Pieces of Lost Media from Video Games & Animation

I've come across a lot of cool topics over the years but sometimes it's hard fitting them into a specific video. Today we'll be looking at those same topics in a video dedicated to them!
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[@LSuperSonicQ]

The mystery balloon short was found! It's called "Popped" and was aired during the Nicktoons Network film festival - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGepoYemYrWHZ7c

[@BillyShamsReal]

this short was something I saw on KZbin a long time ago and I thought I'd never find it again

[@cadenryan9976]

WHAT A BOUT THIS LEGO ICE CREAM GAME THAT DISAPPEAR

[@cadenryan9976]

FOR NO REASON

[@Tama-Hero]

The early days of the anime scene was mostly watching the same 3 episodes of one show over and over because it was all you could find, and imagining what the rest of the show would be like.

[@Burger_pants]

You just described what most OVAs end up being. I had several english released OVAs back in the day. years later I came to find out thats all there is. I felt so betrayed.

[@justina1909]

When I was young the only manga the bookstore in my tiny coastal Oregon town had where assorted Shonen Jump issues, so I'd always have to not only come up with my own ending to the series, but also the beginning too, since you'd get like chapter 24 of the manga and that's about it

[@Skipatronic]

This

[@Emily-cw7tj]

It was a bigger pain when they were only found on VHS tapes but you didn't know more of that show actually existed!

[@20000dino]

Honestly, the cool part about living in an European country is that anime was a much bigger thing here 20+ years ago than it was in the US. I’ve still got multiple VHS from old anime that was famous her back in the 60s-70s, and, additionally, these constantly got DVD rereleases. Grew up watching Future Boy Conan, Maya the Bee, Heidi of The Alps, Marco, and multiple others thanks to this (even though I’m only 22). Additionally, we just had much more anime on TV here, from Sailor Moon to Doraemon.

[@aortaplatinum]

Extinct theme park attractions are my favorite type of lost media because since there was only ever one, they're PERMANENTLY lost and literally can never be experienced firsthand ever again. It adds a sort of magic to it when you find a recording of the attraction or even just a photo if it's really obscure. Like I don't even know if we have very little documentation of Rube Dugan's Diving Bell at Silver Dollar city, which is a travesty in itself, but it's even worse since the attraction was partially designed by the legendary Disney Imagineering team. Oh! You might want to check out the NiGHTS into Dreams datamine project going on right now. Lost media that's been right under our Saturn 3D Control Pads for 26 years. The team is getting really close to finding lost boss character Selph, and may have even already found what the shape of her head looked like.

[@ggtwinbee8506]

Fist of the North Star has some lost media like the unused animated scenes from an early trailer or unreleased music from the anime the more I do the research it becomes much more interesting

[@worldwidewebster6224]

- unreleased BGM - Original Novels of New FOTNS - Uncensored movie - Missing movie trailer footage - Supposed trailer for a gaiden series???

[@danzer9307]

There's also a mostly lost spanish dub made in Colombia.

[@ShinSeikiEvan]

I used to know that RWG fellow. That man had the most amazing collection of obscure FOTNS items. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago. I hope those artifacts were preserved.

[@dogegameing]

Plus the MMORPG. I've been looking for any software of it for months

[@2000_bms]

Have you heard of the lost 2010 Touhou OVA made by Ufotable? The holy grail of Touhou lost media. It was only screened to a private audience before it was supposed to be released on DVD, but that never ended up happening. The only media that has been found over the past decade has been the official trailer and the complete storyboard. Though the actual animation itself has never surfaced.

[@riqopowpow]

It's there any more touhou lost media? I was a big fan of the series and I didnt know there was any lost media Is there anything from the official games? Or the doujin music circles?

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

@@riqopowpow I believe the source codes for the games were lost by ZUN... but that's probably not what you mean... but they do count as lost now.

[@Ristarite]

@@riqopowpow Gold Rush counts. It was an official one-stage minigame made by ZUN for an expo, but it hasn't been released online and it was only available to play at the event.

[@ZPS_STG]

@@riqopowpow Some early demos of EoSD and PCB are lost, I think also some of the PC98 games got a second demo with the first one being lost (all of the most recent PC98 demos are still downloadable from their original source though)

[@zillauniverse7208]

You should talk about the unreleased Disney short Glago's Guest, It was shown in a film festival and it was supposed to premiere in theaters in front of Bolt but got replaced by Maters Goes To Tokyo instead and has never been released aside from some Short clips online. It’s gets rarely talked about even for Disney lost media for some reason even tho its pretty interesting.

[@JamesLawner]

What was the short about?

[@satsubatsu347]

@@JamesLawner Russians at war. It was played a head of "Return to Witch Mountain"

[@chocov1233]

Oh wow. I've never hears about that, that's super interesting.

[@kaelisprime9087]

Fun Fact: In the 30th Anniversary comic for Sonic, Metal Knuckles' design is based off original art that has never been seen by the public. However it does still exist of course.

[@Metalwario64]

I'd love to see someone try to contact Yuji Uekawa about that Shuffle Super Sonic drawing now to see if he has it, or if he even made it!

[@Snoc75]

DUDE, THANK YOU FOR COVERING THE SHUFFLE SUPER SONIC ARTWORK! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO EVER KNEW OF IT IN THE FIRST PLACE! As a person who often looks through general VG Art Pieces n stuff, I've always had a general fondness for what I thought to be the full Shuffle Super Sonic art piece (the, uh...fanart) Till I started looking into things. "Hmmm, why isn't it on the official Sonic wiki gallery? It clearly exists. It's literally on the Shuffle character select screen" "But wait...Maybe the full body illustration could be unofficial somehow...? This is so weird." anyway yeah thanks for making the video lol

[@6consecutiveexclamationmar228]

If this is gonna be an ongoing series, I'd love to see someone cover the Wolfman Zapp showtapes

[@Maceyoshiman]

Yep

[@gwr8723]

Yes! I myself hopes he covers the hunt for more Tex Critter's Pizza Jamboree footage!!

