If no backups were ever made and we have to get most of the episodes again, the last time I checked they were pretty cheap on Yahoo Auctions Japan so that's an option.
There was also someone else on Discord who messaged me about having these on VHS around the same time the thread was initially active but I'll have to see if I can find them again.
Ughh, I don't want to harp on small details like this but I get so annoyed when people claim x media was posted to YouTube years ago but was deleted. It's like the easiest excuse to give for why someone remembers seeing content that nobody can find now.
The same claim was made with Slamfest '99 and we found no evidence it was ever posted on YouTube. For that matter, why would Me and My Friends have ever been posted on YouTube in the first place? It doesn't even make sense.
I'm working on a new video documenting the search so I've been going down all the old rabbit holes again, and I recalled that the people over at the Bakcyardigans Wiki had known about this pilot many years before it made its way to the lost media community. If it really had been online at one point, they would have known.
Thanks ghostgirl708 I'm glad you enjoy my videos! Yeah there are a lot of scrapped ideas I would definitely be interested in experiencing, as well as getting answers for why certain content was cut at all. I'm not sure if Nintendo has ever discussed the game in depth before but the clock is just one of my favorites.
Maybe it would have felt too similar to Pikmin with the time limit, but I always felt like adding an element of pressure would have made the game even better. Especially with the illusion that you were in the mansion so late at night.
Was going to post that the parental disclaimer was found but I see bluebaron already did! That showed up way faster than I thought it would, and given its source I wonder if there is more lost Naruto content in that server the reply mentioned. Someone could have the missing episodes this thread was originally talking about.
This voice claim is most likely false as we've found an old capture from Rick Lyon's website (do not contact him) that mentioned kids were going to voice the characters. We don't know if they actually did, but I haven't heard anything else about audio from anyone else. Eyewitness accounts don't just show up out of nowhere for a topic as heavily protected like this.
This is also not the first time false information has spread about its content so I would be very careful about believing unverified stories. A while ago we also found an edit on the Backyardigans Wiki article that talked about the plot, with no evidence to suggest it was real.
I think out of all the lost Nintendo betas and prototypes that we've seen, this one is my most wanted. For some reason I was always fascinated by how different the original game was. I remember when I was still making art videos, I sculpted a Luigi out of clay and was planning to put him onto a clock base as a reference to that unused element.
With that said though, I definitely don't think we'll ever get this unless it shows up in an unofficial way like through a leak. But even then, we haven't really gotten a lot of GameCube era beta content like we have for Nintendo 64. I also don't think there are a lot of people who would prioritize this one over anything else from the Nintendo 64 era like Earthbound 64 or Spaceworld versions of Ocarina of Time.
Whoa that's an awesome find! I'm glad we finally have a visual. Looks like I was remembering it incorrectly as well, I thought the font was more similar to that stylized kind they used in some of the early commercials.
Oh yeah I remember the Nood! It always felt weird to have an anime character get one when I don't think there was any other anime that did. As for the disclaimer screen, you're right in thinking it was episode 140. There's a lot of discussion about that episode online and how angry everyone was that it showed up lol. One of the best threads I found discussing it is from the Toonzone forums- animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/naruto-two-heart-beats-kabutos-trap-talkback-spoilers.4494081/
The summary of the disclaimer from other users says >It was a shot of some part of the Ninja Academy with the swing from the 1st episode included. But the picture was blurred and it has black text with a white outline reading "The following program contains scenes with moderate violence. Parental discretion is advised." Not to mention the sound of birds chirping in the background.
But it looks like there were complaints on the thread about how no one got a screenshot of it, so even on this site none exist. I really thought I had seen this recently online which is why I remembered it at all, but I looked and it seems to be really lost. You can't really find episode 140 in any form, much less the CN one.
I will definitely cover this in a video, along with the RAWs (which I looked through more extensively on that website, very fascinating content) and the original topic of this thread. I'll keep both of you, syko and arian updated with the video. And if there are any other pieces of Naruto lost media we didn't mention here that you're aware of, feel free to let me know too. I'm aware of another search for a rare 3D bumper of the Lead Village that aired on CN Latin America in late 2006.
One more thing, I'm guessing the Naruto VHS releases in Japan used cleaned up episodes and not the ones that were originally broadcast which are lost?
This is a cool thread, I have a couple of these to recollect.
