The Hunt for LEGO Batman's Lost Prototype

[@shadowshiftercomics]

9:07, bit of a discrepancy. AI upscaling actually didn't work, users Chimichangar, MortalKombatMan and Aero01 were the ones who figured out what the text meant. Also, credits to Average Enemy Enjoyer and JustNathan, the person who started The Hunt for Harvey Bullock and the person who made the google document respectively.

[@shadowshiftercomics]

Editing my comment unpinned and unhearted it lmao 😭

[@gacd2104]

​​@@shadowshiftercomics We all learn that the hard way.

[@Pegyson]

If this video gets popular enough, someone will see it and be like "oh yeah I got that version" and the search will end just like that

[@Curlyheart]

*sigh* That's how it usually happens...

[@gonkdroid8279]

Hopefully!

[@duck_time]

@@Curlyheart nothin wrong with that, sometimes all it needs is eyes

[@YOURteacher_100]

Like with shrek, and the animator just dropping the entire thing

[@vilmosmatyi9644]

lmao

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

I'm pretty sure TT changed Harley's appearance last minute because lego made their first official version of her to also be released in 2008 and it caught them off guard.

[@manjidorifto]

Seeing people discover new things in a game from my childhood warms my heart

[@gonkdroid8279]

Same

[@therealmrfunkyfresh]

Crazy how something can be lost to time maybe never seen again. Props to the people who tried to find it. Also I love your mystery lego videos man

[@koolaid33]

They say 80-85% of recorded footage from before 1950 is lost to time. There are millions of videogames out there, from the 1960s to today, and guaranteed some of those haven't been played, talked about or even seen in years if not decades. Unfortunately this is what happens when companies and people don't make an effort to preserve art, however there's always hope.

[@Suso227]

nightwing having black arms is also strange, also lol screenshots me swearing getting featured

[@franekmazurkiewicz4021]

I remember the xbox 360 version having a picture of Nightwing with black arms on the back of the cover. It always weirded me out.

[@edviza1935]

I didn’t know when Kyle Reese wasn’t fighting the Terminators he was making Lego Batman videos on youtube

[@myblasterproductions]

LMFAO

[@neves5083]

I played this game when i was a kid in my PS2. At the time I didn't had an memory card so I very rarely beat up an arch, only once I finished all 3 and that was the furthest i went. You're telling me things i didn't even knew were in the game

[@ethanhernandez3663]

Dude, I actually got this guide with the game as a kid and still have it to this day. Though I didn’t even realize it was a guide until I was much older, I only cared about the character bios. I was planning on actually using the guide to 100% the game(eventually… my backlog is massive) until now I didn’t even realize that there were any differences.

[@pcjpeh0f9wh]

Bro I had this guide and was so confused about that bit with the fountain accessing the secret area in the bonus level, I thought it was a platform difference because I was playing the PS2 version and I never bothered to check later on. Crazy to think it was a beta thing.

[@sirjimothythe1st]

Truly interesting... Also nice haircut btw

[@very754]

Gay

[@smittyjjensin558]

​@@very754no u

[@shadowshiftercomics]

@@very754 Homophobic

[@J4kyXo]

?

[@robinnordqvist-pettersson457]

​@@very754is it something wrong with being gay

[@shellinsanity9936]

Someone get blameitonjorge to add this to a lost media vid in just a very short segment. Him making videos on things tend to really help with them getting found.

[@gegahertz7142]

No.

[@PlatinumtrophyXD]

Fr! We definitely should try

[@glowdonk]

@@gegahertz7142 It's better to let the famous guy talk about lost media than essentially risk the prototype being lost forever

[@mattguy1773]

Lego Man: the Aslume

[@legendlalo]

Why is Man Lego? Is he stupid?

[@filneqstar-craft15]

GO Man: Game GO Man 2: Super GO Man 3: Beyond

[@mattguy1773]

@@filneqstar-craft15 GO C: Sup Vill

[@ImDarkran]

peak r/batmanarkham humor

[@ToffTheDawg]

⁠@@mattguy1773LEG-D: Soup Ville

[@FriendlyHandgun]

Great video!!! Camera just a tiny bit too close. But digging the chain, brother! A bd1p upload always makes my day!