[@waggieentertainment9387]

Yeah isn’t weird how animatronic history is oddly DENSE? Like you could write like twelve 300 pg novels on the subject.

[@dogemaster-hm2ce]

For a second I legitimaly thought you were talking about The Wolf Pack 5 Wolfman lol

[@pooplord4209]

HOLY SHIT YEAH!!! it's insane how much lost media there is when it comes to animatronics like there's entire bands witb absolutely no info about them

[@AcevedoVideoStore]

11:02 You know "Fist of The North Star" was on VHS in the U.S. released by Streamline Pictures. You just had to look for it at a comic shop.

[@sygneg7348]

give us the footage give us the footage give us the footage

[@Benzinilinguine]

I finally found the lost media I've been seeking for a decade now. It's called "Zap, the Magical Computer" at the very end of the lost media wiki. All I remembered was a single line and general theme. Now almost all of it is on KZbin.

[@ScatteredCollector]

10:11 Ive been studying the early days of anime and manga in the United States. I find it just as fascinating as you do. In fact, I study both media forms starting from the 60s (Astro Boy, Gigantor, Speed Racer), up to the early days of the internet (early KZbin, web forums, etc). With manga, I study it from the 70s to the 00s (Studio Proteus, et el). I must add that you mentioned bootleg VHS, I actually have 100+ bootleg anime tapes in my collection. 13:26 Back. int he 80s and 90s, conventions had bootleg vendors set up shop in the dealers room. Although this was illegal, even having cons go as far as have bootleg police walk around the venue to shut them down, they still managed to sell these bootlegged manga and anime to fans of the medium.

[@user-fp2uu4nb2t]

Nobody ask you lol

[@GTVNewsForGamers]

You should get those tapes digitized as soon as possible.

[@ScatteredCollector]

@@GTVNewsForGamers I would love too but I don’t have the technology to do so or the means of affording said tech 😭

[@jude4581]

OMG I VIVIDLY REMEMBER THE NICKTOONS BALLOON SHORT. The short is 100% real, I remember watching it when I was like 5 and it creeped me out a lot. I remember a good amount more details about it than what’s in the video if you want to know. Edit: Looks like the short has been found so I guess there’s no need to describe it now. Check the replies of this comment if you want to see it.

[@diamondjoltva]

Of course we want to know! Any new information is better than anything

[@hippaman2435]

give it away, give it away, give it away now!

[@michaelbullen3104]

SPILL IT P L E A S E ANYTHING TO GET ANOTHER PIECE UNEARTHED

[@Luna-kr1ei]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGepoYemYrWHZ7c Nicktoons Network used to have an annual film festival, and there's a playlist with most, if not all of the shorts from there. Sure enough, the short - Popped - is in that playlist!

[@duckswarm6756]

@@Luna-kr1ei Yeah this is it. I will try to contact the OP of that post

[@YuiHaruhara]

24:27 Hey, that's me! Never thought I would be featured in a LSSQ video lol To correct you on your coverage of Animax dubs: Animax themselves did not make these dubs. They were outsourced to other recording studios, usually Omni Productions and Red Angel Media in Hong Kong. Contrary to popular belief, the voice casts are primarily composed of native English speakers and actors that lived in the area, several being from America. Dubs by these studios would be done cheaply and quickly, actors often finding themselves working on three shows per day. You are correct in that Animax only had broadcasting rights to these dubs and VERY few received a home video or streaming release, the biggest exception being Cardcaptor Sakura. According to one of the former owners of Omni, he estimates he worked on over 300 dubs during his time with the company, most airing on Animax and Cartoon Network Asia. The majority are lost to time. Also for the record the FMAB dub from Hong Kong was in production the same year the anime came out: 2009. This dub, like many others made in Hong Kong, doesn't take into account anything done in American versions. Most VAs I talk to from HK haven't even heard the American version. I am very passionate about trying to preserve these dubs or at least hunt for details. I'm glad I could help discover part the Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood dub.

[@SuperFroakie82]

Ah, good old Omni Productions… “This is Unicorn! The Earth will soon be a part of me!”

[@ArcRay20]

that possibly-lost-if-there-even-is-a-full-art of Super Sonic has me interested cuz i cannot think of many times for a JP game where icons that are clearly based on using cropped out versions of character artwork not having a full image source from somewhere. there are indeed many times of an icon made just to be an icon, but i'd like to believe this is one of those cases where they had art an repurposed it where they could. obviously its still possible they just made the head and that was it, its just not usually what happens. but just because its "not usually" doesnt mean its not still a possibility. with me not knowing anything about the actual game, i would question if there is a sort of gallery with full character art except for Super Sonic "for some reason". if there is something like that then i would have to wonder if a texture dump has been done on the game yet. edit: it seems there has been a sprite dump and there are no character art files, just hud icons, but there are like 3 per character for different facial expressions, which isnt much. edit2: im willing to believe the icons were just made to be icons since the official Sonic Shuffle character images i can find dont match up to their in-game icons really other than its the same artist/art style. with not knowing the game well i assumed their default expressions were part of the bigger picture, but they arent. even the angle of their heads are off in comparison. so if there IS an official Sonic Shuffle based Super Sonic art then it wont match up with the icons.

[@faellen7198]

Completely unrelated but- why does he look like a tsundere?

