Early Super Nintendo Rayman Prototype Released

Amazing stuff!

Agghhhhh, it's a freak, kill it, kill it!

Kind of want to play this... curious about how it feels in comparison to the other rayman games and how it changed when they changed development to playstation and saturn!

I guess this is one of those situations where "O" marks the spot.

Controls are spot on, a shame it was never further developed, it could certainly find its place in SNES market of the era.

Now that this is in the wild, I sense another Rayman themed Did You Know Gaming coming tackling this prototype

The graphics look nice. We'll never know how it would have turned out back then.

All I can think of while looking at that photo is, he's creepy looking.

Still I'd play it.

So help me out here... if Ancel had the only copy, but this other famous developer dumped AN released it...is this like shareware now? I mean, ROM dump sharing is usually illegal but is this being given to the community by the company that owns it?

Really weird to see a high profile person "release" a rom, but I would love to play this if it's legal. They could kickstart to complete it and make carts...

The background art is amazing !
And i love the fact that, even though Rayman's design changed quite a bit, they kept many of his animation cycles. Very interesting ^^

@speedracer216 Since it was never commercially released, i reckon that rights management in terms of "Illegal ROMs" is quite a lot more lenient than with commercially sold games.

looks great. i always wanted to buy rayman games. but i've never get the chance to do so. and buy something else.

Nice dance, but what's with the hand animation when he stands still?

Well, only now released, huh? Guess it's too late to put it on the SNES Mini then. Would make a nice list of 20+2 exclusive games...

Loving the music, though.

Holy crap!! Cant wait to play it!

Edit: Just did. Kinda wished it was a later build so it was more like an actual game than a movement test. But still a neat preservation!

@speedracer216 Omar Cornut asked Ancel for the prototype to dump and preserve for the ages. Ancel said yes, it is now publicly available to however wants it.

@Shiryu
thank you! with your info I found this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWF2U8TAX-h/
Ancel himself posted a link to the rom dump on his instagram. woohoo for legal roms of never released games! (super early build as it is).
...
Hey Nintendo, since I can' buy a snes mini anywhere, can you dump the Starfox 2 rom for me?

@PAHTK
That was my first thought it looks terrifying. Thank God it did not end up looking like that.

@loyalroyal1989 yup this is definitely one of the better character redesigns in gaming.

Had Rayman looked like that in Origins and Legends 🤢🤢🤢

Welp, I'm not sleeping tonight.

In all seriousness... his stretchy body is quite terrifying here. And can he not punch in this build? He seemed to wind up a lot in the video and never actually punched unless I missed it...

One of the few missing gem of the Super NES that could had been. Wish it would had made the addition but I guess the Super NES was in its last breath at the time so there wasn't much left to give it some go anymore.

Huh, Rayman's sweatshirt was completely red instead of purple and red in this build. Interesting.

I wouldn't mind playing this. I like Rayman games.

H. R. Giger's Rayman

It doesn't look like the same game, or at least it's not any of the levels that made it into what we got on things like the PS and PC.

I suspect if this had been released on the SNES it would have been just another platforming mascot amongst a sea of them on the platform (Cool Spot, Dr Franken, Bubsy, Earthworm Jim, James Pond, Sparkster, Chester Cheetah(!), Soccer Kid, Alfred Chicken, Joe & Mac, Plok, etc, etc).

In fact I'm always amazed how Rayman survived the platform mascot era when more recognisable characters with better games fell by the wayside. I suspect it was down to Rayman being pretty much the only mascot platformer on the PS1 therefore allowing it to stand out.

@speedracer216 Nintendo wont... but I assure you there are people lining up to do it.

@BulkSlash Rayman was create to be a mascot to the Atari Jaguar, the only problem is Atari never fully embrace Rayman's existence so UbiSoft port Rayman to the PlayStation and Sega Saturn later on so to introduce him to a much broader audience. Other mascots that comes and gone during the 90s era were Gex, Banjo-Kazooie, Conker, Tomba, Tenka, NiGHTS, Parappa the Rapper, Bug!, Croc, Turok, Boogerman, Duke Nukem, etc., these only had a few games and then disappear from the spotlight the generations after with minor roles by only coming back to make cameos or spinoffs in other games. The only few mascots that survive were Rayman, Klonoa, Crash, Spyro, Lara Croft, and Cloud Strife but even now Klonoa is in the forgotten list alongside the guy of my avatar and soon Solid Snake as well.

Looks nice, but pretty dark graphics.