Current Events > What's a lost media holy grail for you?

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Not really a holy grail, but I would love to listen to the full version of CyberSix's opening song.

Relm_Arrowny_87 posted...

I find myself fascinated by the Satelleview.

SNES peripheral, only in Japan, players used it to download small games and apps over a broadcast.
You could save a limited amount locally, and some things survived, but parts of the media are either lost or scattered.
There was also a hub area with characters and time-limited events and the like, those are hard to reproduce as well.

I feel like Nintendo has archives of all their stuff but won't release it because wharrgarbargle

Tyranthraxus posted...

I feel like Nintendo has archives of all their stuff but won't release it because wharrgarbargle

Yeah, as we've seen from leaks, Nintendo has massive archives of their old stuff. That's one of the more frustrating things about them, is how much they are just sitting on.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I feel like Nintendo has archives of all their stuff but won't release it because wharrgarbargle

Would not surprise me in the least

rick_alverado posted...

The 97 missing episodes of Doctor Who.

I was thinking Dr Who as well

Magnificent Ambersons footage and ending restored

The Day the Clown Cried. That unreleased movie I've heard mentioned for a pretty long time. It was made back in the early 70's. It's a WW2 comedy-drama set at a concentration camp. I'm curious to see it, just to fully understand why Jerry Lewis was so embarrassed about making that movie.

Call the Uh oh squad

My dad has it recorded somehow. He played it on a trip awhile back and I asked who was that. So I look it up. Robert Ellis Orral. It's a extremely rare .45. And part of a compilation too thats equally rare. It's a silly song but it's catchy. He went on to write and produce country music but thats his mark.

FFVIII

Lagunas story was supposed to be as big as Squalls and a lot of content was cut for the final product. Would love to play a version with all the planned content.

jblrulez posted...

FFVIII

Lagunas story was supposed to be as big as Squalls and a lot of content was cut for the final product. Would love to play a version with all the planned content.

Going down that road, I would have loved to see FF15s original concept fully fleshed out. Same deal with Warlords of Draenor for WoW. So much cut content from WoW its not even funny.

Definitely the Satelleview and Sega Channel exclusive games/content. Some of them sound really interesting, but nearly all of them are lost, likely forever.

Also, I would kill for a true copy of Pre-CU Star Wars Galaxies. There are some emulator projects out there that do what they can, but no one has ever made a 1:1 copy of the original, and likely never will.

Hexenherz posted...

It's not really lost, just mostly forgotten, but as a small kid I friggin loved the Mind's Eye videos.

I still have the VHS for those. As a Canadian, I saw a lot of them because YTV used them as bumpers to fill time between shows, under the brand "Short Circutz".

buddah86 posted...

As grim as it is, curiosity has me. WWE Over The Edge 99.

My old roommate taped that, though I haven't had any contact with him since 2003 (we had a heated argument and I moved out), and I think he passed away some years ago.

Also, the old cartoon Road Rovers had a promo for a "special" episode with "new footage" for one of the episodes, but when the episode ("A Day In The Life") aired, there was no new footage, and the "Russian Name Game" song had been edited out. Nobody knows for sure, but fans speculated it may have had something to do with Princess Diana and Prince Charles (Di and Charles had previously appeared in the episode "A Hair of the Dog That Bit You"), but Di was killed in the car crash a day after the promo aired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAds6SrzJy0

Not Holy Grails, but some things i recently noticed.

1. Beyonce - Texas Hold'em Official music video
It seems that this was scrubbed from the internet, with only poor quality re-ups available.

2. Yes Dear! - sitcom. Not exactly lost but it currently not available on any streaming platforms. Low quality tv recordings are posted on YT.

Other bits of lost of media I can think of that I would love to see archived:

There were two late night series that aired on TechTV around 2003. Wired for Sex and EyeDrops, both are mostly lost.

I think only one episode of EyeDrops was ever archived and Wired for Sex is only available as clips (ironically the unaired "pilot" is pretty easy to find).

A few other TechTV series like Invent This! and Fresh Gear are also hard to find.

rick_alverado posted...

The 97 missing episodes of Doctor Who.

This but in particular all the episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan, including The Feast of Steven.

Anything from the original Black Sabbath lineup's failed attempt at recording an album in 2001.

Tony Iommi has become more open to the idea of releasing outtakes in the last decade-plus and with Ozzy's death, maybe he'll be finally be willing to mix and master whatever was recorded back then.

The full director's cut of The Dark Crystal

The Radio WWF commentary from the 90's with Jim Ross and Gorilla Monsoon. Also the promotional material for the dropped Bret Hart/Hulk Hogan feud.

