U64 Staff
1 Feb 2008
Unseen 64 is hiring! Are you a beta addicted? Do you like to write about videogames? Are you a master in finding infos, images or videos through google? Are you a real geek? Do you want to help Unseen64? Then you are welcome to join us! We don’t need perfect english skills, but lot of passion for beta videogames and a bit of craziness. Just send us an e-mail and we’ll be happy to add you in our unseen crew! We cannot pay you, but we are sexy <3
Clicca qui per la versione in Italiano ▼
In particular we are searching for:
English Jr. Writers: to write small intros (5 / 10 lines), with a little description of the game, the reason of the cancellation or the differences between the beta and the final version.
English Senior Writers: to write articles about beta games, with deeper analyze of the development, cancellation or differences. Senior Writers should love videogames and write only about games that they really like.
English Translators: to eventually correct the crazy engrish of the italian staff and translate Italian text into English, with the help of automatic language translators like Babelfish.
Unseen Researchers: to find beta images or videos through google or looking at scans of old videogames magazines. If you are a nice geek that loves videogames, has good eyes and patience, this could be your favourite role!
3D Designers: we are trying to find someone that is able to create a simple 3D animated video, with few poligon cont (Saturn / N64 level?) to develop a “secret unseen project”. If you can make 3D videos or know someone that is able to, please send us an e-mail!
2D Designers: to make games “logos” that show up in the Unseen Archive. You know all those “banners” that say “image coming soon”? Well.. we need to change them with an image from the real game. If you like to cut and paste images, we need your power!
Unseen Fundraiser: a fundraiser is an individual whose primary purpose is to raise money for a cause. U64 needs lots of money to be able to keep up with the server cost: our cause is to archive and preserve media and informations about the cuts and changes in the gaming development. Do you have any rich friends? Can you help us to rise more donations? Your help would be really appreciated.
[Current Italian Staff]
monokoma: responsabile e fondatore di Unseen 64, impiegato sopratutto nella ricerca di screenshot & video beta, forse scriverà anche qualche articolo. Assuefatto dai giochi beta ormai da anni è arrivato ad avere cartelle grandi parecchi GB con screenshot e video.. a quel punto ha capito che sarebbe stata ora di aprire un sito per catalogare tutto quel materiale. Mente dinamica, sempre ricca di interessi e cose da fare. Peccato che gli manca sempre il tempo per riuscire a fare tutto. Alla fine non fa mai un cazo. E’ un genio nel perdere tempo ed oziare. Ma si sta impegnando per riuscire a sviluppare nel migliore dei modi questo nostro sito, organizzando gli altri membri del gruppo ed i materiali necessari. Dopotutto è un gran bravo ragazzo.
Roles: U64 Founder, U64 Editor, Unseen Researcher, Senior Writer, Podcast Editor
Personal Website: www.monokoma.blogspot.com
Personal Email: nessfree@gmail.com
Stere0: archivio vivente di una quantità enorme di vecchie riviste di videogame, grande risorsa per foto beta introvabili online. Certo ancora dobbiamo metterci a scannerizzarle tutte. Prima o poi? Amico di mono ormai da anni, Stere0 è stato intrappolato con l’inganno a far parte di Unseen64 ed è stato costretto a lavorare duramente per la realizzazione del nuovo archivio sulla base di Wordpress! Le sue capacità innate di WebDesigner gli hanno permesso di sviluppare facilmente l’evoluzione estetica del sito, in modo che i visitatori siano meglio compiaciuti nella navigazione. Ad ogni evenienza Stere0 è in grado di risolvere gli eventuali problemi tecnici e salvare il team di Unseen 64 dai vari disastri digitali. Alla fine del suo lavoro finalmente possiamo davvero essere soddisfatti dell’organizzazione di U64: grazie a Stere0 il resto dello staff può perdere meno tempo con i vecchi sistemi in html statico, per dedicare maggior tempo nell’inserimento di contenuti di qualità. Se per caso vi esplode il PC mentre visitate Unseen64, date pure la colpa a lui.
Roles: U64 Web designer
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
Yota: Collaboratore post-filosofico per la ricerca di foto beta ed informazioni, anche se spesso vanno tutte perdute perchè si diverte a formattare il suo PC almeno una volta la settimana. La sua missione è quella di riuscire a completare le introduzione dei giochi, cosi da lanciarsi poi nello sfogo psicopatico di qualche articolo. Sicuramente un altro appassionato di giochi beta e la sua conoscenza dei videogame è senz’altro utile per l’aggiornamento di Unseen 64. Ha inoltre avuto il coraggio di tradurre diversi articoli e introduzioni. Fonti che hanno preferito rimanere segrete ci hanno rivelato che un inglese non riuscirà mai a capire le traduzioni di Yota. Ne siamo fieri.