[@ArcRay20]

@@faellen7198 uhhh, i havent seen a tsundere have a look about them like that. if anything i get a Shadow vibe from that confident "do i look like i care?" expression...so does that make Shadow a tsundere? lol jk, i know enough about him. he's got a complicated life.

[@novelezra]

I know this is going to sound strange, but the kind of lost media that fascinates me most is "lost creators/credits" This is when you have a piece of media where the people who worked on it are not known. For me personally, this is especially fascinating when it comes to old games (especially the bad ones). I love interviews with people who worked on bad games and finding out what may have caused it to be rushed etc. I cannot tell you how much I'd love to see an interview with the people who worked on The Uncanny Xmen on NES. What the hell happened? The book "The Lost Story of Japanese Game Development" is filled with this stuff and its amazing. I would LOVE to see this kind of thing for the Western games industry. Before these people die and their stories are lost forever.

[@ArthurTRead]

reminds me of the super monkey ball announcer, who was uncredited for so many years

[@novelezra]

@@ArthurTRead Exactly! What a wonderful journey that was. There is a wonderful story about one of the horrendous design decisions in Ratchet and Clank 2 told by the person that did it and it makes me smile everytime.

[@lagartijamuerta]

@@novelezra Would you happen to have a link to that story? I love hearing devs talk about their games and how they designed them :)

[@Kittenfox_55]

We Bare bears creator Daniel Chong worked at Nickelodeon before working at CN and he was developing a pitch called Pudding Toast that suffered development hell and is now lost. Not too much information about it exist but the tweet he made a few years ago got like 1,000 likes and I guess all those likes were from people outside of the Lost media community.

[@dwitefry4157]

Time Crisis' 'lack of growth' is pretty easy to explain: light gun games are expensive, space consuming investments for arcade owners, big investments they're reluctant to get involved with - especially if previous entries in the series are still so profitable - like with Time Crisis 2 (and to a lesser extent 3). TC2 (and to a lesser extent 3) are still common in arcades because they still make money, so less people would be keen to order 4 or 5. Compare this to Tekken or Soul Calibur who are smaller, cheaper cabs with boards that can be swapped and that have a much shorter shelf-life (though not necessarrily due to popularity). That said - how about a new collection, Namco? 1 to 5 and Crisis Zone? With new guns? Expensive collectors edition bullshit that you know we'll fall for?

[@marsf6080]

"Obviously it's a good thing Viz stepped in and prevented piracy" come on, you're a lost media-focused channel piracy is your best friend and you should well know how much it's helped preserve culture and media for decades

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Yeah but the circumstances of the story are quite different. Back then fansubs and fan translations were one thing, passed around the community often with a code of ethics. But it sounds like Angel Comics was trying to sell Fist under the radar and for profit.

[@calipurnioelreydelodio7141]

You know? I want to come back to the Lost Media fandom. The last year I had a bad experience where certain jerk humiliated me. It made me say "You know what? F*ck this. I won't waste my time to don't have an apology or a thanks for my efforts" Casually, looking on my email, I found the email about, check this, the only *lost media I have found by myself* which is the australian film "1 and 0 nly" Then I thought "What did happen to the wiki page on the LMW?" So I decide to go and check there... And I found a comment written by the creator of that page, about that Lost Media thanking me for help and update... It is all I wanted. Just a "thanks".

[@muchmusic4818]

why do you have that name? I mean are u hispanic?.. I didn't know about that movie, seeing a little of description gave me interest. Gonna read it Is curious to see a comment like this. I think is dificult in any community to gain credit for efforts or being active.. I mean if one is just in the obscurity

[@calipurnioelreydelodio7141]

@@muchmusic48181. Es el nombre que escribi para mi canal de KZbin cuando era un edgy de 13 años (Pone que hice esta cuenta en 2016, pero es que creo que se bugeo o algo asi.) 2. The thing was that certain Jerk deleted the post on the LMW forum and didn't explain it was for a mistake where I accidentally put the link of a WWE theme instead, and refused to apologize because he is thinking I was trolling the forum. It hurt because... Hell, he could have written at first if I was trolling or if I did a mistake which I could have edited. But not! So, that little and simple "thanks"... Meant a lot to me.

[@muchmusic4818]

@@calipurnioelreydelodio7141 na te decia por ser en spanish el name. Se ve que eres un contribuidor hispano de la wiki gringa Sobre 1 and 0nly, entendí mal o tú fuiste el que envió el mail al director? y sobre lo segundo. Pues molestan esas antipatias en los usuarios, encima que los forums son asi muy "reglamentarios" entonces uno se vive enojando ahi la vdd

[@calipurnioelreydelodio7141]

@@muchmusic4818 Envie un correo a la compañia productora (Siendo honesto, me esperaba cero respuesta). Me llegó entonces un mensaje de uno de los productores que me dijo que entre la productora y la distribuidora de estaban dando madrazos por ver quienes recuperaban los derechos. Eso fue en Abril. Meses mas tarde, ya en Septiembre, me llegó otro correo. Y esta vez era del director (En total, 3 correos diferentes) avisando de que puso la película en su cuenta de KZbin totalmente gratis. Yo en plan "¡Bien, logré encontrar algo!" solo para que cierto p*ndejo me lo amargara. De hecho, desde entonces no volví a la pagina. Apenas ayer entré despues de meses.

[@muchmusic4818]

@@calipurnioelreydelodio7141 se los puso bastante facil xd El director tuvo la buena voluntad de subirlo no sé si te parece un poco gracioso pero en el "Found by" aparece el mismo nomas, Martyn Park film found by Martyn Park

[@ARDIZsq]

I'm still interested in the "lost?" anime Minky Momo. It's an old magical girl anime staring a pink haired girl, and it was supposedly cursed. I'm not sure if the entire anime is lost or just some episodes, but I can't find it anywhere to watch, and haven't heard anyone talk about it outside a video called something like "The Curse of Minky Momo." Someone told me that full episodes were available on KZbin at some point, but they were taken down. If anyone knows where I can find the full series to watch (including the movies ideally), I'd love to know.