No idea if its lost media but theres a cassette tape I had when I was very little (late 80s to early 90s) that I cannot find online. It had a bunch of simple songs for kids and I remember listening to it every day and absolutely loving one specific song. I dont remember many of the lyrics, but I do remember the overall tune and that the chorus went:

Family, oh, family
Growing together, like the leaves on a tree
Family, oh, family
We care about each other, in our family

I find myself humming it to this day. Part of me knows it wont hold up to my nostalgia if I find it online, but Id still love to hear it again and share it with my little ones.

London After Midnight

ShaneMcComez posted...

The Day the Clown Cried. That unreleased movie I've heard mentioned for a pretty long time. It was made back in the early 70's. It's a WW2 comedy-drama set at a concentration camp. I'm curious to see it, just to fully understand why Jerry Lewis was so embarrassed about making that movie.

From what I heard, he didn't think the concept of a clown making kids happy as they were being marched in to the gas chambers was a good idea once it was seen on the big screen.

Trelve posted...

This but in particular all the episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan, including The Feast of Steven.

The Feast of Steven is likely the only episode that has no chance of ever being found, but I suppose weirder things have happened. For example, 2 Dr Who episodes were found in a Mormon Church somehow. People started a rumor that it used to be a BBC storage facility but the building was actually built in the late 1970s or early 1980s and is not affiliated with them at all.

008Zulu posted...

From what I heard, he didn't think the concept of a clown making kids happy as they were being marched in to the gas chambers was a good idea once it was seen on the big screen.

It's in the Library of Congress but has not been made available to the public.

Ive actually found / recovered most lost media I had any real interest in. So my holy grail would be a Pokemon fan site that talked about Ash going through the cloning machine from the first movie and creating Nash. There was also some mention of one of the random trainers from that movie being a bird specialist with Articuno.

JoeDangIt posted...

Megaman Universe, I wanna know how far along it was when it was cancelled.

That's a good one. Legends 3 is my answer.

El_Dustino posted...

The 3 hour version of Gorillaz Plastic Beach

What?! How have I never heard of this. I was all over the leaks and hype in the leadup to it's release. 2010 was wild.

I've got three others for the thread: first is a weird Simpsons edit that was on YouTube. It was dark as hell and involved murder. Also involved the phrase "home is where the Bart is" or "Homer is where the Bart is." Haven't been able to find it in a long, long time.

Second is a Weezer mega pack torrent called Project Weezer from around 2005. It has all the versions of all the songs Rivers shared online for short periods of time during the Maladriot days -- along with every other extant recording of every other Weezer song up to the release of Make Believe. Also had as close to all the available bootlegs up to that point (there were way more compiled and circulated from that period later).

Project Weezer was my life for a couple years. Found so many versions of beloved songs to dig into. Also found tonnes of unreleased ones to love. Plenty came out on the Rivers Alone volumes later but he rerecorded and remasterd some in ways I don't like. I want those old Project Weezer packs. The sad and rough acoustic "I can't stop partying" comes to mind.

I can't even find mention of Project Weezer online. But I didn't dream it. I remember running bittornado for days to get it all.

Finally, third is a Kingdom Hearts homebrew game for Windows. Side scrolling and looked a lot like the GBA games which, as far as I cann remember, came out after this person made their little beta homebrew. It was announced on the KH board here and a beta or demo was released. Then the creator got modded a few times and the project disappeared. Does any old head remember that?

I recall a fanmade side scrolling KH game during the wait for KH2 to release that sounds like that. Did you play as an Organization member (at the time we didnt know what they were called)?

Oh, just thought of another good one. The Pokmon Dream World website that connected to Gen 5 games. You could play various minigames and get berries and even Pokmon to send to the main games. Every once in a while Ill look around online and see talk of fans trying to recreate it, but as of last I checked no one has succeeded.

HudGard posted...

I recall a fanmade side scrolling KH game during the wait for KH2 to release that sounds like that. Did you play as an Organization member (at the time we didnt know what they were called)?

I don't remember all the details of KH characters. This was the last time I thought about the series for a long, long time. (I basically now only think about it now when I'm remembering this lost homebrew game and gamefaqs from that time).

I believe the playable character has a key blade though. Does that mean they are or aren't Organization? Are Organization people wearing trench coats? I seem to remember tench coats.

There was a Harry Potter website that was like a text based MMO. Maybe more like a message board. You got sorted and could explore Hogwarts. I think MAYBE you could see other people moving around? Or, at least you could see how many other people were in the part of the castle you were in. Maybe it was just a simple website views counter, now that I think about it.

But when it launched it definitely tricked me into thinking it was an MMO (though I didn't have the word for MMO yet, I don't think).

Was it official or was it fanmade?

