Mar 7, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Join Date: Feb 4, 2015
Location: Nibel
Posts: 137
Age: 19
Pronouns: he/him
UPDATE 03/10/2024: Added 6 more versions provided by LemmR
Thanks to the efforts by the Development Room Pixel Discord server, two real pre-release versions were found and preserved, given by @znsYC47Jl54LgW4 on Twitter, dated December 5th 2004 and December 16th 2004 respectively.
Additionally, 2 days later, @LemmR on Twitter provided 8 more versions, 7 of which are new, including version 1.0.0.0 after all these years. 0.9.0.6 is the oldest version available now.
If you want to download them and comb through the various minor differences, here they are, as mirrored on the tribute site (thanks andwhy!)
In the weeks leading up to this discovery, Rain did most of the research about these pre-release versions, including finding an old thread on 2channel discussing the playtesting versions and describing version differences. Later he searched for mentions of the playtester builds on Twitter and found a few tweets, but most were old, except for one as recent as 2020. Him and I attempted to contact the playtester under the old tweet, to no response, until DrippingYellow asked about it under their most recent tweet at the time and got a reply.
The original Twitter threads with the playtesters can be found here and here, these discoveries are all thanks to znsYC47Jl54LgW4 and LemmR for their excellent file preservation over the past near 20 years.
Thanks to the efforts by the Development Room Pixel Discord server, two real pre-release versions were found and preserved, given by @znsYC47Jl54LgW4 on Twitter, dated December 5th 2004 and December 16th 2004 respectively.
Additionally, 2 days later, @LemmR on Twitter provided 8 more versions, 7 of which are new, including version 1.0.0.0 after all these years. 0.9.0.6 is the oldest version available now.
If you want to download them and comb through the various minor differences, here they are, as mirrored on the tribute site (thanks andwhy!)
zns' builds
0908: https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/Doukutsu_0_9_0_8.zip
0908 exe patch: https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/Doukutsu_0908_patch.exe
0913: https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/Doukutsu_0_9_1_3.zip
0913 patch: https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/Doukutsu_0913_patched.exe (these are so you can run the game outside of the initial trial time limit)
Lemm's builds
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0906.zip
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0908.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0909.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0911.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0912.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0914.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0915.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_1000.lzh
Autopatcher by patapancakes: DoDefuse (Drag Doukutsu.exe onto it to automatically remove time restriction)
^This gets falsely picked up by antimalware sometimes but its safe!
0908: https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/Doukutsu_0_9_0_8.zip
0908 exe patch: https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/Doukutsu_0908_patch.exe
0913: https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/Doukutsu_0_9_1_3.zip
0913 patch: https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/Doukutsu_0913_patched.exe (these are so you can run the game outside of the initial trial time limit)
Lemm's builds
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0906.zip
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0908.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0909.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0911.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0912.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0914.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_0915.lzh
https://www.cavestory.org/downloads/dou_1000.lzh
Autopatcher by patapancakes: DoDefuse (Drag Doukutsu.exe onto it to automatically remove time restriction)
^This gets falsely picked up by antimalware sometimes but its safe!
In the weeks leading up to this discovery, Rain did most of the research about these pre-release versions, including finding an old thread on 2channel discussing the playtesting versions and describing version differences. Later he searched for mentions of the playtester builds on Twitter and found a few tweets, but most were old, except for one as recent as 2020. Him and I attempted to contact the playtester under the old tweet, to no response, until DrippingYellow asked about it under their most recent tweet at the time and got a reply.
The original Twitter threads with the playtesters can be found here and here, these discoveries are all thanks to znsYC47Jl54LgW4 and LemmR for their excellent file preservation over the past near 20 years.
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