Most recently I know the Little Einsteins pilot was like this, originally a short trailer had been posted and everyone thought that was the entire piece. But turns out these clips were only cut from a larger piece of animation that's still missing and has grown into a much larger search.
For me personally, discovering that audio was recorded for the SpongeBoy pilot was a big one. For years I had only heard of the name change and saw that one animation cel with the SpongeBoy name tag, but had never even heard of an earlier recording using that name.
Also I would still like to hear some more information on the Invader Zim 3D test. Jhonen says it doesn't exist, but the director Steve Ressel said it was a test by an overseas studio. It seems like Jhonen said didn't exist because he wasn't aware it was made, but a lot of the older information that was passed around about it seems to be unclear.
And nostalgist32x what second episode of Dude This Sucks is there, was that the college beach party show? I think it might have been mentioned on an old website that talked about the original pilot.
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I don't really have any suggestions since all the leads I know of are at dead ends. I guess you could try to find new names to contact and I can send them to the search team to see if they've been reached before.
Just don't post them publicly, if you find someone you think could be useful DM to me. But I think 99% of Nickelodeon Studios Florida people who are easily finable online have already been contacted.
I would like to think the people who kept messaging data about the video weren't from this community. The topic is big enough for that to be the case, and we had issues about bothering the video's original creator which have been addressed before.
Even back at the beginning of this lead, it always came down to waiting on the data guy to look through his files. No matter what his intention is now, it's still a waiting game. Like I said before though, I would like to think that if he really wanted to help out, he would find a way to reach out to you guys even after leaving the server. If he didn't even make it to his parents house yet, maybe he's waiting until then to reach out
Then again, maybe this was one big fake lead and now with the messages and the raided server he's decided to end the game. It's not like we ever saw proof that any of this existed, we were just going off of the belief he was telling the truth.
Still, I would like to think there's more to this and we'll hear back from him after everything related to the topic has calmed down again.
Where did you find evidence of the reaction video person coming back? I was interested in reading what they said about possibly having the video, but didn't find any replies with their last upload being 14 years ago.
I don't really have anything insightful to add other than the fact that it's unfortunate the server got raided. I'd like to think it wasn't the result of the link being posted in this thread but maybe it would have been better to keep private.
My only remaining optimism with the data hoard guy is the fact that if this is going to happen, I think it's going to happen no matter the circumstances. Hopefully other users involved with the guy have him added as a friend or have some other way to contact him besides the server. And if the guy himself is legit about getting the video to us, he'll definitely get back to us one way or another.
If data hoard guy stops responding just because a server got raided, I don't think he was very serious or even telling the truth about having it in the first place.
Third. I distinctly remember Episode 140: Two Heartbeats: Kabuto's Trap having a disclaimer in the Cartoon Network airing. My memory is very fuzzy, I apologize if this is 100% false information, but I swear, deep in my heart I recall this happening. It threw me off because it's the ONLY episode that had this. And it made sense to me because his beating heart pulled out was completely uncut. The disclaimer was a still shot of the Ninja Academy. I think it had a subtle bell sound(?) And text warning graphic content. It never left my mind and the only CN recordings I can find on the internet starts with the intro. Right after the disclaimer.
Is this screen actually lost? I definitely remember it happening as well, exactly like you described. It's the only episode I remember it airing on but I wasn't sure if there were others I was forgetting about. It freaked me out too, partially because how ominous it was but it also got me thinking there would be massive amount of blood or something unusual for the series.
Also I didn't know about those other Naruto oddities! That's really interesting, especially the original Japanese airings. I never even thought about the possibility of those just not being around. A few months ago I went down a small rabbit hole of older anime fansites from the late 2000s, places like SaiyanIsland.com that I had seen back in the day but never checked out. There was so much content those places hosted and now all of it is basically gone.
I would recommend checking out SewerReviewer's videos covering this topic before going any further. Rick Lyon is one of the oldest contacts and has been emailed about this so many times, I've heard he gets very angry when the topic gets brought up.
This is one of the larger problems with the search and why I personally don't think it's a great idea to reopen it right now. It's been going on for so long that nobody is on the same page, and I can't share any names publicly out of fear they'll be bombarded with emails.
With that said though, I saw DiamondCore sent me some names that I can check with Ber and SewerReviewer so maybe a new lead will show up from there.