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[zigg]

http://www.snescentral.com/article.php?id=0114

Sound Fantasy was a game planned for release around 1994. An early title for this game was Sound Factory. Thanks to an anonymous donor, we can play an early version of this game! Thanks also to LuigiBlood for the research on this title and facilitating its release.

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This is pretty cool. What's there is kind of an odd mix and nowhere near as developed as Electroplankton was, but neat to see.

Finding this out made me dig a little bit to see where the heck it was that I'd originally heard of Sound Fantasy… it was in the feature Inside Electroplankton that James Burns had done for N-Sider (where I used to write) nearly ten years ago. Man. The mention:

Although Toshio Iwai has worked on several games over the years, his most famous project with Nintendo is a game entitled Sound Fantasy. Unfortunately, the game was never released by Nintendo under that name. Instead, it was taken up by Maxis and converted into a game called Sim Tunes.

There actually seems to be more in Sound Fantasy than Sim Tunes got, though. There's this hopping music game that seems vaguely reminiscent of Q-bert:

And there's this chime sequencer that plays music based on the stars you lay down:

Neat stuff.

 

[LuigiBlood]

I released that prototype ROM, as the anonymous person who dumped it prefered to stay... anonymous.
I am actually KiiroBomber on YouTube, and I uploaded some vids showing as much as I could of the prototype.
Pix Quartet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDFMslEISdg
Star Fly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aJJjOc6tjs
Beat Hopper (Stage 1-27) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75-5YNWGqaA

Your news source though has a lot of false information about the game, it was not replaced by Mario Paint.
But SNES Central, which had the false information, got its article rewritten from scratch and with truer info about the game itself.

http://www.snescentral.com/article.php?id=0114

(Beat Hopper is a really hard game.)

 

[zigg]

Your news source though has a lot of false information about the game, it was not replaced by Mario Paint, but SNES Central, which had the false information, got its article rewritten from scratch and with truer info about the game itself.

http://www.snescentral.com/article.php?id=0114

(Beat Hopper is a really hard game.)

You mean FACT? I'll be happy to replace the link and excerpt. Thanks for letting me know.

EDIT: So this release wasn't the version that was close to release? Is that why the music cuts out strangely in the bugs game sometimes? Or is that an emulation thing?

 

[LuigiBlood]

You mean FACT? I'll be happy to replace the link and excerpt. Thanks for letting me know.

EDIT: So this release wasn't the version that was close to release? Is that why the music cuts out strangely in the bugs game sometimes? Or is that an emulation thing?

This release is FAR from the final version. A game called Ice Sweeper is missing, and if it was just that... There's lots of differences between those versions.
And it is bit buggy.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Amazing that stuff like this continues to pop up decades later. This is why emulation exists, otherwise noone would ever have gotten to enjoy this.