[@ShinSeikiEvan]

It's not licensed. But Inka-Subs have fansubbed up to episode 9 so far, and many other episodes and movies have been fansubbed.

[@ncisfan1002]

"Supposedly" Is it a coincidence that an earthquake in Japan happened every time the Minky Momo finale aired? And not just any earthquakes, but high magnitude ones... I dunno, doesn't seem coincidental.

[@LAMENTFORLOSTLOVE]

@@ncisfan1002 lol

[@MilkshakeSkunkette]

That super sonic icon always looked so damn cool in sonic shuffle! id always wanted to see if there was a full-image linked too it... hopefully one day it turns up D:

[@muchmusic4818]

I commented this on a All Things Lost video 2 months ago and now that you mentioned that lost english dub of FMAB I think I can say it again here I know LMW has some place for lost dubs and besides the english ones you have international dubs like arabian or japanese dubs, turkish etc On the latin side we have a lot of cases like that due to how the tv broadcast its in general on South-America, usually some shows and movies (or most of em) don't have home release and youtube uploads get deleted. One fun fact, the Powerpuff girls pilot for What a Cartoon, Meet fuzzylumkins had three spanish dubs, each one in a different country. So the first one was made in Colombia and it got lost for a few years, finally found in 2020. Maybe its our most famous case. But additionaly this pilot was included in the episode of Space Ghost coast to coast World Premiere Toons, as you may know, and that series then had a Los Angeles spanish dub, then the Powerpuff girls's pilot in that episode had a dub made for that episode only from that studio that dubbed Space Ghost back then (Springwest Productions??). And the mayority of episodes of Space ghost ctc with that dub are lost too, including the World Premiere one. So that third spanish dub of Meet Fuzzy is lost too. The third one is just the final mexican dub that kept in the show Three different spanish dubs and one being lost haha

[@starshkr46]

Adding some tangential information about Animax: the channel also had a latin american version with latin american dubs. Sadly as stated in this video the quality of them was often rather poor. It was easy to tell that they were done with piss poor budgets as they recycled like the same 5 voice actors for all the shows and you could tell they were phoning it in. Yes, it was that bad. It got a chuckle out of me to learn that it also had a bad reputation for English dubs. At least it was a nice way to find new shows and a few of them got lucky with better, higher budget dubs like Death Note and Blood+. I wonder if any of them are lost media now.

[@Emily-cw7tj]

Probably the Latin American dubs you mentioned

[@smbcollector]

4:45 Oh man, I hadn't even thought about that weird bird short at all since seeing it way back on Nick, but now that I see footage from it again, BAM, an old forgotten memory is unlocked. I don't really remember anything about it other than it made me feel uneasy as a child.

[@sunderark]

Alright, so there's this movie that came out in the 1980s or 1990s (possibly Australian or British) about a princess from another world/planet/dimension who, get this, is protected a bunch of grandmas battling other grandmas who are actually interstellar warriors in disguise. I've been looking for it for YEARS. I am sure someone knows what it's called. Edit: She doesn't know that she was a princess from another planet/world. She grows up in the suburbs(? really don't remember if it takes place in a suburb) not knowing her past.

[@Emily-cw7tj]

Golden Girls? 😂

[@sunderark]

@@Emily-cw7tj haha, I mean Dorothy was a badass hard mother**** but not quite the same thing.

[@Emily-cw7tj]

@@sunderark true 😂

[@GrampaSheevie]

"Attack on titan and one punch man brought everyone's attention to anime" Lol it seems every generation thinks it's the first to discover that there are cartoons in japan.

[@Emily-cw7tj]

Yup 😂

[@averelldalton7964]

The first what?

[@smittzero8463]

I need to find a Time Crisis cabinet. So much fun was had back in the day, waving the big plastic gun at the screen. Time Crisis is in an interesting position. A standard console game is destined to fail, with all the competition from traditional shooters. But the series could thrive in VR, where the on-rails gameplay would be unaffected by the movement limitations of VR games.

[@LSuperSonicQ]

I never thought about the possibility of putting Time Crisis in VR, that sounds incredible and I think it would work. I've been trying to find a cheap Time Crisis II single cabinet for a while but even that would probably take up too much space

[@smittzero8463]

@@LSuperSonicQ Might be able to find room somewhere. Who needs a fridge anyway? :P

[@andykishore]

9:51 It's nice to see you showing some of the more popular lost media discoveries to come out of 2021 such as the Mean Girls DS game and SpongeBob SquarePants - "All the Small Things" - Blink-182 Music Video.

[@Sylphella]

I don't think I would count Mean Girls as "found" because we still don't have the files and only a video play through.

[@andykishore]

@@Sylphella Well I heard there was issues with sharing the Mean Girls DS game ROM online and also it's been discovered that game in its current state is highly buggy and incomplete so releasing the ROM online wouldn't be that great to a game that's not finished.

[@Sylphella]

@@andykishore Buggy yes, but I don't think that has stopped a lot of other people from releasing the files. It's more the person didn't want it leaked after sharing it.

[@pedroarthur5586]

There's nothing like eating some Cheerios watching LSSQ lost media videos in the morning, it's so nostalgic :D

[@LSuperSonicQ]

I feel that haha, glad you enjoyed!

