wiki Forums user that you mentioned and I’ve been searching for the trailer for about a year now.

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

Hey dude I’m pretty sure that I saw that trailer in-person. It was out there in places other than E3. I saw it at a promo event a couple of months before the 3DS came out. In Australia there were a couple of places you could go to demo the 3DS, not for the press or something but for anyone curious who walked in. I left another comment with a little more. I know it sounds like I might be making stuff up but look for that promo event and maybe it’ll have a lead. I’m just a random guy so I can’t help more than that. Good luck.

[@cobb797]

@@idontcheckmynotifications can you remember what happened in the trailer?

[@NERDmNERDf]

Did we just all forget Rare showed a ton of new footage of 12 Tales when rare replay came out, and stated they had a rom on hand and that’s what they were showing…..?

[@Mudkip971]

Yeah Microsoft showed new footage so they must still have a ROM of the game

[@lazyradly]

Yeah but its still not playable publicly, so the ROM itself is still considered lost.

[@kaiser8659]

They should hurry up and leak it. I hate they have a rom but won't just leak it. They can't profit off of it unless they want to recreate it. And that rom won't last forever. It needs to be immortalized on the internet

[@kasiopeeya]

I want to find a short I saw when I was a kid in late 90's early 00's. I watched it on a channel called LOCOMOTION (I don't know if it was a channel just here in Latin America or if it was an international version of other network). That channel used to stream content mostly for young adults. There was a segment that aired mostly near midnight called LOCOTOMIA that showed short films and animations. The short I'm talking about was in "clay motion" (it reminds me now that chicken movie made in this format) and I recall it was about a society in which everyone does what they're supposed to: everyone goes to work at the same place, everyone goes shopping at the same place, etc. At some point the main character notices a window and is unable to see what's "outside". After various days of walking by that window with the rest of the people at the same time, the main character takes a peek out of that window and goes through it and ends up "outside" where there's a beautiful sight of a sky full of stars. Then he looks back at the window and sees how all the people inside goes from one side to another at the same time and at the same rhythm. The short ends here. The whole short had no dialog, only sound effects when needed, like people walking, working and being at home. I remember being a kid and thinking that some of the shorts that aired in that segment (LOCOTOMIA) used to be so long but I guess that being a kid enjoying some TV made me think they were long. I remember this short in particular because it meant so much to me at a young age to get a message like that: DARE TO GO OUTSIDE. It defined my way of thinking from there to the present day and I will carry that message with me for the rest of my life.

[@polar-star64]

For me personally, my lost media holy grail will forever be the Spaceworld 2001 build of Super Mario Sunshine. I was hoping so bad it would've been included in the Giga Leaks but unfortunately not.. The day we get the build of Super Mario Sunshine from Spaceworld 2001 I can die happy

[@joshshrum2764]

That does sound interesting just hope it doesn’t cause a Mario 64 personalized effect.

[@grizzlydino]

I like to imagine theirs a Japanese grandpa who used to work at Nintendo who has lost media like Mother 64 prototypes, conkers twelve tail demos, slam fest, and other most wanted stuff in a closet or a basement in a box waiting to be discoverd and dumped online

[@gsus4751]

I personally would like to know more about the Kirby 64 beta. It apparently had multiplayer with playable adeleine and waddle dee

[@aclstudios]

Kirby on N64 is an entire rabbit hole in itself. From Kirby Bowl 64, to Kirby Air Ride 64, to a 3D Kirby platformer attempted... tbh Kirby as a whole has so many scrapped games or heavily reworked ones.

[@fernandobanda5734]

It's crazy that only last year new footage of Earthbound 64 appeared, after years of the same old magazine screenshots.