Edit: was official and was by WB for the first movie. Seems it's gone, though. https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/9gy5to/tomt_website_early_2000s_very_old_harry_potter/

ablegator posted...

Magnificent Ambersons footage and ending restored

This for me. And there's a chance that the original uncut version still exists. It's a slim chance, but it's actually a real possibility.

Intact copy of Beowulf before it was burned.

A demo of SimCity Creator (DS) given to IGN back in '08.

HojoojoH_2 posted...

I don't remember all the details of KH characters. This was the last time I thought about the series for a long, long time. (I basically now only think about it now when I'm remembering this lost homebrew game and gamefaqs from that time).

I believe the playable character has a key blade though. Does that mean they are or aren't Organization? Are Organization people wearing trench coats? I seem to remember tench coats.

Was this it?

https://youtu.be/QCK6Fo6OF50?si=p5J7tXQ1BD6mC9uK

HudGard posted...

Was this it?

https://youtu.be/QCK6Fo6OF50?si=p5J7tXQ1BD6mC9uK

Holy SMOKES yes!!!! Wow

I found the version I played. Demo version 1: https://youtu.be/RlSWKo-fDGc

Holy shit what a nostalgia bomb.

What happens to the creators? At least some were gamefaqs users, right?

And what about the project itself? Watching this overview video now, btw. Thanks!

Ironically it was a post you made 17 years ago I found while searching that led me to the name of it. So you only have yourself to thank

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/516587-kingdom-hearts/43573915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1936_film)

Definitely Earthbound 64.

rick_alverado posted...

The 97 missing episodes of Doctor Who.

This. I love Patrick Troughton. It's a shame a lot of his are lost.

Others I'd love to experience are Suffer for Sound by The Tubes and London After Midnight

I have very specific and personal lost media. One is a very obscure John Cena hate video from MySpace in 2006. The other is a specific Tom Green's House Tonight episode from 2008.

There are two that immediately came to mind for me:

Chris Farley's Shrek. Apparently he had most if not all of the dialogue recorded, but after his death they switched to Mike Meyers. I'd love to see Shrek voiced by Chris Farley.

A bit more morbid: Christine Chubbuck's live suicide. The audio has been released but the video has never resurfaced though is believe to still exist and is being held through a law firm, at the family's discretion. A couple of seemingly genuine fakes started coming out after the 2016 movie, but they weren't legit.

Missing eps of Doctor Who, followed by all the stuff Jim Henson made prior to Sesame Street that was lost.

Demigod_Elessar posted...

There are two that immediately came to mind for me:

Chris Farley's Shrek. Apparently he had most if not all of the dialogue recorded, but after his death they switched to Mike Meyers. I'd love to see Shrek voiced by Chris Farley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MCBI_K2nIw

HudGard posted...

Ironically it was a post you made 17 years ago I found while searching that led me to the name of it. So you only have yourself to thank

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/516587-kingdom-hearts/43573915

This is surreal. Thanks for digging this up and sharing it with me.

https://youtu.be/HfV40BZbP8s?si=0HY0bvwtkr1Ap25H

The Call of Ktulu live performance at the Lyceum Theatre in London, 1984.

The bass line itself is a bit of lost media as the original bass track is buried quite heavily under the guitars in the studio version, while in this live version, you can hear every last bit of Cliff's playing loud and clear, with the most beautifully aggressive bass tone ever recorded.

The JoJo Phantom Blood movie

It's less "lost" than it used to be because a couple years ago it showed up on a torrent site for about 48 hours before it got DMCAed. So it's out there, on a few thousand hard drives maybe. But still, not easy to get.

Ryven posted...

The recently axed Batgirl movie.

Yep. Maybe it was bad. We will never know. But I would have wanted to judge it for myself

Oh yeah. I remembered one. Supposedly there is 1 or more lost books from Homer (the Greek) that make up the series that The Odyssey and The Iliad are in. I heard that at least 1 book was set before The Iliad but was lost to history. We know it existed because there are other writers who mention it in old documents. But the actual story itself is gone. It would be incredible if a surviving copy was found. But it's unlikely

buddah86 posted...

As grim as it is, curiosity has me. WWE Over The Edge 99.

I watched that live as a kid, and it is one of the biggest Mandela Effects with wrestling fans. There are so many people who still swear they saw it, including one of my childhood friends at the time. The only people who saw it were in the arena.

But on lost media, there's also a filmed house show match between Owen Hart and Kurt Angle that was just five days before his death. The WWE Vault is actively trying to find it.

TyVulpine posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MCBI_K2nIw

Hah, I've heard the couple of clips that have come out with his voiceover. Obviously I was being greedy though and would like the entire film.