[@protocetid]

You should discourage newcomers from reaching out to ex and current employees. In the early days, the proto game community messed up interactions with developers. They hassled and pestered them and caused several developers to cease communication with the public. To this day it’s left to select members because not everyone does it correctly. In regards to Naruto and every other subject you talk about, you shouldn’t assume that lost media is only what we have sparse documentation of. Businesses experiment internally and rarely does that material see the light of day. All kinds of products get pitched to owners of popular IPs. Plus I’m sure Naruto has early drafts of scripts, art etc that we don’t know about. It’s great that you’ve branched out to other consoles and video games. Video game obscurities from Nintendo tend to hog the spotlight. There are countless games, several consoles and computers that deserve love too.

[@DecadoPrime]

Starting off the new year with a great lost media video

[@Grenn102VODS]

As soon as I saw Super Sonic image, I immediately knew what it was, because I have also been looking for it. I actually have a theory about the Super Sonic art. I believe this might not technically be Super Sonic art, but actually an early Shadow the Hedgehog image that was recolored for the game. They have very similar spikes and Sonic Adventure 2 was being worked on during this time.

[@softsounds8453]

The old design of Super Sonic actually shares the same quill design as Shadow (unless I'm misremembering). Pretty sure it's for lore reasons but that does give your theory some ground.

[@initial_C]

Time Crisis was HUGE in arcades. The gun controller had a slide that moved back when you shot. I had the original game with the GunCon controller on PS1. My friends ALWAYS wanted to play it when they came over.

[@G.M.M.]

If there's one thing I know about Cave shooters, it's that there's seemingly a ton of versions with small changes between them (and I'm fairly certain a handful of them are arcade only and don't have public dumps). Considering how many of their games don't have modern releases past the Xbox 360 ports, I doubt we would see that campaign version come from them even if they still had the rom on hand. If ShouTime found a board, there's a good chance it's privately dumped, but it won't come directly from them anytime soon. Although SEGASonic Bros. somehow got out despite similar circumstances, and DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou got out in a weird way recently, so who knows.

[@serraramayfield9230]

SDOJ had around 100 boards. The worst case scenario for DDPCV is that the board held by NAI is the only one left, however it's also possible that Shoutime has another board. According to Cave, they've lost the source code & whatever PCBs they may have had...I wouldn't be surprised if they were sold off by accident or are simply lost in storage.

[@waspennator]

I remember SaiDaiOuJou was going to be added to mame, but Exa-Arcadia threatened to take them to court if they didn't remove it with Akai Katana

[@serraramayfield9230]

@@waspennator Even though the C&D was bullshit and had no legal standing, yes. Frankly I think they should have stood their ground and let the courts bitch slap Exa

[@G.M.M.]

@@waspennator From what I understand, there was at least one mame build with that on it released, but future releases won't have it for that reason. At least they're doing it because they're currently distributing a version of it, though it's not exactly the most accessible thing to play.

[@jordanconnelly7]

Yessssss bro I love these videos! Thank you!

[@AzafuseKingTora]

For the super sonic head, maybe you should ask Uekawa himself? You should also cover Sonic Level Creator one day...

[@connorbeith3232]

The issue I have with looking for lost media is the things i'm interested in looking for often don't gage interest from anybody else. I usually do what I can on my own, but when nothing comes up and I ask for help, whether through making threads on the LMW forums, talking about them on the LMW Discord, or even contacting Lost Media content creators, no one seems interested so at that point i'm at a stand-still. What's especially frustrating about the forums in particular, is that I know a significant amount of people have read some of my threads but yet chose to not reply.

[@freakyfunkyflux]

So i don't engage in lost media very often, and when i do its usually just watching KZbin videos, BUT ive done a fair share of posting on websites and some forums. For me it helps to just say that you really want help with it and that even just a little comment helps. I don't like asking for help usually, but ive learned that a lot of people don't like offering help because they don't know for sure if you want help, which may seem weird but hey, brain wacky lol. Also if you weren't looking for advice, i apologize in advance, i just thought id share my personal knowledge on asking for help. I hope you can get the help you are looking for though! It doesn't feel good to not get the help you are trying to ask for, shit, i wouldn't even wish that upon my worst enemies! Good luck, my friend!

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Yeah I suppose not every topic is going to pull in the same amount of interest. Generally speaking I often see people rally around topics as opposed to ignoring them; you'll see threads on the forums that are pretty small but still have a couple replies from people that want to help. Maybe you could seek out a specific community that involves your topic and see if there's interest there?

[@alphamone]

I remember that vulture short. It even had a "making of" bit where they talk about how the giant turkey wasn't actually cooked, just covered in iodine, and apparently giving it a strong smell. And speaking of obscure/lost english dubs of anime, Crush Gear Turbo had an english dub, but it seems that it only aired in South East Asia and Oceania. There's just so little mention of it, that it couldn't have possibly aired in the US (also, an early episode had the line "gear fighters can burn in hell"). A handful of episodes got released on DVD, but by a company that only ever really did bare-bones DVD releases (even in 2006, their releases advertised "interactive menus" and "scene selection" as the sole special features on some of their releaes). Even then, they had a mostly instrumental version of the Japanese into rather than the english version that was made. They also had an instrumental version of the intro for the credits music rather than the original Japanese ending "Ai Da Yo Ne" that played during the first airing of the dub in Australia (introducing me to the awesomeness that is "JAM Project") Though at least uploads of all the dubbed episodes still seem to exist.