[@maximus4765]

"According to twitter" is a taglline that almost never bodes well

[@HistoryandReviews]

Yeah. Democrats aren’t known for telling the truth

[@tankart150]

Unless if it’s user BaddCompani aka Carl Sizelove :)

[@KrissyBlues]

Wanna give a shoutout to the NiGHTS into dreams community and their search for the character of "Selph", a secret boss who we only know from older material and their theme being available on soundtracks. It's taken many interesting twists and turns, including being passively acknowledged by people in charge of the game, but we've yet to find anything truly conclusive. There's a very solid video by digi valentine on the subject I'd HIGHLY recommend Also, kind of obscure and prolly not as interesting but I've always wanted to find a full high quality version of the music used in the last trailer for Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice It's a remix of multiple different songs in a medley together, and Dual Destinies had a similar song called Pursuit~ Last Promotion Version included in its soundtrack, but Spirit of Justice never did the same so the only version of it publicly available is one with all the characters talking over it lol

[@pivotalpancake5454]

My most wanted personal lost media, at least for me. Is to find a somewhat late 2000's, Power Rangers-esque movie about a nerd's videogame waifu coming to the real world. I've saw this air once in our Filipino movie network (Channel 5) where they basically play dubbed versions of any American movie ever, both obscure and iconic ones. Does anyone else (at least Filipino) have seen this? Or have I just hallucinated the whole thing?

[@judeandreihernandez4283]

does the girl turn into armor

[@jhonmarston1234]

Biokids?

[@charlotterepasky1675]

This is Probably not it but Pixels?

[@pivotalpancake5454]

@@jhonmarston1234 I've just looked up your suggestion and it's unfortunately not it. From what I can remember most of the actors are either Europeans or Americans. And from what I mean of Power Rangers-esque, is that it has that same choreographed martial art feel like the show. (And I guess also like the '90s Mortal Kombat movie). It also has that 2000's feel (take movies like the Karate Kid with Will Smith's son) and doesn't feel really old, as they even use pretty modern computers in playing their video game. But thanks for your suggestion nonetheless!

[@pivotalpancake5454]

@@judeandreihernandez4283 No I don't really remember, but she gets kidnapped in first part of the movie by the bad guy's goons. The girl "waifu" is from a Eastern Asia type MMO game, and is dressed up like something from the likes of Genshin or any game with those kinds of themes. I've only managed to watch the first part of the movie up to when she was kidnapped, but I didn't get to finish it.

[@DecadoPrime]

I really want the Sonic 1 prototype to be found. But I like how you included Mess O Blues. Reminded me of yesterday's livestream.

[@_mango_]

Sonic 1 prototype is likely to exist within Sega, so I unfortunately don’t think that it can ever be found unless a dedicated company search of those carts was conducted - it’s possibly even data wiped. But maybe under bizarre circumstances, much like Ken Penders’ copyright for Archie characters, it escaped Sega’s clutches and is out there in the world

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

Van Partible iceberg

[@schemar17]

@@_mango_ there was a video where a sonic shoe featured parts of the sonic beta

[@daxmoney5011]

@@_mango_ It will be found like the space world 1997 build of gold and silver

[@OM19_MO79]

This guy is just obsessed with this. He should be careful, though. Pepe Le Pew has been cancelled, JB is next in line. If I were Van Partible, I'd burn the footage before the cancelation generation burns me.

[@Molten_Pig]

I am SOOOOOO happy to see you finally mention Mother 64. I've been waiting for this for ages!

[@nanardeurlambda]

honestly at this point, maybe someone should MAKE saki Sanobashi. Just to qwell the searchers' hunger. And because I'd be curious as to how the thing would actually play out.

[@Emmypinklasagna]

We'll finally discover Mother 64 one day. With that massive Nintendo leak that happened just a couple of years ago, we found a lot of Nintendo beta material, so I'm confident we'll uncover Mother 64 someday soon.

[@protocetid]

Hate to burst your bubble but the gigaleak contained games and data created in house at Nintendo hence the lack of Kirby and Smash material. We got extremely lucky it happened at all, specially when you factor in the Pokémon content they was included.

[@protocetid]

@whats this? The hacker’s name is wack0 and he’s a hero. The guy doesn’t get the credit he deserves.

