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I always thought it was a shame that this series (aside from the first one) were never localized. Probably a bit to Japanese for a US audience.

Anyways, here is a sample of Ganbare Goemon 3. The game is fairly close to final, and it prevents you from progressing to the first boss.

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The Goemon-game which tried the most to be like Zelda Veeery fun. It got no translation so far... a real shame, yeah.

The prototype differences are indeed small, but this is sure a nice find. Esspeacialy with the debug-exploration-R-button.