Disney's The Emperor's New Groove (Jul 11, 2000 prototype)

A prototype of Disney's The Emperor's New Groove for the PlayStation.
==Notes==
*An NTSC-U build dated just over three months before the final.
*The pre-title Argonaut logo screen is more basic.
*The title screen is a bit different and features a 3D logo of "Emperor's New Groove".
**The logo begins with "Disney's" rather than "Walt Disney".
**The skybox background is different to the one used in the final.
**The outline on the "Start Game" and "Options" text is slightly darker.
**The "Select" text is missing here.
**The "O" in "Options" is slightly cut off.
*The title theme is a slightly extended mix with lyrics, rather than the instrumental mix used in the final.
*All the music present in this build differs slightly from the final build. In general the instrumentation is much simpler here. 
**Playlist of this build's music.
**Some levels do not use any music, others use the wrong music.
*There are fewer choices on the options menu, and the shoulder angels in the background have a different introductory animation.
**The "cancel" button just resets the changes made to the menu, rather than resetting the changes and exiting the menu.
*The map screen looks quite different from the final.
*Pressing left on the map screen unlocks a level select.
**It is very easy to crash the game with the level select as you can easily pick levels which don't exist. You're also given the option to change the "world" number from 1 to 6, but it seems as though only world 1 was ever used, resulting in the other five crashing the game.
*All loading screens are missing the images used in the final.
*The charge move used with the square button does not appear to be implemented yet.
*A number of sound effects are missing or differ from the final.
*Most of the audio dialogue is missing, and the small amount which is in uses dev recordings, often with voices not even coming close to matching the character. Perhaps the developers' sense of humor?
**Video of all this build's dev recordings.
**Dialogue sometimes does not exactly match the written dialogue, too.
*Most levels are missing their pre-level and post-level cutscenes using clips from the film. There are a few exceptions:
**Levels 7 and 8 (Catacombs and Lab) show a placeholder animation of the words "171intro" or "181intro" respectively, for their intro cutscenes.
**Level 1 (chapter 4), level 2 (chapters 2 and 3), level 3 (chapter 3), level 4 (chapter 3), level 5 (chapter 3), level 6 (chapters 1 and 2) and level 8 (chapter 5) similarly have outro cutscenes which simply say, for example, "114outro".
**Level 6 chapter 1 incorrectly says "162outro" on its outro screen.
*Some of the panning shots of the level shown just before gameplay differ from the final, particularly in object and enemy placement in some of the shots.
*Jungle Night is called "Jungle" on its loading screen.
*Several levels have their names in lower case, for example, Catacombs written as "catacombs", in its chapter 1 loading screen.
*The timed mechanics generally work, but some do not make a sound neither show the hourglass, the owl doors never do.
**The owl doors may not show as open until Kuzco is placed very close to the door itself.
*The last level has a bug where the first switch encountered for the owl door does not open it, preventing the access to the last Red Idol needed.
**To finish the level, is possible to glitch the Red Idols door and enter it.
*Miscellaneous Notes:
**Game is emulatable: Yes (as of April 17, 2021).
**Game contains dongle protection: No.
**Game contains debugging symbols: No
**Dump was originally scrambled: No
==Screenshots==
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0000.png|Pre-title intro
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0001.png|Title screen
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0002.png|Options
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0003.png|Gameplay
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0004.png|Level Select
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0005.png|Gameplay
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0006.png|Gameplay
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0007.png|Gameplay
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0008.png|Gameplay
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0009.png|Gameplay
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0010.png|Gameplay
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0011.png|Placeholder cutscene
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove-0012.png|Placeholder cutscene
==Origin==
File:PSX - ENG 7-31 Emperor's New Groove.jpeg|Disc front.
==Videos==
Full Playthrough of Prototype
TENG Jul 11, 2000 prototype (PSX) Final Boss
cat four.wmv
==Files==
==Acknowledgments==
A huge thanks to Hwd45 for doing the initial research on this prototype!
==See also==
*Project Deluge: PlayStation 1, Saturn, and CD-i (April 17, 2021)
*Cutting Room Floor (TCRF)
*Internet Archive (IA)