[@ShiningMew]

twelve tales’s rom actually still exists in rares archives, in the compilation rare replay there’s high quality gameplay and there’s another video on rares youtube channel m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnXRp4mYmaqmbcU so they haven’t released it but it’s good to know it still exists

[@earthboundman5]

My most wanted piece of lost media is for you to finish the "Finding Merch for every spirit in Smash" series😭

[@strawberry-bs5bp]

two pieces of media i hope get found at some point; -(very unlikely and im essentially waiting on a miracle) the scene in the exorcist that got fully cut, where regan and chris are driving around washington and at one point they talk about death. we have video footage of it, but the audio got messed up during filming of that scene if i recall correctly, so they cut it entirely. i'd give anything for it because it gives us a look into chris's beliefs as a whole early on, and alludes to a few things later on. -(also very unlikely, but a little more likely than the last one) a full version of interface by masa works design. it's really lost for now because, while yes there's an archive link for it, it's archived around 2012, so it requires a 2012 niconicodouga account, and almost nobody interested in the search has access to one. however, since stealing songs from niconicodouga and reuploading them to youtube was so common back then, i'm really hoping someone out there has it on youtube and we just can't find it as of yet.

[@roxassora2706]

I would love to see Batman vs. Dracula (Vietnam) and JJBA Phantom Blood. Ofc there's no bias as to why... pfft.

[@HistoryandReviews]

@@roxassora2706 what about the bootleg 1970s spiderman film

[@NobleRaider]

@@roxassora2706 it's not from Vietnam it's from the Philippines

[@roxassora2706]

@@NobleRaider I heard it was Vietnamese.

[@willowispers3895]

This may just be me being bad with names, but Masa Works Design is the creator of the onibi series, right??

[@chocolattemocha8512]

Personally, a piece of lost media I want to find is more of a collection of things revolving around the same character. There was this Spiderman series plush set and picture books I remember being sold at Family Dollar in the early 2000’s. But the character I distinctly remember is Spidergirl (I forgot what her name was). She really stuck out in my mind even though she was basically wearing the same costume as Spider-Man just with her hair up in pigtails and an uncovered mouth. I’ve been trying to find it in my spare time but either I’m using the wrong words when looking it up or it’s something else entirely.

[@ridgenyan-botxv367]

I remember there being a vsmile game with a spidergirl design similar to the one you're describing, can't say I know much more than that

[@chocolattemocha8512]

@@ridgenyan-botxv367 Yeah, I think I saw that game at the store at some point too. Wonder what happened to it.

[@Lumilovesdio]

I really wanna see slamfest'99

[@pastaweasel5088]

Rare themselves have shown off an almost final build of Conker 64 on their KZbin channel. The game still exists at Rare, but it probably won’t be released. At least we have quality video. They also showed off Dream (SNES & N64) too on the YT channel.

[@m.a.9571]

I don't know why but lost media is the most interesting thing that ever content to tackle to tbh

[@flagfighter]

The piece of lost media I want most is Final Fantasy Agito+, the cancelled Vita port of Final Fantasy Agito, the mobile game prequel/sequel of Final Fantasy Type-0 from 2014. Surprisingly, there are very few videos of gameplay online, so it's impossible to view the story in its original form. (And of course, it's unplayable. We have no game.) The port was shown to be running on the Vita, yet the game was silently cancelled at some point with seemingly no plans to revive it. I managed to do a full translation of the main story thanks to Japanese scripts and screenshots, but there's so much we don't have. It would be cool if you could feature it sometime to boost the word about it. If more people knew what we were missing, there might at least be a chance that somebody would step forward with new screenshots or videos. I want to stress that it wasn't just some shoddy spin-off title. It was a full-fledged RPG with important lore that expanded the character development of all of the main characters. And now it's just gone.

[@slimcognito383]

You should do this once and a while. Maybe once a year or so. Asking Twitter what their most wanted piece of media is. I say once a year cause that gives enough time for new lost media to pop up and older one's to be found

[@Queen_Homu]

The subtle shout-outs to Whang and Yuri of Wind we're awesome

[@SKOT_3]

Rare made a video on KZbin showcasing Twelve Tales some years ago, so at the very least there's still one build that exists. Even if it isn't the most complete or polished.

