Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex

This page details one or more prototype versions of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex.

Notes May 15th, 2001 buildThe version shown off at E3 2001, dated four months before the North American v1.00 release. September 11th, 2001 buildA presubmission version featuring the scrapped minigame on the loading screens, dated 10 days before the North American v1.00 release. September 27th, 2001 buildA European version dated after the North American v1.00 release and a few days before the initial European v1.03 release.

GameCube Prototypes#

Two prototypes of the GameCube port were anonymously released on 4chan on November 8th, 2022.

To do: Any other differences?

December 17th, 2001 build#

This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

Dec 17	Final

• Lighting is completely broken throughout the game, with no shading, vertex colors or texture alpha.
• Debug menu is enabled by default and can be accessed by pausing the game and selecting Debug Options.

July 24th, 2002 build#

This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

• The porting process is almost finished at this point.