There were two Demon’s Crest prototype sample cards on eBay and one japanese beta version was leaked some time ago, you can find the download in this nice anonymous Tumblr, thanks to Casey for the share! This ROM dump of the Japanese sample / beta game looks more like the final game compared to the video, but maybe with the help of our friends at TCRF it would be possible to find some interesting unused stuff hidden in the beta code. The enemies in the first beta level were different as seen in this preview video of a sample Demon’s Crest demo for retailers.

The color is a bit darker but it could be because of the magazine. In the screenshot the earth gargoyle has a slightly different sprite. Thanks to Casey Strange we were able to note some minor beta differences in the some screens published in old magazines. As we can read on Wikipedia, this is the 3° game starring Firebrand (an enemy character from the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series), following Gargoyle’s Quest and Gargoyle’s Quest II.

Demon’s Crest is a 2D action game developed by Capcom and originally published in 1994 for the Super Nintendo.

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