[@bigdro5227]

I love these videos man. Make several dozen more of them

[@revolution_is_my_name8981]

On the topic of that Viz Media publication of Fist of the North Star, I am *so* happy it got revived and is now still going

[@gianyrivera1082]

Thank you for finally covering Dodonpachi Campaign version! Dodonpachi SaiDaiOuJou's arcade version was recently dumped and release (in a slightly altered form) after years of having no roms available to play on mame. As the only version that could be played at home was the Japanese only Xbox 360 port M2 has ported Cave games before and even included the obscure Mushihimesama Futari 1.01 version for the Xbox 360 release, which I believe the original arcade PCB was only available in a contest. And recently M2 included another obscure and unported/unreleased version of Ketsui in the Ketsui Deathtiny port for PS4 So if the relationship between Cave and M2 is still strong, they could make efforts to preserve it and track down the remaining copies

[@ChillyTheDog21]

It's great that Yuri Senpai got a mention in this video

[@YuiHaruhara]

Yui* ^^

[@GINTegg]

I hope this becomes a series. I'd love for you to discuss more obscure versions of games such as the vectorman competition cart and stuff like that.

[@eastbeast1379]

I had no idea there was Time Crisis planned for the Xbox Original. That's surprising. I know it's mainly been an PlayStation exclusive with the PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2 and the PlayStation 3. I know that there was Time Crisis 5 as well, just as a arcade machine exclusive to Japan, not getting a PlayStation 4 release. I think that's interesting to hear thought that Time Crisis was going to come to the Xbox Original. My favourite out of the franchise is Time Crisis 2.

[@gwr8723]

I have a recommendation (I don't know if you take recommendations). There was an animatronic pizza restaurant chain open from 1982-1984 called "Tex Critter's Pizza Jamboree." They had an animatronic show called "The Country Critters" and some of the shows survive today (one person that owns a full set is CavitySam). The hunt is for more footage of them as the only piece of footage we have is from the AVG demo reel (AVG Productions is the company that made the animatronics). The piece of footage is also on CavitySam's channel and we also have all the showtapes.

[@gwr8723]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWTJqGafjq-Sirs Here's the link to the only piece of footage

[@ZPS_STG]

Some more information about DDP Campaign Version -The hyper mode probably didn't make the player invincible, the theory with Campaign Version is that it was made as a test for the scoring system in the game's sequel, DoDonPachi DaiOuJou, so it's likely the hyper mode worked the same in DDPCV as it did in DOJ. (See also: The bee tokens, they give score based on your current hit count, which is a feature that doesn't exist in the original DDP but does exist in DOJ). Can't know for sure though since, you know, we can't play it. -There is one more known winner of the contest, that being SOF-WTF, who is the player in the VHS tape. It's also suspected that his board was the one at Daytona III since he regularly visited that arcade at the time it was there. -The most likely way it would be found if M2 ShotTriggers decided to port DDP, which definitely isn't impossible. M2STG likes to include a bunch of different versions of the games in their port, and a lost version of Ketsui was actually found because M2STG released it in their port of that game. However apparently CAVE's relationship with M2 was kind of soured by the ESP Ra De port because they felt like they didn't have enough control of it and Atlus had too much, and Atlus also published DDP, so... (UPDATE: CAVE published new streaming guidelines which includes a full list of games they own the rights to, which confirms they DO still own the rights to DoDonPachi) Also unrelated but a fun easter egg in the DoDonPachi games, the default leaderboard is the top 5 scores of the previous game in the series at the time of that game's release with a digit or two removed (ie. DDP's leaderboard was the top 5 highest scores in DonPachi in 1997 with the last digit cut off)

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

It seems that the hyper in DDPCV doubled the base value of whatever you killed, which I don't think was carried over for DOJ. Also if hyper buffs your Shot+Laser like it does later on is not known, as there is no hyper specific shot+laser animations. But the ability to cancel bullets upon activation seemed to have carried over, and DFK and SDOJ seemed to have gone go back to the DDPCV system of making hyper ready as soon as the meter filled instead of DOJ's hyper being a item one needs to pick up.

[@DrAquapet]

I like your icon at the beginning of the video. It's reminiscent of Daria. Also love this vid! New to your channel:)

[@gaminglakitu]

Man, I had no idea DoDonPachi even had such an obscure version! It makes me wonder what other pieces of lost media there could be for 2D shooters! Shmup focused channels I watch such as Shmup Junkie haven't talk about such things before and is totally something I wish to see more of. The genre is definitely more obscure these days so having a video to catalog some of it would be really cool!

[@chocov1233]

20:11 - I completely forgot about that piece of lost media (Josh Keaton dub of Spider-Man in Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes), that was extremely interesting to me when I discovered it like 4 years ago & I wonder if anyone is still searching for it,. Hopefully you, AllThingsLost, or blameitonjorje cover it in detail to bring more attention to the search, as I've been wanting to hear it since I watched those episodes for the first time in the early 2010s. The thing that most interested me in this video besides the lost dub was the lost Sonic Shuffle artwork, I hope it's found someday, heck you might have just reinvigorated the search. Awesome video, I'll watch more if you decide to make more of these types of vids.

[@rikacreature]

OH MAN i didnt expect to see anything related to baroque here, its one of my favorite games and i've been searching for that art book for AGES

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodGeek99]

These are so awesome 👌 very informative!

[@ZacharyDietze]

I *swear* that I saw LSuperSonicQ talk about Blast Wind for the SEGA Saturn at some point, but for the life of me I cannot see, to find it right now if the video even exists anymore to the public. Basically, the reason it was brought up was because the rumored story behind it was much more interesting: Apparently it started life as a test arcade game before it flopped, then they tried to basically humorize it way more for a second test which also failed, and now for the third and final version it is closer to the original but still changed some small elements, ultimately never ending up in an arcade release at all. Wether this is all true is a mystery, but what I *do* know is that I discovered it from him. I think it was from a video listing off some obscure things he knows about. For all I know at this point maybe the video portion in question never existed at all, but either way it's still an interesting thing to mention since the game itself is pretty good and that the story behind the supposed inception is weird.