Roles: Unseen Researcher, Senior Writer, Podcast Attendant
Personal Website: www.sandover.wordpress.com
Personal Email: coming soon
Bakke: il filosofo videoludico della crew, elemento cardine essenziale per tutti noi. Abbiamo una sua foto sul comodino con le candele di fianco. Capace di pensieri come il famoso ” [...] Ricercare la libertà significa fallire. Io continuo a sostenere che Zelda è il gioco più libero che esiste, ti danno delle regole e dei limiti. La vera libertà di Morrowind è quella morale, tu puoi fare quello che vuoi da questo punto di vista, ma non è libero. Zelda è il gioco più libero… il concetto di libertà in un videogioco è diverso da quello della realtà. [...] ” Date le sue innate doti semantiche e grammaticali non poteva che diventare capo redattore ufficioso del gruppo, mettendosi al lavoro per introduzioni ed articoli. State attenti perchè comanda lui!
Roles: Podcast Attendant, Jr Writer
Personal Website: www.alessandrobacchetta.com
Personal Email: coming soon
Sega Master: dobbiamo ammetterlo, Unseen 64 aveva davvero bisogno di un appassionato SEGA, per avere una minima possibilità di completare questo enorme archivio! Prima che lui arrivasse le sezioni SEGA erano lasciate abbandonate e trascurate, un vero insulto per tutti quei giochi beta che meritavano più attenzione. Da redattore modello ha già cominciato a scrivere diverse introduzioni e per il futuro sembra avere in mente alcuni articoli sull’amata SEGA ovviamente. L’inizio promette bene, è uno scrittore serio ed impegnato, ma sopravvivere nella pazza crew di U64 non è cosa da tutti! riuscirà a resistere in questo gruppo di folli fanatici? Scapperà lontano quando si accorgerà che Bakke è uno pseudo capo redattore maniaco e nintendaro? Si arriverà alla rivolta civile interna in vecchio stile Nintendo VS Sega? lo sapremo nelle prossime puntate!
Roles: Jr Writer, Podcast Attendant, Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: www.sonicdream.it
Personal Email: sega_master@libero.it
Ultraman82: col passare del tempo, nuovi amici si offrono di aiutarci con la costruzione del sito. Con l’arrivo di Ultraman, siamo riusciti a trovare un collaboratore di primissimo livello, che con la sua curiosità ed interesse per le beta, è già riuscito a fornirci informazioni molto preziose! Grande appassionato del Giappone, si impegna a giocare in versione originale nipponica, scoprendo in questo modo, l’enorme quantità di cambiamenti e censure, che subiscono molti games all’arrivo in occidente. E’ riuscito subito a conquistare la fiducia di monokoma, chiaccherando per ore di beta, misteri videoludici e giochi quasi sconosciuti. Da quel momento abbiamo cercato di convincerlo a collaborare con noi.. e ci siamo riusciti! Ultraman è stato fra i primi coraggiosi pionieri, riusciti ad ascoltatore la nostra Podcast fino alla fine, rendendosi ben conto del pericolo e della pazzia che si nasconde in mezzo a questo staff. Ancora non è scappato, quindi ci sono buone probabilità che sia altrattanto folle e geniale come il resto del gruppo! Le sue doti di ricerca, per informazioni online e prove dirette, sapranno dare una migliore precisione al nostro archivio, con approfondimenti e documentazioni importanti.
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
ReNo: collaboratore saltuario di Unseen 64, ReNo è spesso impegnato a ricercare materiale per l’espansione del nostro archivio. Dopo essere riuscito a contattare mono scavalcando le sue difese comunicative, ha dimostrato la sua dedizione nella conservazione delle beta, con tonnellate di vecchie riviste videoludiche, recuperare con fatica in giro per il mondo. Il suo coraggio e la sua perseveranza gli permettono di non cedere ai fallimenti, ed anche dopo ore di giornali sfogliati senza traccia di materiale beta, torna all’attacco con il sorriso, per ogni nuova ed estenuante indagine. Quando possibile, ReNo supporta l’usuale gruppo di super nerd nelle discussioni della podcast, con la sua voce professionale e capacità di esposizione fuori dal comune.
Roles: Unseen Researcher, Podcast Attendant
Personal Website: www.flickr.com/photos/reno_renone
Personal Email: coming soon
LucaPM: descrizione in corso..
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
[Current English Staff]
MAIcrosoft: Yeah, I, me, MAIcrosoft, also known as just plain MAI, is webmaster of this place, deletes all spam and all boring admin tasks you know :3 Some people might know me from various bemani communities and from the bemani sites I run like www.beatmaniaiidx.com and www.bemanitube.com . I wont be writing much here, but you’ll see me popping up sometimes though <: I love fan mail so if you have something to say about me drop me a line O:
Roles: U64 Webmaster, ADS Editor
Personal Website: www.beatmaniaiidx.com
Personal Email: maicrosoft[at_fuckin_nospam]unseen64.net
Randy 355: I have played video games ever since I could remember, pretty much starting with Super Mario World for the SNES. Of course I got an N64 and subscribed to Nintendo Power when I grew a bit older, and noticed some beta differences, wondering what the deal was. It interested me. When I stumbled upon this site many years later I had known much about the Halo Series and its betas. Being a fan of Halo and interesting beta pics and info, I wanted to add them to the archive, or it would drive me mad. Now I like to help out regularly, and here I am.
