Draft:Hidden Palace

This page is about the video game preservation website. For the scrapped Sonic the Hedgehog 2 level, see Hidden Palace Zone.
Not to be confused with Hidden Place or Hidden Places.
Hidden Palace
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URLhttps://hiddenpalace.org
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Hidden Palace is a website dedicated to video game preservation. It catalogues and showcases early builds and prototypes of games, their source codes and other materials from the development process.[1]

History

Hidden Palace was initially established as a blog on May 2, 2006.[1] After a period of inactivity, it was re-established as a wiki exactly 10 years later on May 2, 2016.[2]

In March 2021, the website published over 700 early builds of games for the PlayStation 2 as part of an effort dubbed Project Deluge, including Shadow of the Colossus, God of War II and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex as well as games which were ultimately unreleased.[3][4]

In January 2024, the website published an unfinished version of Spyro: Year of the Dragon featuring several previously unreleased level themes.[5]

In June 2025, an unfinished game for the Game Boy Advance based on Animaniacs titled Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics was uploaded to Hidden Palace. It was described as "apparently feature-complete" but "lack[ing] polish" by PC Gamer.[6]

Reliable sources

Dark Empires[7]

PS2 demos[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Stuart, Keith (April 7, 2021). "Uncovering the hidden history of bestselling video games". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved April 6, 2026. Celebrating its 15th anniversary next month, the website Hidden Palace is a collective dedicated to tracking down and archiving video game prototypes, source code and other overlooked artefacts from the development process.
  2. ^ "10 years of Hidden Palace / Final ROM Archive Release Part 1". Hidden Palace. May 13, 2016 [May 2, 2016]. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  3. ^ Keith Stuart (April 7, 2021). "Uncovering the hidden history of bestselling video games". The Guardian. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  4. ^ Nicole Carpenter (March 22, 2021). "Game preservationists release hundreds of PS2 prototypes, demos". Polygon. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  5. ^ Hope Bellingham (January 22, 2024). "A 24-year-old prototype of Spyro: Year of the Dragon has been uncovered, featuring plenty of cut platforming content". GamesRadar+. Retrieved July 2, 2025.
  6. ^ Rick Lane (July 6, 2025). "Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now". PC Gamer. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
  7. ^ Yarwood, Jack (November 3, 2025). "Sega Technical Institute's Cancelled Mega Drive RTS 'Dark Empires' Has Just Been Dumped Online". Time Extension. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
  8. ^ Carpenter, Nicole (March 22, 2021). "Game preservationists release hundreds of PS2 prototypes, demos". Polygon.com. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
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