[@parum33]

You should totally cover “My Bedbugs” some day. I’ve been one of the few known people to actively archive and preserve anything of that series for a number of months now.

[@JamesLawner]

Another great video as always. I was wondering though, what happens when one comes up empty-handed in a lost media search? How does one reconcile over that? I've been on a personal search for some rare/obscure physical media, and whilst I have found some things relating to my search, I haven't found what I've been specifically looking for and it kinda has me feeling down because of it.

[@LSuperSonicQ]

I think the best way to handle those instances is to put the topic on the back burner and revisit it later. This happened to me while searching for the Jimmy Two Shoes pilot, I hit a couple dead ends after my contacts stopped responding so I put the search on hold. But now that it's been so long, I think I could retrace my steps and find some new leads I wasn't able to before.

[@JustAPrinnyDood]

Holy shit, glad I'm not the only one who remembered the Vulture short. Before rediscovering it it always felt like a fever dream in the back of my mind.

[@prototype0z19athesaturdaym9]

Here we go again with lost content Wonderful :)

[@donacdum]

Yo, Dodonpachi is an amazing game, one of my favorite shmups. Never thought I'd find you talking about it here. I feel lucky to have played it in an arcade, but I had no idea those boards existed. It'd be pretty sweet to try one of those out.

[@floatinsardines8104]

ngl, this idea of just random lost media is really good, it makes something not so interesting to me absolutely interesting

[@banobobot]

What a big and well-made video with a genius title, although I wish you covered Viewpoint 2064: the canceled N64 sequel to Viewpoint on the Neo Geo. A playable build was found in 2020 (according to the Lost Media Wiki).

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

M2 has a pretty good relationship with Cave (and their precursor, Toaplan), do I honestly wouldn't be surprised that if Cave still has the code or a functioning board, that Campaign Edition will someday get a release. M2's recent Kyuukyoku Tiger Heli collection (Japan-only, sadly) contains the heretofore unreleased 2 player version of Kyuukyoku Tiger, so I think there's definitely hope.

[@Cris-em9tn]

I really need to check my VHS tapes. When I was a kid (like 7 to 12, or 1997 to 2002) I used to record about 12 hours a week to watch while camping in an RV, because I was clearly a princess. I feel like I would've recorded more but we got dial up. I'll have to search and see what we still have. And then hook up the damn VCR. EDIT: To clarify, 12 hours a week was normally 2 tapes: one of CN and one of Nick.

[@sagacious03]

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

[@yoshimasterleader]

The anime series Cyborg Kuro-Chan has a couple of lost dubs One of them is the English dub that aired on Animax. the first 14 episode are said to be released on VCD but only episodes 3 to 12 have been recovered and parts of episode 1. There was a clip of episode 2 but was deleted due to copyright. No recordings of the dub past episode 14 has been found. There is a Korean dub of the show but only the intro was found.

[@austinblack7741]

That sonic thing is very obviously just a recolor of shadow

[@miamimagicians]

Anybody remember an anime that aired on Nickelodeon in the late 80s early 90s about three guys trained in three different abilities. One of them was like a master pick pocket, the other one was like a master of karate, and the other guy had like magical abilities like teleportation or something? Anybody remember this it kind of looked like speed racer or Lupin the third

[@schemar17]

Anime on nick back in the 90s??

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

"Every copy of Dodonpachi Campaign Version is personalized"

[@LSuperSonicQ]

I was wondering if someone was going to pick up on that!

[@jeremymartin1957]

This just reminded me of a manga/anime called Angel. Haven't thought of it in years and now I want to find it again :)

[@InfernalShadowDragon]

My lost media grail is an old computer game (80s/90s). I'm pretty sure it was set in a castle and was centred around spelling/hangman. You needed to collect golden letters and a frog was somehow involved. I'm pretty sure it had old 3d graphics. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. Good luck though! XD

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

Hey LSSQ, you could look into Skylanders Universe. We thought flashpoint had the swf files, but as it turns out they aren’t there. It was a little MMO that never left the “beta” stage, a while ago I uploaded some screenshots I still had saved from it to an imgur album. It had a lot of cute animations and art that are still totally lost. By the way, if you do look into it you might notice someone called “RS” (abbreviated so I’m not just saying their online handle) who seemed to have the swf files. Someone already looked into it, that guy is a dead end.

[@rioluinriomain7771]

3:00 I Remember that Too, I Drew One of those Shadow Men when i Saw it. It was On durring El Tiggre, It had a Very Janky Animation. I Saw it on KZbin (Again) a Few Years Ago when i went to Search for it.

[@MarvelousAdmirer445]

21:41 "And make it all around not good." Me who grew up watching dubs like this, Digimon and Yu Yu Hakusho on Animax: *OOF* Right in the childhood.

[@kingnewcomer2029]

I believe I actually vaguely remember watching several shorts from Nickelodeon's "Short Films By Short People" shorts back in the day as a little kid, the logo does look kinda familiar to me, I think. It is a shame that there hasn't been a new Time Crisis again in a while now. Hopefully at some point, Namco--or rather Bandai Namco as they've been known ever since merging with Bandai in the mid-late 2000's--will revive the franchise. I really do hope that someday I'll be able to play Dodonpachi Campaign Version as it truly does look an amazing retro Japanese top-down shooter!

[@muchmusic4818]

That angel comics situation sounds like the manga version of the yeah yeah bebiss case

[@StinkyBlack1]

Ive got one; fallout 3 hype video, it was part cinematic action scenes and part implying that the choices you made at the birthday party effected who your alliances would be as an adult. It showed you being nice to the girl at the party, then cuts to her cinematically running up and saving you in a battle, then cut back to other scenes as a kid and how those choices effected the world later, none of which ever made it to the game. Ive never been able to find it again and was really disappointed in fo3 because of the lack of impact in these desicions but also thinking it was an over the top FPS action game when its really a slow paced rpg.