[@melibellu1271]

Petpetpark, idk how much is lost but its rewritten form leads me to believe most of it is lost

[@sprites0da]

i forgot about that game

[@ZakH644]

I’ve been really interested in the CR6 mystery because it happened close to where I live and I’m really intrigued by the early days of the internet.

[@Chowder908]

Didn't the guy who made that horror anime about the chicks stuck in the bathroom come out and say it was fake even providing the image used on the thread with a timestamp.

[@combinesoldier14]

Personally, my most wanted lost media are the post-1997 rewrite Half-Life 1 beta builds. Most of these were made around 8 months before the game's release but have so many differences. There are only like 2 screenshots of them. Apperantly Geoff Keighley (the HL books writer) has CDs containing all the builds, but hasn't released them. Maybe they still exist on valve's servers.

[@cascadewolf9806]

I really want the full 3-hour version of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles to be released

[@DaniJam05]

Hell yeah same

[@joshshrum2764]

Release the PTA extended cut, lol.

[@GeoshiTheRed]

I'm a close friend to Reecee, He has been searching for the trailer for about a year and runs an archive account with info relating to it.

[@WilfredCthulu]

I am an absolute fucking sucker for beta and unreleased n64 and GameCube stuff. There's actually a screenshot of Mother 64 in Melee's files it's so interesting.

[@CommanderBravo2]

the conker one always bugged me, yeah there were a ton of platformers with similar art styles, but that was never an issue, so why did it suddenly become so with conker? twelve tales looked fun, and im kind of sad we didnt get it because of that one reason, which was kinda bs

[@mistertagomago7974]

I'm glad we got Bad Fur day instead tbh.

[@PokettoManStar]

Conker 64's rom isn't lost, there's newly recorded footage in Rare Replay. There's at least one early rom left.

[@HistoryandReviews]

Replay is old not new

[@_mango_]

13:14 the GameCube Mother 3 was something I recall being mentioned in an interview with Yasuyuki Honne. Namco was involved. Itoi wasn’t interested in that version. Some kinda stylized plush / yarn aesthetic. Highly stylized and I think there’s a couple concept images of how it was to look EDIT: it was a mother 1 remake on GCN, not an mother 64 comtinuation

[@khaj214]

That wasn't MOTHER 3. That was a GCN Remake of MOTHER 1. The idea never got out of the planning phase however due to Itoi spending most of his time and effort on trying to rehash MOTHER 64 for the GBA

[@happyface1211]

@@khaj214 He mentioned that in his blog about bringing Mother 3 to the GBA? if i can recall

[@kingnewcomer2029]

This was definitely a different take on lost media. XD I like it though! It's very interesting to see that originally Conker's debut game was gonna be more of a kiddie platformer compared to the raunchy game we got in the final release! I hope we can find more of the game, as well as everything else featured in the video, so we can maybe even get a chance to play it!

[@jootersblaccat]

The Vocaloid-P data collection. Basically a bunch of files made by a bunch of popular song materials by popular producers that work with robot materials that were sold years ago. Barely anything about it and no one seems to have it surprisingly due to the very popular songs on it (Paradichlorobenzene, Don't look at me in that way; which is a song made by the same person that made Aishite Aishite Aishite, etc)

[@Guzuma]

for me some of my most wanted are: -cancelled Kimba/Jungle Emperor N64 and NES games -Okami 2 and Okami/Okamiden betas -Dinosaur Planet -Crash Twinsanity original version -Conker’s Twelve Tales -Krome’s version of Legend of Spyro DOTD (before Etranges Libellules restarted from scratch) -Sly 4 cancelled Egypt DLC even if it’s just videos or screenshots of the ones that didn’t get far into development

[@keijijohnson9754]

One of my major regrets was never being amongst the that were able to check out the 3DS at all during its unveiling at E3. Out of all the games there that were teased and announced that day, one game that had my interest the most was the DJ Hero game that was being tailor made for the platform. Not only because it was at a time where I was an absolute fan of the Hero franchise, especially the DJ Hero games, but this was meant to be that sub series' first go on a handheld platform. And with how it played in the console games, I was more curious with how that can translate over to the 3DS at least. Shame that that will never be the case as footage like that will be lost to time since people weren't willing to record the stuff at all for some reason.

