The Hidden Palace

A really cool find from Discord member gageiro: A custom Mega CD BIOS made especially for Sonic Team's creative director Kazuyuki Hoshino! Check it out in action below!

We're be doing a two-parter stream at Saturday, Aug 29 11 AM PST (6 PM UTC) showcasing some recent community releases. We'll also be showing and releasing a sneak peak into an upcoming release from our latest (ongoing) fundraiser (see below) See you at twitch.tv/hiddenpalace

We're holding a fundraiser for over 800 dev discs, which include early builds for Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Icewind Dale, Clayfighter 64, Run Like Hell, Star Trek New Worlds, Descent, and more! DM us or email hp@hiddenpalace.org if you'd like to help!

We're back again with episode 6 of the Hidden Palace Podcast! This time we're joined by @textfiles.com from the @archive.org hiddenpalace.substack.com/p/hidden-pal...

Episode 4 of the Hidden Palace podcast is out now! This one is tied to a new release, Pyramid - a previously-unknown Saturn project from 1997. hiddenpalace.substack.com/p/hidden-pal... (Thanks to @wormsarchive.bsky.social for the art!)

In the episode, we interview Alexander Ehrath, the developer behind this would-be Saturn port. The conversation starts with Alexander's recollections of working on Resident Evil 2 for Nintendo 64. His engineering heroics earned him the the credit "The Man" in the game's staff roll.

The third episode of the Hidden Palace podcast is now available! hiddenpalace.substack.com/p/hidden-pal...

In this episode, Bo, drx, Saz, and Nic are back to discuss: HP's first unreleased game, Prince of Persia 2 for Genesis Scene releases, cracktros, and the Sonic 2 CENSOR prototype A behind-the-scenes look at Sonic Month 2019

Episode 2 of our podcast is now out! Bo sits down with drx, Nic, Saz, and Hwd45 to talk about some of our greatest hits. Thanks to everyone for the warm reception of our first episode, we hope that we can continue to entertain in the future! hiddenpalace.substack.com/p/hidden-pal...

In recognition of the 18th anniversary of our 2008 release of the Sega ROM archive, we talk about how the release came to be, some of the surprises that came from it, and our favorite fun facts from the release.

First episode of a new show about video game preservation: Bo sits down with Saz, Nic and drx to discuss how Hidden Palace grew from a Sonic-obsessed corner of the early internet into a community archive of prototypes and development history. hiddenpalace.substack.com/p/hidden-pal...

In the second half, Bo tells his own preservation story: tracking down a Burning Rangers prototype for the Sega Saturn, what it revealed (including a cut multiplayer mode) and how late-stage builds and demos can reshape what we know about a game's development history.

First episode of a new show about video game preservation: Bo sits down with Saz, Nic and drx to discuss how Hidden Palace grew from a Sonic-obsessed corner of the early internet into a community archive of prototypes and development history. hiddenpalace.substack.com/p/hidden-pal...

Hello again! Presenting, another contribution from our friend Billscat-socks: Multiple builds of the long-thought lost Beavis and Butt-Head Do Hollywood! hiddenpalace.org/News/Beavis_...

Happy New Year everyone! Presenting, a really awesome prototype of Spore! Dated a full six months before the final release, this has been famed for its lengthy development and the many iterations it went. hiddenpalace.org/Spore_(Feb_1... Enjoy!

Merry Christmas! It's that special time of year again where we celebrate the holidays with yet another yuletide collection of prototypes! This time we have a couple of Sonic prototypes just for you courtesy of Santa and @lastminutecontinue.com! hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad... Enjoy!🎄🦔

Hello again! Presenting: A nearly complete build of Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics for the Game Boy Advance, a game that was thought to have been lost until now!

In addition, we have two very early builds of Justice League: Chronicles and a prototype of Freekstyle

Happy NES year! Today we bring you a collection of close to 100 new prototype builds from Armageddon Potato, including NES, SNES, Game Boy and some Sega Genesis goodies!

And finally, as a bonus, the fine folks at CodeBound released the source code to the NES and Game Boy versions of The Lion King, as well as a few working Game Boy builds spanning multiple months.

Happy NES year! Today we bring you a collection of close to 100 new prototype builds from Armageddon Potato, including NES, SNES, Game Boy and some Sega Genesis goodies!

Merry (S)NESMas, everyone! Presenting a collection of NES and SNES prototypes, courtesy of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social, Josh Hamblin of SideQuest Games, and Josh Byerly Tune in tomorrow for our second wave of releases! hiddenpalace.org/News/NESMas_...

As a bonus, Josh Hamblin has added a couple of Sega Genesis prototypes to the batch. A later prototype of the unreleased Beyond Zero Tolerance, and an unreleased early port of the DOS RTS game Dominus. Thank you so much for these contributions!