Prerelease:LSD: Dream Emulator
This page details pre-release information and/or media for LSD: Dream Emulator.
1997 Demo Movie
This is the demo movie from compu-lsd.com.
Graphical
- A unique debug menu appears at several points.
- Overall, there's more detail and polish than the final game.
- Several objects are shown in Bright Moon Cottage that don't appear in the final. Items include a bathroom, a table with cups and chairs, detailed lights and rooms, window curtains, and 3D doors; some of these things are still in the game files.
- The texture used on the TV physically appears in a room.
- The sumo wrestler area in the Flesh Tunnels is different, and there is a trapdoor on the floor.
- HAPPYTOWN's textures are different.
- Violence District is less bright and has a red sky.
Mechanics
- The Giant Baby appears to kiss the player instead of headbutting them.
- A cut character shows up in HAPPYTOWN and Long Hallway. He's a male human wearing a white shirt, and his face is obscured by a helmet and mask. He's seen charging the player with a wobble, and in one instance killing them.
- The Train in Happy Town has a different face.
- The Tengu in Kyoto look more human.
compu-lsd.com
The now-defunct website compu-lsd.com documented information about the game during development, including a work log, several movies, screenshots, and a "dreams" section. The website is mirrored on the Osamu Sato Archive, and on archive.org. The Osamu Sato Archive does not have Shockwave support intact.
Movies
 | To do: Find a way to cleanly record a shockwave director movie. |
The website had a page featuring five movies. Three are copies of the Demo Movie in varying quality, and two are Shockwave animations showcasing the games characters.
Screenshots
The website had a page featuring these 9 screenshots, which show a debug menu close to the games completion. The field-of-view appears to be wider and the roof in Bright Moon Cottage is untextured.
The filenames of these screenshots confirm a half-official English name for two levels that differ from the community translation, Violence Town (Violence District) and Meigetsu-So Apartment (Bright Moon Cottage).