[@JamesLawner]

My most-wanted “lost” media (some of it might not technically be lost, but it’s certainly hard to find/acquire) -Cartoon Network kids meal toys released by Hardee’s in the Middle East (e.g. Samurai Jack, Foster’s Home, Megas XLR, Billy & Mandy) (I once owned some of these toys, but lost them over time, and I tried finding some info online, but only found things relating to my search, but not what I was exactly looking for). -Cartoon Network comics (as it stands, a lot of CN comics just aren’t available digitally, esp titles like Block Party and Action Pack, and there never have been collected editions and single issues sell for stupid prices on ebay). -The rest of The Batman Strikes and Justice League Unlimited comic book series (some 20+ issues have been released digitally, but not the entire series; barely any collected editions, and I feel like I’m the only one in the world who has the rest of those series. However, it is possible the entirety of these series are available through “unofficial resources”). -The entire content library of Cartoon Orbit (Idk if there’s a catalogue of every item that was released on Cartoon Orbit somewhere out there, but there was a lot of stuff released for that game, and they were all digital). -The entire 2nd season of Baby Blues (I never watched the show, but something about an entire season being nearly finished, but ultimately scrapped due to the show’s cancellation just fascinates me).

[@numbuhbee]

I’m pretty sure that the comics for codename: kids next door were all archived, and I know for a fact that someone reposted them on tumblr, if that helps.

[@JamesLawner]

@@numbuhbee Thanks for the info, but I think there ‘s still quite a lot of material left to be found.

[@numbuhbee]

@@JamesLawner that’s true. Wishing you luck on finding stuff, though!

[@Polygonyall]

i want the event horizon directors cut because its crazy to me that such a relatively recent movie has lost media + i love horror

[@joshshrum2764]

Damn it my fellow furry, i have to watch that movie.

[@Jb33124]

One of my most wanted lost media bits and pieces I want is an early beta/alpha of Sonic 1. We have had a fairly late in development version released recently, but a version based on the images seen from very early builds of the game

[@doc_sav]

My dream lost media is pretty obscure. I was watching Dragonball Z Kai on Fox Kids / 4kids with my daughter, and somewhere in the sequence where Nappa destroys the building and fighter jets, Vegeta said something to the effect of, "Nappa, are you going to calm down, or am I going to have to get you de-loused?". The wording there is by no means accurate, except that he definitely mentioned having Nappa de-loused. I remember it because it cracked me up how bad of a translation mistake it seemed to be, but when I went to find the clip years later I could not find that line of dialogue in any of the dubs I could find. Pretty dumb one, but then again, if it is so obscure as to not be found it might mean there was a unique dub being used for some reason.

[@aurahoneydew9607]

Wonder how the parallel universe version of me's taste in entertainment is different from having played Earthbound 64, Pokemon RPG 64, and Supermario 64 2 at a young age in the timeline where the DD arrived with hits instead of lackluster tech demos we got here

[@CometCereal]

I want to see “An Ambush of Ghosts” be unearthed. There isn’t even a dedicated lost media article about it, which is bizarre to me considering it starred well known actors such as Stephen Dorff, Bruce Davison & David Arquette along with having a soundtrack composed by In The Nursery, so you’d assume it would at least have _something_ even if it were just a wikia page. What intrigues me is apparently when the film was shown at a Sundance festival in 1993 it never got a middle score, you either had people giving it top marks or straight up walking out. The reason it was never officially released was because it was considered “too real” to find a willing distributor, which makes me think we might be missing out on a real hidden gem of a movie experience.