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
Rowedahelicon: Rowedahelicon is my name, but Rowdy will do just fine. I have been a gamer since I was five and my first was Super Mario 64 since then I have gotten into gaming and the hidden mysteries behind it, it wasn’t until I got my Wii that I became more aware of the inner workings of games. My first game I knew about the beta was of Anachronox. But it wasn’t until after I finished Galaxy that I began to compare the beta’s and the final product, after researching I Found Unseen64, it didn’t have much information but I found that others shared an appreciation for the hidden mysteries, in this case gaming. I soon made my own video showing some of the missing changes of Galaxy and is was that video that got me this job on the team with these beta geeks.
Roles: Jr Writer, Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: www.rowedahelicon.freeweb7.com
Personal Email: coming soon
Stevesesy: Friendly, informal, and overall good guy, Steve is new but ready to do whatever it takes. He’s been around video games for most of his life and has a special place in his heart for protos, betas, and EarthBound. He does art and videos in his freetime and will take anyone on in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. He doesn’t know any Italian but he sure does love spaghetti.
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
Tomatketchup: is the only intelligent staff member on Unseen64. In fact, people is so jealous of his intelligence they call him things. Sure, Tomatketchup boasts about it sometimes, but everyone is so harsh these days. Tomatketchup is also the only intelligent man on the forum, whereas the others are just pure morons spamming threads of no value. Why he hasn’t a mansion and sexy girls in a tube is yet a mystery to him though.
Roles: Unseen Researcher, U64 Forum VIP, Unseen Uncomic Artist
Personal Website: http://tomatketchup.blogspot.com
Personal Email: tomatketchup@live.se
Take_It_Slow: Though not a great video game player, I am a man who can appreciate the finer side of character design, musical score, and controls. I just recently joined the U64 community, but I feel it is doing a great service to the public in educating them in the ways of beta games and showing them ideas of what could have been. I love analyzing the changes that happen to a game throughout the creation process and the pleasure that comes of learning of games that were made completely, but never released to the public for some reason or another. I hope to be able to find out information, translate Italian, and ultimately write articles. U64 seems like a great community, as well as an amazing archive of video games of the past and present.
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: A.Skittle.Ow@Gmail.com
FullMetalMC: is the reason Unseen exists without him there would be no Unseen and the world would be full of epic fail. All kidding aside I am one of the biggest contributors and have posted a big fraction of the pictures and information. My interest began when I was reading the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time article from Wikipedia (most likely out of boredom). Back then when I read it the article had a section titled lost content (or something along those lines) and a picture of a big Triforce caught my attention. There I discovered the hacking group Zelda’s Secret Ocarina and fell in love with beta stuff. I admire hackers (Cen is one of the best IMO) and communities who specialize in hacking for lost game elements and I really wish these groups were bigger in number and size. Even though I really like what these people dig up I am much to lazy myself to hack and would rather donate some money to buy older builds of games but my lack of money stops me from doing so.
Roles: Unseen Researcher, English Translator, Forum VIP
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
CoinCollector: I’ve played video games most of my life, starting with the N64 and PlayStation. I have always enjoyed video game-related things aside from actually playing them; collecting them, speedrunning them, and researching their betas. My interest in beta games started when I saw some of the stuff that the guys over at The Rare Witch Project hacked out of one of my favorite games, Banjo-Kazooie. It intrigued me to see what the developers intended to do, but eventually ended up not adding in. From there, I found beta content from some of my other favorite games, and have since then been fascinated about the development process of games and seeing what they could’ve been like if things went differently.
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
GiantPooka: Well, what can I say? I like videogames, and I like writing stuff, so putting the two of them together seems like a good idea. I’ve been playing videogames since I can remember, since the days of the NES and the ZX Spectrum, but I try to specialise in weird stuff no-one else has ever heard of, and in particular, hardcore bullet hell shoot-em-ups and adventure games- bit of an odd mix when you think about it. The weird stuff is the real interest, though, maybe that’s why I’ve decided to help out here! Hopefully by helping out with finding stuff to scan and write about, I can help clear up some of the oddities of videogames!
