Prerelease:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Game Boy Advance)

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Game Boy Advance).

Screenshots

Some prerelease screenshots are scattered throughout the internet on different sites where it was possible to order the game back in the days. Most likely these screenshots were first published on Eagames.com, because you can find all of them with watermarks of this site. The game looks already pretty finished, but there's a completely different spell HUD. Spells had a different icon (just a wand with different sparkles) and no spell names and character heads were shown.

These three screenshots below show at least 3 different spell icons, but no other visible differences:

But other screenshots have more interesting details!

Here we can notice, that spell HUD wasn't hidden when dialogues were played. Also rat tonic was in a different place. Another huge change is that Flipendo puzzle was different and you could fail it. That's why there was this red button, that most likely restored the block to its original position as it was in the final version of the game, but on other levels.

Prerelease	Final

The box in the lower left corner was much closer to the higher boxes:

Prerelease	Final

The first book fight and train dementor encounter were at daylight in this build.

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Trailer

At first sight, looks like the final build was used for this trailer.

However, this Quidditch card combo wasn't in the game:

Also UI for Boggart and Dementor mini-games wasn't finished yet. Maybe it was manually hidden with developer tools, because they thought it would look better in the trailer.

Prerelease	Final

Prerelease	Final