[@Crow_Rising]

I think there could be different schools of thought regarding the "elusiveness" of "lost" media that is known to still exist but hasn't been released. For some, keeping it to themselves could make it far more valuable. For others though, such as with Sonic, there is still the chance that some day it could be included as an extra to bump up the price and appeal of a future product. For instance (though this is just an example, not a prediction), if SEGA were to have found it I wouldn't be surprised if they included it in the upcoming Sonic Origins, which could even explain why the game is as expensive as it is. Or even another game or collection further down the line.

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

Considering a build of Dinosaur Planet was found back in February 2021 (The Rare game that became Dinosaur Planet) I bet Twelve Tales will be found eventually

[@riqopowpow]

The TTS Sonic Demo wasn't playable. Even the picture that we have of the TTS shows the megadrive without a game cartridge. Yuji Naka misremembers a lot.

[@krampuskardashian5890]

No two videos on this channel are ever alike. It's always some obscure, tucked away piece of media. I love that aspect of this channel.

[@Vulpas]

Conker and Earthbound 64 are the ultimate finds on N64 that are needed.

[@Mornings]

Seeing the family friendly version of Conker is hilarious

[@mistertagomago7974]

Theres the gameboy version

[@joshshrum2764]

I really love what rare ended up doing, but this is why you never piss off a British video game studio.

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

I might have a little info on the Sticker Star trailer. This isn’t a lead, but it might help to find one. It’s been a very long time so I might be misremembering, but I believe that Sticker Star trailer wasn’t E3-exclusive. Before the 3DS came out, down here in Australia, we had demo events where you could play the console. Not for the press or something, just promotion, if you were able to make it there then you could try out the console. Also at the events were consoles displayed out of reach that were playing trailers for various 3DS games. I know there was a Sticker Star trailer on there. I can’t remember if it was the same one but those images are sort of jogging my memory. I’m pretty sure I remember the wiggler scene, I definitely remember the card room (the card stack was intractable or a trap or something and jumped up or Mario smashed it with a hammer) and I’m sure there was some scene of Mario floating down a river on a log. Unless I’m misremembering it was out there somewhere beside E3 dude. They didn’t allow footage at the demo event, but I wouldn’t have it on me anyway. Edit: I skimmed a couple of the trailers we do have and I’m positive that none of them are the one I saw. The trailer was out there somewhere other than E3. I can’t help more than that but I hope this was interesting, good luck. There was also a demo for Kid Icarus there. I got to play it a year early because of that. They didn’t even have voice acting in the stages yet. It was pretty cool. I can’t remember what all the stages in the final game are but I think the one in the demo was that one where you meet Magnus, closer to the end of the stage with some rail grinding bit. I can’t remember which stage that is in the final game, but I remember what it looked like in the demo, I’d be able to tell you what stage it was supposed to be if I saw pictures from the final game. The layout was sort of different too, you only got to play a little portion of the stage and there were more bottomless pits there than in the final game.

[@nightwingtqftcc]

Do you remember which event in Australia it was that showed the trailer?

[@WeegeeCool1]

With twelve tales, rare have actually demonstrated that the rom for the prototype is still in their possession. Showing it off in an interview around 10 years ago.

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

I would love to see the prototype of Sonic X-treme that contained the Metal Sonic boss fight that was shown at expos.

[@Meper]

Windows odyssey (microsoft's attempt at a 3d interface for an os) would be REALLY cool if found, Microsoft

[@brianpittman4205]

Partially lost media I wanna see is Nina Simone’s full Four Women music video. There’s a 2 minute version online that includes only two women but I recall seeing a 4 minute version with all 4. Another piece of lost media I wanna see is Whitney Houston’s unreleased songs for her last album, apparently she covered a Stevie Nicks song

[@amandaletcher1320]

As a mother fan i really hope more earthbound 64 info will be released hell i would sell part of my brain to play even just an hour of it

[@eeveefennecfox]

oh yeah I've actually hard about that about conker from a old youtube that I used to talk to back in the early 2000's in the early youtube days,he's actually mentioned all of this to me,never thought someone else would bring it up though,I'm glad you talked about it

[@awesomeocelot7475]

I didn’t see the Twitter post but I’d love to see ANYTHING about any of the 3 canceled Kirby GCNs.

