Video game preservation group from last night, The hidden palace, launched more than 700 compilations, prototypes, E3 and press release demos on the PS2 in a huge dump that the group called “Deluge Project”.
Hidden Palace hosted a stream on Twitch that lasted more than six hours on Saturday night. During that broadcast, they presented a series of pre-release PS2 compilations and demos for various games, including Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, LEGO Star Wars The Video Game, Crazy Taxi, and Final Fantasy X-2.
Some of these early compilations were only seen at trade shows, such as E3, and were created specifically for prior coverage. Other early releases include debug and beta development builds. All of this has been found and saved from being sold or thrown away by a person, who worked with The Hidden Palace and the Internet Archive to properly catalog and upload all of these files. In total, this adds up to more than 850 GBs of data.
It is a treasure trove of video game history that The Hidden Palace spent almost a year combing through, separating retail buildings and saving only unreleased prototypes and revisions. You can read more essential details about how the team managed to do this in a blog post on the group’s website. The short answer: it looks like a lot of work. Much work.
And, surprisingly, the Dilúvio Project has not ended. The team claims to have many more prototypes to explore and plans to launch more soon, but does not have a more specific date than that.
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