[@Nom.0]

ive had that book (along with the indy and pretty much every lego game guide book) because my grandpa bought me and my brother a ps2 and all lego games with the books. its funny looking back at how many differences the images were compared to the original game. one I remembered was the toxic pit texture being random colors which i’m happy you brought up lol thanks for giving me a stroll down memory lane

[@dahamstergaming4029]

Awesome video, would love a video just on the Harvey bullock search, especially if any developments are ever made

[@bobafett4265]

I have a lot of Nostalgia for the Lego Games in particular and finding out that the Lego Batman game was going to be much different before release does have me interested, either be for slightly different levels to cut characters like Harvey Bullock which I didn't know he was a thing at all in Lego Batman 1, the first time I seen that guy in Lego form was DC Super Villains which was welcomed to see since he is quite a notable character in the Batman series that was introduced in TAS since he was one of the few cops that were introduced for world building which is what made the Batman TAS so awesome. Would've liked to have seen Montoya as well but I guess we can only get so much.

[@lucianobarbosajunior2253]

Another interesting prototype is the Lego Indiana Jones 2, the green platform, the free game, Stanford Steven Spielberg Indy (Curator, Mechanics, director) in the level creator, Bazooka Trooper Last Crusade in all the chapters of the Crystal Skull, the BYOA chapter, the character icons, the "Custard" level, the IGN photographs (Blue Enemy Soldier in Cairo, Russian Soldier in Cafe Chaos), and several other things.

[@superscummyguy933]

Delightful video to watch,I used this guide book a ton as a kid,and even more as an adult. Still have the poster too!

[@YonDivi]

The idea of more lego batman 1 is so cool i hope this video leads to more informations coming out

[@carnageteam7602]

Lego Batman analog horror series

[@RocketRidge]

There's a early version of a Chapter 3 level in hero mode that you can play in The Complete Saga called Fairground_Entrance. Probably not too useful for this hunt, but it truly is fascinating to look at old development history like that.

[@shadowshiftercomics]

Isn't that the one he mentioned or are there 2 scrapped level parts?

[@Chanmaninacan]

I'm excited to watch your new channel. I'm glad your doing something else then just lego stuff not saying I don't like the lego stuff

[@doboszewskijpl]

Incredible effort! Hope you get it soon!

[@coolfinel]

Best lead I can think of for the investigation is a KZbin channel called GameHut. It’s run by Tt Games/Traveler’s Tales founder Jon Burton. Though his last video is from a year ago, so IDK how easy it would be to contact him.

[@bd1p]

TT games is not too fond of me

[@brenj3895]

@@bd1p How so?

[@FireStriker_]

@@bd1pwhat did you do 😅. Unless you pissed off Jon Burton personally you’re probably fine. It’s actually run by Jon who hasn’t been connected with TT for some time now. Worth at least trying to reach out to him

[@MugApwool]

I'm hooked now, subbed to see where this journey leads.

[@mcdonalds_knight]

Fantastic vid as usual 😁😁😁

[@legoanimegirl]

Shame that last lead wasn't anything :( really well made video

[@skrawek4442]

damn bro u are the goat , very good video and so much work . Greetings from Poland 🦅🦅🦅

[@AcchynoKestDacchyno]

DANG, This surely was The Hunt for Lego Batman's Lost Prototype!

[@sanicsanic6890]

7:56: hey that's Sonic's birthday :D

[@zacharysolomon8579]

I had gotten the guide about a year ago and immediately picked up that something was different. I am very glad someone is taking an interest in the prototype of this game as it may be the largest Lego Batman iceberg known to exist.

[@remyrichardson8614]

I remember seeing an early design for Batman's demo suit where instead of a black suit it's his normal suit

[@ctwoafiveb]

I had that same guide as a kid and vividly remember being confused at some of the changes you pointed out, was especially baffled why they made those Wayne Manor maps so much more dreary in the final version.

[@fishpop]

I have a few Prima guides like ones for Skyrim and at least two Skylanders games: Giants and Swap Force

[@fussanchez2716]

i had the DS version growing up, vastly different to the console / PSP / PC versions but still great nonetheless

[@radzs9939]

We gotta think like the World's Greatest Dectective to solve this case.

[@Flapjack483]

the slash in the eyebrow damnnnnn

[@colewagner6623]

Lb1 trailer is just so iconic

[@PokeJoshNY]

Crazy how such a rush game is one of the best TT ever made

[@brenj3895]

On one of the first times me and my mother traveled to the UK when I was a kid I bought a lego book on the airport. The books that show the minifigures and lego sets. I remember reading this book when we sat on the train on our way away from the airport when someone sat down on our seat. The person had noticed my lego book. The person who sat down with us told us he worked at TT games and had worked on the prior lego games which at that time was the star wars games, Indiana Jones and Batman. I wish I could go back in time and speak more with this person. All the questions I have now that I have grown up

[@BahnOsu]

idk why but that one random blurry picture with the AI upscaling reminds me of an old book i had on lego

[@TempAgent]

This is the video we've all wanted

[@0DRONZER]

reminds me of how insanely hyperfixated i've been on the lego star wars 1 prototype for the last 5 years

[@seantressel1754]

16 years later, still a great game!

