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. Watch on YouTube

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's 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#

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Specifically: 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 game's characters.

Screenshots#

The website had a page featuring these 9 screenshots, which show a debug menu close to the game's 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).