[@PKAlt]

If someone can find mother 64 rom, that will be even greater than beta gold and silver

[@Mougeki]

my personal most wanted lost media would be Britney Spears' Rebellion. Not only cause I'm a fan, but also all the mystery and rumors (and lies ofc) are linked to it, and we do know that there are people out there who do have the song.

[@LikaLaruku]

Aww, I missed out. I don't use social media very much. It's a time sink that gets in the way of chores & hobbies.

[@losscomic]

A piece of lost media I want to be found is Slamfest 99. Not only am I a huge fan of the Smash series, but I also just think it looks super goofy and entertaining. I would love to watch it.

[@nyloluckycat]

for the longest time i passively searched for the missing Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, which was found recently after years and years of struggle. One of my favorite searches and online stories, not to mention an excellent band.

[@Akaketsugami]

To me its undoubtebtly the untampered version of the first the land before time movie, theres a very good article on the lost media wiki about it and also a good deal of recovered footage, iirc the existence of a finished cut is uncomfirmed but the existence of several cut, fully animated scenes has been proven

[@M4RU5U]

Man it's bitter sweet to hear you talk about the sonic one beta and not see my comment about it :( Still great video!, keep the awesome content coming!

[@ribbodile6225]

Some lost media that I would like to be found are the earlier Pizza Time Theatre showtapes and the Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire beta that wasn’t able to be found in the gigaleak.

[@pepejrhd]

a lost piece of media i don't see many people talking about are the old animations for the Persona 2 beta movie. the animation looked almost complete, but there's hardly any evidence of it online. hoping one day ATLUS or other people may bring the beta tapes to life for all MegaTen fans to see.

[@hatednyc]

Glad to see a new video on lost media from you today LSupe!

[@hblackburn5580]

Conker's has me nostalgic over the days when my 30-something year old parents just saw cute squirrel and thought their 9 year old daughter sick with pneumonia would love it! Mind you they also had no idea about how deranged Tony Hawk Underground games were. Literally in the first one there is a warp thing that sends you to a different part of that level, that is entered through a UFO shaped building, where there a men cheering and cat-call whistling around a goat. After you pop out to the other part, you get a stats achievement thing called, "petting zoo". My mother thought it was another innocent skateboarding game, like Pro Skater. Seriously Activision, or Neversoft or whoever; why? Why jump from PG to R? Thank you for corrupting my mind before anyone else. 😂😂

[@CrazyUFOKid]

i would sell my legs for that earthbound 64 demo

[@schemar17]

I'm listening 👀

[@jbdbibbaerman8071]

I would sell your legs for it too

[@novameowww]

that is the law of equivalent exchange

[@marywallace3620]

Just had a thought, what if the Go For A Punch 'anime' (i say anime loosely due to the lack of evidence of it being real) is a similar case like the evil farming game rumors that went around for years. Where maybe someone on a livestream came up with an idea for a horror anime or game or whatever and people forgot about that livestream???? So now people are just adding onto the obscurity and lost media lore of it? I can't help but feel that a lot of these lost medias are often mixed up childhood/preteenhood/teenhood memories and dreams people have had of playing video games and/or watching something or hearing of someone jokingly coming up with a what if kinda game/show thing and then mixing it up with a bunch of other stuff they've witnessed in the media.

[@DPlex]

I personally believe Saki Sanobashi could be real, but it's not under the name "Go for the Punch". it definitely sounds like something that was created during it's time.

[@kaiser8659]

I think even if it's not real we could get some pretty cool recreations if we're patient.

[@DPlex]

@@kaiser8659 there are actually about 2 recreations happening right now. You can see the progress over at the Saki Sanobashi sub reddit.