[@SpiderBud420]

Love your videos, keep it man, you look different everytime you use facecam (in a good way lol)

[@koolaid33]

My whole thing is retro and new videogame collecting and playing, and one thing I've seen MANY times in the medium is people finding prototypes or cancelled games remnants on dev kits. Dev kits are special models of a videogame console sent out to the developers of the console, so say TT Games would have received a PS3 dev kit for use in developing and testing Lego Batman 1 for the PS3. Typically, the files are deleted and the consoles are eventually sold, but on rare occasions the developers forget to remove their work. This has been responsible for finding many different cancelled games or prototypes of games over the years, probably the one I always think of was a cancelled prototype of a Castlevania game being made for the Sega Dreamcast. It could be possible, very slim but possible, that one of these dev kits floating around the used game market contains a beta copy of Lego Batman 1, used by TT Games during development that they just never removed. If not, I'm not sure where else you could find this prototype.

[@whizpartydoge4430]

maybe the prototype was the friends we made along the way

[@Ghiafreak]

damn bd1p gained drip

[@braydengreen9754]

I just downloaded it yesterday on steam for nostalgia sake

[@generalkcooper1005]

Fans need to make Lego Batman complete edition like how they made project 06

[@shadowshiftercomics]

Unless they remake the whole game all we can do right now is custom characters/vehicles, everything else (animations, levels, cutscenes) haven't been figured out for LB1

[@F0rtuneLT]

every copy of Lego Batman is personalized

[@HexPerplex]

Maybe ask Jon Burton

[@GeohToy]

The figure change was probably because Lego introduced a Harley Quin Minifigure into sets that same year and they probably were told to change it to match.

[@Roboticalgamer]

I feel like harvy buluk was in either the lego minifig ensiclapidia or a scholastic magazine

[@vinegar4556]

Bd1p haircut jumpscare

[@GG128_]

7:01 bro turned into herobrine for a second

[@GG128_]

great video btw

[@Awton]

Childhood? When I was a child I played lego island

[@rayphoenix7296]

I wonder how much unused content the original Jumping Flash has. I have been playing Lego Batman the Video game since its initial release in 2008. I got back into it again and I still have never 100% completed it. I also started playing Lego Indiana Jones in the summer of 2008 and I 100% that game in 2011. I played the Batman game a lot more because of that.

[@CMTDev]

At 1:30 the textures used are reminiscent to super monkey ball 3D

[@gavpool8196]

I found that beta Harley Quinn thing interesting because I knew i had seen that render before, but I had never seen the newer one. There was only one place that I knew I could've seen it, and that was the lego batman visual dictionary from 2012. I only had the ds version of the first game and the visual dictionary came when the second game was released, so it's very odd for them to have the beta design in the book when it had been out for 4 years. Crazy stuff. I have such an odd memory

[@Turtlejohn8]

Did you try contacting the guy whose KZbin channel had all that archived stuff

[@brogamin179]

The game and guide released on my 10th birthday. Heck yea

[@ZacharyDietze]

You should try to upload better scans of that book if you haven't already. Thanks for trying! :)

[@magdalenaozga-mestek7322]

When are you gonna make a video about a red brick or every money bar speedrun?

[@murums2104]

road to 100k

[@5urrounded]

crazy video man nice

[@dylanknight8772]

That Harvey bullock image is from a old batman information book actually that came out like 14 years ago

[@shadowshiftercomics]

Based, sadly it was found out just before you commented this. It's in The Batman Vault

[@captaineri.223]

Ds2 is ded... goat lego game😢🚫🦇🐐

[@HYP3M0D368]

My first PS2 game ngl and Indiana jones

[@Inkthirsty]

unrelated to the video, but for some reason i am convinced that the yeti is hidden in a level out of bounds or in an old build as a goon/boss

[@shadowshiftercomics]

In the game files he's in the "HENCHMAN" folder, which is where every Goon is found. I think he's also in one of the Mr. Freeze or Arctic world levels on a poster

[@Inkthirsty]

@@shadowshiftercomics so if he's a henchman could that mean he's like "clown goon" and "penguin minion" serving as an extra goon. i wonder if the riddler was supposed to have a third goon that could have been the yeti or something else

[@shadowshiftercomics]

@@Inkthirsty I just checked the files again, he's classed as F_YETI, the only other two characters in the henchman folder to share the F_ prefix are the two female Freeze goons, he is in fact a Mr. Freeze Goon

[@callmejacob3234]

Lego Batman brings back so much nostalgia also Robin is still borderline useless.