Roles: Jr Writer, Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: www.gaminghell.110mb.com
Personal Email: coming soon
Tilemaxx: Hi, I’m Tilemaxx. I am a greek with an addiction to GTA IV. Actually, I’m so addicted I had to go to 4chan’s /b/ to cure it. Sadly they didn’t accept my kind so I simply had to play more of GTA IV. I also enjoy GTA IV, football, GTA IV, music, GTA IV and watching movies. But I like GTA IV the most. Definetley. I am also trying to search for GTA IV beta. But I like to play GTA IV the most. My family don’t understand my feelings, they don’t understand why I am so addicted to GTA IV. Of course, that was at least 100 years ago since I spoke to them because I’ve been too busy playing GTA IV, but their opinion maybe has changed now. Well, I also like to play GTA IV. I don’t even know why I’m wasting my time writing this when I could go play GTA IV. I think I should go play some GTA IV now.
Roles: Unseen Researcher, Forum VIP
Personal Website: www.tilemaxx.blogspot.com
Personal Email: tilemaxx@windowslive.com
Torentsu: Greetings fellow beta lovers! I’m Trent, but online I go by a multitude of names. Those of you familiar with ZSO may know me as LeeChaolan, but I prefer the moniker Torentsu nowadays, so let’s go with that one here, shall we? Anyhow, being the son of an amusement vendor, (my dad rented out arcade games) I grew up around gaming and have been in it ever since. Then in 1998, I discovered a whole new venue of video games – beta content. 1998 was the year The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time graced the N64, and after having played the game through and through, I wanted more! Luckily, I stumbled upon the website of VideoGamerX who had just released the Zelda debug code. Intrigued by this, I nearly damaged my cart testing it. Pretty soon he started posting more Zelda beta on the site and I ate it all up – beta quest, ocarina pedestal, you name it; I was fascinated by it all. Years later, I stumbled across ZSO (Zelda’s Secret Ocarina) and followed the progress of OOT hacking and beta finding. Sure ZSO was about Zelda beta, but through the interactions I had with the other users, I began to discover that many of my favorite games had beta to be discovered and the rest is history. I’m not a great game hacker, but I do enjoy making basic codes (especially in MAME) and poking around in RAM to find ever elusive beta content! I hope to spread some light on the beta of more obscure games while I’m here.
Roles: Senior Writer, Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
Refurs: Dear lovely reader. I’ve been visiting this website for quite some time now. After thinking about building my own “beta stuff” page I rather decided to join this strong team of beta addicted. Unseen64 provides a wide are of beta material from many different videogames. While my interest in cancelled or unreleased games started with the release of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest, it has developed into something deeper now. As a result, I see my main task in finding new screenshots and new material. Although I might not seek remains of beta versions in final versions of a game, I hope to do a great contribution to this website.
Roles: Jr Writer, Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
Thyoldpie: my name is Thyoldpie, you can call me John. I have been playing video games ever since I was about four, my first video game system was the playstation 1, when I was five my aunt gave me her nintendo entertainment system and i was hooked. When i was six I got a nintendo 64 and I found a sega genesis at a garage sale and bought a super nintendo system. Now i have almost all the major consoles. One day about 6 or 7 months ago I stumbled upon monokoma’s youtube channel and I loved his videos, and from their on I was addicted to the site. Some of my favorite bands are my chemical romance, disturbed, acdc, the used, atreyu, aerosmith and the foo fighters. Some of my favorite games are runescape, guitar hero 3, rock band, dead space, resident evil 4, mario galaxy, mario 64, mario 3, sonic 2 and mario kart wii.
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: www.youtube.com/user/GAMESofSHAME
Personal Email: coming soon
ChampionMan: description coming soon?
Roles: Unseen Researcher, Zelda 64 Beta Restoration Project
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
shadowdorothy: When i was a kid I got a used nintendo system from a yard sale for about $10, and ever since I have been enamored with those little “lost” and elusive pieces of video game history. I even know some very hard to get information about how some of nintendo’s most popular games got their start.
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
Kreepman: Hello, My name is Nigel, but my alias is “Kreepman” and I come from Argentina. I am a full time film director, film editor, 3D Designer, and student. I started playing video games around 6 years of age when my mother got me a Nintendo 64 for my birthday. Some of my favorite games on that system include Starfox 64, Jetforce Gemini, and Diddy Kong Racing. My second system was a Playstation 2 with Grand Theft Auto III and that is when I really got into beta, alpha, canceled games. Because GTAIII had such a public beta (screen shots, videos, etc.), I was fasinated by how much a game can change during it’s development. Ever since then I have been looking online for beta/alpha screens of my favorite games!
Roles: 3D Designer
Personal Website: coming soon
Personal Email: coming soon
Ace.Dark: Hai thar, my name is Ace.Dark (Or chibiace on youtube), I am interested in beta video games and games in general. I am a good person to get along with, I hang around the forums if you want to talk and hang ou
Roles: Unseen Researcher
Personal Website: www.youtube.com/user/chibiace
Personal Email: coming soon