[@OM19_MO79]

Amazing how a troll post from 4chan of something that describes like several dozens of self published and direct to video Japanese animation works can have a group of people holding on to a myth. No wonder modern society is in this state, they hold on to illusions and the people who promise them.

[@DPlex]

@@OM19_MO79 to be fair, there's no real confirmation that it is a troll post. The guy on reddit "confirming" it as false could very well just be some rando. There's no actual way to confirm that he's the same 4chan user. And even if it is fake, at least holding onto the "myth" led to many other lost Japanese horror animes being found and archived. So there's some good in it lol.

[@bluebaron6858]

Doesn't the Japanese side of the internet day it doesn't exist point blank?

[@mranomalousfagan5382]

There are so many lost media that I became interested in. From the spooks of bottle Bay, to the lost blood circus movie and the recently found a show called the black and white minstrel show. 1957-1978

[@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden]

9:03 So that gaming journalist you're talking is a good friend of mine named Adam Doree. Me and my friends asked Mr. Doree if he still had the Spaceworld footage of Luigi's Mansion, and he actually did. Then it was uploaded on Thanksgiving Eve, then I got permission to reupload the demo in 4K 60fps.

[@BearorBust]

My personal holy grail is a show that was on The Children's Channel cable channel back around 1986 or so, called Hennapippa. It was a cartoon of a chicken over live action shots, one of them took place in a skittles lane, where she replaced the ball with an egg. Due to me losing my nan back then, I have good memories of the show. Would love to see if it was some eastern European show they had (Stories Without words was all eastern bloc cartoons) or just done in house for the channel.

[@dwitefry4157]

The Sonic enemy was also shown in a pretty well known piece of concept art (it's included in Sonic Gems Collection? Sonic Mega Collection? One of the two, i think it was Gems)

[@GHeinz]

i remember my first “experience” with lost media was way back in the winter of 07/08, when i found out about the loss of both twelve tales and dinosaur planet. diddy kong racing was one of my first games for the N64, and conker was always my character of choice, so when i found out he was supposed to get his own whole banjo-style adventure game, i was both saddened and fascinated (i know we got bad fur day, but i’m not a fan). dinosaur planet gripped me even more because of how unique it seemed, and also because my other first N64 game was star fox 64, which was my favorite game for a long time. i had never played star fox adventures because it just didn’t appeal to me as a star fox game, and at that point i discovered why. i know SFA has its fans, and that’s fine, but the fact is, the star fox series has never been the same. SFA started an awkward phase throughout the 00s of star fox trying to find a new identity, and after the shitstorm that was star fox command, they’ve just done remake after remake of the original game. the fact of that late DP build actually getting leaked is hugely encouraging that someday we might see twelve tales released in some form or another. keeping my fingers crossed.

[@jimmyrecard7917]

I want them to find the stuff on the unrelased game Hero101 made by kingsisle such as the Pirate101 and wizard101 games were.

[@thatkiddavidpalacio]

theres a 2 second clip off a rabbid screaming and the chris rock tries to attack him

[@mattguy1773]

Twitter is still a hellscape

[@sunstonespice]

The full pilot for the Toon Makers version Sailor Moon is my personal most wanted bit of lost media.

[@telk0_]

One of my personal pieces of lost media is not a game or movie but a video i saw on discord. It had the song "Its Just A Burning Memory" playing in the background while what looked like a cpu card was burning on a wood textured table. I will probably never find it even tho it was pretty much a meme

[@moister3727]

I'll die happily knowing either Mother 3 was officially localized or Mother 3 N64 is leaked somehow. It is really curious too. The game was planned from the start to have a western as some magazines announced the game with Flint going around the town and a snowy theme level, so the script probably doesn't seem to have change much from the final release. The soundfont is awfully familiar to the N64 version too so there is that.

[@limeflashlight4101]

My personal lost medias are Mercury Hg game and ROM - Weekly Departure (a promo album with seemingly unreleased songs by a really good band)

[@InvidiousIgnoramus]

Oh, so that's why Conker is in Diddy Kong Racing.