[@shadowshiftercomics]

Magnet climb and the suction gun are literally coded in the game to only be used by him and Nightwing wdym useless? 😭

[@marionbaggins]

I have the guide book for Lego Indy 2 to this Day!!!

[@gacd2104]

I decided to check out the "Lego Batman The characters" video and spotted something at the 1:24 mark. Man Bat is in a level I can't recognize. I recently replayed the game and, even with memories this fresh, I don't know which level is. I'll let you be the judge: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4qTcmunpr5oaNUsi=fNGLdgPzkotzqmIz

[@IAmCliveHandforth]

this is the year of found betas 😭😭😭😭 like really this year people found a early version of a game that never released 😭😭😭😭

[@radzs9939]

Maybe you can ask Hard4Games, if they so happen to come across a disc they found with the prototype game?

[@FortheloveofThomas84]

I wonder if the Lost version is secretly co-published by eidos interactive, just like lego star wars???? Both eidos and WB interactive entertainment made a deal to make games together.

[@FireStriker_]

Try reaching out to gamehut, I’m sure an interview will be on the cards and he very well might have the prototype

[@Lucky-kt1ix]

man I wanna see this sonic reference

[@matteo_z]

On Hidden Palace there is a "EU Prototype" that redirects to a "EU Demo". Still for PS3 and I presume uploaded by the same individual and at the same time as the USA demo. I would test it, but I still do not understand how to. The ps3 emulator is a bit of a mess to get working.

[@admixon.]

Bd1p looking kinda cute tho

[@georgehoadley6985]

I’m gonna go search for that book with the detective

[@dangerjamesproductions]

YEAH THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME!

[@Taranturat]

I wonder if any other lego game guides have stuff like this

[@levitate08]

Find the original version of Harry Potter 5-7 that was so buggy it had to be recalled please that would be cool

[@GeohToy]

That’d be interesting

[@christiangleason122]

Might be a dumb suggestion but have you tried contacting gamehut? He would most likely know something

[@TheGreenPuff]

TheGreenPuff!

[@musk_operacji]

2:51 debug menu end level screen?

[@bryguytyguy]

alright then, lets go

[@enasimp8440]

Very nice

[@MEJJ-hd4wz]

Dang, don’t you get a new cut you look fresh

[@MEJJ-hd4wz]

I mean Dang boy the cut looking fresh

[@paxhumana2015]

Why not simply ask a former TT Games employee for a prototype/demo of the game?

[@3ternals0ul25]

Have you tried reaching out to Jon Burton? He used to be the director of TT, but he made a channel called GameHut where he talked about a lot of the games that he worked on. It's a long shot, but it could be worth following up on for some info.

[@FireStriker_]

I was was thinking the same, he tried Prima but not the old director. He probably be down for an interview even if he doesn’t have the prototype/cant release the prototype

[@MetrohamComicMedia]

What do I type on the internet archive? That guide or whatnot looks so familiar

[@loganpaschedag8829]

There is one character that was cut from the game and it was a the cut “Red Goon” (possibly for the 3rd chapter of the game?)

[@shadowshiftercomics]

F_GOON_GUN aka Red Freeze Goon. She's not cut, just unplayable

[@loganpaschedag8829]

@@shadowshiftercomics yes, but there was a regular Goon with Red (knit hat w/ shades goons)

[@shadowshiftercomics]

@@loganpaschedag8829 No there isn't? Dude he's literally nowhere in the files. All of the Goons with plain colored shirts minus the dark blue shirt goon are all assigned to the main villains of a story. There's the scrapped Thug character and LB1 extra Goon mods but no "Red Goon"

[@loganpaschedag8829]

@@shadowshiftercomics really?! I thought there was a regular Goon with Red?

[@realdoctortenenbaum]

I remember playing a demo version on a PS3 at a local electronics store in Germany which had Harley Quinn's old model with the red and black gloves and the different headpiece model.

[@randomfox7261]

I need to know what that footage is where its scrolling through characters and includes Jason Todd, Azrael, Huntress, Spoiler, etc...

[@shadowshiftercomics]

LB1 Redux by Wolffe731 and character designs by Asapbricks, link is in the description I think

[@Vidiocity92]

Really cool seeing this investigation. That Prima guide is something else lol

[@JRS06]

To be honest, I didn't even realise Lego Batman was a rushed game.

[@thispurplebeanYT]

they whitewashed the police officer 😭

[@bd1p]

it’s tragic