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『Disney's Aladdin』 Source Code Sprites

Within the source code of Disney's Aladdin, are these unfinished sprites of the titular character. This video game adaptation of Aladdin is notable for having some of the movie's animators assist with the game's animations.

The Video Game History Foundation has an incredible article about all of unused content they found within Aladdin's source code. A lot of that content looks like the sketchy sprites seen in this post.

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SOURCE ↴ Digging for Treasure in Aladdin's Source Code by Rich Whitehouse (Video Game History Foundation)

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『Monster Hunter World』 Mega Man Palico Armor

Character modeler Sohn Seok-min created this 8-bit Mega Man armor by himself in a bit of crunch. To read more about his devlopment process, check out Rockman Corner's translated summary of Seok-min's talk at the Nexon Development Confrence.

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『Vampire Survivors』 Antonio Belpaese

Compared to its current incarnation, the original release of Vampire Survivors looked a bit different. Since becoming a smash hit, Vampire Survivors has updated a lot of it's pixel art, including its character sprites. On the left, is Antonio's original walking animation and to the right is his revised animation.

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Super Donkey was a platformer that was in development for the SNES from 1991 to 1992, parts of which would be used as the basis for Yoshi's Island. The game was never publicly revealed by Nintendo; its very existence is only known due to internal development data surfacing in 2020.

One extremely curious detail about the game shows just how long Nintendo is willing to hold on to an idea they believe is good before finally implementing it in a finished game:

Top: in Super Donkey, one of the abilities of the main character is a stomp attack that releases two dust clouds, one on each side, that continue the attack horizontally. The dust clouds visibly have chomping jack-o'-lantern-like faces to show that they damage enemies.

Bottom: in Super Mario Maker, 24 years later, this attack was finally put into a finished game, being the Ground Pound attack specific to the Big Goomba's Shoe. It acts and looks nearly entirely identically to the Super Donkey version.

This means that at least one developer at Nintendo has been holding on to the idea for 24 years and waiting for the perfect moment to use it.

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『Kazuko Shibuya』 Pixel Present to Hironobu Sakaguchi

Legendary pixel artist Kazuko Shibuya created this sprite as a present to the creator of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, for his 60th birthday.

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『Marvel vs. Capcom∶ Clash of Super Heroes』 PSX Exclusive Colors

These two alternate costumes/palettes are exclusive to the PlayStation port of Marvel vs. Capcom∶ Clash of Super Heroes. Because of technical limitations, the PSX version of MVC features less fluid animation and a removal of core gameplay mechanics.

A common complaint about Venom's appearance in MVC is his blue colored symbiote, so it's a little funny that a more comic accurate palette is exclusive to a lesser version of the game.

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『Overwatch 2』 Street Fighter Collaboration Trailer

For their Street Fighter 6 collaboration, Overwatch 2 released a trailer that briefly features some smoothly animated pixel art by Felipe Molina Ortega (omegachainoboy).

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『Pencil to Pixel』 Capcom Fighting Collection 2

Capcom Fighting Collection 2's museum mode contains a few pieces of sprite concept art used in Capcom vs SNK 2. Despite not being a credited member of CVS2's development staff, the three Rival Schools students' sprites appear to be drawn by their original character designer, Edayan.

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RELATED POST ↴ [Pencil to Pixel] Storm, X-Men∶ Children of the Atom

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『Passion of Game Designers ~ In their Early Days』 Earthbound tribute by Keiichi Tanaka

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You can read Keiichi Tanaka's full Earthbound/Mother comic at Den-Fami-Nico-Gamer's. This is the fifth and final chapter in Tanaka's Wakage no Itari anthology series.

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『Pac-Land』 Ms. Pac-Man, Pepper Pac-Man & Pac-Mom

For the US release of Pac-Land, Ms. Pac-Man was replaced with Pepper Pac-Man. Due to Bandai Namco's legal battle with AtGames, Pac-Mom took their place in the 2022 re-release of Pac-Land.

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Top: in Super Mario Bros., Peach's height is not matched to either Small Mario, who is much shorter than her, nor to Super Mario or Fire Mario, who is much taller.

Bottom: in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, additional sprites have been drawn that show her overcoming the height differences to kiss Mario.

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『Street Fighter 6』 Ken vs. Terry

This GIF of a chibi Ken Masters and Terry Bogard was created by the director of Street Fighter 6, Takayuki Nakayama. Sprites in this style are used for Pockest, a Tamagotchi-style game featuring characters from other Capcom fighters like Plasma Sword, Rival Schools and Red Earth.

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『Titanfall』 Promotional Pixels

This graphic by Titanfall senior character designer, Kevin Anderson, was on the t-shirts worn by the development team during an appearance at E3.

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『Tekken 8』Lee Chaolan Pixel Panel

" This artwork is set to be featured as an in-game character panel in Tekken 8. It’s such an incredible honor, and honestly, it still doesn’t feel real! Ahh! Check out the works of other artists through the link as well. " [LeeBbunsik]

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『The King of Fighters All-Star』 Pixel Cards

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A selection of cards from The King of Fighters All-Star featuring some interesting pixel art. The bottom three cards featuring K9999 *ahem* Krohnem appear to use edited sprites of Kyo, K' and Kula from their appearances in the NEO GEO era of KOF games.

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Pecky appears in both ‘Sonic 1’ and 'Sonic 2’ on the Game Gear, but their sprites are different in each. Here’s a comparison of those games and the SEGA Mega Drive original. Support us on Patreon

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『Pencil to Pixel』 The Making of Karateka

"We have the film that Jordan shot of his father running around in his wife's karate outfit. And using the film and the tracing paper that he then used to get the outlines of the characters off the film frames, we're able to figure out exactly which frames of film were used." Chris Kohler, Digital Eclipse