[@cruncherrs]

I remember going to your livestream it was pretty cool

[@AliciaInNevada]

Yay another lost media video

[@speedyhog3565]

About the Super Sonic icon (From Sonic Shuffle), its clear there's a full body attached to the head. Most, if not all, game developers create full-body artwork, even when only part of said art is used. So basically we have the oldest artwork of Modern Super Sonic lost...eh, it's not as bad as the lost Sonic 1 prototype, but still...

[@topazlight1586]

I'm not sure how one would get in touch with him, but Yuji Uekawa would've been the artist of that Super Sonic illustration, since he was the series' official artist during the "Adventure era" and that Super Sonic is definitely in his art style.

[@ZoogWeekendz]

Great video! 📼🙂

[@dennisbowen452]

So I thinkbi got a lead on the balloon short. I'd recommend checking out the random cartoons show nicktoons ran around that time. They aired a wide range of shorts including the adventure time pilot. I'm almost sure that was where it was

[@HaydenX]

My first forays into anime that I actually knew were anime (not counting Voltron or Thundercats here) were the FUNimation Dragonball dub from 1995 (Goku, he's gonna show you! Power of the wolf!). I loved that show when I was 8. I became a total weeb long before PBF coined the term. I was obsessed with Tenchi Muyo!, Robotech (I know...I know), Ronin Warriors, Galaxy Express 999, and a whole bunch more. It was so hard to get my parents to allow me to rent any anime stuff because of them seeing the box art for Armitage and just assuming anime was just porn.

[@coyoteartist]

I know back in the late '80s, earlier '90s, sometimes non subtitled anime videos would be in video stores. Probably more mom and pop places. I know I watched a couple of things that way and I was more interested in the animation then needing to know everything that was going on so I didn't mind. Also there was some stuff on cable back then.

[@Allison-je9pt]

The balloon short sounds/looks like it would be a bumper relating to the Nickelodeon TV version of the web series Making Fiends. The stick creatures remind me of Vendetta's fiends and the boy also looks like a Making Fiends character.

[@2011supergamer]

I believe Time Crisis 5 is still getting updates and support...in Japan. So they might expand on it once that game's done with. The game did end on a bit of a cliffhanger.

[@Thegirlwithevilface2004]

Animax Dubs! Ooh so nostalgic. I remember when Animax used to air dubs of their shows (K-On, Azumanga Daio, Pretty Rhythm, Ranma1/2, Fairytale, Inuyasha, etc) They stopped dubbing animes around 2015 or 2017 I think--which is quite sad since I grew up with the dubs. I've always thought their dubs were available for me to rewatch, but I found out last year they were basically lost media. I used to take videos of their dubs, but unfortunately the memory card containing those videos are gone.

[@michan6705]

They stopped dubbing in 2015 with LBX Wars as the last Animax dub.

[@seanalailima5929]

Would you like to talk about Monty’s Magic Words? It was a pilot for the Nick Jr. show, Wallykazam! It once existed on a press related Vimeo Viacom account. The main character, Monty, was eventually renamed Wally Trollman. There is also Thunderbolt (presumably Blaze & the Monster Machines pilot) too.

[@Bleepoh]

I recall the balloon short as well the monsters drawn here are similar i remember them being dark purple though

[@cyxceven]

Nice DDP info. I'm still waiting for Shoutime to get us a Vertexer dump. That's a real arcade holy grail. They had it listed as a goal on their patreon, but one day it just vanished.

[@sbplankton_1999]

Happy New Year Everyone and LSuperSonicQ

[@croatianguy4208]

19:57 I’m from croatia and I remember seeing an crotian dub of some caillou episode. I don’t rember the name of the episode but i think it was on a channel called RTL kockica

[@cysjunk]

I was thinking of Java games for flip phones that could have gone lost.

[@retrovortex624]

I've been trying to find this interesting edutainment game I played when I was a kid at school. I remember it came in a big black case with a series of black floppies (at least I think so). I remember the box having green on it too. Basically the game was like exploring a jungle with ruins and doing stuff and finding artifacts. And it was doing educational puzzles. I think you travelled between areas of the jungle by plane.

[@retrovortex624]

graphically it was pretty basic like 80s style graphics. Lots of green

[@JJUniverseChannel]

Awesome video man 😎!

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed

[@milky517]

The animax one is... interesting. I live in SEA and I had access to animax around 2013-2017 or so. Sadly my cable tv automatically set the dubs to the original japanese one so I've never heard the FMAB english dub.

[@shrugsmemes917]

the actual comedy of kenshiro's name just being spelled as 'ken shiro'. like yeah that's Mr. Shiro right there

[@turrican3839]

Another good piece of lost video game art is Mega Man, currently 2 drawings of 2 bosses aren't accounted for, that being: -Ballade's 2nd Form -Bond Man

[@WOBBLEMASTER]

Ok so the stickman popping balloons cartoon I have indeed seen! Grey buildings, kid had a yellow shirt, and alooooot of them clicked almost when they walked, like needles almost. But alot more jagged like he drew but they had this eerie clicking to their walk. This I remember vividly. Iirc it was the same mini-show to get Adventure Time’s pilot. I will research this further and update here. UPDATE: So it was apparently a “Nicktoons Random! Short”. Further research required. If you wanna reach out to me, feel free. My brain is racing over this as I stumbled upon a memory.

[@SimplyStitches]

It's been found! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGepoYemYrWHZ7c

[@roppongidevil]

AWWWW YEAH THE MEGAMIX!