Capcom brought us a remastered edition of DuckTales several years back, but we still hold a lot of love for the original NES version. Offering us a unqiue platforming adventure, DuckTales was widely noted for its excellent soundtrack – the Moon Theme most prominently – though it only featured a dozen tracks.
Within the last week, a new prototype has since been unearthed. Dated around February 5th 1989 as per The Cutting Room Floor, it's our earliest ever look at the iconic game and such, features a few differences due to its developmental state.
Certain key features are missing – like treasure values – but more excitingly, a previously unused music track titled "Map" has been discovered. Replaced by the "Stage Select" music, this song only runs for 56 seconds, but you can immediately hear clear differences between the two themes.
We'll likely never know why Map was cut from the final release, which is a real shame as it sounds pretty great. Either way, the fact we're still discovering new things about DuckTales – a whole three decades later – is fascinating in itself.
Have you listened to this new track? Do you prefer it to the Stage Select music? Let us know in the comments.
[source gonintendo.com]
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It’s nice, it fits in really well with the game.
We seriously need a deep cuts album of unreleased software music.
I gave it a quick playthrough, and the controls seem jank compared to the final game.
I still wish the unused Transylvania music was used, I prefer it to the final version.
Also, the title theme is very slightly off. And the score just does whatever it wants. Weird.
@E1000 going blind here, but "Dynamite Dux" maybe?
I found the Eurobeat version instead. 😉
one of the most overrated games ever
@E1000 Flicky?
Edit: My original thought was maybe you meant Pooyan, until you described it. That one drove me up the wall for years trying to figure out what its name had been.
Not as good as the other tracks they actually used imo.
@E1000 That'd be Flicky then.
My guess is that they dropped it to make space. Also at the difficulty setting screen no one was going to sit around and hear the full 55 seconds.
Whilst it's really nice music, it doesn't fit a stage selection screen, it sounds more like music for an action stage.
That's more likely why they changed it.
Nice move with GameStop, but what can the Reddit Community do to get the Disney Afternoon Collection on Switch?
i really hope we get ducktales remastered on switch, easily one of my favourite games
Yes please. Disney Afternoon Collection please. Can’t believe it’s still not on Switch. @Tandy255
Spectacular find! I guess that someone will now make a patch to modify Duck Tales' music...
@BlackenedHalo Man, I am impressed. If I had an opinion as wrong as yours, I would be ashamed to share it publicly. Kudos, sir.
Umm.. since the author didn't make it very clear, this is not the first prototype find for DuckTales NES. A slightly newer prototype was found years ago.
Note that there are other music differences in the prototypes: the Transylvania theme is different, and the Moon theme is slower.
Playthrough of the levels in this prototype:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwz2RNb9uKY
@E1000 I think Quackshot is what it is friend. 😊👍🏻
So snazzy <3 shame it didn't make the cut
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